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>>2856830
I use Baffin Truro as my main shoes for around 6 years, had them since 2018. Had to reglue the soles recently, and I wish I took better care of them since they're pretty scratched up. But they'll still give me another 8 years. Currently using them while in Finland.

They're great in snow, and in summer they're not bad at all w/ good grip. They're less water proof now, but can probably fix with some sort of sealant.

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>Meindl Schlern MFS
Probably the best quality boots I've owned so far. Its leather lined and has no synthetic water proof membrane, but its keeped me dry throughout this winter and during the snow melt. Leather is an aniline which makes it more water repellent, easy to clean and also means less maintenance (you don't need to apply wax as often). Compared to my leather goretex boots it also doesn't run very hot and I could probably continue to wear it throughout much of the summer comfortably. Not something I ever considered with any of my a synthetic membrane boots. Runs a bit small so size up by atleast half an EU size. Also expect a considerable break in time. Took about half a month of daily walks until they got comfy. They now feel like an extenstion of my foot. Sole it stiff too, but that can be a good thing over the long term and certain terrain. They are also resolable. All around, highly recommend for wet and cold climate. The gore tex version of this boot is called Bergell I believe and is otherwise identical.

>>2861475
Surely you've bought something by now right?

>>2856830
The Danner Light 2 is a sick pair of boots. I just got a pair of them, as well as the taller version, both for free, they're fucking fantastic, and they aren't as stiff as my Danner work boots.

I use Jim Greens, the razorbacks and the vellies. They're great, cheaper than danners, and solid quality. Resoleable too, and very wide toe box

>>2862735
I walked a bit through the Ardennes a few years ago, mostly from Dinant to Charleville in France.
Big forrest, the Meuse valley, some lakes too, you wil leasily find war museums and maybe abandoned forts and factories to explore.

I visited the Groningen region, it's clearly not suited for wild camping, so much canals you can't access most of the fields just next to the the roads. Otherwise peaceful and flat, if you like swamps and birdwatching this is a great place. For biking too obviously.

Free public transportation in Luxembourg may be useful to travel in the area.

>>2862735
Het polder

>>2862735
The entire region is policed.
No wild camping allowed.
Not allowed to leave trails on public land.
Only somewhat pretty region is the Ardennes, but there are next to no native/natural woods. All just plantations for lumber. And even in the Ardennes you're never more than 250m removed from a driveable road.

>>2862735
LARP as a Saxon pirate and camp out on some swamp land by the ocean, probably what I would do if I lived there. Sounds kino.

>>2862735
Netherlands is absolutely useable as a stealthcamping spot and it's sort of easy too.
You should never go there for actual wild nature apart from fishing.
Though the nature that is there is suprisingly well-kept and there are more than enough animal species like deer, beavers, wild hogs, and even wolves making a return, which of course turned the entire overdomesticated country upside down calling for witchhunts on the wretched forest beast.
The entire eastern half of the country is free to camp in, but i like Drenthe and Gelderland as they provide a decent mix of coverage and open field.
Limburg is also great if you like elevation.
There are huge fines, and they stack, so if you make a fire, sleep in the woods at night, cut down some trees and spear a fish without a license you can look at 900+ euro because all of that is illegal.
The only physical dangers are mud/dune bogs (just don't be retarded), and the increased amount of freeroaming hobo retards you meet because the country is so small.

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what would be the best place around there to hang a hammock for a night or two?

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Yeah krakow and surrounding areas are great for adventuring, cause all of poland north of here is flat and boring lol. I like to take my 7" FPV and get some nice views. This pic is from like an hour south of here two weeks ago

>>2854582
I'd love to see those castles in real life.

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>>2854582
Oh I know that finger.
Where should I ride this season apart from Skala and Olkusz around Krakow?
I think gotta go south closer to the big mountains.

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>>2863293
if you want small hike

>>2862493
Consider wearing a welding glove on the hand you intend to grab the critter with.

