We encourage you to have a look around the catalog first to see what we’re all about before posting your first thread. Topics typically posted here include:>Outdoor recreational activities (Hiking, trail running, bushwhacking, camping, spelunking, geocaching, orienteering, expeditions, urban exploration, backpacking, etc.)>Gardening, farming and related activities>Hunting and fishing, and other activities involving the stalking or taking of game (including bird-watching)>Outdoor survival, bushcraft, foraging, self-sustenance in nature, train-hopping, hoboism, etc.>Outdoor destinations and exploration (specific trails, parks, regions, etc.)>Water-related activities (boats, diving, etc.)>Outdoor philosophy (conservation, Leave No Trace, protectionism, etc.)>Outdoor building and living (cabins, huts, treehouses, etc.)>Outdoor social activities and organizations (meet-ups, Scouts, NOLS, etc.)>Gear related to any of the above topicsMost topics related to the outdoors are fine. Write properly, behave politely, encourage a respectful community, and most importantly, GO OUTSIDE!!
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Have you ever heard about canyoning?
>>2846861I have! We don't have many canyons here but it's an appealing "format" to me. I like the mix of routefinding, climbing and water traversal. Maybe in the future if I make some friends I can try stuff like this.
>>2846861Isn't that the activity that the guy in 127 Hours was doing when he got stuck and had to saw his arm off? Seems retarded tbdesu.
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>>2846839Not him but pike are great, they have lots of meat on them, some people don’t like them because they have a bunch of tiny bones but those have never bothered me
>>2846841I heard they're more active at night but i only ever caught 2 during the early morning. There are some bigguns around me, would love to take one home Maybe i need to throw bigger bait to attract them.
>>2846839Amazing eating. Definitely very consistently in my top 3 favorite freshwater eating fish.I got this guy sometime before noon, to be fair I casted out a line at sun-up and checked at 12 due to forgetfulness and he was on good. Had a fairly large jig on with a pretty big minnow hooked thru the tail.>>2846841yeh im getting better at excising the y-bones. personally I can eat around them but im also fine with "losing" some meat by cutting liberally.>>2846842That might be from someone who was confused/got mixed up in the whole "walleye/pickerel/pike" thing that happens in some places. I only say that because walleye are absolutely active at night while night pike is universally a rarity among everyone I know who fishes a lot. I typically only see pike at night chilling near some weeds, they might bite if you manage to get your bait right infront of them but they don't seem to prowl or ambush as much come nightfall. prolly a sight thing.Definitely difficult to "oversize" your baits when it comes to pike, researchers fairly often find pike choked to death on pike that were nearly the exact same size as them. They are voracious eaters during the day in my experience both stationary and trolling but they LOVE hitting a bait that's trolling gingerly past their lines of sight. They don't have a dorsal fin which allows them to just suspend in the water column staring forward before making an S-shape in their body while they kind of coarsely charge their prey, making a C-shape with their body to stop. Their physiology and the advantages it brings is interesting.TLDR: jigs with worms/minnows of any size work just fine, as do various crankbaits/raps/whatever so long as you work them. In my experience they want minnows more than worms.I have a thing where I don't like posting unless im also postingfish so here's another big clump of tiny bullheads balling up at night time
Threw together a box with shit I failed to catch any thing on all year, wish me luck trying to prove I didn't waste like 100 on soft plastics and hair jigs.
>>2846860Image related I'm retarded.
some say the flute, harp or others. I say its the harmonica what about you? also kalimbas are gayhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3buSpZE-JY
>>2846836Autism is when you dont understand the social indicators that other people in your group are giving that signal that they don't want to hurt your feelings by outright telling you that you're being annoying with your harmonica/guitar, but they do indeed want you to stop.
>>2846838Tell them to stop if it's that annoying, don't run away to cry about it on your anonymous image board(like some kind of autist)>implying I'm the autist lmao
>>2846840I personally do tell annoying autists they're annoying because I appreciate it when me friends tell me I'm doing something annoying. But some people think they're being "kind" or "polite" by not telling the autist his tism is showing, which is why people like you don't realize you have the tism. I explain it like this: living with autism is like being born a skunk without a nose. Everyone you encounter in life thinks you stink like hell, but since you were born without a nose, you lack the ability to understand the concept of smell, so you're completely reliant on others to let you know you smell bad. But when everyone around you refuses to tell you to do something about the smell because they think they are being nice by not telling you, what they are actually doing is hindering your ability to connect with other people who don't want to be around a smelly skunk.
