I love this brand. I proudly display it on my clothes, water bottle, camping gear, shoes. Everything I have is Ozark Trail. I think the Walmart family sells it at a loss to get people into camping.
>>2874151I bought their 25L backpack for $10 and I'm genuinely impressed. I have it strapped down to my bike and use it like a trunk to hold everything I need to repair and maintain my bike. It's holding like 20lb of stuff easy. I'm genuinely thinking about getting another one just for every day use.
>>2874296i love that little stove. usually i use white gas, but any time i bring a canister stove its that one. i've also used their tents for years, and never had an issue with them. the 3 man, and also one of the big "easy up" 6 man tents. i like that one a lot. its about 7 years old now, and the water proofing needs some attention. but its held up surprisingly well. I also have one of their rain jackets, and i like it alot. idk if they still sell that one but i can't find them anymore.
>>2874473That's not a jacket, that's a windbreaker. Idiot
>>2874151Their fishing lures are actually pretty decent considering how cheap they are.
>>2874596REI is super over priced, I was there a month ago and they want $50 for inflatable camping pillows. pretty funny seeing all these /out/ people caring about camping brands so much and looking down on "poors" for using inferior brands
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zUmUX8gaoqoHow to catch such things, what gear and location do you need?What to do If i Intend to get one similar?
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I spend a lot of time on my feet. Both in the cities/strolling & out scrambling in the outdoors (albeit nothing risky).I usually throw on a pair of worn trainers but want to ditch the child-like streetwear for something more appropriate and separate to the attire of teenagers.What would be good shoe brand/type that provides quality and aesthetic for multi-purpose consistent use? Would want to be able to wear said type when walking for miles as well as with a smart pair of jeans when eating out casually.Thanks in advance
it feels pretty fucking lame to pay 20$ for a couple of grams of permethrin emulsified in water.the chinese will sell me a big ass bag of technical grade permethrin for almost nothing, but going that route means i'll have to find some sort of emulsifier and surfactant, and probably some sort hydrocarbon solvent. people bitch about using 10% ag grade permethrin concentrates, because they stink like gas and leave an oily film on your gear. i'm blown away that i can't seem to find people making their own permethrin soak """from scratch""". it's always just diluting a concentrate.so i'm wondering what you do to treat your clothes to see whether or not i actually want to go down this rabbithole to "save" maybe 50$ a year on permethrin treatment.
>>2877648btfod by tweezers
You can find the dilution rate for spray application of permethrin on clothing. It's normally in the pesticides area of most farm stores/homedepots.Just buy a small hand pump sprayer and a measuring cup and mix as much as you need for pennies.You can also find the right mixing dosage for spraying around your house/property to kill any ticks during the heavy periods. Just beware of its deadly affect on cats before it dries.
>>2877648Horse "fly sprays" are a lot cheaper than the camping crap and usually about the same %. You gotta find a farm or equestrian supply store though.
>>2877651unironically nylon is incredibly easy to make if you have the equipment
>>2877648i bought some concentrate, filled a couple spray bottles, and sprayed my gear. its really not that big a deal. and its cheap.
I'm here, but I'm gonna find myself homeless in the next few months, what do I need to be a hobo? So far I have>tent>backpack>two ponchos>a few tarps>a butane stove>sleeping bag>tent fold up mattressThing is I'm not sure I can carry all this on my back at the same time, at least not without walking extremely slowly.I'm mildly disabled and broke my spine a few years ago and I'm worried about being bogged down with gear, especially considering my tent is a large, pop-up tent that doesn't dissassemble into parts>just use your carIf I use my car the local cops will take it off me, being poor and homeless is not allowed in Ireland and they'll take everything off meSo should I get a new tent? or is there a backpack that I can get that will allow me to carry a tent and mattress easily, even if I'm using a crutch to walk?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2879546No. The worst you need is to use antifreeze in the winter if you are not starting the engine for a while. Or maybe tinkering with the engine if something goes wrong, replacing a part. I don't know where you got the idea that it's "hardcore maintenance"If you have a row boat with a leak, maybe. It will be expensive to fix. Not a fibreglass or steel cruiser. You are not going to get a leak
i realised i’m too fat for basically all sleeping bags. either you don’t get width measurements at all or it’s standard 81 cm. for some reason all stores focus on how tall of a person fits but even one costing hundreds of euros don’t have proper measurements of width. other than that i feel the 30ish eur bag is great and that the ones costing tens of times more are a scam since even their official site might not provide the measurements
>>2872531>Not likely, they don't work like that anymore,If you can make your way to Cork City the Dominicans still do good work.
