Are /out/ activities a good way to make friends? As a guy, I'm always looking for shit to do, particularly shit to do with other guys and /out/ activities seem like my golden ticket to some fast friends. Does this work?
>>2877181Why do you want friends? Seems weird
>>2877181I go /out/ so that I can enjoy nature, views, being grounded, acting on impulses, but most of all solitude.Please don't 'make friends' should you ever see me /out/. Thanks.
>>2877181i usually bring weed and beer when i go /out/ and jthen offer people to come party with me.
>>2877181Any time I go fishing alone in a public place like a canal or lake near a city I'll have at least one guy come up and ask me about my luck, what I'm fishing for and what kinda rig I have. Last time I ended up chilling with some Polack and shared my jetty with with him, drank a couple beers and smoked cigs together.
I live in a small valley in the alps, i will keep checking people's windows at night because it makes me feel so dreamy and alive. Much like when you used to go on a school trip early in the morning and you felt really weird, like when it rained the day before. I need to. I need that freedom of wandering without judgment as children do but without the fear you had when you were looking for dangers in the night. Every house it's like a little closed world. Aren't cats lonely to sleep alone? I stopped to stand near a cat because it felt depressing. This reminds me of yellow lights.
I love the night time vibes too Anon
>>2877187Something for that feel but in an urban environment.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epgo8ixX6Wo&t=30
Good way to identify tree species in my area(northern VA) for people that cant read books? I bought the Audubon field guide for north eastern trees but it doesnt help me at all. Theres like 500 trees or something in that book idek where to start or really how to use it, i think books just aren't for meWhats the next best way to identify and retain the info i learn?
>>2877367They get their mom to do it for them.
>>2877366use picturethis, its a app the datamines you that you take a picture of a plant and it tells you what it is
>>2877366Look at leaves. Easiest way. Just take a picture of a tree, match its leaves to a picture in a guide book. (Try to get full color ones.)
>>2877367I like shapes, always been really good with them>>2877378Dont want datamining apps buy appreciate the suggestion>>2877387This actually gives me a good idea. Ill make my first tree leaf scrapbook. That way ill have all the leaves up close and personal, making it more likely to retain identification info
>>2877411Good on ya lad. No shame in learnin'. Hope you find lots o' nice trees to identify.
This is a serious question. I have some land to clear for fruit bushes and fruit trees, and will be milling the larger logs into timbers for other projects. But, I plan to get a chain flail type chipper shredder to to turn all the leftover slash into mulch and compost for the fruit. The land has a lot of raccoons who love to destroy berry bushes. I'm wondering if anyone here has experience putting dead raccoons through a chipper shredder to add nitrogen and minerals to their compost. I'm guessing I'll be making around 4 or 5 tons of mulch and have anywhere from 80 to 120 raccoons to add to it. If anyone has tried putting raccoons or comparable mammals - jackrabbits, beavers, coyotes, etc. - into woodchippers I'd like to hear about your experience.I'd rather not bury dozens of whole carcasses in my compost pile, and if shredded I assume the raccoon material would compost faster and mix in better. And yes, during fur season I'd save the pelts - unfortunately most of the shooting and trapping would occur during the summer months since that's when they'd be after my berries and plums.
>>2876972Found the glowie
>>2876972Theres a pickup location and a destination. How and when the truckers get there is left upto them.This isnt a secret.I guarantee truckerfag can back me up on it.
>>2876162The practical answer is to just put the racoons in your wood chip piles.It seems counter-intuitive at first but fresh animal carcasses are actually the thing that wood chips need most in order to actually be compost.
>>2876162If it can handle wet woody brush mixed with 2 inch wide branches, it should be fine.I don't know why you're bothering. Just burry the racoon corpses. Shredding them makes raw hamburger that is breeding mass for flies.
>>2876203I'm a land surveyor and was contracted to measure the tallow drain network at a JBS processing plant. Pile of rotting carcasses were the least offensive part of the day. Massive tanks of "hot blood" "cold blood" "rendering" etc. Tallow doesn't flow at 2% so it was difficult to get inverts of those pipes. I don't know how the Somali and Hispanic workers do it. The next month I had to perform a topographic survey of the manure settling ponds. The acrid smell of sulfur in the mixing manholes was awful, worse still is that a few died in the very manholes I measured months earlier. The milk factory was the third of my bovine-product surveying trifecta, and that was a walk in the park compared to the others.
