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Grapes also in full season

>>2878813
>I'm surprised you were able to find those in Pierogistan, they're difficult to find here where they're native
There is a hobbyist around here, he has a ton of all kinds of exotic root plants and he sells them, I got some rare potato, garlic and sweet potato cultivars, yacon, apios, sunchokes and some other stuff from him

>Are they a wild type or an improved LSU type?
Two were labeled as "Nutty" and two other as "Early flowering", no idea which type are those

>>2878798
I have been canning them for almost a month now, I have a lot more plants and some of them only have early signs of late blight so I'm still getting a decent amount

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"Golden Saxa" dwarf bean planted after fava beans a bit over a month ago, I'll get at least one harvest out of it, it's really early so it's good for late planting in mid summer

>>2878851
They are ok, not the best I had but not bad either, I don't have that much experience with various bean cultivars but "Golden Saxa" is better and softer when boiled

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Corn is looking good

>>2878891
I hope they'll flower before the first frost here, they still have at least a month unless we get really cold September

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Days are still long and warm enough for everbearing strawberries which is why I like them so much, they just keep going, those are "San Andreas" I think but I'm not sure

>>2878928
My mom had a strawberry bed for a year and all traces of it disappeared
I normally plant drought resistant shrubs, trees, bushes and perennials, so how people manage fruits and veggies every year is a foreign concept to me.

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these stupid things take so god damn long to heat up.

>>2877392
I don't know if this makes you less brown or more brown

I have used those a couple times, including at campgrounds, including with family. Never particularly close to urban areas (those are full of Mexicans for some reason). If the grate is particularly nasty and uncleanable we would just wrap each strip of it in foil and it would be fine

Because white people hate theirs family

>>2878496
english please

>>2878458
man you really are old and have no business beign on the internets or so drunk you just seem like one and should sleep it off

>>2877098
>i blew off sandals as a meme for years but they're the real deal. cheap compared to shoes, way more durable, replace the easy wear parts, lightest weight, lowest drop, best thing you can do for your body besides barefoot.

I am currently discovering this for myself, I often walk over ten miles a day in mountain terrain and switched to bedrock sandals from hiking boots. It's insane how much my posture and gait has improved in a relatively short time. I look forward to watching my toes heal after decades of cramming them into ill-fitting footwear

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>>2878508
>look forward to watching my toes heal
It takes a while to get them to unbind and depending on the damage they might never be all the way unbent.
You’ve taken the step in the right direction.

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>>2878508
it's the best. i had cold feet for years wearing heavyweight darn toughs and boots. thought i had a mortons neuroma even. ditched both and realized my feet were warmer without either.
like you, i went for a long hike without feeling winded or beat up. i was ready to keep going, estimating my range to much further than i ever imagined but was losing daylight.
my only concern is when i'm in snake country or thorny (blackberries where I am)
but i can now see it where you can potentially have a woven (not knit) sock to act like the upper of a shoe. this can potentially act as a wicking layer, insulation, protection, and something easily replaceable. trying to match that level of breathability in a shoe means going for mesh, which would never last.
i'm geeking out, but trying to make this work is like comparing japanese, mexican and greco-roman sandal culture to find the perfect combination. the japanese tabi socks are some of the only woven coverings i've seen. you can get the polar feet polartec socks. fleece lasts a long time and is reasonable at wicking. i'm waiting till it's cooler to try some. i also know the traditional kimono tabi socks are wovens and not knits (problem with a knit is thorns would destroy it in a heartbeat since it pulling at the stretch would break and untangle it). sadly most the japanese use cotton, so i'm still looking for a linen or hemp or even more dense nylon/polyester.
luna also now makes a fairly pricey tabu sock for colder weather. i may end up caving at some point if i don't pick up a needle and thread and make my own hemp version.
with how modern culture is now it's easy to look at sandals as primitive. it reminds me of the mark twain quote about how education is unlearning what we've been taught. historically samurai and ninjas were fighting with glorified flip flops and socks.
logging boot fags may as well rope with the amount of damage they do to their body just to be slower with their expensive illusion of benefits.

>>2876534
I sorta want to try these but also it looks like its made for retards so I don't want to wear them

Been getting my scuba cert so I have a mask and snorkel now, don't have lighter fins but some friends and I are heading to Rangeley Lake in a few weeks. Is it worth freediving the lake there? Never really done it before

>>2875419
It's harder to relax when you're freezing your bollocks off but it doesn't hurt to try. Tell us how the water clarity is; I'm also a Maineac but the pond's I've tried diving in the visibility was shit.

>>2875419
Lakes are normally sort of "boring" in terms of vegetation and wildlife, at least here on the west coast. But then again, most of ours are (at least partially) artificial reservoirs. But I enjoy swimming and diving around and exploring, so I never go to a lake without at least my mask. What's the harm in trying? Especially if you have a buddy to help ensure that you don't get into trouble somehow, by taking turns watching over one another.

