How feasible is spending weeks/months walkthing through countries and hitchhiking in Europe? How should one prepare? I think i'm pretty fit and i enjoy long distance walks. Started juggling this idea of a solo adventure in my mind. I guess it's not very dangerous if you just don't walk through wildressness and have any survival insticts? What would actually be the worst part and what are some challenges i'd face that i might've not thought about?
I've been to the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Most of Europe is usually only a stone's throw away from civilization and because there is so little nature left there are very strict with what you can and can't do there. So depending on how much you care about risk or the rules avoiding the wilderness is a requirement since in places like Germany you can't just go out and camp anywhere you'd like, you can kind of get away with it if you're found bivoacking, and forget about starting a fire in Switzerland. Now the alpine areas (Southern Germany, Switzerland and Austria) do offer some remote places but it's not like North America and you need to know what you're doing in the mountains. Norway is totally different you can camp anywhere you want
>>2878908>How feasible is spending weeks/months walkthing through countries and hitchhiking in Europe?perfectly feasible>wildernesslmao>what are some challenges i'd face that i might've not thought about?Your biggest issue will be nosy busybody old people calling the police on you. And depending on the country the police will probably be very happy to bother you and make your life difficult. This is assuming you're trying to camp outside. If you're staying in hotels or hostels in cities then you'll have a different kind of problem, which I hope I don't have to explain.
>>2881161Just how out of touch are you? Do you think it's still the early 2000s?
>>2881191This. Anybody that sees you outside in nature after sun set will call the police on you. They will just think you are drinking and will become an issue.
Only risk is the 40 million rapefugees. I just spent a few months in Germany and they are in every city, town and village. They dont go hiking though so stay in the woods as much as possible
I love this brand. I proudly display it on my clothes, water bottle, camping gear, shoes. Everything I have is Ozark Trail. I think the Walmart family sells it at a loss to get people into camping.
>>2874151I bought their 25L backpack for $10 and I'm genuinely impressed. I have it strapped down to my bike and use it like a trunk to hold everything I need to repair and maintain my bike. It's holding like 20lb of stuff easy. I'm genuinely thinking about getting another one just for every day use.
>>2874296i love that little stove. usually i use white gas, but any time i bring a canister stove its that one. i've also used their tents for years, and never had an issue with them. the 3 man, and also one of the big "easy up" 6 man tents. i like that one a lot. its about 7 years old now, and the water proofing needs some attention. but its held up surprisingly well. I also have one of their rain jackets, and i like it alot. idk if they still sell that one but i can't find them anymore.
>>2874473That's not a jacket, that's a windbreaker. Idiot
>>2874151Their fishing lures are actually pretty decent considering how cheap they are.
>>2874596REI is super over priced, I was there a month ago and they want $50 for inflatable camping pillows. pretty funny seeing all these /out/ people caring about camping brands so much and looking down on "poors" for using inferior brands
Rank US States (or regions in your country) based on natural beautyhttps://tiermaker.com/create/us-states-36606
Arizona once sent armed AZ NG troops to point machine guns across the Colorado at California during the Parker dam war. Arizona currently has over 300 active and national guard fighter jets stationed in the state. Also one of the most advanced and largest civilian and military pilot training areas and programs in the world. Every historical and active USAF aircraft has been in or stationed in, or retired in Arizona.
>>2881330Took me a ridiculously long time to find this image in my files. USAAC bomber in Arizona August 1929.
>>2881332Ww2 era, below the Grand canyon rim.
Also as I mentioned, Arizona is 4th nationally for military industrial complex. All of the tomahawk missiles, tens of thousands of other advanced missiles, computer chips, all AH64s etc, made in Arizona. The East Coast/midwest hasn't been the USA industry powerhouse for decades, it's now SW, Texas Arizona California etc. The first 3 B21 raiders are already finished in southern California. aZ companies are about to quadruple missile production for the next 4 years (thousands of advanced missiles a year), the LUCAS drone is also made in AZ. Flight test of a AH64 over the lower Gila river AZ, decent wild desert. https://youtu.be/lJsIBN31ezM
AZ has that perfect combo of wilderness, world class advanced industry, million dollar neighborhoods, and literal redneck belts.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zUmUX8gaoqoHow to catch such things, what gear and location do you need?What to do If i Intend to get one similar?
