which way, chilly man?
>>2805004>reeee anyone that says things I don't like is a bot and a troll!!!What's it like living life as a deranged conspiracyfaggot?
>>2804527I wouldn't be carrying either of these on a hike...
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>>2805061No one does.
Wim Hof method. Generate your own heat in any conditions.
I have a crippling fear of dogs. The idea that I walk alone in the forest or somewhere in the countryside paralyzes me when I get to think about the idea that there >might< be a stray or even a domesticated dog running free that wants to bite me to death. Yes I know I'm a pussy but it's a part of a childhood trauma where a dog severely bit me. The older I get, the more frustrating it gets. It literally makes all of my outdoor plans impossible. I'm desperate to have a nice, relaxing walk in the forest, but I avoid it with the feeling of paranoia about how many dogs there are inside ready to fucking maul me. Any ideas how to cope with aggressive stray dogs? Bear spray? Knife? Tear gas? How to survive an attack?
>>2805936I said the owner showed up before it was too late, I didn't kill that dog and wouldn't want to it was attacking my dog and I had to get it off him. Also if I killed a dog I wouldn't want to take a picture of it that's psychotic. You are absolutely free to not believe me but it happened. This dog charged up I backed up into a neighbors open garage as I saw it coming and shouted for help then I dropped my dogs leash and grabbed the dog while it was attacking my dog. It turned towards me but got my jacket so I could get my arm around its neck. I have no reason to larp this place is anonymous I get nothing from this. If you think you can't stop a dog attack I think that says more about your fitness level than anything.
>>2793462Do thishttps://youtu.be/rjgYsIiBRgQ?feature=sharedDont try to pull away or runhttps://youtu.be/GY9cwSnL8co?feature=shared
>>2805935>I'm a tiny little lady and this dog was almost as tall as me.You will never be a woman thougheveralbeit
>>2805944Oh they just wanted to play!!!
>>2805816>page 10 dump + 10 more posts of samey argumentsWhy won't you just let it fucking die?
Post your boots and what ya use them for!>Ariat Chelsea Waterproof CSA>LandscapingUsed TimbPros, Dakotas, walmart brands for years until I finally bit the bullet. Ariat is love, Ariat is life.
Haix>picrel
>>2805068Near Piriaka, New Zealand. Took the pic when I was on a trip there. Absolutely stunning place.
>>2803228I found my answer: Lacrosse Alpha Burly uninsured boots.
>>2805534>insuring your bootsdo americans really?
>>2801857i got these cheap-o caterpillar work boots, i use them for hiking, camping, yard work, anything messy. i soaked them in beeswax to help waterproof them, and i clean and reapply the wax every month or so, or until they start soaking thru again.
Where my disc golfers at? Disc golf is basically hiking while throwing frisbees.
>>2801083Got one like that but i got the cheap one with less chains. Huge mistake.
Cbs sports network on cable showsvdisc golf now. Hungry skeleton man is the best guy. On the women's side are stout but cute Finns and a Lao woman who is like 40 and married a disc golf pro who taught her.
>>2800936Idk where you live, but I can get a nice workout following some of the disc golf courses in my area. Nothing amazing but good enough for a workday evening outing. Lots of elevation changes.
I haven't done this disc golf thing yet.But I do love to play catch with others.You can get alot of satisfaction from a well thrown frisbee to another person. It feels good to make a good catch when it's thrown at you.Lots of skill.I used to practice throwing knives and axes when I was a kid and it's only practice that makes you better
>>2800922Ok is this a /xs/ thread in disguise ?
What y'all niggers doing right now?
>>2804219chilling at pc watch some movies and wait til the alarm clock start yelling at 5am
just came back from a waterfall trail
>>2804372wait, was this me from the past?
>>2804264This
>>writing down my last trip in my little journal and scrolling /out/ B)
Sometimes I use a covid mask but it makes my glasses humid
>>2805578>>2805585I'm just a humble Shitpost Farmer rotatin my crop of (You)s
>>2799255>Scarf>You don't need a bullshit mask, in the contrary the humidity going inside the mask is molding your lungs if it stays too long on your face.Incongruous thinking
>>2798352I have a horse breathe directly into my lungs before and after a hike. Never get sick.
>>2798352i use a fleece ski helmet liner
Is camping in abandoned structures still /out/?
I'm just afraid of seeing a pile of human poop or a skull.
>>2805512are you homeless maxxing?
>>2805521shit on top of the shit pile to mark your territory
>>2805750This.You MUST establish territorial dominance or the spooky house WILL rape you.
where is the boomer urbex hunter
Why is this a Japanese market exclusive Why is it that any outdoors gear that's any good has to come in blaze orange, piss yellow, or Red 40?
>>2803104I take it you've never set up camp, wandered away for 5 minutes to look around, and then couldn't find your camp again because it wasn't blaze orange, piss yellow, or red 40I've lost entire camps that way. Just couldn't find them.