Spearo in the 50th state here, if any of you all have questions, i would happily answer them. My pb static time is 4:05 and my best depth is around 75ft but obviously only about 10 sec on the bottom. I have a ton to learn, and im far from being even "good" for hawaii, but i learn more every dive. And no, no one spears on scuba out here, unless you want to be clowned on or get the dogshit beaten out of you by the locals

>>2814016
Thats a sweet kagami brother

>>2878805
How old is it? Maybe the wood rim was weakened at the bends and its own pressure caused it to snap.

Otherwise bigfoot did it as a warning sign

>>2878852
It’s like a month old but has only seen maybe a week’s worth of use.
Just gonna buy another and do the ol switcharoo

Any FLfags here? Have you started seeing mullet around you?

>>2878930
st johns river. mullet and shrimp beginning to run

>>2877783
there aren't many fatal mountain lion attacks but I read one where a lady was defending her child from one and it attacked her for an entire hour non-stop until she finally died. could you imagine the absolute fucking horror of that shit

>>2874569
The way he was dressed, he was asking for it

>>2877783
OH SHID A GOOGER DDDD:

>>2877806
No I cant imagine being that weak

>>2878237
get you a sham cloth
and a fan

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I've got the MSR Elixir 3, 2 and just bought the 1.
Going to try it this week for the first time.
Great roomy tents seen me through some rough weather. Done a lot of high camps in them too.
The 3 man needs two to carry it realistically.

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>>2877960
Thats fair enough. With as many choices as we get today, you really have to sometimes just go for it.

Pic rel my new beauty, super spacious, very happy with it Let's hope it holds up to the rain and stormy conditions in northern scandi.

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Kelty Late Start 2 here. Pretty good budget motocamping tent, poles are shorter than most when collapsed. No real complains aside from wishing the whole package was a little smaller, but it goes up easily and I've been rained on in it with no issues.

>>2873462
I just checked back in the thread and its way late, but I did buy it and it works quite well. I like the improved airflow in addition to its very small size and weight. Its also feels more like your outside the woods then enclosed in the bivvy.

>>2878653
What's the range of these drones you wish to use?
Are you going to scan all 5,270 square miles just once a day to find the bodies or are you going to check all 5,270 miles hourly so you can find them when theyre still alive?
How many drones does it take to cover 5,270 square miles in an hour?

Apparently during winter there is no danger because the temperature is between 64.4º F and 71.6º F. So just visit the park during winter and there is no danger.

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>>2878709
The temperature can drop from 50° to freezing in a day in Death Valley.
Its also a horrible place to be during a rain because of flash floods.

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>>2878709
When the mud freezes it turns into a skating rink and wind blows boulders around like some olympic figure skating competition.

Its a dangerous place any time of the year.

>>2878729
The logical thing to do would be to be there during the day, not at night when it gets so cold. And floods must be something rare so it's very unlikely that they affect you.

>>2878730
Doesn't look like many rocks and I think I saw something about that and they move not so fast as to be a problem for humans.

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>>2867887
we're 3-5 years away from deciphering animal speech with AI, and it's going to be disappointing to learn they don't say anything deep and their vocalizations mostly consist of "hey" "hey "wanna fuck" "hey" "go away" "hey "hey" "watch out"

>>2867887
https://youtu.be/5HLy27bK-wU

would be probably like AI that always trained to say they unconsciousness

>>2867887
would lions?

>>2876455
obviously works (evidence: dead deer)

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Dove hunting season should start August 1st.

Duck hunting season should start December 1st.

Thank you for your attention in this matter.

>>2875883
as a third worlder i've casually walked upto 4k but apparently shit gets serious after that
want to casually tackle like 5k or 6k with some sticks, shoe spikes, tent and food but people keep bringing up bs about permits, groups, guides and what not tiring honestly

>>2875094

are you messing around down in on the mexican volcanoes? that'd be my guess.

and I've never been that high but i want to. I lived at 10k' for a while so I'm pretty sure with training and acclimation i'd probably be ok to handle 15-16k no problem, but I've only been to 14.5k'

the real lazy ass thing I want to do is go to ladakh and just drive to 19.5 and walk to 20k and head home.

I don't think any peak is really worth risking one's life over and I prefer to be alone, so I don't really fuck around beyond scrambles.

>>2875094
I've done 4500m and it was easy, but in the US anything considerably higher is annoyingly hard

>>2875094
>climbed
Does it specifically have to be climbing? Because I waked up Tunari - 5023m, 16480 feet.

>>2875094
>sees your axes and ropes
oi you got a loicence for that mountain?

>>2874390
A lot of the raw materials he'd want might not really exist anywhere near him. He's on a continent where the natives never got past the stone age themselves and resources are probably part of the reason for that.

his iron smelts yields like 20g per batch and he picks them out as little droplets. then when he tries to consolidate them, it just all oxidizes and its not like hes got a good flux.
he needs to make a batch 10-20x the size, pick out the bloom from the furnace while still at welding heat and then forge it to remove the slag and consolidate the iron to a bar. I dont see how you could possibly do this with wooden tongs and a fisthammer + anvil stone.
Id say hes bricked pretty badly without a basic iron hammer and tongs.