>>2872498Get a job and buy a garage you lazy dumbuck.
How good are you at sucking dick? That’s really going to determine how successful your new journey into homeless will be.
No but seriously, why cant i just buy a cabin and live there instead of a normal house?Its cheaper, more private and gives me great opportunity to do outdoor activities. Lots of cabins run on solar and have adequate plumbing, yet the cost remains low. Only thing i could think would be a challenge is winter, but even then i think a 4x4 and backup heating/electricity and lots of firewood. It would also give good homesteading opportunities.
>>2874655>why cant i just buy a cabin and live there instead of a normal house?because you are bluepilled. you can, only barrier is an invisible wall you have put up yourself, and bullshit laws, but there's places without them or that accommodate living like that.
>>2875767based, please post your research here. it is an outdoors activity after all.
>>2880307We already know.We dont talk about it for obvious (((reasons)))
>>2879951this is better because its raised off the ground
>>2875351The millionaires building their mcmansions in the mountains near me are getting BTFO by geologic movement (shifting earth, land slides, etc) that their insurance doesnt cover. Fuckers are crying to the municipal gov about their losses, and how the city owes them money...The city council gave em a finger, and said "municipal monies is for municipal projects, not covering your losses!"Love to see it, even the Earth itself is saying "fuck off, were full!" lmao
Lately soup's been a hyperfocus of mine, specifically ones I can freeze in those oversized ice tray things, then heat up and put in a thermos to take innawoods. Something drinkable that has decent protein, and also won't make me paint the heels of my boots in the middle of nowhere. Been looking at pea soups, just made some potato soup with cottage cheese for extra protien. I have some lentil curry in my freezer.I'm also thinking about a freeze dryer but that's a ways off. Any /out/ soup recommendations? What do you guys like to eat in the sticks?
>>2880882depends,apples, any citrics, potatoes, carrots, onions, bell peppers will be good for many days
>>2880943those are just the side characters not the main protagonist vegetables
>>2880088>1lb diced bacon>1lb dried peas, ground into coarse flour>1/2lb lard>1 diced onion>1oz sugar>1oz saltDivide the lard between two pans, fry the onion in one pan and the bacon in the other until all of the water is gone from both of them. Mix them together with the sugar, salt and ground peas, add some dried herbs and spices if you want some extra flavor, then spoon it into some silicone molds and wait for it to cool down. The amounts here will make about 8 portions, each of which can be mixed with boiling water to make about a pint of thick soup. It's very dense and will keep for years in an airtight container.
>>2881071all vegetables are side characters if you eat meat and not a veganfag
>>2881109meat gets bad before anything
im planning on doing lots of forest exploring and mapping by myself, and plan on collecting mushrooms and herbs to eat and make tea, or get high. what botany and herbalism books do you guys reccomend for balkan climate forests?
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books as physical objects made from paper probably fit the style or aesthetic you are aiming for with your plan quite well. Tho I would rather recommend an App called obs identify, you might not feel as smart as when you sit on a tree stumb reading a book but it just is way faster and usually much more precise then what you can achieve with a book. hf and be careful with mushrooms!
there is some google archive that you can useto search herbs. i forget the name of itlook for herbalists on youtube imoits very hard to get it to not show you the surfacelayer of obnoxious crap but eventually you mightfind some very good practitioners
>>2877950old thread but if you wanna dig really deep into this subject i recommend you you buy a field guide (it has to be one specific to your location so i cant recommend any) and a book about plant morphology, learn morphology first because it makes identifying plants a lot easier. if you wanna dig even deeper download Raven Biology of plants and Michael Simpson's plant systematics from either Annas archive or Libgen (start with Raven)Also download Inaturalist and browse it a little every day
>>2877950You'll want a systematics book, a mentor, and some guides your mentor likes. I wouldn't do mushrooms without somebody old and not dead from mushrooms to teach you. It's also faster.
