im a beginner and fell onto my chest and my airpod case was in my breast pocket and cracked a rib. cannot believe this shit

>>2861623
Perfectly fine idea as long as you're not in horrible condition. Resorts often have really good new skiier deals where you get lessons, gear, and lift tickets for less than you'd normally pay for just the tickets, and this time of year you're likely to end up 1 on 1 with the instructor too.

>>2861623
Honestly spring corn snow is the best to learn on. Its generally warmer and sunnier so its easier to be outdoors for a longer time. Its also less crowded in spring since people forget that they can go skiing once they get one 60 degree day. Just plan to get on the mountain after noon so the snow will start to soften up.

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Looks like the season is basically over in the Midwest. A week earlier than last year too.
God, climate change is so depressing.

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Went skiing (Romme, Sweden) with colleagues for the first time in about 20 years and have barely stood on skis before that. They straight away dragged me up here and I had to figure out how to do it. After a couple of slow and stiff runs I started to get the hang of it. Was a bit sketchy and wobbly at times at higher speeds, but I used my Zen training to empty the mind and look forward and just go with it.

bump

If I had limitless cash to spend on gear I'd probably be wearing head to toe Outdoor Research, Patagonia and MSR. Osprey backpack, La Sportiva shoes and Darn Tough socks

>>2862832
>Outdoor Research
isnt that sold at Walmart

>>2856345
OP is your average underage commie that's upset that people whoa re richer than him can afford nicer gear. Classic case of sour grapes.

>>2855627
>what are some tr00 kvlt core dirtbagging brands?
The Chinese-made fake milsurp sold at your local Milsurp Store that's about 2 weeks away from going out of business, owned by an obese racist boomer woman wearing a Chinese-made MAGA hat.

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-26°F outside, was +40° in an igloo with a single small candle

I also got caught directly in a microburst lightning/wind/rain storm on a lake peninsula at 4am once. Was in a hammock, the wind came in really weird and ripped the rain tarp stakes out and I woke up to a torrential downpour and what could easily be confused with a hurricane/tornado type environment that lasted for 10-15 minutes.

>>2859977
What is SERE? Search and Rescue?

>>2859793
I once had to go camping with my brother-in-law's drunk father. It really was the worst conditions you could imagine.

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Did the Cold Weather Leader's Course with the Army in Black Rapids AK. Part of the course involves a 6 day field exercise where you stay outside, camp in a hot tent, build a snow shelter, and move around on the side of a mountain. Temps got down to 56 below zero while we were out there, got mild frostbite on my fingertips because I took too long to take a dump out there. Had to hide it because if cadre found you with a cold weather injury, you'd get pulled from the course. It averaged about 35 below zero every day and wind dropped it further.

Really wasn't the worst camping experience I've had but as far as extreme weather/conditions, it was pretty crazy. During the land navigation test we got hit with a storm which was almost whiteout conditions.

I regularly camp during hurricanes in FL because you gotta book camps well in advance and I book camps during the season and I don't watch news so I would never know there was a hurricane brewing.

>>2830740
Both.

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Overconfident.

>>2862653
is this concern trolling

>>2862472
already posted frien...
>>2830989

I just finished reading Into the Wild today. it's funny how angry people get at him. really only his family should be angry. he didn't set a forest fire or anything to draw attention to himself to get rescued or do anything that destructive to anyone but himself. yes, there was a ton of hubris in thinking he could survive on just 10 lbs of rice and whatever he could hunt or forage. he also obviously survives if he took a map with him. I guess the motive in not bringing one is that you wouldn't get the same feeling of encountering the unknown. by 1992 there was already nothing that hadn't been mapped or that a human eye hadn't seen. even if it's ill advised to not bring a map, I do identify with that impulse. when I read stories of discovery from previous centuries it's the one thing I always feel bittersweet about, that there's no frontier left on this planet.

>>2862594
A lot of those more northern areas mid march are still at risk of snowstorms or shitty cold weather even at lower elevations. I was in southern utah at 5000 feet in mid march a couple years ago and it was snowing with a high of 25 degrees those days. I would stick to the southern deserts of NM/AZ. Consider west texas too. Plenty of long blm and lower forest service roads.

>>2862594
Don’t skip NW AR if you can route it in.
I’ve heard that Big Bend is better than Guadalupe Mtns, or you can do both.
Skip S Colorado, not worth it right now, freak storms, the public areas are all still covered in snow. It’s too far out of the way so spend more time other places.
UT might be nice near Moab/Arches and Canyonlands.
This snow coverage map map is accurate enough
>https://www.fs.usda.gov/sites/nfs/files/r05/publication/R5_SnowDepth_Map.html

I'm fast

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Southern CO, Sangre de Cristo Mountains,Saguache, CO looking towards Crestone, CO.
No snow below tree line.