Are you going? Part of a camp or not? How should somebody prepare?
>>2875737>BLM/National Forest land with my homiesThat's basically what Burning Man or Rainbow Gathering is.
>>2876499Cancelled due to weather!
>>2875271Didn't tribal cops arrive to disperse them since they were on tribal land?
>Hey bro we created the most stressful environment possible for you to take hallucinogenic drugs inno thanks
>>2877464Hippies were tryna do hippaloid shit n they fucked around and found out. The res cops rammed the barricade because the hippies were on tribal land. Res land doesn't want Burning Man shit happenin there. Res cops don't want all the trash n mess from Burning Man.
Unless I'm planning on gutting an animal, why would I need more knife than this?
>>2871483>>2872470i ended up buying a wave, its nice but not as nice as the hype it gets online
>>2869861Your dad is right
>>2869760If your leg gets pinned by a rock and you have that on you, you can self-amputate. Shit can save your life
I agree with you for the most part about blade length and shape.I know it’s illogical if you’re careful but I can’t get the idea that I might slip and mousetrap that fold onto my fingers. So I use something that just has the one blade about that size, maybe a touch bigger, and locks open. Being comfortable with the tool is more important to me personally than perfect utility.
>>2872491>the cleanest most unused of packs and guns with grandpas kbar “handy” for all those backwoods knife fights you hear about Kek.
this seems retardedI can't believe it wouldn't be better to have individuals walk with their buckets, for a couple few reasons.1)No "weakest links"2)Weak links can still carry smaller buckets3)diff size buckets can be doled out to those who can handle that size4)you don't need (distance/bucket-passing distance) number of people.5)even a mild steady walk of 2.5mph seems faster than untrained retards passing buckets.6)not everyone has two good arms to pass buckets (OK, maybe not everyone has two good legs to walk)7)MAYBE it could be more efficient to pass buckets with body rotation, but seems barely and mostly not really, since people are used to walking more than passing buckets.Thots?
it was a military thing iirc, soldiers go slightly faster while also using significantly less energy. probably you are right, untrained people are mucj netter off just walking.also i hate the fact that people who try to be "helpful" and push themselves in line arent just told to fuck off even though at best they do nothing and at worst they drop all the water everywhere (obviously total buckets per minute is the same, x buckets are still being picked up and placed, the only difference is drop chance)
>>2877452Your hands are soft and it shows. Chaining stuff is way faster if you have enough people to cover the distance or at most take 1 or 2 steps between. They’re doing it wrong though. Every other person in the chain should be facing the inside of the chain that way you don’t have to twist back and forth. >SageA thread died for this retardation.
>>2877452Nice cuck mask, I'll just grab the water hose and siphon.
Bucket brigades were used to fight fires in towns for thousands of years.You use less energy by not walking but also have a momentary pause between buckets for muscles to recover- similar to how a heart can beat for a hundred years without tiring.
>>2877452How is this /out/ or relevant?Also OP is retarded: It is very obvious that handing a bucket to the next guy expends far less energy than walking. Especially on unsuitable terrain. Those guys will simply last longer, require less calories, be faster and even risk less injury. Which all again just boils down to more water for a given amount of time.
I just put this vid together if any maladaptive daydreamers want to experience New Zealand from their gaming chair. These captchas are fucking insane btw.https://youtu.be/CheuLsaIiZw
Nice video anon, hope you enjoyed my country :)
>>2876926Am I the only one who thinks the trail is overrated
/OUT/ in the subtropics... The Yankee mind cannot comprehend this...
>>2876357Its in Lousiana
>>2875868Florida is the Old South geographic region, not the Deep South ...
>>2876809Read post >>2876779Im from northern Louisiana
>>2875868Cloudland Canyon, GeorgiaI hate this captcha system so much, it’s truly killed my love for posting here after countless years. :((
>>2877491wew glad I went there on a better weather dayis the main overlook fix't?
>see bird>identify>pure joygod I love birds so much please show me your most recent sightingsI'm going on a backpacking solo trip on a segment of pacific crest just for the birdsI love being surrounded by stellar's jays and I really hope I can spot some mountain quails
I saw an awesome hawk right up close the other day but I didnt have anything to take a picture with
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Athens, GreeceI love searching for feral/urban wildlife as I travel
Does anyone have any good tips on how to find bones? I live in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by forests and plenty of wild animals, yet I rarely find any remains. I have a small collection that I'd love to expand, but it takes quite a long time. Are there any universal spots in forests (such as clearings, deeper woods, etc.) where you're almost guaranteed to find bones?
