The Appalachian Trail is slogging for clout.
Come do the TA in NZ before it gets trooned out
>>2757242What do you have against transgender folks? Some trans women and trans men like to hike.
>>2754069>Things were so much cooler in CURRENT YEAR MINUS 10 when I was younger! now it sucksI wonder what they'll say in 10 years.
>>2757592Project 2025 will ban normies from the trails
>>2757243Trans people reinforce sexist gender roles that oppress all of us.
How is no one talking about this? Yellowstone is literally starting to explode. These are all warning signs for the coming mega explosion.
>>2758134>startingDude, Yellowstone has been exploding semi-regularly for hundreds of years.
>>2758245Correlation is not causation.
canadian national parks be like>here's a tree>here's a moose>it's coldamerican parks be like>ALLAH ACKBAR
>>2758134Please consult the chart
>>2758134two more weeks
I might live in an ex Yugo shithole, but at least we have neighborhood stray and outdoor cats to pet and play with, which brightens up the mood. Two sister cats got their own kittens earlier this year (themselves being kittens of a friendly black cat that likes to groom my hair) which made it even better.
They look like nice cats, maybe you could build them a little hut or give them toys to play with. I'm not sure what happens over there but maybe you could take to the humane society to get some of the spayed/neutered if you're worried about a population problem which happens sometimes
It is not a shithole, shouldn't call your home a shithole. I have been homeless, glad to have four walls and food, water, let alone electricity and internet.Cats cost food to take care of, if they are not spayed or neutered they will have kittens, many street cats live on garbage and such. Meat is their favorite, especially fish or canned food.There is a small town here that had way too many feral cats, the local govt said they would do something but didn't do anything, so some old ladies spayed the cats and got in trouble with the govt kek.
>>2758058Do the people living where you are generally like stray cats or do they consider them pests?
Slowly losing my mind from having been cooped up for so long. Everything in my area (including all parks and nature walks) are incredibly far apart because I'm in FUCKING America, and I unfortunately don't yet have the funds to afford a car, which combined with public transport here being pretty piss, means I'm a bit SOL if I want to go anywhere.So, I've been thinking about what alternatives I might have; what do you guys use to get around? Bicycles, scooters, rollerskates/blades, skateboards maybe? Or even heelies/flip-out skates so you can finally live your dream of being the coolest kid in middle school? What do you do when you need to carry a bunch of crap along with you as well?
>>2756771Gross.
>>2756778what mirrors are those if not stock
>>2757850Doubletake adventure mirrors. Mounts up with standard ram-mount hardware, replace the factory mirrors with a ram ball and install the mirrors on that.Busted an oem mirror off in a stupid tip-over offroad, a single replacement mirror cost more than the entire doubletake kit did. And this shit's taken a lot more abuse.Another 230 mile day on that bike today. Had to run out to a customer's site and do some diagnosis/repairs on their hardware.
>>2757862>Doubletake adventure mirrorok based, i got some cheap crap for my bike and all they do is move in the wind. surely these do alright? Seeing as how you can tighten down on the ball
>>2758237The rubber-coated balls will smoosh and fall apart if you crank down on them too hard. The poly ones do better, but they'll slip more than the rubber ones do. Some guys have had luck smearing some RTV or roughing the balls up with sandpaper to get them to hold better. I don't crank down on them super-tight, just enough to hold, and i've got about 20k miles on the ones on my adventure, and another 5-6k on the ones on my dirt bike.A small bit of loctite (i'm partial to orange, stuff's designed for powersports use) on the ball threads helps a lot too.
how do i not be scared of wasps? I keep freezing in fear around them. Outside is ok because i can avoid them, walk the other way if i see one coming, but if one gets stuck in a room where i have to be im a complete pussy about it. I can't help it, its a crippling fear, it was so much worse as a kid too growing up in a woodsy state that had them swarming all over the place. I rarely ever went outside back then or went out looking like Kenny with a giant coat in summer to protect me. I would notice the nests in every window at school. We had an above ground pool at home and they'd swarm all over that making it unusable by me. I remember trying baseball and not being able to stay on the bases over it. Even if I left them alone they'd chase me down. I only got stung twice but still.I'm afraid of everything about them, the stinging that one can do multiple times without dying, the way they fly, the sound they make, their aggression, the way if you kill one (which i never have, I've never been chad that successfully throws the bottle and saves the classroom at school) it releases pheromones to summon others, wondering if every wall secretly is containing nests where they can break through the wall, seeing their shadows moving with those dangling legs zigzagging behind a curtain, even looking at one in a picture gives me pause and goosebumps. They're like little alien eldritch monsters. I may confuse some bees for wasps/hornets/yellowjackets, its hard to tell when they're flying. Pretty sure yellows are the ones that zigzag and stay close to the ground, zooming round your legs, wasps have the long legs, hornets are like giant black flying ants with the biggest sphere nests, and bees are fuzzy and less aggressive but may still steal your girl and doom the human race.1/2
>>2757958>remember to stop being a pussy.Where do you think you are?