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>Go on a deep dive.
>Take 15 minutes to reach your depth.
>Look around for a bit.
>Now have to sit underwater and decompress for 12 hours to get out.

WTF. Make it make sense.

I've heard that drowning is one of the most peaceful ways to die. My question is how the hell can anyone know that? Anyone who has drowned is... dead.

>>2861024
*painful
Not peaceful lol

>>2861024
You have the testimony from drowned people who have been resuscitated. Once you get past the parts they've experienced, it's "just" passing out from lack of oxygen and your body shutting down, bit by bit.
People describe a desperate struggle to breathe remaining air and holding their breath until they are no longer able, and then an intensely burning sensation as the lungs fill with water. After a while of that, they pass out.

>>2860749
If you're doing such deep dives, you're either very interested in what you're doing and don't mind it, or you're getting sufficiently compensated for it to not mind it.
For your regular compressed-air diver, it's no big concern, you just don't dive that deep. That's for the technical divers with their mixed gasses.

>>2860221
>I associate line signals with the old bell divers back in the day.
if it works it works.

>>2861214
Largemouth bass, bluegill, channel catfish, smallmouth bass, etc all outside of the Mississippi watershed. Rainbow trout outside the pacific drainages.

If you look at the dates they were introduced, common carp were actually the first gamefish.

>INB4 HURRR HOW CAN SOMETHING FROM AMERICA BE INVASIVE IN AMERICA HURRRRRR

>>2861214
>Tumbleweeds are actually russian?
tumbleweeds are a category of things, not one thing.
some tumbleweeds are russian thissle, but some are pigweed or wild mustard species.

>>2861555
The iconic "tumbleweed" that OP is referencing is in fact Russian. They were brought over accidentally with crop seeds with Russian immigrants.
American chestnuts were wiped out because of a disease brought over with chinese chestnuts. The location of all remaining american chestnuts trees are known and cataloged and theyre listed as a critically endangered species.
Chinese lady beetles have displaced ladybugs.
Wild boars are Russian and were released in the U.S. as a more challenging/exotic game animal by (((hunters))).
Potatoes are from south America. The Irish potato famine was due to the British blockade on Irish fishing boats.
Wild Mustangs of the western U.S. are of course not native. Natives chased down bison on foot to stab them with spears or they herded them off cliffs before Europeans settled the continent.
Beef, chicken and pork are not native to the Americas.
Neither is lettuce, garlic, onion, wheat, rice, lemon, apple or pear.
Native Americans never discovered cheese or sour cream.
"Mexican food" is beans, corn and fish with the occasional rabbit or snake.

>>2861572
>Beef
Yeah but bison
>chicken
Yeah but turkey
>pork
Yeah but... javelinas, and tapirs

If you think about it, we really just have the better versions of all farm animals.

>>2861572
>Potatoes are from south America.
Thank you south america for this based crop.

>>2862271
post a picture of any tool you own with a timestamp. you can post a hammer, plier, saw or whatever..

>>2859467
It doesn't make that severe of a difference. I grew up in Greene County and it's very densely forested. Crowley's Ridge has hundred foot tall pines, oaks, maples, etc. It's not as dense as the Ozarks, but it's enough to get lost in.

Does anyone have that inna mountains backpack prep infographic from 2019 or so? I think the filename was inna mountains or inna alps something like that.

>>2862788
>>1974183
File is 404.

>>2860387
Sounds fun

>>2859703
Well, that makes sense, actually

>>2859703
People make fun of a draconian european judicial system but the american sentence would have been a much larger fine and could have even included jail time, especially because cubs were involved.

Another bear attack in Slovakia last weekend. A man was injured by a bear and ended up in the hospital. The man and his son shot the bear multiple times. Bear dead. Their dog dead. The bear had cubs nearby that will probably die now, too. There will likely be no fine because it is legal to kill an animal if it attacks you.

>>2859695
>guy has to hit behind tree and hit the bear with an axe to get it to fuck off
Thank God it wasn't really charging that could be been even worse

>>2859722
that's because people are retarded

>>2860965
But would you say the same if it was full of z-tards?
Don't get me wrong, it's full of NAFO retards and I agree with that (I'm as pro-Ukraine as it gets but still get called Vatnik by these morons).
But most people complaining about it are just assmad that they can't relentlessly shill for the Russians in the same way.

Tbf /k/ has been dead for years anyway, 2016 brought in an influx of idiots who know nothing about weapons but want to live out their LARP fantasies.

>>2858452
Suggesting Roman Kurmaz like everyone else in this thread.

>>2861762
Go suck Putin's dick zigger scum.

>>2861763
Some of the worst bait I have ever seen.

>>2861764
Your mom's pussy looks like a half eaten clam.