>>2803104>Why is it that any outdoors gear that's any good has to come in blaze orange, piss yellow, or Red 40?That's simply not the case. Most good gear is made for military use. Not issue gear, generally, but the "buy it yourself to replace the crap you're given" kind of stuff. That's pretty much all black,g reen, brown or camo.The kind of stuff that's brightly colored is normally meme gear, targeted towards people who go out so seldom that getting lost and needing to signal rescuers seems like a real issue to them.Japan is a bit of a specialcase here, since they don't have "normal" trais. There, you either have a "trail" that looks more like a road, or you're going cross-country. That's why neon colors don't sell well there, and even cheap, crappy gear like Captain Stag is generally olive or black.
>>2803107DO not redeem!
>>2805846>Most good gear is made for military uselolLMAO
>>2805841first time i stashed things before going up a mountain, because i was gonna come down the same way and no point in hauling everything up, i was worried that someone might steal it or that some wild goat would munch on it so i hid it behind some rocks and took a picture of the place to make sure i wouldn't lose it, big fucking mistake even with the picture it took me a full fucking hour of walking around up and down the slope finding the right stop i took the picture from and then finding the spot where the things were, never again, i felt so dumb and miserable doing that shit after being so tired from the ascension
how do you survive a situation like The Long Dark? as in a harsh winter that just doesn't seem to quit?most of what i can tell, from old writings during famous terrible winters, there really isn't much you can do besides having food & fuel already stocked up, but what do you do if you don't have that?
>>2804882>wish it had better gunsEven after the addition of the revolver and all the weapon variants it's still in need of a shotgun and some kind of carbine that fits in between the revolver and rifle. And I understand it's a game and all but it tickles my autism at how difficult it is to reload ammo yet at the same time primers somehow aren't a resource that's required. I have to gather all this shit to make my ammo yet primers are one resource too many? At least add a few hundred next to each ammo reloading bench so they're not difficult to find or something.>>2805151>You know they’re making a second one!nta but I've read a bit about the next one and It doesn't exactly fill me with hope. The addition of multiplayer means the lonely vibe of the first one is probably gone, this also means no time dilation so who the hell knows how they'll deal with that gameplay wise, the new will to live system sounds like a pain in the ass and the cherry on top is the new focus on urban environments. And of course it's releasing in early access since releasing finished products is for losers apparently.
>>2804912yeah, i feel like if you have a forest to yourself, tempature won't be an issue, but food will probably be ever dwindling assuming you really find any to begin with >>2805747at least being early access, glaring issues will "probably" be resolved now if only they'd finally add a sled for hauling items...
>>2804841really sad how far intelligence has fallen to where we have to spoon feed people this info
>>2805892intelligence =/= education
>>2805892Bro it's just some stories about folks surviving the cold what are you on about?
Lets say I work 4 days a week and I have a wife and kid at home to garden while I'm at work. How has the icremental approach worked for you homestead anons and how long has it taken for you make a well establish homestead with cows and shit?
>>2803182i didnt read every other comment before making my postbut you did, which means you are a loser.sucks to suck i guess.
>>2802996>I realised I was buying a bag of chicken feed every fortnight for only about 10-16 eggs in that time periodI'm getting a dozen eggs a day and I buy chicken food around every three weeks. You were doing something wrong. My guess is you had imprisoned chickens
>>2804602>>2804844Why are you bumping an old shitpost thread?
I tried it, the season nature of the work was impossible to juggle with a job.
>>2801354>>Farming is effectively playing Factorio IRLseems fun but it's not though factorio is about automation not being a busybee a decent factorio build does shit on its own and you only do high level thinking and small optimizations after a while
"Bushcraft" has become an influencer trend on social media. How has my /out/ lifestyle sunk this low...and how many of you faggots are like this? Also if you own a shemagh please kys
>>2804483Not for processing wood. A hatchet actually becomes redundant the further you go. I’m not saying it’s not useful. But the further you get from a trailhead, the fewer people there are. That means there’s more deadfall, so finding wood thin enough that it doesn’t have to be split is a lot easier. Hatchets make clearing off small limbs easy, but only marginally easier than cutting them with a decent saw.
>>2805459>survivalism, which is cringe,Hey, doing mock Bug Outs is fun.
>>2802495>the shemagh thingI mean, I have two, and they're actually pretty useful here and there. Especially as an insta-pillow if you can stuff it. Then again, I'm carrying 100 lbs of random horseshit I've found along a decade's worth of highway, and not rubbing myself through 5.11 pants on a YT blog.
Bushcraft has always been a larp.There are so many utility items that weigh nothing and increase your comfort outdoors tenfold, there is no reason to build shelter out of leaves and mud and trying to start a fire by rubbing sticks together.You were playing pretend frontiersman and now you are mad that others are doing it too.
