Hello! I've always respected fires and kept my campfires at moderate size and placed them somewhere where it cant go out of control if i happen to not be paying attention, i.e on sand, dug a hole for it, in a designated campfire site, etc.But then i look at some outing youtubers and they keep making big ass fires and piling logs on them willy nilly on some moss or other greenery and then go to sleep without batting an eye. Is it just confidence and experience or can you really just kinda do it like this? Is it only doable when it's cold outside so it cant get WAY out of control or what? Thank you :)
>>2866101then you didnt do a decent job building the firepit. please get better at reading comprehension
The question of why a youtuber does something always has the same answer; because it looks cool and gets more views
>>2866080>heat the rocks up insteadcan rocks explode from the steam pressure build up from heating?
>>2866374Some rocks can. Don't heat those ones up.
>>2865975The people you see doing that are professionals. Do not attempt to imitate their actions without knowing what you're doing unless you want to accidently make nerve gas and die in your sleep.
Me and my friend thought its funny to paint fresh panties and hook it on a fence in a corner barley any one goes to
>>2860600>find dead bat in abandoned building>put 5 sticks is star shape, put the dead bat in the middle>leaveI did this 2 or 3 times I think.>>2860631I goatfished. Obviously with no hook at all, just hay attached to the fishing line.From my early teenage years, many things with fireworks like exploding cow dungs, battles with rotten apples or melons, rafts built with phytochemical barrels.
Use to skin rabbits and hang them by the neck from rope off trees so people thought it was a bloody baby hanging over a road.
>>2864424>anon leaves his super scary prank>birds come and take his epic prank away
>>2864424A fairly common one is poachers killing bears and leaving the corpses around. A skinned bear paw with the claws removed looks VERY similar to a skinned human hand.This was actually a topic in a forensics class I took.
>>2861747you and your friends are niggers
What's the best and worst country for /out/ in each size class?
>>2867159Also Dominican Republic, surprisingly diverse in the Caribbean but has the same issues as Philippines; not so easy to move around and people are animals
>>2867119India is the worst in general
>>2867166>the next morning we woke up in Switzerland, only this was taller and warmer and better in every wayJeremy Clarkson in Indian Himalayas
I've traveled a bit.>dark blueUSA>the other blueArgentina>forest greenPakistan>pea greenMorocco>puke greenCosta Rica is great, though I've never been to the Caucasus or Jordan>blood redTaiwan>purpleAndorraComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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KEYSTONE WAS THE FIRST RESORT TO OPEN YESTERDAY AT 3PM!
>>2864708I am aware, I'm saying that nonetheless, slushy snow isn't the snow you want to learn on if you can help it
>>2865681Just did it on Sunday. Skied Left Gulley. So fun! Taking laps is a serious workout if you're trying to move at a decent pace.
aw man ive been hot and sweaty all week from the shitty temperatures here and this thread is making me miss january soo much
>>2866087I was peeing outdoors and a deer saw my penis. Get to worry about that every night at 2am till I die I guess.
>>2866568
where my geochuds at?
Ok so I took a look at /sci/ and every single thread was dumb and sounded like a buzzfeed article with a buzzfeed comments section.I aslo took a look at rate my professor and some geo students were complaining that the prof made them hand draw sketches of rocks. First off do they actually make you do that and second, what’s with people getting into the field who find it boring? You’d think people would be able to tell in advance>>2866316That sounds unideal but itsn’t the whole point of geoscience to go in the middle of nowhere far away from normies in the first place?
Got my bsci in geology about 3 yrs ago. Done some consulting work, sat some drill rigs, and have been doing exploration/geophysics for the past year with a winter stint as a lifty in mammoth (snowboarding all day for work is still the best work). Currently in Nevada doing a survey for a gold/antimony play. It’s fun. I hone a mountain all day and am essentially a field electrician splicing wires and looking for cool rocks while the computer beeps and boops to guess at what’s in the ground. Living in a motel right now. Excited to be on my way home soon but I make good money and get lots of time off to climb and be retarded. Found some cool paleo scrapers and bones so far. We have a crystal finding competition every day. I’ve won twice. Not everyone on my crew is a geologist or has a degree.
>>2865781sup dawg i'm a hydrogeo with 15 years experience. the job market sucks ass and i'm probably going to be laid off (again) soon.>>2866913takes me back. i spent a lot of time at the cortez mine outside crescent city. nevada is a lot of fun but that motel lifestyle isn't for me anymore.
>>2866591There are huge opportunity gaps in the field of geological software.
>>2865781I did my degree in electrical engineering and every month or so I wish that I enrolled in geography, meteorology or geo information systems instead. It feels almost too late to start my career over again in a different field, or at least I don't have the money to almost stop working again to focus on the new degree. Anyone know if it's possible to switch into geography and related fields, or how to make it a little easier?Unfortunately I haven't found any part time geography degrees where I live yet. It's in no way comparable but I did discover this nice little geo information systems course for python: pythongis.org if anyone is curious.
Where are my /divers/ at?