Depends on how humane you're feeling.
If it's on the low end, you can drown it in a barrel or something like it, full of water and with a lid on. Or weigh it down and throw it in a suitable body of water. My grandfather used to trap stray cats in a cage trap, and he would just kick the trap over the edge of the quay, cat and all, and pull the trap out a few days later, when the cat would be drowned and the crabs and little fish would have started eating it. He'd shake the cat out, bait the trap and set it again. That's not very nice, and a terrible way to go. But it works, and you don't ruin the fur.
If you leave it in the trap, it's going to sort itself out somehow. That is an even worse way to go, and very cruel besides. But it works. I found grandpa's traps a few years ago, and three of them had the mummified remains of cats in them. Don't know when they got in there, but he died in 2002.
If you're feeling humane, hit it in the noggin as hard as you can with something heavy. A heavy metal shovel should do the trick. That should at the very least knock them out for a bit. Depending on the animal, the force might cause their eyes to pop out, or bulge out in a grotesque way. It looks almost cartoonish, and would probably be very funny if it wasn't so grotesque.
When they're knocked out, that's when you bleed them, by, simply put, cutting their throat with a sharp knife. Pocket knife, chef knife, don't make no nevermind so long as it's sharp.
Instead of a snare, you could use a striking trap, like a Conibear. I don't know about no nutria, but the mink-sized ones I've used are mean enough, so you'll want to take care you don't get your fingers crushed in it. Here's a video on how you can set them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-8MJHLzR8E
And make sure to anchor your trap properly, lest you have an injured animal running around. That's entirely unnecessary and easily preventable.

>>2862513
>>2862514
>>2862516
then i will use a chainmail glove and a steel fish club
thank you guys for the good intel

>>2862493
The trappers I know just use a .22 pistol

>>2862493
Foot on head, grab back legs and pull.

Cool thread, cheers bro. Kinda sad these places are disappearing over time

>>2863230
no mine here, just one of the few nuclear test spots people can freely access.

>>2863198
Love the enthusiasm, but these are close quarters with minimal ventilation. M-14 is too long, and white phosphorus will deplete your O2. Better off with a carbine or smg and potato mashers.

>>2863256
Thanks, brother. It is amazing they have lasted this long.

it's funny how we find things like this. I've never visted /out/ before today and the only reason I have is because the banner made me chuckle and then I saw this thread. Got curious and read through the whole thing

Thanks for your work over the years anon. I may not have been around to see it, but if this thread is anything to go by, it was worth it all the while. It's a shame there's hardly any mines like this in my area. Most of them have been completely blocked off or didn't go underground to begin with

>>2860664
i've heard old hunters used to tie used bloody tampons to trees and shit, something about the smell and the pheromones are supposed to attract deer.

I bought a used backpack and inside I found girls panties and a piece of rope.

>>2861415
one day we caught 8 ball raul twice

>>2860600
My friends and I would "liberate" shopping carts by sending them back into the woods that surrounded the grocery store. You'd run full tilt with the cart and launch it as far as you could, as deep as you could

idk why but it felt good, not rebellious or stupid or anything, genuinely freeing

>>2860600
>find dead bat in abandoned building
>put 5 sticks is star shape, put the dead bat in the middle
>leave
I did this 2 or 3 times I think.

>>2860631
I 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.

>>2856323
The big problem is having enough food and how to store and make it last through winter if you live in that environment.
Having some goats or sheep and chickens will provide you with milk and egg, but the animals will also require food so it's hard having many, which also limits the food they can produce.
Hunting, trapping, fishing and foraging will provide some, but you need gear, it can be time consuming and the government will frown upon any illegal hunting or fishing without permits if that's required in your area. So you'll need at least some money for that.

Stinging nettle, along with other edible weeds, are a good source of food and have been used for survival.
You can of course grow your own food as well. Cabbage and similar is probably easiest.

>>2856323
I'm sure it'd be far easier to accomplish this outside America. Theres even tribes you could potentially join.