>>2874788I thought this was about hunting with a bone as a bludgeoning weapon, to LARP as a caveman
I have found various bones and skulls before, i havent set out to find them purposefully but of I did I would research which local species have cool skulls then go on inaturalist and look for sightings, habitat regions and seasonality and go from there
>>2874788I walked a considerable distance to look for bones. I wouldn't know how to guarantee finding them, but covering large areas increases your chances.
Tie some chicken wings to a few bones and teach your dog to find them. Same strategy as deer sheds.
>>2874788You Fool, your local burial site would have lots of it. How did you not think about it.
Whos gone rafting there?driving 8 hours and want to do 4-5 days2 day river trip2 days of hiking do they allow you to bring a prostitute?
>>2876816Just go to New River Gorge National Park and raft. Most people can't say that they've rafted in a national park, and the area around it is profoundly beautiful.
>>2876907Many national parks have big rafting cultures with lots of commerical groups like grand canyon, canyonlands, kings canyon, Glacier, big bend, black canyon of the gunnison, and glacier bay, and many others have whitewater rafting or kayaking. Not that unique.And doing something to say you've done it is surely the lowest form of accomplishment
>snapshot taken of OP from a trailcam
>>2876816I've done the upper gauley, lots of fun
>>2876816But how will you have sex while rafting? that would be interesting, can you share it on the hub? would definitely watch that.
So I happened upon an ad for an "outdoors bidet", which screws onto your water bottle and lets you wash your ass when you take a shit.The woman said that it frees you from carrying your used toilet paper.Herein comes the question, who the fuck carries his used TP?You know you can just leave it in the wilderness and it will decompose, right?
>>2877172>wood pulpDo you have the slightest clue what goes into creating fluffy white bumwad?
>>2877314Do you guys seriously not have a shitting schedule? I thought that was routine management 101.If you eat on a schedule, and you eat generally the same amount every day relative to exertion, you typically shit at the same time everyday (Provided your Gut is healthy, etc).For most people its managed by tuning in to your circadian rhythm. The body naturally will try and have a bowel movement around 9am or so.Every day on the trail I'd either have dug out a hole the previous night near my camp, or grabbed some fresh Lambs Ear around 7am if I started hiking early.Tuning into the Circadian Rhythm is also a great way to maximize your mileage in a day, and minimize exhaustion. I would plan to stop and take 30 minute power naps at the appropriate time (Also Weather adjustments), and easily cover 20 Miles a day on the lower end, and over 30 on my high end.I actually figured out how to do over 40 mile days, but I was over equipped for it and I was hiking with a partner.If you really want to get the most out of your /Out/ings, then I'd recommend experimenting with some ways to better manage your daily routine.
>>2877388>Provided your Gut is healthyOh and I forgot to mention, hiking high mileage in a day coupled with some good probiotics, you'll shit solid 2 feet logs and feel fucking fantastic for the rest of your days hike.I'd average a 2.5 mile per hour pace before my morning shit, but after my morning shit I'd be 2lbs lighter and average upwards of a 3 mile per hour pace, sometimes even felt like jogging.Though I haven't full maximized my strategy, all the virtual/mental tests I've done, with an Ultra-Light set-up I could cover between 40-50 miles in a day, which on a trail like the Appalachian Trail would practically get you to the next resupply point.You could buy food, stock up heavy and eat big meals at night, and then be light enough the next day without the food weight to cover say a 30 mile pace while digesting, then another 40+ day after that once the food has been digested and you've passed all the waste out of your system.Calorie Efficiency, recourse management, energy maximization, rest management. These are all things you have to consider out on the trail.>P.S.Also recommend barefoot or open toed shows to avoid blisters and develop stronger feet.
>>2877388You shit every day?
