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.
>>2879922Did it become a master planned suburban community with cookie-cutter houses on 1/4 acre lots or "affordable housing" commieblocks for the browns?
>>2879925More like the former, but this is Manchester, Massachusetts we're talking about and it's an upscale neighbourhood. I think the only thing that remains from the original property is a large greenhouse.
>>2879927Sad to see the original house gone but as far as suburbs go that one's pretty good looking.
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>>2879951Kekarooni
deciduous forests are much nicer than coniferous forests
>>2879617I think cloudy winter days give the coolest effect. But certainly early spring is the most unique.
>>2879314this looks so much better in winter than a leaf-less forest
Yeah, but growing up around deciduous forest means that coniferous forest will always have this beautiful and exotic feel to them that deciduous forest don't have for me.
Why not both?My forest has oak and maple along with pine and cedar.
>>2879901Yeah, going to Yosemite as an east coaster was like that for me. It has a nice mix of decidious and coniferous trees but is mostly coniferous, but the inclusion of all the giants just here and there makes it kind of magical.
Bivi general for my fellow bodybag enjoyers.I recently got my hands on a dutch army bivibag and I got to test it in quite heavy rain.Everything looked dry but where a puddle formed, the sleeping bag was completely drenched.I was used to using Norwegian army bags in snow without issue, and I learning with a TF1522 bivibag that in rain they aren't waterproof.Now I hoped that I could use the bivibag for a minimalist trip without tarp.Can this be fixed with a DWR spray, or do I really have to use a tarp?
>>2879252It seems to be the Fecsa and I do not see any wear or damage om the outer or inner surface. I just got some dwr spray to try. I’ll apply it today and test it when it has dried in a few days.I’ll also fill up the bag like I’m inside to prevent most puddles.
>>2879193One reason is bugs but you'd be better off with a mosquito net. Much lighter than a bivy. Honestly though, there's a reason people use tents. They're only a few pounds.
>>2879271Let us know how it goes.
>>2879077 I just found impregnation ruins gas permeability according to some YouTube comments, a property of the special material used for the bag. It's not regular goretex.
>>2879344yea why not get a mosquito net and tarp
We can argue about which country has the best mountains but deep down in our hearts we all know it's Switzerland and people only say otherwise cause it's expensive as fuck
>>2879514Also, it is not just elevated terrain that the makes the USA dominate. Total numbers of peaks, vertical relief (5,489m in 16 linear km, contour to contour, 1st globally), climate, population density (western USA is 4th lowest globally overall, Canada is lower than Australia and Siberia in subunits), outdoorsman heritage (USA is probably 1st or 2nd in the world in this category), access overall (moderately high in the USA, 2nd best of the mega-nations), conservation land (at least 33% of the entire USA is public outdoors recreation land/conservation land, ie 1.267 million sq mi or 3.281 million sq km).
>>2879518Annapurna has 6400m relief in 16km. Rakaposhi has 6000m in 12km. Dhaulagiri has 5800m in 10km
>>2879534also, random ass Langtang Lirung, a mountain no one had ever heard of before it was in the news for being the source of the crazy mudslide in Nepal a couple weeks ago, has over 5600m vertical relief in 16km.
>>2870669Norway’s might be better
>>2879429>I thought that only the German-speaking Swiss people were difficult to deal with and the French and Italien speakers pretty relaxed?not at all, they're all insufferable in their own ways
Anon goes hobomode in Sweden and dies in a an abandoned shack? Cops in Värnamo in the middle of Sweden found a mummified hiker in 2022 in an abandoned house. He was carrying sleeping mats and a storm kitchen and stuff. They can't figure out who he is. Anyone remember any anons saying they were going to go offgrid in Sweden?They posted pictures of his gear and stuff and it mostly looks like Swedish brands but he did have an american dollar on a chain https://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/detaljen-som-kan-losa-mysteriet-med-mumifierade-mannen-i-varnamo/
>>2877569i bet thats what happen to svenanon from /cvg/. did he have a lung transplant?
>>2878532it probably should carry those connotations, as in most cases it is running away from something. few people simply choose to do it apropos of nothing.
>>2877727>>2877743>>2878534not the out annon but stuff like happend before Anna Bågenholm is the famous case that was made in a movie ?
>>2879764i mean physically and logistically there is no shame in taking refuge from things
>>2879793There is.
