I am looking for a book that instructs on basic survival skills. Not some loons manifesto, but just bare bones survival skills.Do you have any recommendations?
>>2878792SAS Survival Guide by John WisemanBushcraft 101 by Dave Canterbury
I had this as a kid.
>>2878792This one is great and packable.>>2878815I have Canterbury's book, what is another good one for more advanced stuff. Things to build for comfy long term stays or planned repeat visits to a site.
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Can you explain more about what you're looking for in a survival manual/book? How barebones, how short, how much information, just the skills or would you also consider knowing what gear to bring a skill too? What does your ideal survival book look like?
i want to go innawoods once a week, take some acid, bring a DJ set and just practice, play hermit mode till I eventually get bored and drive home the next day.is this feasible in Canada? I have experience car camping, just never went alone by myself, but i feel like gaining experience and getting better at living life soloany experience, pointers? my main issue is just paying the park fee every week, i wish camping was free
>>2881854>this thing is bad>therefore this other bad thing should be allowedyou retarded fucking CUNTS are just impossible to deal with.
>>2881698>Claim to be independent country>Still dealing with crown landLmfao jfc
>>2881698Doubt there's much that's more disruptive than doing target practice innawoods and that's perfectly fine with a solid enough backstop. Stop being a bitch.
>>2881881you are the retarded cunt for trying to gate keep people from going outside.fuck to you.
>>2881818Djs use headphones when mixing all the time. And its not like he can bring a soundsystem with him, headphones will be much better audio quality than a shitty small speaker
Have any of you tried these wild button mushrooms, pretty tastey
Thank you for sharing these cute mushroom pictures anon.
I got too many to share all of them.
my local woods only seems to have bolettes, I found chanterelles ONCE but never again.
>>2881954oh and lots of white oyster too
Would any of you eat the fly agaric? Double parboiled? Have a spiritual journey maybe?
Lease is up in October and considering a stint of car homelessness to save money and get out of credit card debt I can pay rent but my life goals just don’t feel accomplishable if I do. Right now I work 56 hours a week 7 days a week between 2 jobs, but I was out of work for a year after breaking my leg in an accident, a lady hit me while I was uninsured. I have been without internet and utilities since march, so it won’t be much of an adjustment, if anything I will probably shower more often. I checked /trv/ and here expecting a van life general or discussion but didn’t see one.It’s not the first time I’ve lived in my car, I did it for a year 7 years ago. I know all the basics in the nomad wiki already just from experience and more. It would be nice to hear what anons think about portable batteries and car refrigerators for these purposes since I have some money to invest in my set up.Back then it was real desperation, it was fun at times but also very boring, I lost my mind a bit. This time I guess it will just be the fun parts cooking camp meals and going wherever I want, at least for the night. My car is totaled but it still drives, my goal is to get a vehicle upgrade before I worry about a place to stay. Any van life or car homeless anons lurking?
>>2880818>coco glucoside That is bs though, this is a remarkably clean product for sure but you don’t need any sort of derived surfactant. Honey will clean your hair completely all by itself, egg whites are a natural surfactant. At $20/8oz you may as well just make your own natural shampoo. Not really sure what the big deal with surfactants are anyway, it’s as if a shampoo is considered defective if it couldn’t clean a mexican sasquatch in one lather. We take a nuke to our bodies in the shower for no reason.
>>2878680>Any van life or car homeless anons lurking?I lived in a van for 3years during universitykraut though, so experience may varyhad a permanent camping spot on a camping site near the city for ~150€/monthwith shower and electricity connection and so on, internet through university WiFi which I got with a directional antenna from a nearby campusI don't think I saved much money thoughmainly was fun because of the 4-5months per year where I would travel during breaksmy /comfy/ van build was ~15k€ (this was before it got super popular and prices exploded) and needed 1-3k€/year in maintenancehad a mercedes sprinter, which already felt cramped, no clue how people do this in their cars for longer periods>about portable batteries and car refrigerators for these purposesif you have the spaceComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2880852>€150/month camping spot>€15k SprinterWhat fucking year was this gramps? How much are Sprinters over there?
Based car camper.
>>2880784different anon here, all in one system like from anger is cheap. and very simple. you can blot them on the roof or just whip them out when needed. but i had a used extra generator like a honda EU32i (made in japan not thailand ) if you want to get something new. but they are kinda pricy and more of a comfort thing. but very nice and simple. >>2878682the non supersize me version of this is. just learn to cook. Beans, peas, lentils, rice, other grains in general, pasta, freeze-dried stuff, potatoes, yams onions all fine. Quality stuff like dry cheese and meat will last until you eat them if in proper storage. you can supplement with just like protein powder, dry milk, and onions :)Be efficient; cold soak beans, etc., instead of long cooking. just plan and be smart stuff like muesli with fresh banana and other dryed berries or a avocado is amazing and healthy.
The East Coast/West Coast debate is pure larp. If you live in any state other than Alaska you are not really /out/, you are just a recreational weekender.
>>2881990Go back.There are at least 5 out schizos and I'm not one of them. You fags proved you need to go back when you got uppity about me mentioning the best places to raise a white family. Or that 95% of all food in the USA is thanks to white farmers.
