mesh cap or field cap?
>>2801516>not superior adventure hat>ngmi
>>2817937You're supposed to soak them in water, they provide evaporative cooling.
>>2837524Your age is showing, un/k/
Normal boonies seem too small imo, they don't really cover your neck properly. Something like this would seem ideal to me
>>2801542>>2827696>>2820831RightGerman m43 From hessen antique. Ive been wearing one for about a year now
have any of you had issues with animals stealing stuff from your yard?i've had a possum steal a foam soccer ball from my yard (3 times, the same possum too), and now i've had a groundhog steal a tennis ball why do they do this? don't they know thats a crime?
>>2839997Probably play some tennis
>>2840730if you tame them, they become very fluffythey're soft & cuddly too
Why are you leaving this shit in the middle of your yard? Why not put your toys away when you're done playing?
>>2840781they were in my yard though loli live directly on the forest line
>>2839924Had a raccoon steal the entire cat autofeeder off my porch
Went backpacking with a 20L backpack weighing under 8lbs, sadly I do not have a Rin figure of any kind but this is my first time making food while on a trail headPost yours!
>>2839388They go outside, but they don't actually DO anything.
>>2839388I do this
>>2840374they do japanese girl stuffaka nothing
>>2840374OP here, I’m currently trying to figure out the living situation plan as I’m currently deciding to divorce and legitimately move to Alaska. I’m definitely not retarded by doing this because I’ve wanted to live in the cold for the longest time and not to mention my wife pretty much wants the opposite of what I desire anywaysI have this book I’m currently reading called “Hiking in Alaska” and that’s going to be my next big pursuit. I want to visit all the trail heads mentioned in the book and bring my gear including my lumierreAlso what do you guys think about cotopaxi? Will I be profiled for wearing this since it’s an expensive pack? Im assuming no-one gives a rats ass about packs anymore but I’m a gearhead for packs
>>2840795I wouldn't go with this personally, doesn't even have side pockets or a mesh. How much space and weight is your gear? The usual tip is to buy a pack last.
Is trad climbing based and trad?
>tradbased>free solovery based>sportcringe>bouldercringe
>having a look at white sands national park>look slightly north>White Sands missile rangeMost American shit I've ever seen. A fucking military missile range in a national park.
>>2840727NM had 3 tests. Trinity, Gasbuggy and Gnome
>>2839277based
>>2840699based knower
>>2840728What the fuck retardthe sand is gypsum
>>2840728The fuck lil' ranger gonna do?
How do we solve the tourist issues in western national parks?
>>2826737No, just transplants shitting up bogus and ICStanley is the only safe town left
As I see it, it probably really is good for the soul to be a tourist, even if it’s only once in a while. Not good for the soul in a refreshing or enlivening way, though, but rather in a grim, steely-eyed, let’s-look-honestly-at-the-facts-and-find-some-way-to-deal-with-them way. My personal experience has not been that traveling around the country is broadening or relaxing, or that radical changes in place and context have a salutary effect, but rather that intranational tourism is radically constricting, and humbling in the hardest way—hostile to my fantasy of being a real individual, of living somehow outside and above it all. To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience. It is to impose yourself on places that in all noneconomic ways would be better, realer, without you. It is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.-David Foster Wallace
>>2826956I worked in the Chisos Basin in Big Bend N.P. when they installed a cell phone tower there. Fucking globohomo. It ruined the place. Instead of all of us hanging out together in the evening, drinking and smoking and having a little music jam, everyone started staying in their rooms playing vidya or scrolling on their phones like NPCs everywhere else. It ruined the place. >>2827251Shuttle buses should be the only vehicles allowed inside national parks. If you don't want to ride a bus, you can rent an e-bike.
>>2840082/thread
>>2826655>t. billionaire
This is literally the most gun that anyone needs in the woods, unless you’re in bear country. Even then, if you can aim then you’ll be fine.
>>2839875The guns you mentioned are not for any sort of defense. It's literally for popping a bird/squirrel up to maybe a coon.
>>2833173>less painfullIdk man I've never met a bear but I've met pig hunting dogs that will get ripped up and keep on the boar. I'm pretty sure predators have a crazy high pain tolerance when they're excited.
>>2833279I've shot possums 20 meters away with a 22 and the bullet has only entered the skin and and then traveled around inside the skin without penetrating the muscles. It's not entering the chest cavity of a well built human or mountain lion.
>>2836044The shield is not a bone its in its skin its weird asf
>>2833171>From the bear’s perspective..>here’s this fuckin human, looks tasty, maybe I’ll take a ..You cant fool me, bear paws typed this post. Good try Baloo.
>you will never get to explore the coast redwoods or the temperate rainforests of North America pre-loggingHow do I cope with this thought?
>>2835809Factos
>>2835713Tong my ass.