>>2877414If I'm eating a consistent high calorie diet, typically something upwards of 4000 calories on the trail where I am burning a lot, then yes I will shit consistently about once a day around the same time.With a more sedentary lifestyle I might shit twice a day.To manage calorie efficiency on the trail, I've also created something I call the "Calorie Bomb", which is as follower:>Bucket of preferred Nuts (Typically a large container of Cashews for me), mix in a container of Peanut Butter, Mix in a bag of granola, mix in Coconut Oil, Mix in a container of Raw Local Honey relative to where I'm hiking (Honey is super calorie dense), and optional mix in some raisins or something if you feel inclined (I think they're gross mixed in with things).All together you will get a container full of about 20,000 calories if you do it right, all full of good Macros, and this can be used as purely supplemental to the rest of your food because of how easy it is to carry. For the container of nuts I empty it about half ways before filling it with everything else.This mix typically lasts me about a week, and it also makes your shits well lubricated and flow easily for the least amount of problems on the trail (The last thing you want is a rough poop).
Yesterday i tried stargazing for the first time with my 10x50 binoculars. I saw one peculiar thing that i cannot seem to find an answer as to what it was. It was quite cloudy and the sky wasn't very dark, it was one of the few lights i could see.It was blue and almost perfectly round shaped, with light blue curved lines running inside, each ending with a slightly darker dot. And there were a lot of these. I think there was one like, in the middle or a bit higher? But not all of the lines pointed towards it. I wouldn't even say any were, nor multiple lines touched the same dot. There were also two white stars close to it (didn't really get a closer look at them), making a V-shape in which this blue object was top right, but couldn't see any other lights to tell if it's in a constellation. I really liked it. Observed around 9:30-10PM CEST and i was facing South-Southeast. Yes i know, the picrel is fucking abysmal, sorry. Thought maybe someone here has some experience with observing the sky and would know.
Went out today too and the weather was way more conducive for gazing. I think i saw it again! ngl hard to tell and i could barely tell lights between each other, i'm a total amateur. But i still enjoy it!
>>2877350Not sure what it is by your description. What I would do is find what constellation it lies in and consult a sky chart to see what objects are present there at this time of year.If it doesn't twinkle, it's not a star. If it's not moving relative to the other stars it could be a nebula, galaxy, or even a planet. If it's planet you would notice it's position relative to stars change over a few days.
>>2877356I see. I might've seen two different similar objects, not sure. It was higher and more to the south. i guess it's not very hard to just find three lights in a V-shape, but i didn't recognize it in the same place as yesterday
>>2877357As far as planets go it'd be Uranus if it's blue-ish. Neptune is currently only visible in the early morning hours, not sure how late you were out, but both would look like fuzzy stars with binoculars. The other planets are much brighter and not blue at all.With your local time when you saw this thing, latitude, and general direction you were looking you could easily identify what this is.
>>2877360I managed to pin-point the piece of the sky i'm facing with Stellarium and i can't tell i really can connect anything into a constellation. I mean i see a looot of lights and the milky way faintly, i guess? I mean obviously it's hard for me to do just from memory, im not using my phone to compare
When you think about it, today is the most amount of nature we will ever have. Tomorrow more land will be developed and we will lose more wild areas.They sure as hell aren't going to put aside valuable land to just sit there for the plants and animals. The only wild we will have in the future is that which is already preserved and places that are literally impossible to live on (like toxic waste dumps)
>>2877277You might be wrong.It just takes one (1) total, all encompassing, existential and global war.
>>2877283If that happens the end of our aerosol pollution will stop protecting us from a substantial amount of heat and lead to a ~1-2 degree Celsius jump in global temperatures within a year or two of whenever that happens, so it'll still be completely fucked even if we stopped all pollution tomorrowWe are so unbelievably fucked that our pivoting to doing absolutely nothing is still almost as bad in the short- and medium-term as us continuing as we are; the problem is that the status quo will give us an even worse long-term outcome because the can eventually will run out of road, and then we'll stop polluting with aerosols whenever civilization meets its end anyway. Look up the climate faustian bargain (basically an expansion of what I've said here) and then think long and hard about ever bringing a child into the hellscape we're actively creating
>>2877277>>2877286Sorry but I ain't readin allat. Go outside.
>>2877277Rewilding is a thing. I live in a valley where all the farms were abandoned about the time my mother was born. The woods behind my house have strands of barbed wire from an old cattle field. The ridge on the other side of the valley was all hay fields when I was a kid, but are all forests now. I remember walking through the fields to visit some rusting abandoned farm equipment. Does this balance out the sprawl that is any major city? Probably not, but it can happen.What's more, I'll point out that the alternative to building out is to build up. Who here dreams of owning a condo or living in an apartment all their life?
>>2877283This will happen somewhere 23rd of 24th century AD. Then archangel Oriphiel will bring divine wrath.