>>2861024*painfulNot peaceful lol
>>2861024You have the testimony from drowned people who have been resuscitated. Once you get past the parts they've experienced, it's "just" passing out from lack of oxygen and your body shutting down, bit by bit.People describe a desperate struggle to breathe remaining air and holding their breath until they are no longer able, and then an intensely burning sensation as the lungs fill with water. After a while of that, they pass out.>>2860749If you're doing such deep dives, you're either very interested in what you're doing and don't mind it, or you're getting sufficiently compensated for it to not mind it.For your regular compressed-air diver, it's no big concern, you just don't dive that deep. That's for the technical divers with their mixed gasses.
>>2860221>I associate line signals with the old bell divers back in the day.if it works it works.
So this is where you people went. I was sad when the /xs/ thread died shortly before my first dive.Question, is there any chance that an average town dive club will teach you to dive without a BC? It seems a real neat skill to have, but I get the impression that most consider it "unsafe".
Coming back from the depth of pg 10>>2860749>decompressionyou'll run out of air before you even get into deco with recreational diving.>>2864793never heard of a place that doesnt rent
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
I get dandelion, plantain, river onion, blackberries and very occasionally plums and apples. I wish it was enough to make an entirely foraged meal but they do go well in stews/baking breads.
>>2862084I live in spain and here we have many abandoned lands of grapes/olives and random fig trees, in the summer I go and fill kilos of them and eat them after I wash them in spring, like an ancient meditarian king kek. And I know they're neglected because those that I leave just rot there (and the rabbits eat them, we have many of them also, I should start hunting). People stopped caring because the price to harvest outweighs the profit they can make, and the lands are mostly owned either by boomers who barely can walk, or inherited to zoomers that live in big cities like madrid or just care not. That what you get with this stupid governments, and you can find the same fruits left to rot just KMs away being sold for high prices in stores.
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What can I do with garlic mustard? It's everywhere and it smells like it tastes good, but I have never cooked with it.
>>2867157I make pesto with walnuts with it
my golden retriever swimming after a duck in a canal. post any breed of bird dog doing anything
My old Boykin is gone to the happy hunting grounds now. His name was Davy Crockett
>>2866998Josie. My velcro dog. Got her from my bro inlaws sister who had to give up the dog after there daughter's healt complications. She came from a family of show dogs apperantly, but she just loved the outdoors and open fields more than prancing on astro turf. Great grouse and pheasant dog. She even points out rabbits and squirrels for me. Sadly she now is retired from hunting and spends her twilight years snoozing and taking short walks.
I got a apartment at ground level with a big terrace. My household of 3 people (wife and kid) produce waste such as coffee, eggshells, tealeaves, bones and lots of peels. If i wanted to do potatoes on my terrace, how would i best mix this (aside from bones and peels) into something that gives the soil nutrition? Do i just mix the grounds and eggshells in the soil or do i burn them beforehand and then mix the ashes?t. clueless and only knows how to take care of flowers
>>2867024>>2867026thanks. i live in a big fishing town and everywhere sells nightcrawlers and meal worms and i think even red wigglers. night crawlers are expensive (12 for $3) but the meal worms way cheaper. im looking for worm casting for my garden and food for my chickens. i make lots of kitchen scraps and just throw it in the compost pile but i think this may be a better use of them.
>>2867030this is what im gonna dohttps://m.youtube.com/shorts/Qhtmyl4QizI
>>2867038Looks good, hot tip = you can line the bottom of the actual worm tray with dampened newspaper or other thin paper to stop worms/debris from falling thru to the liquid layer. The paper will still drain and decompose later. I think it's only really a concern if youre using pure cardboard bedding though since it's very loose at first.Id be careful and make sure it's at least a good bait shop cuz personally ive bought wrigglers and nightcrawlers for fishing before that were clearly labeled wrong/half dead lol. Also some worms arent great composting worms for dif reasons, ex: ive heard canadian nightcrawlers start dying off at a comparatively low temp. Not sure if meal worms are good composters, but I know Jim's (online store) has those too so definitely shop around. 1/2 lb (500 count) of red wrigglers worms at meme's or Jim's is like 40-60 USD iirc
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>>2867111the answer has been either bury them if you dgaf or small scale composting. they probably wont break down very quickly in containers though and might just attract pests/animals tbqh
Why is it so expensive? It seems overpriced for a trekking pole tent.
>>2864996I have a $800 tent.
>>2864988wtf did you mean?>>2864996i didnt need it but i paid 1300€ for a tent and it has served me quite well, my nephew and his gf has used it, a friend used it, know i will never have to buy a tent ever again. its been along for 6years now. thats 6 years of not buying a shitty 100€ tent and not getting frustrated that it breaks when i need it the most.
>>2865021you are a euro so just go in your little hut and leave us alone dude
>>2865021euros don't do any real camping
>>2864551Because of greed.
Will be going to central asia next winter and wondering what the best jacket is for temps that can get down to -30C. Does anyone have an opinion or should I just fork it out for a north face jacket that looks like shit. Will be tracking animals so can't be too bright or flashy. Any recs?