>>2835809Old growth forests are a cohesive living organism. Regrowth just isn't the same. It's a bunch of individual trees all competing with each other. Hey, kinda like the changes in American society, from tribal existence in a mystical meaningful landscape to stunted individuals competing for resources in a denuded land.
>>2836509I got some seeds with me back home to Sweden, hopefully I will be able to grow them in the spring
>>2835809There must have been some big trees in Europe too, that were cut down long long ago.
can anyone recommend me a good bike for bikepacking? A bike that can handle gravel roads, and offroad, but that is also suitable for traditional bike touring? Preferably also one that can be used as daily comuter to/from work.
>>2840356And what kind of tour should I do first my first one?
>>2840378Northern Russia, settle for nothing less.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaR0vcTFlMA
>>2840448Or eastern Ukraine, right?
>>2838913Not sure if it's different in the USA as it is in Europe but I wouldn't recommend cube to anyone. I'm a store manager for a bike shop in the Netherlands and we are part of a pretty big international chain, meaning we buy and sell LOTS of bikes each year. Cube is really shitty when it comes to warranty and they trie to put everything down to customers fault, even if you have 4 of the same bike's with the same problem in the shop. I've had multiple cases where frames had broken within the first year and it always took more than 6 months for them to refund the bike. We as a chain stopped selling a few specific models from them for this reason and after the contract is due we stop selling cube completely
>>2840125>grab bike you already have>put bottle cages if it doesn't already have some>get rear rack>front rack if you want to do the rando meme>one pannier with food>one pannier with basic repair gear and first help stuff>tent and duffel bag with clothes strapped to the rack>just rideDon't fall for the specialized gear meme. You really don't need to purpose-build a touring bike counting every gram in the process. If you're only going to do road or maintained paths, you really can use any bike. If you want to go off-road then it's a bit of a different story of course.
Question. How far off the beaten path do you guys live? Closest town to me is roughly 15-20 miles on roads like these. Wife loads up on groceries, like two carts worth to make less trips. Aside from not having cell reception. I love it up here. I feel my heart pressure drop when I get to the treeline road to my neck of the woods. I enjoy my weirdo neighbors. lands cheap out there too. And i can literally shoot game from my porch
>>2836793>>2836657How many acres are you working with? It's nice to see someone taking an interest in actively creating mixed forest stands.I'm working on something similar at the moment as well. I recently got some land that was very sloppily clearcut over several years by a previous owner and left to regen naturally. I actually just got home, but I was working this morning trying to clear out a bunch of sumac and hophornbeam around an old well house. There's a couple hilltops out there with a bunch of 6ish ft oaks including some Blackjack (which is my favorite). Going to burn the lowland parts in the next couple weeks and plant pine to fill in the areas that were just overrun with soft hardwoods. Wish I had pics to share, but I don't live on the property (yet).
>>2835946>I have a wifeNo need to make a whole thread about this shit.
>>2836023>>2836251>>2836417I live in the general vicinity of where you are talking. The area has grown significantly since I moved 10 years ago, and I hate it. Too many people, but there are no good alternatives for medium communities like it.
>>2840444I’ve been here and south central Iowa my whole like there’s dildos for going out unless you’re on water and don’t get that runoff on you or you’ll get super Parkinson’s.
>>2840365it clearly isnt because i can search up their business and get all relevant info from tax reports, number of workers, board members, owners etc unlike you who just pull shit out of your ass.
*gets on you*
>>2840470>Willis tower I meant, that's taller
>>2838661I guarantee this person has never been outside.I walk into a spider web going to my car every day. It's a non-issue and doesn't ever matter at all.>>2838735Tick: it's a physical creature which has embedded itself into your flesh and bitten a hole inside you, and if you pull it off its head will break off and remain inside you, and it transmits some of the worst incurable diseases we know of.Mosquito: it flies to you, sticks a long needle in you, deposits various chemicals in you, and sometimes transmits bacteria and viruses which transmit serious illnesses.It produces an extremely itchy wheal that persists for days or weeks.Spider web: it does nothing. You walk in it once, it breaks, it deals no damage, nothing happens. The spider that created has no ability to get on you, and it does everything it can to get away from you because you are not its target.Women who have never been outside need to stop posting. Sorry you walked into a spider web, but deal with it.
>>2840555>and if you pull it off its head will break off and remain inside you, and it transmits some of the worst incurable diseases we know of.this should not happen if you pull it off correctly. Grab it and gently pull straight up, don't twist, jerk or pull at a shallow angle.
>>2840555I would 100% rather have to peel off a couple ticks than have to deal with all the silk strings getting on me walking through a forest in the fall
Would you like to live in mountains?