>>2862406
This seems to be a product of modern society. You've been ingrained to function in a society. You'd need to slowly ween yourself off or yea, you'll shock yourself.

Lots of fear mongering itt. If you think you have what it takes, go for it OP. People make a huge fuss out of homelessness and make it seem like it's worse than death but it's not that bad. Of course, everyone is different, and have different thresholds of what they're willing to tolerate and put up with and whatnot.

>>2863272
>You can of course grow your own food as well. Cabbage and similar is probably easiest.
potatoes will grow anywhere and you can survive only on them (if you eat the skin too)

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>>2863165
>privacy
>on public property
You DO NOT have the right to "privacy" in a public setting.
I can record you driving down the street or walking around the mall and even upload the videos to YouTube.
Thats not something new.
Dont like it?
Stay in your basement.

>>2863204
I hope you get stalked and raped by someone just like you.

>>2863232
Your neighbor's doorbell camera took video of you walking out your front door this morning.
You were recorded by 100 dash cams on the way to work.
The ATM took pictures of you as you typed in your pin.
The gas pump took video as you fueled your car.
You were on video as soon as you walked into 7-11.
And walmart.
All 2026 and newer vehicles will have driver monitoring systems with upload capability.

But youre stressed over a camera on a tree in a forest pointing in some random direction?

>>2863242
>All 2026 and newer vehicles will have driver monitoring systems with upload capability.
Have we reached that point? I remember when Biden started signing those bills but I thought we still had a few more years until it was fully cucked. Pretty much anything after 2013 has location tracking built in which is bad enough but driver monitoring is fucking gay. Imma buy a car Japan and have it imported through Uruguay so that it doesn’t have any of that gay spyware.

>>2863242
https://youtube.com/watch?v=G0AXgaFqEas

>>2860799
Yeah that's what I do and how it lasts, it seems to come on for 20 seconds and go off for a while, it has a temperature thingy in it.
But my feet kinda die because it isn't big enough

>>2848380
I have this idea to fight condensation by breathing in a pipe that goes outside the tent.
But you have to wear mask and connect it to the pipeans isolate it. but the mask could be very uncomfortable.
I don't know.
One night is enough to get a frost layer on your tent wall from the inside.

If it is cold enough and it does. not melt, you can scrape it but still you get snowy frost inside.

>>2848380
hot tents and stoves for a noob recommendations plz?

>>2848380
You guys are making me jealous. I can wait for winter to go camping.

>>2848380
I am not experienced enough to winter camp where I live it is far too cold. I would try it out somewhere more temperate, where the average daily high in winter is atleast in the mid 20s. Any recommendations? Thinking around the east coast like Pennsylvania or Massachusetts.

>like that PNW which have a Mediterranean climate
>there are microclimates in the gulf islands
>yeah man in the small exceptions it's kind of true that's obviously what we're talking about here

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>>2861659
Did you guys really not know that? Haven't you ever wondered why it doesn't rain for weeks and months at a time? You must be transplants, or don't even live here.

Tourists think the PNW gets a lot of rain. What it gets are a lot of months with small amounts of measurable rain. That's not the same thing. 8 months of cold, cloudy weather with ~.03in or less of rain most days, 4 months of warm, very dry weather. That's Mediterranean, my friend.

Go hawks.

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>>2862484
>What it gets are a lot of months with small amounts of measurable rain.
So it rains all the time, got it!

>>2861604
You like that double stuffed, don't you, you dirty bastard? I know I do. ;)

>>2862484
But a lot of that pnw med climate gets big winter storms that do cause a mud season not as much from snowmelt but from volume of rain. Campgrounds and trails close in norcal in the winter for this reason

>>2862942
thats toilet paper, i had a neighbor mulch a mullan for fun one year and it grew 9ft tall

>>2862953
What order tho?

I smoked cbd cigarettes with this in it and i was coughing up all my mucus. Clears them out good and I was like Kirby afterwards

>>2862965
My brother in christ this is one of life's little lessons one must learn on there own. Good luck to ya champ!