>>2863591work outside in northern albertaget insulated denim bib overalls and denim work coat with a deep hooddurable, flame resistant, cheap, and they come in mostly drab coloursinsulated work coveralls are warmer, but its harder to layer down and its harder to take a shitacrylic thermal socks are better, cheaper and warmer than woolget your boots bone fucking dry every night, bone fucking drya hooded dicky will keep heat from escaping through your neck holefull grain leather gloves with cheap glove liners are the best. on really cold days i have a pair of full grain leather mitttensonce the glove insulation gets dirty and oily it stops insulating, removable liners solves this problem, you can change them or wash them, and if you need to do fine finger shit you still have a layer of insulation on your handits good to have some face tape if it gets really windy
>>2866974sorry duck fabric, not denim
see if you can find a delta OL 3.0 somewhere
>>2863591In the case you're describing a layering system makes a lot more sense. If you're going from movement to static, you'll be changing layers constantly because there isn't a solution that makes sense for both. Get a windproof shell, a down insulation jacket under that, a wool or wool blend pullover, and long underwear.The insulation layer comes off when you're moving, then if you're static for long periods you can put it back on to warm up when it gets sniffly.When you're moving around, breathability (fabrics like Gore-TEX and neoprene) is absolutely invaluable, anything thick canvas or rubber or otherwise non-breathing will make you totally miserable when you start moving.
>>2863621>The key isn’t in the coat but rather in the layering and moisture managementThe end
Today is the day lads. Frost earlier this week. Temperatures rising.No I won't tell you my spot.Post your spots in this thread.
>>2863929Right is Amanita phaloides. RIP if you eaten them.
>>2863929i lold
Went fishing with friends. Lost a fish at my feet, but at least, I got these morels.
>>2866564Nice haul. I only ever see one or two at a time and leave them be
any tips or general location on where I can find some morels in southeastern wisonsin, kettle morain area.i know its all hush hush and such, any general location would be great
Besides Picrel and anoles I haven’t seen a whole lot of lizards since moving here. Am I too far north, or are there any parks you recommend visiting?
>>2866597Central Florida still freezes occasionally so most of the tropical exotics can't establish long term. Once you go to Miami it starts getting crazy.
Sweetwater preserve in Gainesville has a ton of big gators. Tbh, though, central Florida is filled with alligators. You just have to stare at any given body of water for long enough
Check under rocks, logs, and trash. You will find a skink eventually.
Outside of south Florida it is mostly anoles. You can find green anoles in trees or in structures, they are more arboreal than the brown ones.I generally had the best luck seeing skinks, scrub lizards, and fence lizards in sandy forested areas, like pine flatwoods and sandhills. The sand ridge would probably be a good place to look.For the wacky invasive lizards like iguanas and agamas and shit you gotta go to Miami and the Everglades. It is worth it if you like lizards though, there are basilisks and rock agamas just walking around on the street down there. In the everglades at night you can find pretty much every species of lizard on earth that is kept as a pet.
Does anyone make 2x21700 or 4x21700 battery banks with interchangeable batteries for charging your gear? It seems like the only thing out there are 1x.
>>2866935This one works both ways I believe. https://convoylight.com/products/yonii-pd2-charger-for-18650-21700-lithium-battery-black-color?data_from=collection_detail&spm=collection_detail.116035.collection_detail-2134596.2.
From what I gather, most of these are boomer-occupied. That's fine if those are the best ones but I can't help but feeling their insight is a bit dated. I just want to know where the interesting stuff is from people that actually homestead/prep/do survivalism which is more strictly oriented toward these lifestyles
>>2866714All fresh water fish in the USA (and likely other countries) contains loads of pfas and other shit. Even marine caught is risky as fuck with plastics and heavy metals. I'd rather dry/ferment/cook and consume anything else.
>>2862123>just testing stuff yourselfI have 2 acres in farm country. While it's not off grid homesteading, I get to practice/test things out for when I do try to go off grid entirely.If the rabbits eat most of my strawberries and raspberries, it isn't the end of the world. I still get to practice canning the jam I made from the ones I collected and stored in the freezer.Messed up a seal on the canning? I can still freeze them until I need them.Solar and batteries not working? Still have grid power while I troubleshoot the issues.Rain barrel irrigation for the garden is running low? I can water the garden with the hose instead.I'm fucking around and finding out.
>>2866714dried fish cant be served as it is, well it can but its like chewing on wood. rakfish can, take it out of the bucket and serve it. i also never heard of dried fresh water fish nor fermented saltwater fish so is there a thing there?
>>2865377>rotten fishLyed fish you dimwit. >>2866789>rakfish can, take it out of the bucket and serve it.No. You still need to get the PH closer to normal via a rinse, and boiling is still preferred.
>>2859746>Opuntia fiscus-indicaI only recognized that because I have a Wildlife Exemption on my land and had to know about the various flora as well. We have tons of prickly pear and while the fruit can be processed they are a bitch and a half to do so. Also only avaliable for only a few months out of the year and I would need to contend with all the critters that like them a well. I definitely wouldn't rely on them.
