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africa is the most slept on /out/ing place. south africa is noob-tier, but also immensely beautiful.ethiopia is criminally underrated. it is an absolutely stunning country with one of the richest histories in the world.
is no one gonna mention that the two trips talked about in this thread were in the 1960's and africa is objectively way less safe in the grand scheme of things then it was then. Sure there are individual places that are much more developed and safe then in the 60's but the continent has been degrading consistently since they kicked out the dutch
>>2861782imagine if Africa was exclusively inhabited by white people, it would be a paradise
>>2862089>non sequitur I'm wanting to add brown to the list
>>2861906next time you're there I'm going to kill you
>>2861906>I drove around South Africa and didn't feel unsafeI feel a lot safer in countries that don't need street signs like picrel
Is the new Live Action Lara Croft /out/ worthy?
>>2860748That anon who was building it with thin logs and a bunch of rubble underneath? Whats the update on that
I like her, but she's not the right one for that role IMO.
>>2860748They also ban you if you're not antiwhite enough.
>>2860561i wanna wear this how would it look without all the straps on a male
>>2860561>Is (movie) /out/ worthy?IS SITTING IN A CINEMA /OUT/ WORTHY?GO WATCH INTO THE WILDWITH AN OUTDOOR PROJECTORON A CLIFF FACE
Post your pets and anything animal related doing /out/ shit. Interesting stories are appreciated as well. Bonus points for doggies.
>>2862044Who's the kid's dad
>>2862039Nice BC. How old is the little fella and what is he like? Love herding dogs. Here is my cattle dog in los Padres NF.
>>2862039My hiking buddy before he tore an ACL. He's still recovering from double ACL surgery back in October, longest fucking recovery time. Years of traipsing through the woods, no issues; then one day playing fetch he stepped on a piece of plywood, and bam.
>>2862086Ouch, hope he's doing better
>>2862101Thanks anon, yeah he's doing a bit better. it's been 16 weeks, and he's finally started to use his right leg a bit. it's weird though; it was his left that was initially completely torn, and why we brought him in for surgery -- whereas the right was a partial tear. (we opted to just take care of both them in one fell swoop, as he'd just be back for another surgery within a year or two anyways)
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>>2862059>That all said, in the meantime, maybe you should invest in rx goggles. You sound pretty serious about this, and I'm amazed you did it without them. There's sort of a point of cold weather where you just need them.Yeah, I'm thinking I'll go in for a consultation on the surgery when I have time, I don't wanna spring for the prescription goggles AND cough up the cash for lasik though.Did the Lions Head winter route today, ended up turning back a couple hundred feet from the namesake rock due to windblown snow. I managed the steep crux of the route fine though, and that's really what I wanted to try. There was a bit of a backup at the steepest part, a couple of guides with 1-on-1 clients and a group of younger guys.
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>>2862103this is way too much technical bullshit just to hikeim glad to live in the mid atlantic>I don't wanna spring for the prescription goggles AND cough up the cash for lasik though.anon you have the money like who caresyou aren't gonna get LASIK tomorrow
>>2862104I'm taking a day off for my calves and knees so I won't be spamming the thread as much.
>>2862106the funny part is the views aren't even that great, I mean clearly you have all this athletic abilityjust sorta feels wasted on second tier photos
>RINJANI MOUNTAIN AREA, WEST NUSA TENGGARA, INDONESIA – JUNE, 2025 Hiking trip ended tragically for 26-year-old Brazilian tourist Juliana Marins. On June 21, she set out on the “Cemara Tunggal” trail with five other people. Likely due to fatigue and the slippery terrain, she lost her balance and fell approximately 500–650 feet (150–200 meters) down a steep, rocky slope. She survived the fall but landed in an area her companions couldn’t reach. They had to contact the national park authorities to launch a rescue operation.Rescue efforts began immediately after the alert, but the search was hampered by poor weather conditions, thick fog, and extremely rugged terrain. She was eventually found on June 24 at the bottom of a ravine, another 1,600 feet (500 meters) below. Sadly, nature was unforgiving – she was found dead. It’s believed she tried to find help on her own after waiting for some time but fell from another slope, this time fatally.
>>2858653The more you do, the more you know this could be you. Anybody can end up like this. Humble yourself anon, and understand.
>>2858653Shes wearing sneakers and jeans!>Likely due to fatigue and the slippery terrain, she lost her balance and fell No she was most likely trying to take a selfie with the mountain view in the background like a retarded roastie.
>>2858653Why is it always tourists that fall?I could see getting bit by some poisonous spider or snake you are unfamiliar with but falling is pretty much the same everywhere. It isn't like she couldn't hike slippery terrain in Brazil.
>>2861070That doesn't look too tall
>>2861087olympus is 26km
i might get some ducks because i heard they eat bugs in your garden but not the vegetables. are there any downsides to owning ducks other than buying food for them?
Rudy says go for it and what’s up bros? Haven’t seen any duck posting in a month of Sunday’s.