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I spend a lot of time on my feet. Both in the cities/strolling & out scrambling in the outdoors (albeit nothing risky).I usually throw on a pair of worn trainers but want to ditch the child-like streetwear for something more appropriate and separate to the attire of teenagers.What would be good shoe brand/type that provides quality and aesthetic for multi-purpose consistent use? Would want to be able to wear said type when walking for miles as well as with a smart pair of jeans when eating out casually.Thanks in advance
Does anyone have good advice on how to get rid of hornets around the garden? I discovered (painfully) a nest of bald faced hornets in a bush right next to my garden gate. They attacked me when I was pruning, stinging me repeatedly. To make matters worse, there is also a ground hornet nest nearby that is active.I garden organically--but frankly, the poisons don't work all that well (have used them in the past). I set out multiple bait traps containing apple juice, boric acid, apple cider vinegar (to repel good bees). It seems to be helping--the hornets take it back to their nest and feed it to the queen and larvae. But it is a slow process. Has anyone tried other techniques to get rid of them? They have caused me to avoid going into one whole section of my yard.
Just spray em with raid.
>>2880554Foaming wasp & hornet spray at night when theyre all at the nest.If you have trouble with ground wasps just pour some gas in the hole and put a brick over it
>>2880554mate just wait like litterally 2 week.hornets colonies self terminate in fall so they never an issue. if you see Cicada-killers leavethem alone the dont swarm and are very peacefull and benefitial. Yellowjackets die too. and Nest are never recycled so if you leave them you wont have them again untill the colony is composted. i actally love hornets and get them every few years under the roof or the field /hedge nearby. they are very chill and absolutly murder all pest and even wasps in the yard. i have come video of them eating stuff from bugs to meat from dead birds
>>2880554I work on an organic farmI use a pump sprayer filled with a solution of water with a bit of dish soap in it.Works great, the surfactant in the soap breaks the surface tension of the water and allows it to coat the bodies of the insects, effectively drowning them in short order.Don't put too much soap or it will be too thick, you want it watery.Wait until they are in their nest when it is night or otherwise cold out with no sun directly on the nest.I put on a bee suit, grab a shovel, and start soaking the entrance to kill the guards, then start digging and spraying until I find the comb.At this point I will usually have a bucket of soapy water on hand to dump on the nest, while breaking up the nest with the shovel.The soapy water sprayer also works great on ones that build nests above ground, the nests disintegrate under the stream of water and the bugs get soaked, dropping to the ground and dying.Soapy water trick works for every kind of insect I have tried it on.
it feels pretty fucking lame to pay 20$ for a couple of grams of permethrin emulsified in water.the chinese will sell me a big ass bag of technical grade permethrin for almost nothing, but going that route means i'll have to find some sort of emulsifier and surfactant, and probably some sort hydrocarbon solvent. people bitch about using 10% ag grade permethrin concentrates, because they stink like gas and leave an oily film on your gear. i'm blown away that i can't seem to find people making their own permethrin soak """from scratch""". it's always just diluting a concentrate.so i'm wondering what you do to treat your clothes to see whether or not i actually want to go down this rabbithole to "save" maybe 50$ a year on permethrin treatment.
>>2877648btfod by tweezers
You can find the dilution rate for spray application of permethrin on clothing. It's normally in the pesticides area of most farm stores/homedepots.Just buy a small hand pump sprayer and a measuring cup and mix as much as you need for pennies.You can also find the right mixing dosage for spraying around your house/property to kill any ticks during the heavy periods. Just beware of its deadly affect on cats before it dries.
>>2877648Horse "fly sprays" are a lot cheaper than the camping crap and usually about the same %. You gotta find a farm or equestrian supply store though.
>>2877651unironically nylon is incredibly easy to make if you have the equipment
>>2877648i bought some concentrate, filled a couple spray bottles, and sprayed my gear. its really not that big a deal. and its cheap.
With some predictions showing a decrease in human population in the coming decades does this mean there will be large swaths of land with no human activity or will corporations fill it all with taxpayer-funded robot cities or something.
