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>>2861316
>250€
Unless you are climbing actual mountains or spelunking you can just hike in old clothes. The only thing that matters is experience and boots/socks. The decathlon tennis socks are good, and the hunting boots are good for the money. But you don't need to spend 250€. Just buy a 20L backpack, pick the cheapest one because you won't notice the weight difference for casual hiking.

When hiking carry a poncho or rain jacket (ponchos are lighter but they suck with wind), a meal, a 2L water bottle, spare socks, a first aid kit and a knife. That's all you need unless you are doing technical stuff. Pic related are my favourite decathlon boots, unless you are walking on wet rock, because they are kinda slippery.

The Quechua shoes aint that bad if you are not doing mountains. I have a pair that have served me pretty well for just normal walks (~6 hour long treks through hills and woods and shit).

I did bought the MH100 as first shoes for walking. Really good shoes to start with. Only issue is your feet will have the worst smell in the world.
I liked the high shoes to protect my ankles. It s really good as a beginner because you can walk like a retard among the rocks. But yes it s not for intensive use, after like 10 to 30 hiking into the rock it kind of fell apart. I was using them to go climbing, so we did take some shitty path into the rocks.
Decathlon is honest with their product, they display their lifetime.

I strongly advise to go with this one because it s cheap, and after a few hikes you will see other shoes and know what you want.

Other important information : get a wind breaker AND a down jacket. Always separate the heat from the layer which protect you from the rain. You will often need to take off your down jacket because you will start sweating a lot and it I'll be raining.
I bought the MT500, I had a Patagonia for like 4 times the prices before and I still prefer the MT500.

Otherwise I always pick the brand "simond" it s like 2 to 5 times cheaper than the brand with the same specs. Maybe a little be heavier, instead of 500g you will be at 600g but who care when you walk.

And yes a 25l is largely enough. Just take a bag with the clips to put it around your waist. And I like to have other clips like in the alpine bag to put other stuffs outside of my bag, like my jacket or flip flops on the top

>>2862707
>Only issue is your feet will have the worst smell in the world.
This is usually due to the use of poor materials such as paper or wood fiber. Once they get wet with sweat/water, bacteria begin to multiply inside, breaking down organic material and this causes the shoes to smell like corpses. Always check the inside of the shoe before buy and remember - changing shoe insoles 1-2x per year greatly reduces this.

>>2861351
A cotton baselayer will work against your insulation and is a very bad idea. When you sweat and your cotton base gets wet your body will use energy to dry it. Cotton will hold on to more moisture and dry slower than synthetics or wool. If youre hiking in 100+ F then cotton could be good as it will cool you down, but in normal or cold conditions it will be cold and uncomfortable. It could even kill you given the right circumstances.

For moisture management theres basicly two directions you could go:

A fast drying synthetic base that wicks moisture away from the body and dries fast. If needed combine it with a fleece that breaths well and transfer moisture to it’s outside so that it can vaporize. Materials like Alpha Direct, Octaloft or a grid fleece will work as active insulation. A wind layer over the fleece will make it alot warmer.

Merino wool. You will stay wet for a longer time but it will be comfortable and warm even when its wet. If its cold a wind layer or hardshell on top of a merino base will help trap heat. You might not need a insulating layer

>>2855348
do you have a source to this or map where it's safe? i'd like to know more on where it's safe to fish/live. Thanks for the info anon.

>>2854649
I looked into the specific study results and it's pretty weasel-y. For example, they sampled quite a few fish from the Connecticut River, but the majority of those were taken immediately downriver from a major city

I don't want my fish to have chemicals. I'm also not super surprised that a Largemouth taken in Hartford a mere 500 feet away from the airport tarmac might be not that good to eat

>>2855035
brackish water fish chads rise up.

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>>2854649
everything from the grocery store and your balls are also full of chemicals. just eat the trout nigga.