>https://vocaroo.com/1bZmn10qM94t"Stings of Fury"[Verse]Buzz in the air hive in the skyWasp is a king I'm asking whyBasedboy's scared trembling nearMighty hornet brings the fear[Verse 2]Ruthless machines no mercy shownBasedboy's shiver down to the boneHive on the hunt no place to hideStinger strikes deep poison insideComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2757431You mention how you can ignore them if they're outside. Just do the same thing inside. The wasp is concerned with wasp concerns, not you.Option 1: Go calmly open a window/door that it can leave throughOption 2: Take it outside yourself. You can trap it inside a cup with some paper or whatever and then carry it outside, or you can bait it by putting some raw meat into the cup, and then taking it outside once the wasp is chewing on the meat.
>>2757858My old mantis priscilla was a gud grrl. She raped a small male for almost 24 hours b4 eating him and made a bunch of outhicas or whatever the fuck they are called. My ex stepped on her on accident but she was too old and was getting too weak to eat anymore so it was nbd. Her babies were spread out between our houses and i see them or their babies all the time now. They fly in my hair and chill when i garden
Rules to not get stung: Don't fuck with the nest.Don't fuck with the shit around the nest.Don't fuck with the scout checking you out even if it's in your personal space.It's that easy to not get stung.t. wasp
I have off of work for almost two weeks, was considering a road trip but I haven't decided on where to go and am running out of time. I live in the rust belt, have thought about heading east to New England and Acadia or out west to Glacier National Park. Any recommendations, feedback, or ideas? Wish I took the time to plan out more but here we are
>>2757418there's plenty to do in ME, NH and VT for a two week trip. not sure what part of the rust belt you live in, but you could also loop in the adirondacks and lake champlain on the way there and back as well. i live in NH, let me know what you like to do in particular and i can make some more specific suggestions
>>2757503Sight seeing, hiking, camping, don't have a dirt bike right now but I like off road too. I'm pretty much down for anything that's fun
I've decided on driving towards Acadia, gonna save Glacier for the Fall or next year so I can plan it out better. Any recommendations for stuff to put in my itinerary?
>>2757969Hit Portland on the way up or back if you like good food and beer, so many great restaurants and breweries there. Portsmouth NH is also a great spot for seafood and has lots of colonial/federal architecture and history. Acadia will probably be extremely busy, especially on weekends. I would hike/visit there on weekdays to cut down on the crowds. Pick up any supplies you need in Ellsworth on the way in. Definitely do a sunrise hike/drive up Cadillac Mountain as its the first place in America to see the sunrise this time of year. Jordan Pond is another beautiful but busy short hike worth doing. A loop on the Great Head trail is nice and will get you a good sense of the Maine coast. Also be sure to visit the "quiet" western side of the island where most locals and fishermen live. Bass Harbor light and Ship Harbor are very scenic and don't get the same level of crowd that Bar Harbor does. Baxter State Park and Mount Katahdin are only about 2.5 hours away from Acadia. Great place to see wildlife, especially moose. Katahdin is (IMO) the best hike in New England, but be advised if you want to hike it you either need a reservation (which are tough to get) or you'll need to show up at 5AM at the gate and wait til 7AM when the rangers start letting folks take no-show's spots (pretty much always guaranteed). Baxter is also awesome for fishing and camping if you're into that.
>>2757409She's never been disproven
Post critters that you encounter in your outings. I always find these little fellas during reptile surveys. Bonus points if the critter is unusual.
>Cantharidin, a poisonous chemical that causes blistering of the skin, is secreted as a defensive agent. It is used medically to remove warts[2] and is collected for this purpose from species of the genera Mylabris and Lytta, especially Lytta vesicatoria, better known as "Spanish fly".
Was so nice to bump into this guy in the middle of the woods instead of on the side of the road.
flat back millipedes who caught a corticep mushroom
Girl claims to have been stuck for 13 hours in a canyon but was detected by a helicopter flying over, probably via thermal. Do you think this video is legit? https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTN967nUk/
>>2757951>>2757977Nta but the point still stands. Tiktok is the greater of two evils
>>2757906At least jewtube works in a browser and doesn't force you to download the app
>>2757906>I'll stick with my amerimutt spywareThey'd be lucky if that was true.It's all running on Israeli spyware.
>>2758056TikTok also works in a browser.A desktop browser.Or a mobile one in desktop mode.