Last thread >>2856593This is a thread for enjoying a pipe while doing outdoor activities. If you ask why this belongs on /out/, you've never spentan evening by the campfire with a pipe silently enjoying the nature around you, and you're missing out.>how to get startedPurchase a corn cob pipe (or a cheap briar pipe) and a pouch of Half and Half or Captain Black tobacco from a smoke shopor online. You will need a lighter or match, and something to tamp it with--a large nail works well if you don't have a pipe tool.Fill the pipe with tobacco, pack it down halfway, top it off, pack it down to 3/4, top it off again, pack gently and enjoy. Smokeslower than you think you need to, the tobacco tastes best when it is burning cool. Tamp and re-light as needed. If you stillhave trouble, try different methods on YouTube until you find one that works for you.>smoking a pipe will give you cancerOriginally the Surgeon General found that pipe and cigar smokers, following a careful study of the statistics (at a time whenmost adults smoked, so they had a good sample size), had insignificant death rate increases. Nowadays, tobacco is beinglegislated against while hard drugs are being legalized. Put two and two together. Tobacco is just another good thing under attack by the government.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
grabbed a morta pipe kit for $40 (way better than spending $200 imho)gave the stem's sides a quick sanding to knock down the edges, chamfered the button to ease pipe cleaner use, along with a coat of stem oil; the morta got a coat of carnauba wax for protection (and a blast with a hot hair dryer, to settle the wax)i'll probably get an acrylic stem later, so i can take it outside (current stem is vulcanite)you can really feel the way the grain transfers heat, as the front is much warmer than the sides when smoking; same with the way the wood readily absorbs moistureadditionally, i'm glad its so thick, as it benefits both the tobacco and the pipe itselfthe tobacco burns very nicely with the thermal mass, and the thickness allows the pipe to resist splitting (which morta is prone to, when overheated)as others do, i'll only smoke latakia blends on this one, to which peterson's nightcap smokes beautifully inbonus info: i estimate this pipe's wood to be around 8,000 to 9,000 years old. i could see mineral deposits from the petrification before i waxed it. i'm guessing it came from the danube river basin
>>2882518Got it.>I don't think a pouch is going to kill youI believe all tobacco even cigs would be relatively safe if people didn't inhale and smoked in a ventilated room.
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Luxury twist flake is overrated and boring
>>2882145someone forgot to link the new thread
Have you ever climbed over 17,000 feet?
>>2875113Sensible chuckle.
Went to Everest base camp this April and hiked Kalapattar, 18400ft or so. No diamox or anything, definitely felt woozy and nauseous from the altitude but was proud to have done it with no meds.
>>2875094most I’ve done is 14,200.I can get a few hundred feet higher within road tripping distance but anything more than that would require significant travel which I don’t want to do to climb a mountain.
>>2876469In my gooning folder
Yes, 19,341 ft. Kilimanjaro is a nice multi-day hike for anyone in decent shape. The Serengeti is nearby, so make it a combo trip.
I did it.Fuck off to the poster that said I wouldn't.
>>2880881some serious hiking no matter how slow you take it
>>2880838Find a water source listed in the guide book and shit in it up stream from where people fill up
>>2880861He didn't even carry a pack, supported hikes don't count.
>>2880835Eric is that you?
>>2880983nope, whats his trail name
>sockshow do i not have these things turn into sweat sieves while dicking about?i'm sure i have to get better socks, but what brand doesn't just get tons of holes after a little use?
>>2880185spooky socks
>>2879360Welcome to the best club. You may now adopt the correct facial hair.
>>2880348i wish i could grow such a beard, but i'm instead stuck looking like a guy fawkes mask (not even the man himself...)
>>2873866I think the other anon is right: you may have bought cheap non-merino wool socks.The softness (and itchiness) of wool is determined by the size of the individual wool fibers. Base layers often use a finer fiber (around 16 microns) while outer layers and mid layers can get away with something a bit more coarse, like 22 microns. Cheap wool, that doesn’t specifically say the type of wool it is (ie, not cashmere, llama/alpaca, merino, qiviut, vicuña) is generally from Shetland sheep and is about 30 microns. There’s also a lanolin allergy, but most washed wool doesn’t contain much, and you’d have to be pretty sensitive to it.