I live in a commie shithole and wamt to go to the few natural areas left. However, since hunting bears or lynxes is prohibited, the areas are full of them. And because or retarded laws, i cannot own any weapon capable of launching a projectile with enough force to actually penetrate a target. Are there any ways i can be surely protected from getting mauled, or any gadgets i can make to defend myself? Anybody here had a bear or other large predator encounter without ranged weapons?
>>2878870>>2878875>>2878884Is there any specifics to buying bear spray? I have a police pepper spray, is that different from proper bear spray? Any ingridients that should be listed for it to work well?
>>2879244Here's what i got right now
>>2879245AI trash is in /out/ way too often.
>>2879244>Is there any specifics to buying bear spray?Make sure you get actual bear spray and not just human pepper spray- they are 2% capsaicinoids- they shoot farther and are designed to create a big fog rather than just a short stream into someone's eyes.https://www.sabrered.com/bear-spray-vs-pepper-spray/
>>2878859I'm honestly curious what sort of ways you can passively deter bears besides keeping food and trash airtight and sealed. I've heard of electric fences, anyone know how the Inuit defended themselves from polar bears historically?I know some places far up north actually ban bearspray because it gets so cold that the propellent in the can makes it not work anymore.I dont want to kill bears I just want them to fuck off, If I buy some taxidermy heads cover them in blood and put them on sticks would this work?Wondering how many heads on spikes it would take for bears to get the message?
to my knowledge, no one has actually documented a datura trip for obvious reasons. my goal with this thread is to be the first person to accurately document it from start to finish without losing my mind in the process. this is appropriate for this board because i harvested the datura myself so if i get put on off topic then ill prolly od
apparantely im supposed to add a tripcode so here.
>>2879842so how was it?
>>2879724>makes a thread to document trip>doesn't document anythingfucking stoners man
>>2879934i wasnt gonna manage two threads at once i just picked the more active one over on /sci/honestly i took a dose just high enough to hallucinate and get some weird feelings but not enough to be really bad and that was all i wanted. for the record i ate 3 leaves weighing idk grams each. seeds apparently dont do anything besides get shit out. i didnt document cuz i didnt trip. i mean, everyone was telling me how bad of an idea it was and yeah im happy with the experience i got out of it.
>>2879944>for the record i ate 3 leaves weighing idk grams each. seeds apparently dont do anything besides get shit out. Absolute retard. Reddit is the place for you.
/Chickens General/I didn't notice a dedicated thread for Chickens, so I figured I'd start one. This thread is for all things related to Chickens, your strategies in raising them, the types of genetics you favor, the environmental threats we have to worry about, and how to prepare for an economic and social collapse.Post all your chicken related Questions and Insights, help other anons establish their flock, or pick up new information for your own use.Resources:>Survival Chickens.https://thesurvivalgardener.com/free-range-survival-chickens-is-here/>Harvey Ussury Managing a small scale Flock:https://themodernhomestead.us/>Intro to Heritage Breedshttps://youtu.be/uhhEenOL0g0?si=n2U0fWQT-_-g0fIj>Why Modern Chickens are DefectiveComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2879621I stopped buying feed from tractor supply and I stopped having random hatchlings (and even full grown young adults) die.Other anon mentioned his boss wanted him to spray pesticide on the feed in the warehouse. I wouldnt be surprised if that was considered normal for some feed franchises.
>>2879654I’ve gotten birds from TS before and I’d say 70 percent had some kind of foot/leg issue or just plain died. Never have I ever had chicks just up and die like that. MAYBE one or two but never as many as this year. I just kept taking dead birds back and getting new ones.
>>2879659Ya their chics are horrible.I did a small hatch once and had like 20 birds. Stopped off at TS and they had some polish and something else I wanted. Wound up with about 15 birds across 3 types. Put them with my new hatches. Within a week all 15 birds from TS had died but not a single one of my own hatchlings.They tend to have birds not easily sourced locally so I still get suckered into buying some every once in awhile. And I still have a few that were good birds (bought 4 faverolles almost a decade ago and 3 are still alive) but your 70% average is probably about equal to my experiences over the years.
>>2879566What do you do when the Orchard starts producing fruit? Do the chickens avoid the fruit, or do you sequester them during this time?I have a tall fenced in area I would like to use as an Orchard/Food Forest but I'm not sure how effective that would be if my Chickens can just get in and eat up all my fruit. My birds are super flighty so there really isn't any keeping them out.