>>2758037no chinaman ever called me a nazi bigot
Getting tired with my bulky heavy ass bag. Light weight is also appreciated. Any recommendations?
no such thing exists. a quality packable down sleeping bag starts between 300-400 dollars. good down isn't cheap. cheap down isn't good.one of my best purchases when i was a poor fag was a western mountaineering ultra light, buy quality, cry once. paid 275 used in 2019
Teton leef 0 is $90, synthetic mummy style so compacts fairly well. It comes with a compression bag and can clip outside you pack. It's not bad, a good step to colder weather without the expense of down
>>2758062>cheap down isn't good.It’s not black and white. Cheap down is better than synthetics most of the time. Inb4 poorfag. My quilts were $200 to $300 because good down is indeed better than cheap down.
I'm thinking of going with the EE revelation quilt right now. It's around 300 - 400
I can’t for the life of me find a good series of online and free atlases for the Pacific Northwest.I’m trying to collage several of them together to make a map for a project.To my annoyance, Google Maps and Google Earths’ curvature means the snips I take don’t line up.And all the free atlases are these tiny jpegs scanned from ancient books since they are the only ones not under copyright.The jackpot would be good scans of the Nat Geo wall posters. But I’ll settle for something that has terrain and roads on them.
>>2756325https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#6/43.237/-116.774>>2756345They still have maps in non American libraries lad. Librarians can usually get stuff through interlibrary loan as well.>>2756351PNW dweller here--you wouldn't believe how many ukranians and russians and chinese I've met in the back woods.. probably 8 so far in the last 10 years.
>>2756325what a weird map to make abbotsford so prominent
>>2756325Caltopo if it's free if it still exists.
>>2757217it does and has scans of the US topos, which are pretty beautiful maps. It also has a good set of tools for exporting printable pdfs.
>what is a gazetta the wild life is gonna fuckin eat you.
Where has brit out gone?
dogwalkers should be gassed with due process
is urbex /out/?
>>2750887eh? I walked from Porthmadog to Betws-y-coed.Walked from Llangadog to Merthyr Tydfil this last weekend. Saturday was wet.
>>2737915overgrazing from livestock and deer>>2738408one of the worst things about the UK actually
>>2757482Why not ;D
What kind of options are out there in this day and age? I'm interested in all of it. Preferably reusable and longer lasting, power of illumination less important.
>>2754969What the fuck
Has anyone ever tried a tritium light?
>>2754969/diy/ and /out/ are a great combo
>>2754969>and put another $5 worth of lithium cell, USB BMS board, and probably the proper resistorIDK what this means I am a smoothbrain. Post finished product pls.
>>2754969#1 cause of dwelling fireschinese batteries that should have failed QC#2 causehomemade batteries from idiots
Is there a point where the size of your tent ruins the atmosphere of actual camping outdoors (with a car 5 feet away as well)?
As much as you can take with you without it being a pain in the ass is my guess. If you're out hiking for a week that's fuck all, if you're driving to the place you can take a bunch of stuff with you but it's going to have diminishing returns pretty fast. More crap to clean up and so on. A big tent is good for family camping.
>>2755667Opinion discarded. You wanted a house the entire time.
>>2751310Looks comfy
>>2751310If you can stand up in it, it's a cabin, not a tent
>>2751310Sure, if it's too heavy to carry innawoods it's probably at that limit, although I would generally say that the experience is made up more importantly of other things, like disconnecting from electronics, remoteness from other people, and extended exposure to the open sky. Sleeping in a foot-access primitive log cabin that is a hundred miles from the nearest settlement is still a great experience.
>be black bear>see a nature park built directly in the middle of my forest>wander around the place looking for food>see a woman, run away scared shitless>get a fucking hit squad send out to euthanize me>die and enter a higher plane of existence>mfw humans on the other side of the continent heard about my death and are talking about how scary I was and how they would shoot me faster if they saw me in personwtf?
>>2754432You say that as if anything more than a shovel is necessary to kill a snake
>>2747858Tbh this seems like something /out/ would do
>>2747858>bear encroached on human territory (in a city no less)>attacked a workerWhat did you expect?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pUqTB2bgYAo
>>2747869Just American things.
>>2747888>If a person feeds a bear they should kill the person, not the bear.If a person is whats feeding a black bear I don't think they are alive anymore.
This might be verging on off topic but does anyone else love seeing what kind of gaming set ups they can pull off with a low budget and low weight? There's just something about hooking up a tiny computer screen in a cabin with no sound or scuffed sound that makes the experience way more enjoyable than just using the TV at home.
>>2755643I remember playing through Metal Gear Solid and all the Mega Man X games on my first smartphone. It was on my class trips from my boarding school (they also gave me an old computer in my room as part of Senior privileges and I ended up playing through Majora's Mask and MGS Peace Walker. The school ended up upgrading their security to keep people from playing games on the computers after that.
>>2755346i had a tiny TV like that when i was kid, alwasy used to sneak out into my aunts camper and watch shitty TV on even shittier signal, but it was comfy, dont even remember what i watched, probably just german news broadcasts or something, i didnt understand anyway
if you INSIST on gaming while youre out just get a steam deck man, no need for all that larp shit
>>>/g/
actually randomly saw one at the thrift store the other day