>>2861959>i heard they shit everywhereAnd its the nastiest shit you can imagine.I have chickens and would love to get ducks but the poop is something I cant deal with. Changing out a kiddie pool with their shit water is disgusting, even if you change it daily.
>>2861945>are there any downsides to owning ducks other than buying food for them?they get clapped by predators very, very easily. if you are considering free ranging them you might want to consider geese instead.
>>2861945Anyone telling you that any kind of poultry/waterfowl living in your garden is a good idea is full of shit. That being said, they can be very useful before/after planting, but you have to be strategic. Ducks, chickens, geese, whatever will wreck your plants even just walking on them or fucking with them out of boredom, doesn’t matter if they eat them.I’ve raised batches of 40ish pekins every year for a few years, because they’re delicious and grow fast, but this is the first year we kept any. So far, no problem with -30f long cold winter, and my 3 females have been laying earlier/better than my 15 chickens. The eggs are nearly twice the size and much stronger, might take some getting used to if you’re used to eating watery shit from the store, but I prefer them to chicken eggs. (Probably wouldnt eat them hardboiled though). 100% would recommend.Like other people said, duckshit’s pretty gross, so I wouldn’t keep them stationary besides in the winter. They’re also fucking retarded so don’t expect much from them. They act like the proverbial lemming, easily startled, and they walk about as well as your average walmart shopper. Haven’t found them to be too greedy with food except when growing them out, but these grow stupid fast and get slaughtered at 7wks so thats expected.
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Guys, I think my dad will kick me out soon.Can I realistically survive in Winter?I live in a wet part of Europe in a city in the plains, but the mountains are close and that's where my heart lies and will head there, since I want to be far and cut all safety nets and bonds to them, not because I hate them, but because I love them and don't want to hurt them no more.I have little funds and thus not enough money to use a car, I have a bike, but it seems unwieldy in the forests especially now when there is probably snow and if not snow a lot of mud.Can one survive with only a backpack until spring, I don't know where if I would lay camp, we have some land in the mountains, but that would probably lead me back to them.But a backpack seems too little space, I would need a tent, some pots and tools, clothes, books, a sleeping bag and a couple kg of flour, I'd eat fish for meat and also I will need my laptop, although I wouldn't have electricity and it would probably get wet.I have this image of Sam's backpack from Lord of the Rings.Books and clothes seem like they wouldn't fit, I'd also have to somehow cycle trough the books at home or borrow from libraries in the mountain cities. I also am tempted to take one of my telescopes, but it definitely won't have space because of the mount and tripod.Books and telescopes are desires and I'll have to settle for libraries, e-reader and laptops, but clothes seem essential for a long winter trip.Farm and shepherd dogs will also be a likely problem.My hopes are that the wild will toughen me up.What do you guys recommend?
>>2860188do not listen to all the retards here. Surviving in the wilderness is easy and fun but can be boring. You need a sleeping mat (they are cheap, like 10 euro on decathlon) and a warm sleeping bag (the cheap ones are not warm enough, but you can still use them with warm clothing inside. cheap ones are 40 euro, warm ones are + 80 euro +. Go with synthetic, not down, cuz more water resistant and resistant in general) . Dont bother with a tent or a tarp, they are fundementally useless, they dont add warm and it rarely rains, and if its rains it means that its +0c...just find a shelter or wait with your rainy jacket till it stops. You are in a stepping stone in you life wiitch desire wilderness and shit. You absolutely need this experience. Dont listen to these retards.The only thing is it can be boring, this is where you still need to find a shitty temporary job, just as a pastime and indipendent money (you will not ask money to family) and gym .When you are in that stage, find a better job.
>>2860606>but idk seems that living like a hermit is the best option for getting back on track, the city and internet have too many distractionsthis is extremely irrational, anon. you are escaping to a fantasy, and I get it, you feel a purpose, even a joy, planning and looking at equipment and retreating to your mind palace to figure out all the possible problems and scenarios. it's giving you a substitute satisfaction that you'd typically get from a job or lifeyour larp is so intense that you're thinking about problems encountered in Fellowship of the Ring (farms and shepherd dogs...?) as realistic hurdles you have to plan for. you're being ridiculous.here's what you do. tell your parents you're going on a trip for a week. then, do your plan. a backpack, some clothes, sleeping bag, an ereader, hell, bring one of your dozens of telescopes because it's fine. you can even bring a week's worth of food. see how it goes.that'll solve your delusions pretty quick, but more importantly it'll get it out of your brain so you can start doing other things.
>>2860248>something usefull to the society, that makes good moneyThese are mutually exclusive, bar a few exceptions in the medical field. Seriously, you can gauge how important your job is by how bad you are paid for the type of work you do.
>>2862061This used to be true, but increasingly isn't anymore. We flooded the white collar markets so heavily that the pay plummeted, while the blue collar jobs have gone up. A plumber or electrician is 1000x more useful to society than a programmer or account manager, and they probably make twice as much. That gap is only going to get wider and wider as the AI bubble growsIt'll all pop and swing to the other direction eventually, but it's never been a better time to do something useful that pays a lot.
