Face your fears and go innawoods at nightfall
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>>2854144Those little guys always spook me with how much noise they make hopping among the fallen leaves
this dude about to get skinwalked
>>2854140I like night hiking in the snow under a full moon
Honestly not much to see out here, but I live somewhere where it's hot even in the winter, so I prefer hiking at night to avoid heat stroke and excessive sweat
I have done some night hiking in the avon, in Australian. We have so many nocturnal animals that the night is more alive than the day time. Big and small gliders, possums, it is pretty cool to see how many gliders there are.
It's my favorite thing to do
this nigga about to get raped by bigfoot
>>2854159Avon River SF, or down near Avon Dam (assuming NSW)? They're funny sounding critters to camp near. Good glider spots around the Barringtons and Coolah Tops.I like doing late night botany and herp/invertebrate hunting, although I find a cool mammal on occasion (best so far is a brush-tailed phascogale and several non-STD-ridden koalas), or getting the absolute shit scared out of me by a nightjar laying on the ground.Picrel, cunt had a mean bite on it
>>2854169The state park in Vic. The sooty owls in there sound like skin walkers. I do the same thing never met someone else into it from here. I am planning a 7-9 day hike in there I am going to cross it from the north to the south. I will get dropped off at this crossroad. While in there I am looking for a couple rare orchids to take pics and if they are ripe maybe take some of the seed/dust stuff if I can without damaging rhe plant.
>>2854174that's a long time to spend out without resupply
>>2854175I will be going in march and foraging a lot of food.
>>2854176that sounds pretty rad. I myself do not have that skill but I should really learn. I live Norf of Sydney and I'm sure there's plenty to survive on out there but I just don't know what. I'd probably end up grilling up leeches and eating them like little crispie prawns
>>2854178I'm writing a book on it for the vic part of the great dividing range. Over 140 edible plants and fungi in there. The writing part is almost done I just have to slowly source all the photos. I really want to take each one myself. There is a large crossover with nsw as the climate remains pretty much the same at elevation. You've got 90% of the plants I have listed, milkmaids (burchardia umbellata), common reeds, lomandras, chicken of the woods, plus we dont have false morels and all the lion's mane type mushrooms are safe to eat. We are very lucky when it comes to poisonous mushrooms despite what people think, also obviously blackberries which everyone hates but you can make one shot wine with them really easily as they already have yeast on them. The 2nd book will be explaining how you can process the plants from the first to make different things, medicine, bread, fish traps and so on.
>>2854150Bei that's beautiful.
>>2854174Diabolical, but I believe in you. Sample a bit of soil around the orchid to try and get the symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi if the genus needs it to grow. There's some good papers on propagating different orchids (researched thelymitra, in my case). As for food, look for old indigenous or settler's accounts too, there's some surprising things you can eat (macrozamia comes to mind) but they usually require an assload of prep first, hence most people (and animals) don't bother.>>2854178Assuming you're south or west of Newcastle, there's a good abundance of edible species in wet forest and rainforest, literature helps but yams are more common than you'd expect, you just need to know what to look for and how to prep it. They (and native raspberries) don't exactly taste great, but that's better than most edible natives that just taste like utter dogshit. Don't go super hard on the dianella fruits though, unless you like laxatives. There's other things (lomandras, syzygium, cissus and many more I can't be assed to remember) but always do your research first, there was a website dedicated to bush tucker that was pretty thorough, especially around the Sydney area - I'll try and remember it.Failing that, there's a metric fuckload of deer running rampant along the coastal fringe and out to the Watagans/Yengo and there's no bag limit on introduced species, so get savvy taking them out.On topic, did you know lots of invertebrates glow under UV? I got a UV flashlight for workshop and uranium hunting recently, and like to go strolling out in wet forests with it. Lichens look phenomenal with it.
>>2854178>>2854181I forgot about blackberries, just don't eat them anywhere near tracks or roads, near properties or if the ends have wilted, unless you like the forbidden grazon seasoning. If you find yourself north of Coffs, there's heaps of guava going absolutely feral, too.But seriously, get a UV flashlight, shit's wild on a moonless night. Ironically, ghost mushrooms don't react to it but most other fungi does.
>>2854189What is the uv light showing you?
>>2854190I use it to hunt coolant and refrigerant leaks on cars, or finding uranium glassware in op shops. As for the bush, nothing in particular - it's just a nice light show. The lichens in the last pic appear white to the naked eye. Arachnids have prominent markings under UV and I've seen my fair share of spiders, mostly orb weavers, but I'm yet to see a scorpion. An old colleague of mine had some and they looked pretty neat with it.I found this bollard along a trail where the mycelium wasn't evident under visible light but glowed brightly under UV, so there's finding rotted wood as a fringe use case...
>>2854191This is really interesting I will have to get one.
>>2854192Convoy flashlights make some nice ones for a good price, but a cheapy generic one should work just as well. Get some clear safety glasses too, you can't see the UV directly but your eyes still won't enjoy being blasted with unfiltered UV. Cheap clear safeties are all you need to block it out. It's not really a thing in Australia as far as I'm aware, but I know they use them around the Baltic to look for amber.Also, a fine gent for the other nocturnal froggers
>>2854140>chinesium headlamp instead of a proper NOD setupNGMI poorfag
>>2854195Anyways I had it turned off most of the time cause my eyes adjusted to the dark, but I made it lol
Night hiking is retarded. Mountain lions are most active at night.
>>2854149>>2854168>>2854195>>2854265THOSE WHO CHOOSE SAFETY OVER FREEDOM DESERVE NEITHER
>>2854150based pic, make sure to take night exposures too so it doesn't look like day in the pic.
>>2854283This one is darker with more focus on the stars.
>>2854270Actively doing risky things is not freedom. It's just low IQ behavior from someone with no self worth. We get it, you're depressed about life and think hiking is your medication to healing it. Get over yourself.
>>2854297it's not that deep and night hiking isn't that risky>>2854270trvke but also stay safe
>>2854297>>2854300Also not that dangerous if you're on a trail you're familiar/comfortable with and you've done it before in the daytime
>>2854150>>2854291How can I take pics like this? What kinda camera? I don't think iPhone can do this
>>2854312This is just an iPhone. You have to use the long exposure option and hold the phone still for like 10 seconds.
Walking outside with a 10 gorillion lumen flashlight is scary? You should realize that being out at night is only scary if you have little to no light and face possible danger.
>>2854140That's the guy with the tranny gf who shot charlie kike
>>2854297Where the fuck do you people come from and how are you on every board?
>>2854312Long shutter/exposure = night shot that looks like day time
>>2854371It is scarier with light because he makes himself seen. I never turn my light on at night because I dont want to give away my position to everyone within 1km. You sound like you haven't gone out much.
>getting an alpine start on a night with a full moonIts peak kino