>>2846846>>2846840Tldr: I'm telling you this because I would personally want someone to tell me: no one wants to hear it, 99% of the people around you think it's annoying.
>>2846847Checkmate, I typically don't bring instruments /out/.
>>2846005If you can't even make up an answer I fear you don't go outside.
>>2846016>I fearAgain, not a single person cares about you or your retarded opinions.
What do we think of Victorinox's new Alox design?
>>2845993
>>2837828it's clunky to open, it's nice for food like sausage or peeling apples
There is nothing more retarded and gay than "stealth camping".>im camping behind a road sign or in a trash canNobody cares stupid faggot
>>2838987kek
>>2846298>I pull off the condorI dunno, should I google this or will it scar me forever?
>>2839016There are plenty of options for places to camp where you are allowed. Stop being an attention seeking special boy faggot.
>>2839198Stop camping in boomer lots, go into the woods like a man and stop at the primitive site
>>2846827I cant fit my RV in those
How awful of an experience are trailer tents?
>>2846751>Always make sure you thoroughly clean AND dry it out before storing it for the year, THIS!I see so many once decent pop-up trailers for sale, with rotted fabric and interiors because the owners were too fucking lazy to let it dry or take care of it.
>>2846573They're cheap quick and easy, what's not to get? You have autism right?
>>2846573Interior of a 1970’s Apache Mesa hard side pop-up, complete with a full kitchen and a fridge. The walls are hard sheets of fiberglass rather than a nylon tent. Sleeps 6 comfortably. Top of the line and under $14,000 when adjusted for inflation. Weight is under 1,600lbs/750kg, so even a small SUV could tow it. THIS IS WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU.
>>2846854Exterior. We had one when I was a kid (late 80’s, early 90’s). They stopped making them in the 1970’s. With Scamp and Casita (and Escape, sort of) becoming more popular due to not requiring an F450 Diesel Texas Edition McDouble to tow it, there’s obviously a market for something like the Apache Mesa.
>>2846855derp
I love being outdoors, love hunting camping hiking fishing, all of it. Been doing it all since a kid. But I have a huge problem with being scared of the dark. I'm alright as long as there's someone else with me, but when I'm alone out deep enough into the woods I can't help but be debilitatingly scared of the dark.It's so bad that I have to have my hand on my gun at all times once the sun goes down, I even piss in a bottle at night so I don't have to leave the tent. It's hard to sleep because I'm hyper alert to every sound, and as you know there are a lot of them at night. So my question is, has anyone else felt with this and how did you over come it?
>>2845763I have a dog but her knees have gotten too bad to take her deep into the woods. She did help a lot when she was younger though.
>>2845723Not my fault youre a retard and DIDNT LINK THE POST YOU WERE REPLYING TO.Dumb cunt.
You seem pleasant.
>>2846583>>2846572Shut up and touch grass you plebians. This is the /out/ board, we are above this petty bickering.
>>2844571Like you and others have said, exposure therapy really is gonna be the solution 90% of the time, some people take longer than others though. And a psychiatrist would give you a list of coping mechanisms specific to the situation, but sometimes people need meds to bring the cortisol and adrenaline levels down enough to where you are able to effectively apply the coping mechanisms. That's the thing with psychotropics, they aren't a cure, they're ment to bring you down to a level that you are able to apply the coping mechanisms, then once the coping mechanisms become natural to you, you're then supposed to ween off the meds. Because when you're brain is physically incapable of developing new memories and learn while cortisol and adrenaline are active in your system. Thats neurological fact, not just some therapy mumbo jumbo.
If you could pick ONE book to take out on your hike, what would it be?
>>2843254good taste
Why one book? Take an e-reader, one of those that last weeks on battery.With SD card, you can have some 30 books.Have fun reading.
>>2846618cringe.
>>2842604PoetryFor me, Hermann Hesse
>>2846618I do like my Kobo, to the point of being angry with regular books if I don't like the font or the size of the letters, but there's something different about a book when you're outdoors. Once it's too dark to read, and you have to choose between lighting a lantern or putting the book down to go to sleep, it feels so much more like living in the now. Disconnecting from technology, as it were.