>>2854941
You can still fish and not eat the fish. Just catch and release

>>2862458
Going out tomorrow. I'm going to hit some spots I've dug and found flour gold to see if there are any nuggets I've missed.

>>2862534
Nuggets will generally stay close to the source unless carried by glaciers while flour gold can travel miles in creeks and rivers. Keep pushing upstream if you don't have any luck.

>>2862534
Digging in mud sucks! All of the spots I tried were far to saturated. I got several "hits" on the detector. They were clear and repeatable in the 90s. A couple were hot rocks with visible iron oxidation. One has a target on one side but not the other. It was to muddy to even try and wash it in the field. I'll throw it in a pan and wash it to see if there's anything in the mud. The rest of my targets, I couldn't find. The mud made digging and scooping nearly impossible. Even if I was able to get the target in my scoop, there's no way I could divide it. So..... I'm back to waiting. With all of the rain we've had and are expecting, there should be fresh flood gold in the creeks once the water levels drop back down. And I'll wait until the soil has returned to a non goopy state before I bring the detector back out. It was a fun, if a bit frustrating and unfruitful day.

>>2862548
A lot of what I'll be detecting on are old tailings. Most of the nuggets I'm hoping to find were missed by the old time miners. I'm not sure if there is any true virgin ground around here. It was all hit pretty hard in the late 1800s and again in the 1970s.

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>>2862625
Washed those two hot rocks. Both are highly magnetic. No gold in any of the mud I threw in my bucket or in what I washed off the rocks. Wasn't really expecting to find any, so not a surprise.

>>2863013
Yeah they are not passing that in Oregon lmao

>>2863035
i sure hope not

>>2862967
But then some diverse individual will disappear you'are bike whilst you'are hyking the traille.

>>2862543
Fuck off, we're full.

>>2863135
no you're not lmoa

>>2843950
You're not only a normie, you're the stereotypical cliché of the guy that day dreams about checking out of society and living the "good life". Hell I bet your wife even mentioned that you two could start a YouTube or tiktok channel about your homestead in order to make money! You'll have to get one of those cute little dogs and give it a silly name like that moron in west Virginia with the stupid beard and piercing through his lip. Of course you don't realize that guy has to live in fucking west Virginia and bums off of other people to barely make a living.... in fucking WEST VIRGINIA. By the way, your wife will be doing OF in 6 months.

>>2862794
that's what this board is for though. if you are trying to shoot down his dreams of going /out/ then why are you even posting here

>>2844040
>DUDE I litteritly /out/ daily
so does 90% of the world's population

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>>2862794
You sound upset

>>2863122
Why are you necrobumping an obvious bait thread by responding to a post from five months ago? Why are you even responding to bait?

I don't carry any knife that I think there is a potential to break while throwing because if I'm inna woods I'ma build a target for throwing knives and axes at.

Never needed a knife other than the one I use to cut meat and vegetables for cooking in the evening. Have been on plenty of remote camps away from civilization.
>usually no trees/branches in the location due to low rainfall
>fire bans in effect for most of the time
>illegal to cut/take wood from the environment
>in winter if you want a camp fire you have to bring wood from home

having both a hatchet, and a smaller fixed blade knife is the best combo. trying to combine the two into a gigantic monstrosity is just sad

>>2859390
>i'm literally shaking right now
>whimpering
knife owners

>>2853163
that's not what he said

>>2862627
a bit.
she's very shy.
>mud season on the trails
god, I hate early spring

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>>2862627
Yes

>>2862775
Imagine calling for the Devine presence of God, but then neglecting to capitalize His name.

You are a redditor faggot

>>2863065
you think He feels neglected?
He mad?

>>2862775
Mud season is the worst. Having to wash the dog’s feet in the tub 3x a day is miserable and so is having to try and predict which part of the driveway will be firm enough to park on each day (it changes).
>>2862733
My snow is basically all gone, because we got an inch of rain Friday. The rain also fucked up the lake ice bad, so ice fishing requires a boat to get to the ice on some lakes now. The sap is running in the maples though, which is about the only thing I enjoy about this part of the year.