>>2881093>didn't read the short thread, just spazed out and started screechinglol, human driven climate change isn't real son, but 'crazy' and 'retard' fatigue is.
When's the last time you hiked a wilderness area op? Pic related is Gila wilderness in New Mexico. Look it up. It's fucking massive. Half of Idaho is a wilderness area. If you want to go to a place without roads or people it's actually pretty easy to do here in the USA. Surely you go backpacking in wilderness areas all the time if you hold this reddit opinion so dear.
>>2881073If we have a year where the world only produces enough food for 2 billion people, then at the end of that year there will not be more than 2 billion people in the world.
>>2881095>Half of Idaho is a wilderness area.Yeah but is is connected wilderness where I can walk and camp freely, or just little pockets interspersed with ranches and logging properties that'll shoot me for crossing their fences?
population ain’t gonna decrease without some world ending event.
I'm here, but I'm gonna find myself homeless in the next few months, what do I need to be a hobo? So far I have>tent>backpack>two ponchos>a few tarps>a butane stove>sleeping bag>tent fold up mattressThing is I'm not sure I can carry all this on my back at the same time, at least not without walking extremely slowly.I'm mildly disabled and broke my spine a few years ago and I'm worried about being bogged down with gear, especially considering my tent is a large, pop-up tent that doesn't dissassemble into parts>just use your carIf I use my car the local cops will take it off me, being poor and homeless is not allowed in Ireland and they'll take everything off meSo should I get a new tent? or is there a backpack that I can get that will allow me to carry a tent and mattress easily, even if I'm using a crutch to walk?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2879546No. The worst you need is to use antifreeze in the winter if you are not starting the engine for a while. Or maybe tinkering with the engine if something goes wrong, replacing a part. I don't know where you got the idea that it's "hardcore maintenance"If you have a row boat with a leak, maybe. It will be expensive to fix. Not a fibreglass or steel cruiser. You are not going to get a leak
i realised i’m too fat for basically all sleeping bags. either you don’t get width measurements at all or it’s standard 81 cm. for some reason all stores focus on how tall of a person fits but even one costing hundreds of euros don’t have proper measurements of width. other than that i feel the 30ish eur bag is great and that the ones costing tens of times more are a scam since even their official site might not provide the measurements
>>2872531>Not likely, they don't work like that anymore,If you can make your way to Cork City the Dominicans still do good work.
>>2872498Get a job and buy a garage you lazy dumbuck.
How good are you at sucking dick? That’s really going to determine how successful your new journey into homeless will be.
20yo me is becoming self aware of where my future is headed. The thought of being a corporate work slave is haunting me day and night. Now I'm considering survivalism in the future. > now, the problems: I've never been out camping before . I don't know any people that know anything about this topic. infact , all my friends have pretty shitty lifestyles (myself included) I've never went out much in highschool , pent most of my time at home , was bad at pe. I have a bad diet and I rarely exercise. I'm pretty weak. You get the idea. >If anyone has ever 'trained' or 'prepared' for camping , hunting or any outdoor challenges then I'd appreciate any tips! I'm mainly looking for any small activities I could start with, important changes in diet , exercises to help with my aerobic performance etc
>>2880850>I've made myself miserable though a life of shitty impulsive choices, done nothing to actually improve my situation, and now I expect you all to jerk me off!No.
I'm planning something similar. I don't mind working remotely a couple of hours per week, as long as I don't have to see any normalfaggots IRL.One thought that came to me was homesteading. The issue is that I'm in Europe, with gigacucked building regulations... I'm going to test the waters by renting out a cheap cabin for a week or two. If that works out, I'm going to do it again, but choose a cabin that is more remote. And if that works I'm going to buy one, probably in Sweden.
>>2880295>I've never been out camping beforeLOLI think you should give corporate work slave a chance.
Go for it man, living out in the Wilderness is easy
Its minecraft with no metal.
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.
>>2874655>why cant i just buy a cabin and live there instead of a normal house?because you are bluepilled. you can, only barrier is an invisible wall you have put up yourself, and bullshit laws, but there's places without them or that accommodate living like that.
>>2875767based, please post your research here. it is an outdoors activity after all.