>>2881991What state are you in? Kek there is a reason you won't answer such a simple question and we all know what it is
>>2881992You still haven't answered what state you are from. It's sure as fuck not Alaska. Within 5-10 years, you will end up leaving AK if you currently live there, I guarantee it. You also don't want to go back to your eastern shithole either if you came from there.
>>2881993I was born is Palmer Alaska and currently reside in Seward, where I still stay until the day I die. Your turn lil bro
>>2881994>until the day i dieYou will end up leaving the state like the other 85% of locals. And there's a around 70-90% chance that you are already seasonal, even if you own property in AK. You also statistically have a 3% chance of committing suicide in general at any time. Palmer is a LARPer area, they depend entirely on anchorage imports, have a bortle scale 4 sky, and still have to drive 2-3hrs for good salmon runs. Seward has milder winters than most of the inland lower 48, and being on the Kenai you still have a 1-3 hr drive or boat trip to decent actual areas where you can out. If you've lived in the rural mountain west next to a NF, and lived on the Kenai or near the Chugach, you will almost always end up gravitating towards permanently settling the rural mountain west over AK.
>offer no protection against ankle eversion or inversion roll>offer no gains in transfer of load to footbed>heavier>longer to put on take off (kek)>less comfortable>need high socks anyhowliterally why are you wearing high top or mid hiking boots?>they look good on womenyeah I will concede that point
My boots are comfy and I get significantly less sand and bits in them than I do while wearing sneakers
>>2875866yes fivefingers barefoot shoes
>>2877309can't you get all the pros by using gaiters though?
>>2877309>>crossing streamshow often are you crossing streams that happen to be just too deep to cross in low-tops but not deep enough to spill over high tops? It's like a 2 inch difference
>>2875439>high top hiking boots are a memethey annoy people with beards, who have trail names and say phrases like "gram weenie" while they're cold soaking food, though?
I cannot seem to find a backpack that has at least two (upper and lower) dedicated externally accessible zippered pockets on the outside like this pack does. They stopped making this pack years ago, but all the similar size (20-30L) packs I am looking at - and I do want something slightly larger to hold more changes of clothes - don't seem to have as useful a pocket arrangement where I can have two pockets on the back where I can access important stuff like medication and my wallet from without having to totally open up the main pack. Pic related is what I use now, but it falls apart after a while and isn't that sturdy. I'd like something that lasts longer without falling apart, and is slightly bigger, but not too much bigger.
Osprey stratos 34L has two back outer pockets, a top pocket, and hip pockets also big enough for the items mentioned. The lower vol ones start to lose pockets. The one I have is new but I have put a lot of other osprey packs through rough bushwacking and work gear hauling
>>2881334LBT 3day pack
>>2881334decathlon fisching and hunting stuff has some models
>>288190030L version. not really UL gear but they have some interesting stuff.
>>2881334>important stuff like medicationyou are a weak american faggot and should stay inside hooked up to your feeding tube where you belong
What's there to do here?
I'm not allowed in Canada because I got a DUI 20 years ago. Think about that next time you have to deal with an Indian.
>>2881839Can't you get in 10 years after the offense?
>>2881863I have to petition their government to get off the list. You go on the list automatically but you have to beg to get taken off. Fuck them I'm not begging I guess I'm just banned from Canada for life.
>>2881781A lot
>>2881839>>2881867WTF? You get banned from Canada for life for doing a little booze cruisin?
Crossbows arent archery edition.So we havent really had one of these threads in the fast handful of years. Post bow builds, your plans for hunting this upcoming season, your target species, your arrow build, etc.
My shoulder was injured for almost half a year, and my bow needs to be restrung; I'm so far out of practice I think I should sit this deer season out. The weather has been too hot up until just a few days ago anyways.
>>2880707you went full retard, you never go full retard.my bow is the opposite of everything you said, running arrows that sit past the riser, got a slider, and using mechanical broadheads.meat is in my freezer. idk bro.
hope everyone season is goinng wellexcept for this guy >>2880707
>>2874206its bow season right now wherebi live. i didnt go this year because the deer always runs away after i shoot it. do i need to get better arrows or something? they are just the cheapest ones from walmart.
>>2874206Copepound bows aren't archery either. If you're trying to pull purity spiral bullshit use a stick and string. This is the kind of bullshit attitude that you think will push more hunters out of the woods so you can have better odds. But it only hurts the sport and erodes hunting rights.
I found these little cabins or huts out in the middle of nowhere Siberia. There are these little, what I assume, ATV trails headed to it. I followed them to a dry riverbed where they ended. The riverbed heads to a lake next to a mountain and there are no roads to it. What the fuck are these and who goes there and why?
>>2879943>What the fuck are these and who goes there and why?Fuck do you care, man wants to be left alone.
Got another one. Almost like a small village. Took me 10 minutes of searching.