>>2862953
Ass first, it’ll dry while you smoke it

>>2860143
Hey Op, take the cardboard tube out of a a roll of toilet paper, shove the TP into a coffee can then pour in at least 90% alcohol. It will burn for hours, when the TP starts to get singed or the flame gets a bit low add more alcohol.

>>2860930
Yes that is an alcohol stove but not the kind I am looking for. Thank you.

After further testing. It's passable and the wick isn't wearing down too badly. The biggest upside I didn't expect is how quickly it cools.

>>2860930
> or the flame gets a bit low add more alcohol.

DONT DO THIS! NEVER!

adding alcohol to flame will make flame get INTO the alcohol bottle, turning it into a reactor!

it will zoom out of your hand spilling ignited alcohol everywhere tumbling around with every obstacle.

welcome to hell.

>>2863236
also, know that some alcohols burn invisible flame in the sun.

check flame is absolutely out and recipient cool before refillng.

check safety issues on alcohol stoves!!!

>>2862936
That sounds amazing. Even if it was a bit your own fuck up, and you didn’t get lucky by having some helping hand appear ex machina and give you a chain of events total unforeseen, but that still sounds like an experience you won’t forget and can’t replicate. Very very cool honestly.
>>2862937
And cool photo. I assume you’re right that Guinea and maybe Sierra Leone will be more exciting to hike in because its not as flat as most of Senegal and Gambia.
>bushwhack
I assume the bush wasn’t too bad in late dry season because all the bushes and grass were dead, but could you even manage during rain season? I’d assume for most parts the grass would just be too tall and too thick to go through even with a Machete.
Did you plan for this in some way?
I would probably also prefer to leave the toad and official camping spots in Niokola Park, but I’d assume anything that hasn’t been cleared will simply be too hard to traverse.
>military surplus boots
I bought some Solomon goretex boots a few years past that have held up amazingly.

Jesus. i used to do stuff like this back in my twenties. twenty years on if I'm getting on a plane somewhere, it better have white sand beaches, and good food and drinks.

>>2860084
>The nature is harsh, dry, not welcoming
good
>the people are very dumb and either friendly if they can't actually help you
why would you go somewhere where you need help from others?
retard

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>>2862992
The park was emptied by the government in the 60s. People used to live near by but now it is illegal to live in the nature reserve.
Photo is the sign at the park entrance saying its their natures last refuge.

>>2860098
I spent some time in Iten, Kenya and Kaptagat (also Kenya) in the early 2010s on the invitation of one of my coaches friend. Bit of a friend of a friend situation. The primary focus for me was running, those two cities are where some of the world's best distance runners live and train, but the /out/ was also amazing. Hundreds of miles of beautiful trails, red rock areas that reminded me of time in Utah, not as much water or wetlands though. The people there were also very kind, maybe it was just because I was there to learn from them or the athletes represented a higher caliber of individual than the ones you encountered, but I had a wonderful time across several trips there. I never transcended the talent I had as a mzungu, and I'm not sure such an experience would be as fulfilling for someone that doesn't run... but I would recommend Kenya to anyone wanting to visit the continent.

>>2863235
nice carpet
what's the bottom reel?

>>2863238
Dam quick 330. I have a 220 I'm hot rodding for use on rods like this but I exploded the spool winding mono on too tight so until I finish making my aluminum one this is the closest I have

>>2863239
>but I exploded the spool
i keep hearing about this but it never happened to me, despite owning multiple old mitchells that supposedly are prone to this, am i mistakenly doing something right?
i'm getting from ebay one of these old reel that's just a spool on a rotating foot (turn it so the spool face the tip of the rod to cast like a fixed spool reel, and put back to reel in) i want to use some kind of old wooden surface frog lure with it, might even try doing one myself

>>2863210
i didn't even know a 12 dollar combo would have the lure rating printed on it.

>>2863243
>>2863243
>>2863243
new thread