>>2880307We already know.We dont talk about it for obvious (((reasons)))
>>2879951this is better because its raised off the ground
>>2875351The millionaires building their mcmansions in the mountains near me are getting BTFO by geologic movement (shifting earth, land slides, etc) that their insurance doesnt cover. Fuckers are crying to the municipal gov about their losses, and how the city owes them money...The city council gave em a finger, and said "municipal monies is for municipal projects, not covering your losses!"Love to see it, even the Earth itself is saying "fuck off, were full!" lmao
Lately soup's been a hyperfocus of mine, specifically ones I can freeze in those oversized ice tray things, then heat up and put in a thermos to take innawoods. Something drinkable that has decent protein, and also won't make me paint the heels of my boots in the middle of nowhere. Been looking at pea soups, just made some potato soup with cottage cheese for extra protien. I have some lentil curry in my freezer.I'm also thinking about a freeze dryer but that's a ways off. Any /out/ soup recommendations? What do you guys like to eat in the sticks?
>>2880882depends,apples, any citrics, potatoes, carrots, onions, bell peppers will be good for many days
>>2880943those are just the side characters not the main protagonist vegetables
>>2880088>1lb diced bacon>1lb dried peas, ground into coarse flour>1/2lb lard>1 diced onion>1oz sugar>1oz saltDivide the lard between two pans, fry the onion in one pan and the bacon in the other until all of the water is gone from both of them. Mix them together with the sugar, salt and ground peas, add some dried herbs and spices if you want some extra flavor, then spoon it into some silicone molds and wait for it to cool down. The amounts here will make about 8 portions, each of which can be mixed with boiling water to make about a pint of thick soup. It's very dense and will keep for years in an airtight container.
>>2881071all vegetables are side characters if you eat meat and not a veganfag
>>2881109meat gets bad before anything
At what distance can a hike be considered "long"?
>>2880589when you realize going back is going to be a hard ordeal
>>2880589When you have to pack a meal
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>>2880755You gave up your country for the metric system, how does it feel?
>>2880786you've blown up a spacecraft baceuse of the imperial system. how does it feel?
im planning on doing lots of forest exploring and mapping by myself, and plan on collecting mushrooms and herbs to eat and make tea, or get high. what botany and herbalism books do you guys reccomend for balkan climate forests?
delusions of grandeur
books as physical objects made from paper probably fit the style or aesthetic you are aiming for with your plan quite well. Tho I would rather recommend an App called obs identify, you might not feel as smart as when you sit on a tree stumb reading a book but it just is way faster and usually much more precise then what you can achieve with a book. hf and be careful with mushrooms!
there is some google archive that you can useto search herbs. i forget the name of itlook for herbalists on youtube imoits very hard to get it to not show you the surfacelayer of obnoxious crap but eventually you mightfind some very good practitioners
>>2877950old thread but if you wanna dig really deep into this subject i recommend you you buy a field guide (it has to be one specific to your location so i cant recommend any) and a book about plant morphology, learn morphology first because it makes identifying plants a lot easier. if you wanna dig even deeper download Raven Biology of plants and Michael Simpson's plant systematics from either Annas archive or Libgen (start with Raven)Also download Inaturalist and browse it a little every day
>>2877950You'll want a systematics book, a mentor, and some guides your mentor likes. I wouldn't do mushrooms without somebody old and not dead from mushrooms to teach you. It's also faster.
any recs for a hat with brim ideally somewhere between a bucket hat and a cowboy hatlooking for sun protection from all angles (not baseball cap), but can be put in a bag easily (so not leather/straw)
>>2875459No pooftas
>>2872465Can confirm; I also have a pith helmet.People WILL look at you funny, but it's genuinely a great hat for hot environments. The British weren't wearing these things in Africa and India just for memes.
I've got this one I bought recently in Ukraine because the sun was burning my head. It's a Fjall Raven. Has a chin strap and is comfy. Cost me about £50 though. Hiking gear is fucking expensive there.
>>2872181fake chinese shit. real ones haven't been produced since trump first got elected
if you want BIFL quality check out Failsworth hats. UK company so a bit hard to get in the US, but well worth importing.