Callng all certified hydration baddies to discuss the merits of bring a micro-hydro while going /out/
>>2846833>If you don't drink for 3h you are dehydrated
>>2846399>have multiple of the same savotta jaakaris (but in different sizes and colors)Multiple sizes I'm fine with.I too have different sizes of backpacks. Well, I have nearly all sizes of backpack (10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 2x 35, 65L), gotta catch them all like pokemons, but mine are mostly chinkshit.But having multiple colors is mostly complete faggotry. Maybe if they want to be wannabe preppers and keep one in the car and another for outings. And even then I'd question how people with so little common sense came across enough money to freely spend on Savotta backpacks.
>>2846845Correction>If you don't drink water for 3 hours while engaging in exercise that expels water from your body at a rate of .5-2 liters per hour, you are *underhydratedNta, I think underhydrated is a more appropriate word than dehydrated.
>>2846849>exercise that expels water from your body at a rate of .5-2 liters per hourI did, kinda sorta, specify "temperate climate".
>>2846850Climate has some effect on how much water you're expelling, but the exercise itself is effecting it more. I autistically felt the need to agree with the other anon because you are technically underhydrated. It really doesn't matter though it's not like you're gonna die or anything, so do you.
>When I visited Yosemite National Park shortly after the government shutdown, I expected it to be deserted. I wasn't expecting it to be quite packed — and free.https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/spent-2-days-yosemite-national-142948337.html
>>2846824What a handsome young Jewish man.
Poor Forest Jannys, I wouldn't work if I wasn't getting paid either. And all the useless make work email jobs the government has pay at least 5 times what a forest/fire janny would male.
Pro tip: you can't
>>2846763based
>>2846752You can't tell which is Appalachia and which is Carpathians
>>2846750Forested mountains are prettier than rocky spike mountains. The White Mountains are perfect. Feel like my folk's natural habitat.I admire the glacier lakes though.
>>2846805Mountains have vegetation zones. If they only have 1 or 2 lowermost vegetation zones, they're mountainlets.
>>2846805>highways are prettier than no highways
Hi /out/ TLDR: I want to know all about making drinking water.long story: I am gettin a little into prepping. I don't really like the scene because it's full of faggots thinking they are Rambo and spending loads on equipment. but I also think I should know a little about what to do in an emergency. I can't rely on public services.in order to get into, I thought about the most probable scenario in my case. that would be urban survival. and I thought that the first and most important thing I should know is how to make drinking water. how to make sure I can get clean water, or clean it myself.Any advice is welcome. Discussion too, but main point is drinking water.
>>2844622>Just drink from the floor broI rather not.
>>2844690Retard
any resources on this matter? I'll read/watch it myself and ñearn how to make drinking water
>>2844706>Retard>dies on a puddle of diarreah
>>2844598Pick up a book instead of asking 4chan retard. We've been cleaning water industrially since the 1800s and there's tons of information on how it's done. You sound like a astupid jeet to be fair though
>A group of mountain bikers accidentally discovered and rescued a half-naked and bleeding woman who was lost in the Idaho wilderness.>She had removed her shorts to bandage her raw, bleeding feet and had left her phone in her car. She has nothing else with her.>Wayment had been lost for two days and was severely disoriented. She appeared malnourished and dehydrated.>'She didn't want help at first. She was scared and very guarded. It took about a half hour before she would talk.' https://www.eastidahonews.com/2025/09/local-bikers-stumble-upon-missing-blaine-county-hiker/Watched too much Naked & Afraid?Bad drug trip?Deliverance-type situation?
>>2843166>Covered in bites and mud Sounds like she was doing OK. Not making it back for almost a month aside, avoiding injuries for that long I'd say she had her head on straight. Woman in OP could easily have just forgotten where her car was and started catastrophizing. This girl could probably have made it much longer, and would have kicked the habit in the process.
>>2843166>Alabama
>>2843141>IdahoShe is a meth abuser, lots of them in Idaho>t.Idahoan
>>2843635>Some woman yelled help at me the other day as I was drivingI just yelled back "call the cops" and kept drivingholy based
>>2843635BASED
This is literally the most gun that anyone needs in the woods, unless you’re in bear country. Even then, if you can aim then you’ll be fine.
>>2833278Was out for a walk and saw a baby bear on the 9 hole golf course by my house. Turn around and walked straight back the way I came. Momma bears are not far from baby. >t.NorthIdaho
>>2834691I know I will get shit for this but the Keltec sub2000 with 30rd glock mags is a nice light bush gun. Fits in a backpack with lots of room to spare.
>>2846769Savage makes a .22mag/410 model
>>2833152A 22 will bounce off a bear skull. At worse give it a concussion.
>>2833171I don't care what you or anyone else thinks. How about that?