>>2874967
ah, i see, my mistake, i thought it a human.

>>2877218
tempering clay is hard work
understanding clay is hard work

though he had it in the first few clay videos, i think he's looking for something but hasn't quite grasped it
>cement tiles
i'm pretty sure he's stuck on cement.

what's the recipe? lime, calcium and ground up rocks/clay?

i think he needs branch out to other primitive tools
then again, limited iron, limited flint/flintlike stones, limited edible plants, etc, there's only so much you can build or create in a limited environment (without a fully fleshed out plan, or end goal)

>>2877919
>Id say hes bricked pretty badly without a basic iron hammer and tongs.
he could try going a different route (hunter-gatherer tools and techniques), maybe some animal husbandry? agriculture? textile techniques, etc
i dont know how much land he has access to, but depending on his intended goal, there's many branches of primitive technology he could follow and build up on.

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>>2875501
[spoiler]feed the forest anon[/spoiler]

OP, are you the same idiot who thought an oak tree in a clearing was a clear sign of satan worship?

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>>2875501
no. it was the Ghost of Christmas Past telling you to take two of these and call /x/ in the morning where the rest of the schizo fucktards huddle together

>>2875502
>>2875512
sometimes skinwalkers sound like they are saying
"hhhEEEelLLLLPPPpp MMEeeeeEeeeee!!!!!"
but they are saying "healthy"

>>2875573
one time my sister and i came home from the store back to her apartment, as we entered the home i was making conversation leading to a punchline to finish it off as a joke (very innocent)
so i put down her babies cradle and her other son walked around the table on the other side and i said the punchline as my sister came in.

i laughed (as i did to all my lame jokes), she laughed, her oldest son laughed (he was around 4-5 at the time, he didn't understand the punchline) and a voice in the middle of the table between the three of us laughed, like a little kid, my sister and I got immediately silent.
my sister looked at me, and i looked at her and i just nodded and told her, "yeah", and she looked at me and just said, "yeah".
we both confirmed it, we both knew what we were confirming.

there shouldn't be a laughing little kid between us where there's a table, laughing with us, 4 people laughing when there were only 3 that were involved (the baby was only a couple months old, couldn't even walk or feed himself)

sometimes it isn't "imagined", sometimes

>>2874722
I love you anon

>>2875093
>immediately make fun of penis size like a woman
You have low T

>>2874700
I walk a lot in darkness because I live in the forest and have no car, but in my country there are no predators. Not sure if I would do that with my heavy grocery bags and backpack when there is bears around but your distances are likely much higher.
>>2874735
I used to take highdose mushrooms and go to the forest, especially in the 2014 era when I lived near Königsforst in Cologne (Rath Heumar). Magical times, its for you if you enjoy solitude and dissolution into other states of consciousness. But here where I live there is nothing to fear except humans. And there are never any. Only once some homeless sheltered in the entrance. Humans are afraid of total darkness and the forest, which I enjoy, because it gives me safety in that knowledge. When you do it regularily you become used to it.

It became now a tradition to dose my drugs in the forest, especially DXM nowadays, I also grow Cannabis there which is like an exercise.

The times I've done it, I always seem to walk through a big cobweb. Really hate it when that happens.

>>2874700
did that a lot in californias high desert (north of big bear)
my brother, a friend and i were going to the local hotsprings at night, but we deviated and went into a dried valley, we got very very very close to a rattle snakes nest (you could smell it from a good 20-40 ft)
my brother got really close (about 5-7 ft), with our dogs (which we always took offleash)

sufficient to say, i told him to double check his suroundings and ensure there was nothing dangerous like snakes, he confirmed the nest and we dipped.

right back the way we came.
the friend at the time was calm about it the whole time, he was a youngin' (about 6-8 years younger than us, we were in our mid 20's)
the other times we went hiking they were a lot less smooth but also less dangerous.

fun times.

>>2877599
Cool penguin, what's the source?
When I search for shit about it I only find AI crap zooming onto him, hence completely missing the point.

>>2878342
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnTU_hJoByA
its probably a reference to this werner herzog penguin documentary that reached meme status in a few parts of the internet.

>>2878608
Yeah, I know, I was looking for the actual patch. But all I could find were horrible AI-generated, plastic-looking designs focusing on the penguin without any scale or feeling of loneliness, which make the whole thing pointless.
Thanks nonetheless though.

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>>2877319
Do Stocknagel (hiking staff plagues?) count?

Is there any shop which has the cairn kicker patch available?

>>2875649
I would trade both kidneys for $3.55 a gallon

>>2875649
Good for you. In Hungary the cheapest is $7,078 per gallon.

>>2876968
imagine not only being a highly pigmented LGBT person but also wrong when assuming so much about others
motorism is effeminate, weak and a plight onto thine neighbour

>>2878659
your mom drives you to your psychiatrist

>>2875649
It’s $5.78 in Guam. Sure the island is only like 34 miles in perimeter, but I still need gas to go to the beach