And while now the base is gone and the ground is getting soft, we’re not done with snow for the year. The problem is that you can’t really do anything on it because you’ll tear up the soft ground unless we get a foot+, which probably won’t happen.

>>2858968
>>2863080
(2 of 2)
My 2nd pair of bins is a Nikon Monarch M7 8x42, got new from REI with my annual 20% off coupon. Love it, though the rubber armor feels very cheap, cheaper than my older ATB 8x42. But the glass is great.

I have a bulb blower, soft brush, Zeiss cleaning wipes, microfiber cleaning cloth, cleaning solution, the whole shebang. Usually just hit them with the bulb blower after use, but clean them when needed, I keep my stuff clean.

Would love some alpha level glass, but just can't justify paying for it when I'm satisfied with what I already have.

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>>2863083
forgot pic

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>>2858968
I see everything

>>2859038
>Do they make sights that attack to a hot shoe on a camera
https://explore.omsystem.com/no/en/ee-1-dot-sight

>>2863099
here's some video reviews btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG3sH6IgnBQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odjsRoNr2Lg

>>2858930
>Okay so reintroduce bison lmao
apploying this accross the board along with immediately switching all grazing to wholistic rotational graazing would fix all of our problems regarding desertification due to overgrazing. if only it was all that simple as just pushing a button

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>>2862580
>residential use water

>>2862822
>18%
Doubt

>>2862823
i dont think you realize just how much water hectares upon hectares of crops drinks up

There is no solution to this predicament that does not involve a precipitous drop in the global human population and the subsequent halting of the global techno-industrial enterprise. Deportation is a red herring.

>>2863091
YouTube is super gay propaganda funded by Google, but there is probably 200 channels with a thousand videos about your very specific requirements. Just watch my manlet buddy Seth at BearmPeak

>>2863092
>YouTube is super gay propaganda funded by Google

Buddy you ain't lying, but I just found the dudes channel and it looks like he does indeed have a video on the subject. In the comments it looks like building your own with interchangeable, budget parts may be the way to go as well.

I'm gonna give it a watch tomorrow at work and in the meantime have the thread for personal recommendations. I appreciate the nudge in the right direction, just wonder how some of those budget bikes would handle a trailer like in the pic.

>>2863093
Seth also has multiple videos about trailers on bikes. He's a YouTuber so he's obviously a faggot shill, but he's one of the best ones.

>>2863094
its ok to be gay

>>2863094
BermPeak gets my seal of approval, that guy is ok.

>>2863079
Dui involves other substances my man. Also, cops can force field sobriety and fail you for no reason and also tear your RV apart on a whim.

>>2863081
Just let the normies have fun. It's obvious they've never been outside in their life

Look at all of these RV fags coming out of the woodwork... RVs are gay.

RV_incel_vs_Chad_Mariner.jpg

>>2863086
>>2863087

>>2860941
This is a terrible job, most everyone in this field is miserable, on drugs and has something to prove. I tell everyone when these thread pop up, get your Class A or B CDL w/ X endorsement and haul fuel.

>>2862525
>get your Class A or B CDL
So you can get pushed out of the job market by jeets? No thanks. There are much easier ways to get an /out/ job. Wildland fire is a good start.

>>2859222
Nice trips. Post us some Antartica stories if you are allowed to.
I've only seen the (great) Werner Herzog documentary on this base.

>>2862640
>Wildland fire
>get paid a day laborer's wage for literal ditch digger work
Last I heard they were training spics to do this job.
>pajeets driving the truck saar
These niggers keep fucking up and public sentiment is about to keep them out of trucking forever.

>>2862946
>public sentiment is about to keep them out of trucking forever.
I heard this a decade ago

>>2853353
>bloodthirsty beasts
Your use of emotional language shows how little faith you have in your own arguments.