>>2871825But the warranty. They'll just send you a new pair for free.
Are /out/ activities a good way to make friends? As a guy, I'm always looking for shit to do, particularly shit to do with other guys and /out/ activities seem like my golden ticket to some fast friends. Does this work?
>>2879924This is going to sound so cliche but it's the truth, I finally recognized and accepted that I was a narcissist and talked to a therapist. I had ruined a 6 year relationship and NEETed out for 5 years because of it, I finally had enough. I never took pills or anything, just met with him every two weeks and helped put my life back together. Therapy really does work you just have to be 100% completely and totally honest which is VERY hard for a narcissist.
Do you have any friends yet OP? Please respond
>>2880023>Therapy really does workNah you are just dumb. The only reason to do business with them at all is that they have a state granted racket on pills and the best thing they offer is overcharging to teach you about stoicism. As someone who reads philosophy I know there is just nothing they could reveal to me. The whole concept of psychology is a part of the general sickness of the modern world stemming out of the acceptance of positivism/critical rationalism, it’s not a science it’s postmodern nihilism. Mental illnesses are normative statements, these are meaningless value judgements that don’t pertain to anything objective. I’m not saying that you got nothing out of it and that it doesn’t belong, you can go to psychologists or psychics or whoever you want, but what I’m about to tell you is important alt right knowledge.
>>2880800Science isn’t separate from philosophy, what we call science is an accepted philosophy of science, what we are calling science today was born out of a group of (mostly jewish) philosophers called the Vienna circle, also called the positivists. The ultimate goal of this positivist philosophy was to rescue empiricism in order to make normative statements scientific and thus justify them as legally binding. This is where science went all wrong and became the priesthood of modernity, and that was the goal! To do this they said there are only 2 kinds of meaningful statements, analytic statements which are just basic definitions (a bachelor is an unmarried man) and synthetic statements which means hypotheses (question>test>answer), the flaw in the argument is which kind of statement is it that there are only 2 statements, if analytic then the entire thing is tautological and meaningless if it’s synthetic then how did they test for it. What they have done essentially is cut logic out of arguments entirely to pave the way for a postmodern academic establishment, entire fields are now based entirely on this, it’s the entire basis of justifying anything the government does because it can justify anything, science is now essentially a popularity contest. The science that gets done is just the questions that get asked, truth is whatever gets funding, and the only way to justify anything is through a political process of peer reviewing. The scientists themselves are becoming dumber and more political in response to the environment, more and more often believing in their own ability to rule the world through technocracy and thus all pushing and pining for even more control much to the glee of those who are actually going to end up with the more control.
>>2880801And it’s honestly just so sick, these people don’t help you, they help you become something not you, they sell you on the idea that you shouldn’t be you. It’s like AI, if I ask AI how to kill myself it will just tell me not to kill myself, that’s not for me that’s for something else, if I want to jump off a bridge then telling me how is what’s helping me. Descriptive social theory is useless in the first place, putting people into boxes doesn’t help ceteris paribus after the presumably coming prescription, and a logic based prescriptive social theory doesn’t need to account for personal details at all.
Anyone who's been and knows what's most worthwhile out of the abundance of options? I'd like to see a bit of everything - cloud forests, rainforests, mountains, waterfalls, interesting geology/landscapes. I'm not fat but I am a little out of shape so probably nothing on the really extreme side. Also, Térraba-Sierpe or Tortuguero for a boat tour?
>>2880758monte verde is pretty nice. its got the cloud forest and some other things. stay at the hostel owned by germans if you go there.you should have went to guatemala, its way better and cheaper
Looking for a 3 to 4 day hut to hut hike in europe around the end of october, any recommendations? most huts are closed soon.been to the high tatra on the polish site last year, which was amazing. looking to the get into the mountains again, or anything with an amazing view.
>hut to hutNorway is known for providing such tourism. Some places can be booked on spot and some has to be booked beforehand as the route goes on. Then there's the emergency and publicly open huts Norwegian government has placed all around the place. I've not been to the swiss mountains, but Norway was the most beautiful place I've ever seen.