>>2860188Travel a few towns/cities over and then use whatever services exist for homeless people. Once spring comes, you will have a better time outside.
Hey /out/, peak season for foraging is upon usPost your harvests and discuss foraging and eating wild plants itt You do that, right?Pic related, some wild asparagus I just picked and flowering wild garlic in my backyard, that reminds me I gotta go to the forest very soon and get more in my super secret wild garlic spot
>>2862084one time i found a wild white carrot and ate it. it turns out it was hemlock and not a carrot. it was about 18 hours of extreme sickness and muscle cramps. after that it is very hard for me to eat wild things i found
>>2862090Hey, you learned the basic rule of don't eat something unless you're 120% sure of what it is.And you didn't die!I just avoid this entire plant family, there's too many toxic lookalikes
Who’s going gigging tonight?
Last night, Shrek filled my butt with his love.
did you know that the colorado river doesn't reach the ocean anymore, and hasn't consistently since the 60sit all gets sucked up for irrigation and municipal water on arizona and mexicothere's just a dry delta in baja california where it once wasa similar fate has actually befallen a bunch of rivers in the southwest
>>2858923Okay so reintroduce bison lmaoNo shit cattle aren;t a perfect stand in for millions of bison migrating across the continent but its better than nothing at all. Personally I want bison and wolves and cougars and bears all over the USA. that is how you fix the ecosystem. Whether or not a plant might be "invasive" should be the least of our worries
>>2858930people are tryinghttps://americanprairie.org/
>>2850992I mean you could just not live in the desert, and if you do don't spray water everywhere trying to green a desert, also California wastes a bunch of water on its' agriculture, fuck almonds no one even likes them they eat them because it's "superfood."
>>2859685we've had this argument before and you've lost every time.
>>2859685I like almonds they are an essential part to any trail mix
alpinists are douchebags
OP has never summited a mountain
>>2860771>these identiclone icy rocks are so specialkek so much this!
>>2860771you've scored bit of an own goal, really
>>2860746I’ve hunted at alpine elevation most of my life. Know a few of these guys and run into them in the wild from time to time. I mean 90% of the reason I hunt is just to be in the wilderness and at elevations above where most people go so I get the appeal of it but yeah they’re very douchey about it. I’ve taken a few on some hunts and even though we generally don’t summit anything major they have a really tough time keeping up, they always think they need more gear than they do but their ropes and gear and skill come in really helpful for retrieving hard to get carcasses. I’ve done a few summits nothing major it was cool I’ll give them that but I need a reason other than it’s cool to go up a mountain.they get really mad at me when I do scrambles without equipment bc muh rock slides n shit. I’ve been out there my entire life tho. Maybe one day it will catch up with me but I just always feel like I’m at home out there whereas they’re just visitors.
>>2862066you don't hunt at 10,500', larper. yeah there are a couple 2-3 animals that high to hunt but it's not a regular thing and it's definitely not something to you've been doing your whole life. stop larping. start going outside and go hiking.
Is /ice climbing/ yuru?
>>2858233I went ice climbing for the first time last week. It was the most fun I’ve ever had outside and I can’t stop thinking about it. I’ve spent the whole week trying to find used gear deals so I can have my own stuff. Ice is so awesome bros
>>2860854I love climbing but my first time on ice completely killed my interest. I'm glad you had the opposite experience. the gear is damn expensive though and this isn't the best time of year to look for it. keep an eye on the mountainproject for sale forum if you aren't already.
yes very
>>2858257The nice thing about ice climbing is your rope stays alot cleaner than when climbing dirty and dusty rocks
>>2860901>mountainproject for sale forumThanks, I’ll check it out. I ended up finding some tools + crampons from a local seller who went /out/ once and then quit. I’m gonna try them out this weekend
What's some of your favorite /out/ approved kinos?
don't remember if it's good, just remember it's how I learned what a wolverine is as a kid
this one's for my fellow train riders, and everyone else too cause it fucking rocks
>>2859197Yes. Look up a whitewater dory
>>2859727>This video is privateThe fuck was it?
Eight Below was my favorite film when I was an early teenager lol.
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Best live bait for fly fishing? Been wanting to try it out.
>>2862027i don't think i've seen anyone use anything but artificial fliesbut i suppose you could grab a grasshopper or a beetle and put it on a hook
Anyone going to opening day for trout parks?Supposed to be really shitty out so hopefully it's not as slammed as usual.Probably just gonna use powerbait/marshmallows and some jigs.
>>2862027I would use a piece of nightcrawler. Nightcrawlers are my favorite and practically only bait, but I haven't tried them on a fly rod. I've messed around by trying to use a real caddis a couple times, but my flies work better. Nightcrawler is the only thing I'd have confidence in across a broad spectrum of species, unless we are talking about catfishing or saltwater.>>2862076No. I wouldn't go to one of those places, and if I did, I would never go opening day. When one guy I met was describing them with enthusiasm, I felt nothing but contempt.
Tied up some mini bugger jigs. Size 8 and 10.