>>2859153
>>2860965
you are brown

>>2859485
I did 7k ft it was an easy hike the entire way but the last 1000feet or so were definitely Weird. It was pretty much straight up but I could only go about 3-5 steps b4 having to stop and get some air. It was weird feeling my legs not wanting to to work but not being able to”out of breath”

What boots did you use for aconcagua?

>>2862454
I used two kinds of boots.

Salewa Raven 2, for approach hikes/anything with temps above freezing, they're comfy and good to hike a lot of miles with a heavy backpack.

I rented Baruntse's for doubles. The key in Aconcagua if you're bringing your own is to use doubles that have really sturdy soles given how much rock you're dealing with, otherwise you can chew through soles like it's nothing.

I also had comf/warm tent shoes with a harder than usual sole for the same reason (lots of rocks everywhere).

>>2862674
Where did you rent them?

>>2862740
In a store caled Orviz tienda de montaña, they also had other kinds of boots depending on size, etc. to rent.

On my way out of Mendoza I bought the Bestard Top Extreme Lite at that same store (the price was pretty cool and they had them in my size (12½), owner is pretty cool.

people are scared. bugs, snakes, etc

>>2862348
What type of /out/man is scared of bugs and snakes?

>>2862022
Everything is still frozen and cold here and bullfrog season isn't for months.
Since I'm here though do you find gigging effective? last time I went out looking for frogs with some friends I got more shooting them with an air rifle then scooping them up with a net than anyone else did with a gig.

>>2862353
swamps are not widespread so most people fear them. it's not like normal biomes. you accidentally brush the wrong tree limb and you have a thousand spider hatchlings on you.

>>2862354
Nets and shooting can def be easier if you’re a good shot. Nothing beats feeling like Poseidon with a trident gigging them tho from the bow of a gator boat

>>2858395
Oh shit is this grotto?

>>2858257
Why does yuruanon piss people off so much

>>2862400
because he reminds the LARPers that they have no excuses for not going outside

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Ice climbing is awesome. I did some easy stuff because I am really not good at it. Leading M3 and as a second in M4. But still beautiful. The feeling to put the screw into the ice and thinking to nothing else is really mind resting for me. A quick shot near Aussois in France.
Share your cascade faggots I want to dream a little bit while working.

Also fuck this captcha

>>2858233
No, I don't think it is, but good on you anyway.

>>2858257
>know nothing
>criticize anyway
Figure guy posts more evidence of going /out/ than most of /out/.

>>2862172
im a viewwhore

>>2862174
I mean, maybe there are ones a few hours away that offer better photography opportunities. Maybe you are just choosing stuff based off of pure difficulty alone.

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Spent some time outside last night watching the lunar eclipse

>>2862047
I got PRK a couple months ago. I had a complication in one eye, so that eye isn't perfect... yet.
I took a drug 5+ years ago called Accutane, an extremely harsh drug for acne. It worked wonders on my acne, but the side effects were significant and longterm. I wouldn't recommend it to just anyone. That's a personal choice. In some ways, you might consider Accutane vain, but I experienced substantial pain from my severe cystic acne.
Likewise, I wouldn't flippantly suggest getting PRK, even if you are approved, but not having to wear glasses has improved my QOL. No more hassle with ill-fitting glasses, and no more worry about potentially damaging this instrument I need in order to see. I need eye drops (dry eye prior to surgery), but at least I don't have to think about glasses. For me, despite the possibility of less than perfect vision (I'm a perfectionist btw), I'm, at this moment, quite satisfied.

>>2862700
why in the fuck would you get prk in 2026 when lasik has existed for decades, for those who don't know prk is a much older procedure with higher risks

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>>2862175
that's fair, if I didnt do lions head I was gonna be up on hight and carter dome which is known for it's fantastic view of the presi ridge.
>>2862712
I went to a consultation on monday and found that I had some misconceptions, I was worried that the eye flap from lasik was more fragile than it actually is. Apparently you need a direct traumatic impact with the eyeball to risk damaging it.

>>2862306
>North Cascades
>least visited nation park in the US
North Cascades doesn't even enter into the conversation of the top 10 least visited parks. That's how bad it is.

>>2859731
I did a trip in October and saw both. Cascades were badass but the Olympics had better diversity of scenery. I’d honestly say tart in the cascades for 2 days the drive to the Olympics and spend 3 there.there will be jeets everywhere and maple pass is a tourist trap

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>>2862517
Sleep on the road near the trailhead and get to trailhead at dawn. There were lots of cars alrdy but I saw almost nobody until the top. Only saw 1 jeet family

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>>2862306
>>North Cascades
>least visited nation park in the US
All the on-trail stuff is shit, the good stuff requires going backcountry

>>2862305
Are you in AK? No one else says "lower 48" lol