>>2879769Theyll strip blueberries that are low enough to jump to. So everything about 2 feet off the ground and under.Theyre not going after apples or pears.Cherries are probably safe because even though they can make it up to a branch theyre not going to be walking along branches and stripping them
Have you ever climbed over 17,000 feet?
>>2875094I skied a 14 in a war zone between muzzies and rapejeets
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>>2875094Nah I'm a noob, highest I've done was 1500.
>>2875094I haven’t even climbed over 2000 feet yet. I hope to advance though.
>>2875113Sensible chuckle.
post cool infographics and all kinds of informative pics
>>2878976No. The red ones are the best.
>>2878292It's neat for packing, but I don't really like how you have to stretch out the socks for it.
>>2879167You don't have to, you can just use them on the sides and have more of the shirt showing. It works just fine.
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What are the weirdest things you've ever seen?
>>2873231Nothing too exciting but I was hiking up a mountain and someone's dog came bounding down it, going straight through shrubs and shit like it was running for its life. Kept going and it suddenly got so quiet I could hear the leaves, the crackling sound dry leaves on the ground make when all the animal sounds that are usually always there aren't. Kept walking in the silence but never saw the dog's owner.
They were like amoebas sliming around on the ground when I was younger, it looked just like something from out of pikmin.A translucent blob of jelly maybe the size of an eraser moving around, there might have been a couple of them. Nowhere near the ocean or any body of water, they were just sliding along our patio.
>>2879754Should've killed them for the xp, that was your chance to become an adventurer.
>>2873231Deep in a forest, I found a tortoise shell with a bullet hole, next to framed image of pic related, with broken glass.This happened in northern Europe, for whatever reason.
>>2879773The angel saved you from a vicious wild tortoise, by shooting it.
>>2877276This fuckin guy.
>>2877838>>2877851Here comes the thought police. The guy didn't do anything to the shark, there's no crime, anyone would think the same
>>2879258THAT SHARK WAS ONLY 17 YEARS AND 362 DAYS OLD YOU SICK FREAK.>>2877275Needs to be in Hindi.
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>>2877822Sharks don’t have vaginas
>go /out/ with a few relatives >they want to socialize all day and play games and chitchat>I just want to contemplate nature in absolute silence
>>2879601Nobody could have seen it coming
>>2879595i always catch more fish when im alone. and i am weirded out by people who need music blaring 24/7. that being said it is nice of non-nature people to partake in your favourite hobby anon. it means they like you.
>>2879604how do i teach a stray fren to come out with me
>>2879595how I feel when I go on vacation with family
>>2879595Yeah I know the feel.>go on a hike with my mom>she spends the whole time complaining about her neighbors and politics and ruins the whole scene
>>2879599jeet hunting?
>>2879611Very few pajeets in oregon. WA and BC it may be worse.
>>2879661i saw one pop up in my cottage grove. it made me kind of grumpy.>>2879611he'd have better luck at a costco. they don't really spawn out in the woods (yet)
>>2879663I've seen a Sri Lankan and a Pakistani, both females and both pretty cute. Other than that it's just beaners and the occasional nog.
>>2862542Yeah, I was born and am still trapped in eastern Georgia and I fucking hate it.>>2862543Good idea just let me reach up to my money tree and pick a few million dollars so I can choose where I live.
I know there's a backpacking general already but this is gonna be quite long so might as well create my own threadI'm going on a 10-15 day backpacking trip and the closest thing I've done to this was backpacking and camping for 1 day in the mountains In this case it's gonna be mostly even terrain with easy to walk pathsMy idea is to wild camp most nights and prepare my own food, although I might stop once or twice in a camping park to wash my clothes and take a shower and charge my electronics My loadout from left to right, top to bottom (rougly):Clothes>hiking pants that turn into shorts>swimming shorts>regular sports shorts>1 longsleeve t-shirtComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2878857Classic /out/ load-out meme
>>2878732A compelling reason is that it negatively influences your balance.
>>2878857very funny post anon! love the creativity! how do i upvote it?
>>2879073this, specially in case of OP, since the tent is one of the most dense and heavy things, putting it away from your center of gravity will make it more difficult to walk and climb
>>2879073look above nigger