>>2840706mountains* plural, shitskin
I live in the mountains
>>2837416nta, but we have a similar situation here in Bend, the city is only like 7mi long but the elevation difference along with the layout of the mountains to the west (where most of the weather comes from) means that there's a radical difference in weather between ends of the city, the south where I live can get 2-3x as much snow as the north end of town. (As evidenced by this pic, I took it when I was moving into the current house and the same storm only dropped like 3-4" at my previous place at the north end of town.)
>>2840743Oh, I should say that the pic was taken the next morning, and it didn't snow overnight. It was way deeper when I got there.
>>2840744I was born and raised in Salem and moved to Bend for a while. It was weird getting snow. I think I saw snow twice in 10 years in Salemagain, not a huge difference in elevation between Salem and Bend, but completely different climates.
I'm planning on going to the summit of the Kilimajaro and later the Aconcagua on the slower easier routes. What kind of preparation people do fitness-wise? I live at around 800m above sea level and work out every day. I'm fit enough so can run 10km in 1h and people said i will be fine but idk if they did so i would use their expedition services.I've already done multiple days hikes but nothing quite as high and altitude fucked me up when i was in Peru.
>>2840696so it's not worth it to just go through the discomfort for next time to eventually get better at conditioning? oxygen cans are quite cheap feel like every moron carries a dozen of them
>>2840695>is using oxygen a cop outyes, but it can also be useful to help acclimate if you have the time and only use it when you're feeling particularly awful. for a quick hike it probably does more harm than good though. You won't really have time to acclimate, and oxygen is just going to make the process slower. Might be good to have in case of severe sickness though.
>>2840697>to eventually get better at conditioning?this isn't really a thing. Unless you go to altitude regularly, you're never going to get better at acclimating. Every time you go back to low country for a couple weeks you have to start over on your conditioning. Right? I live at high altitude but I still suffer altitude sickness every time I go on vacation to the beach for a couple weeks and then come home. It never gets better, and the more you do it the greater your risk of severe injury.
Didn't see anyone using oxygen to get to the summit of Kilimanjaro but there were people who were treated with it while coming back down. Funny thing is that the guides generally didn't have canisters on them, they had latex gloves inflated with oxygen and would let people who were delirious to take a hit off the glove. I used Diamox, starting with half a pill on day two, moving to a full pill on day four. I didn't have any problems with exhaustion but did have some mild hallucinations starting around the time we had lunch at Karanga. As far as condition goes, I did a good bit of hiking on local hilly terrain but didn't do anything special beyond that. 4000 ft was the max altitude for that hiking so it did nothing to help prep for altitude issues. The other big difference is that Kili has areas of lots of scree, which can be annoying if you're not accustomed to it.A year later I hiked around Ecuador and had some issues with getting out of breath at high altitude but I wasn't taking Diamox and we often drove to a high starting point so acclimation was minimal.More than anything, paying for more days on the mountain is what will have the biggest impact on your odds of success. If you can find a copy of the Imax movie about Kilimanjaro, you'll find the climb more interesting as you'll have background info on many of the things you'll see.
>>2840704>More than anything, paying for more days on the mountain is what will have the biggest impact on your odds of success.This. Kilimajaro is notorious for the frequency and severity of altitude sickness among climbers because of how quickly the budget companies try to get everyone up and down. If you can afford to take your time, do so. It will be far safer and a hell of a lot more enjoyable.>t. Dr who's provided medical support to mountaineering expeditions.
Was he retarded? or free?
>>2840261Traded my soul to a demonThe demon styled my hair in such a way that it shadowed my face when the sun was high, giving the gothic makeup appearance you see in the photo. The demon is pretty good at hair.
>>2830741He actually identified the correct plant to eat he would have been fine eating that but he put it in a plastic bag that made it mold that mold caused paralysis.
>>2840649muh mold is all just a speculation. the fact is that even with berries he would stave to death.
>>2840653It is deducted reasoning not a retarded guess. the test they did was months later after the shit was dried out and moved around a million miles. And they tested the plant for alkaline enzymes instead of just visually identifying it. Lab test basically came back saying inconclusive like most lab tests.
>>2840653>the fact is that even with berries he would stave to death.thiskrakauer perpetuated the myth that you can survive out in the woods as long as you don't make some technical error like eating toxic plants or mold or whatever.this is bullshit, he would have died just the same whether he ate poison or not. There simply aren't enough calories and fats out there to keep him alive.
winter is behind us and its time to get back /out/, sea, lakes, rivers, even canals, sailing is fun toofotm vacationer paddleboardfags go to >>>/trv/
Could I/would I have fun canoeing the Missouri river or would it just be gross? I want to go from KC to various ports to eat and camp.
>>2839624I'll bet it would be fun. Might be shit though ?
I love my folding kayak :)
>>2810312Anyone have some non-obvious tips for kayak camping on the river? I have a 3 day trip planned this weekend on the Au Sable river and have only really been car camping and backpacking before.
>>2840685Don't overpack and have fun.