True wilderness doesn't exist, even in somewhere as vast as Russia. There's remote hunting camps, summer cottages, off-grid crazies, obscure retreats for the wealthy... There's over seven billion of us swarming over this planet. Most of what looks like untouched forest on the map is being managed for lumber, conservation, military testing, etc. Search and rescue go to all the far out spots too. Nowhere on this Earth has gone untouched by man
>>2881853i touched a fish in the middle of nowhere utah that will probably never be touched by another human hand
>>2879943Probably some guy that just wants to be left alone. >guy built a cabin>probably lives there>wants to be left aloneleave the guy just be
Having a great night inAny JMT tips?
theres a mini JMT in tennessee that's (the part I was on) well maintained and less crowded
>>2881847Was it one that's 20 miles ?
>>2881849no I mean this onehttps://www.hikingproject.com/trail/7011657/john-muir-trail-big-south-fork-nrayou can hike through much of big south fork as a backpacking trail I don't think it's that highly regulated, but resupply won't be easy as its not really near anything
Post your preferred hiking shoe and the rest of us can judge how /out/ they are
>>2868291I wear these year round in Alaska
>>2877790So faggy
I wear my steel toe cats everywhere, from the job site to backpacking. It's only been a couple months, I'm curious if they'll be as out as my Keens (I did the same thing with them for 4 years)
My meme shoes but extremely comfy
>>2881844Only pretentious larpers hate these. I have worn these on three continents, four seasons, dozens of peaks, hunted hundreds of time in them, etc.
General thread for freediving and/or spearfishing, since I don't see one mentioning either.My personal questions:I've been thinking about taking a certification course so I can learn to do these things correctly and safely. I'm probably happy just doing the diving, but spearfishing seems like an easy and practical extension. I only casually skindive and rod-and-reel fish at the moment. Does anyone have experience taking such a course?I know I'll need my own gear early on, but each instructor I can find seems to have their own equipment shops, so I imagine they wouldn't be impartial about the quality of other gear on the market. I live on the Pacific coast of the US, so I see that a 7 mm open cell wetsuit is strongly recommended. What good/bad features should I look out for on wetsuits and other equipment? For non-competitive diving, carbon fiber fins are almost certainly not worth the price, right?
>>2814016Thats a sweet kagami brother
>>2878803Why do the locals hate scuba fishers?
>>2878803Is it feasible for a non-local to come to HI and do a little spearing without getting the shit beat out of them? If so, which island would be best? I kind of fantasize about just camping in the woods (i did that plenty in Oahu) and living off fish for a week.
When the weather starts to get cold, I start to reconsider whether I should have moved to the tropics.
>Be avid freediver>holiday in dahab>go out looking for gay eel garden>alone, bout 30m from shore, only 5m deep>can't find shit>look up in the distance>see great white cruising past >closest thing to fear I've experienced>head back wait to get ripped apart at any moment20 years ago and I've never been in the water since
I posted this thread on the travel board, but I thought maybe you guys would be able to give me some advice too...So this is gonna sound really stupid and crazy, but I'm so fucking miserable and I just hate my life and I'm so bored all the time just tired of everything. And I'm out of shape, and I'm really stupid and worthless. I can't take care of myself. I'm addicted to self destruction and I want to change so bad. I want to do something really dramatic, something that will shock my whole nervous system into survival mode so I can find God and become the Man I know I can be.Sorry this is really melodramatic and unhinged, I'm kinda cringe. But I want to walk.. like from my house all the way to Alaska. I just want to walk there. I'm broke, I have no car and very little money. But I figure I could just walk there, and start a new life.I know it would be hard. I have about $3000 in savings and I would probably need that mostly for food and stuff along the way. I might have to figure out news ways of making money on the way. I'd need to figure out all kinds of things.What I'm most worried about is freezing to death in my sleep and encountering territorial wild animals somewhere. Besides that I also worry about being robbed or murdered by other humans.This is sort of a radical question, so I'd appreciate any and all opinions / advice / suggestions things I should learn / read / buy before I go. Or on the way. I know this is probably stupid but please try to keep an open mind..
You need Jesus, it's that simple.
>>2878028You greatly overestimate natives in this state. They stick to Anchorage or the villages. There are literally dozens of smaller towns within 60 miles of Anchorage that I would describe as majority white. Outside of that is where you get your crime stat filled eskimo on eskimo crime.
>>2877741Hey man, I know I'm late but I've lived in Fairbanks. The summers are amazing. Idyllic. Fairytale sort of situation. The winters are long, dark, and fucking brutal. That being said, save up money and white-knuckle through your life in wherever the fuck just a little longer, and when April/May rolls around, head up there. There's a MASSIVE labor shortage there. Everyone is lazy, stupid, and high. If you can show up to work on time and sober, you're way ahead of the game
>>2877741Just go loser. Walk, hitchhike, find rides in Craigslist rideshare. I've done it -not quite that far, but it's not really that hard. $3k will last a year if you're smart about it.
>>2878071Take the Northwest passage like a man
Post YouTubers you wanna go /out/ with
>>2881684patchouli, sweat and roses
>these hagsYou'd camp with Ssobberry
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>>2881680I would be up in there eating that pussy through her pants immediatelyuntil her juices and my saliva formed a melange, soaking her crotch in a sticky filmthen I would pull her pants down and make her sit on my face for like an hour