>>2853716
>this retard thinks a peashooter is stopping a BEAR

nice recoil buddy

>>2849726
I asked

>>2849652
i think i posted something about it in another thread
brit (and other colonizers) came up with tte consept of a stopping rifle. a rifle designed just to stop a charging beast of any size. usually two barrel, kinda short and in an insane calibre like 600 nitro express. in a scenario like op's video you dont have time to reload any kind of action, you cant always trust an auto or semi auto, but you can trust two rounds of 600 to the face of anything on four legs. for bears a shotgun with slugs or buckshot will work just as well, and you need to carry it in your arms ready to fire at any time when in bear country. its up to you and the conditions if maybe a pump or semi with more rounds is preferable or the speed of firing two rounds instantly is. the blokes exploring africa and asia went for two quick rounds rather than 5+ slow rounds.
its a bit confusing to me that the gun knowledge from 3rd world explorers went kinda lost in america and even europe.
i think only svalbard has a culture of guns for bear protection and they dont come at you suddenly you got plenty of time to see them and react so they use regular rifles or big calibre revolvers.

>>2863021
I think the lack of double rifles in America has to do mostly with the detachment of the safari culture prevalent in colonies, as in the early 1900's when safaris were more popular, most hunters in America were doing it for food and not leasure. In the modern sense of hunting guides I think its just the fact that double rifles are too expensive and things like pump shotguns or large caliber handguns are seen as good enough.

I don't know, when I hear the phrase wanderlust, I just think of mentally stunted trust fund recipients that are trying to sound more intelligent than they actually are.

People from the 3rd world still have this innocent sense of wonderment, as well as some of the old people around my hometown in the western US, who never got drawn out of themselves by postmodern irony or by the willful cynicism which >>2862804 kindly illustrates. No you're never gonna go back to the way it felt to be a kid, but you can still chase wisdom and joy, it's out there in abundance, that's the great thing about the world, it never changes, only you do.
I once went hiking across a temperate rainforest, I won't say where, which had recently been gifted from the gov't back to the native people. The first thing they did was ransack all buildings and stop maintaining the trails. Nothing from my maps or research reflected the reality of what was there. The point is I had to shred all my expectations, and so was able to accept what I found with complete innocence, rather than try to assert myself within the space. Then add to that the feeling of complete isolation and the knowledge I was 6 days on foot from my destination. The result was like crawling out of Plato's cave and feeling something real for the first time. Like finding out Narnia is real. I've had that feeling 2, maybe 3 times in my life, always while hiking somewhere I had no map or preconceived expectations. I'm sure that's the way early explorers felt when walking across the Americas for the first time.
It's important to note, you don't have to seek out untrammeled wilderness to get this feeling. You just need the realization that the cynicism implanted in your brain (blame 4chan, instagram and Alltrails) is an artificial thing you weren't born with, and you don't need to take it with you into the woods.

>>2862935
I felt that looking at the susquahanna river for the first time

>>2862956
theres a jillion different overlooks of the susq at various lengths of its course

>>2862802
Misanthropy.

>>2861952
someone must have that gif or webm of a guy walking through african bush and then something comes at him, you dont see what it is, it happends so fast
>boom-boom from his double rifle
>boom from his mates rifle
>you hear a beast fall in the bush
>he say something like "600 nitro express" or whatever as he reloads and giggles to the camera
dressed like a typical boer or south african, speaking in boer english

>>2862918

Based as fuck

I wish double barrel rifles weren't so absurdly expensive

>>2862981
drillings as its called here, two 12 gauge side by side with a single rifle shot usually 6,5 or 7,62 is very common for certain types of hunting here and not really expensive. you can load one barrel with a slug, buck or birdshots in the other and still have a long range powerfull rifle round available. all 3 will fire when needed but it takes time to reload. its the poormans h&h double stopping rifle. mostly used for big bird or deer hunting but can kill anything a 12g slug or 308 can.

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>>2862986
ok that was a single 12g, they exist and is most common in double 12g