>>2805853It’s fun though. I stick to fishing and backpacking, and my baseweight is right around 12lbs when hiking, but I still get it. Of course there’s no “need” to build a shelter. There’s no need for me to go hiking and sleep in a hammock.
It's back, baby!
>>2801275>>2801391>>2801481>>2801513Mt. McKinley isnin Denali National Park.
>>2804396>>2803698
>>2801275>Subhuman calls Americans muttsevery time
>>2801485>>2801625>>2801754I prefer Queef.
>>2801269It's Gulf of America now too. Check Google Maps.
Hey /out. I am leaving the US to go work in another country and I wanted to go on a trip with 5 to 6 others deep into Southern Appalachia. A lot of us are hikers and urban ex enthusiasts. We also really enjoy folklore and horror. Thought I would start this thread to get people talking about their experiences exploring Southern Appalachia or to talk about abandoned towns they may know of. (Planning to plot out locations on a map. Feel free to leave town names or rough map locations. Thanks)
>>2805779*banjo noises*
>>2805798>worst case scenario >OP encounters some hillbilly with a sawed off shotgun that rapes him and then he permanently ends up on the missing persons list >best case scenario >OP aimlessly stumbles through poison ivy and then after panicking gets lost and has to call some county sheriff SAR team, ends up all over the news in the South
>>2805803You forgot>get too close to a meth lab in the woods>fishhooks at eye level>punji sticks >attack dogs
mullens, wv has an overlook of the town you can mostly drive up, though near the end it turns into an atv trail, not sure if there's more of a view if you go all the way up the atv trailfor most people ghost town is gonna mean thurmond, wv, in the new river gorge area, you can walk around there, or there's trails and campsites nearby, as well as two shitty dirt roads one of which takes you to an extreme hard to get to waterfall and you need an atv or narrow suv to get to even where to park for thatthere's also the typhoid graveyard off of one of the rail trails I wanna say on the other side of the new river near the brooklyn campground panther state forest (now called panther wildlife management area) has TWO abandoned fire towers, one is removed but an interesting climb to the top and you could spend hours just exploring that back-country, the other one there's an orange-blazed trail leading from the group campground on the main road to get to, the other way goes from the assistant superintendent's house and it just a dirt fire road walk to the topthere's the old abandoned caretaker's cabin at the top, and what appears to be the original ww2 era fire tower, I didn't go to the top cuz I was exhausted but I think that might have the best view, its marked closed but I think you can still go up it if you are bravemost of southern appalachia is atv trailsso if you want to go anywhere you have to own an atv, rent an atv, or hire an atv tour guide you CAN walk up an atv trail, legally I think, but um not super safethere's an atv trail to a view near war,wv to an overlookanother one just outside williamson, wvComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
there's another segment of interesting highway i think connecting matewan and williamson maybe (52) and you should look at the flood walls and there's tons of interesting blue/green colored water in the creeks if you drive along tug fork (there's a long highway between like oceana and points west along tug fork)you can swim in clear fork, a tributary of tug fork, just on the atv trail/road (folsom rd) past the wilmore dam, can vouch for it being pretty and deep there's something called the delorme overlook (haven't been but seen pictured) near matewan on the kentucky side that has a gorgeous view but you need an atv to get to it or its a helluva hikesomeone also marked something called garrett's point on google maps, dunno if its a real overlook but its on google maps near the wv/ky/va triple point and at least prominence wise would have a view if there's a clearing or a towermight be worth investigating, didn't look like posted but that whole area is kinda owned by the csx railroad near the ky/wv border and you can KINDA maybe drive on the road near the river but its bad shape (along tug fork heading nw towards matewanalso recommend breaks interstate park if you are in the area, that has actual non-atv overlooks
you will never get to this level
>>2805202Not false. Fags are made through grooming and molestation. Children who are loved and protected always turn out straight
>>2802744>Disowning your gay kid isn't derangedCorrect. >Magical underwear is derangedWhy are you making things up?>Tax dodging is derangedTax dodging is beyond based you retarded cuck. I'm not paying for Consula's third illegitimate anchor baby and Tyrone's second ER visit for his herpes outbreak.
>>2802918>>2803190The idea behind the underwear is only degenerates wouldn't cover certain parts of their bodies--turns out they're right.
>>2805644we don't need to be ashamed of our bodies and our genitals
>>2805650Mormon underwear is retarded but nudists are much worse, and unironically deserve death.
>>2805352I want to convert a van into a ghetto one
>>2805453Vans are better than RVs because they can actually go places. A good Van with clearance and 4x4 can go so many places an RV could never.
>>2805501agreed. I have a lifted chevy express and I camp in spots that take forever the crawl to and can be all alone for days. I have camped on beaches in mexico and not seen another person for 10 days
>>2805352They're sexy.
I got a used f150 and light weight camper, $13000 total. You can go anywhere and sleep for free. No hassle with a trailer. Solar when warm and generator when cold.