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I have only ever hiked in Europe but I'm interested in experiences other places when I take a sabbatical next year. Pic rel is the type of environments I have hiked.Pictures please!
>>2721620Bunch of trust fund faggots ripping up my nature.
>>2711687check out desert drifter on YouTube if you wanna see cool shit out west.
>>2712850it's worse here, they built mansions all over the ridgetops.
>>2725110Lol. Just stop. They couldn't if they wanted to. Foothills around ski resorts is the closest you'll get.
>>2725112wtf are you talking about, I live in Appalachia and they are on every fucking ridge that isn't state or fed property retard.
Do you guys bring any instruments with you when you go /out/? Im considering picking up a naf, harmonica, or small travel guitar to maybe jam a bit when im camping overnight.
>>2724621>>2724710thank you anons for appreciating my skills. heres another little recording with some singing. normally i would go into a call and response thing once i had established the verses but im alone right now and nobody is gonna wanna sing with me for the the anons.https://voca.ro/122Hij7TuGrZ
>>2724733>https://voca.ro/122Hij7TuGrZ
>>2724733Impressive anon, if I ever come across you in the woods I will jam along on my harmonica.
>>2715709your going to damage your guitar placing so close to the fire, it will warp.
>>2720620when it's out, it's called a fiddle, anon
Every girl has hiking in their tinder bio. How do you know if she's really into it or not?
bros how tf do you even get girls on tinder, I'm decent/good looking and I even get matches, but then most dont ever reply to the first message, and of the ones that do, half ghost me midway through, the others even agree to meet and go out for a drink, and then ghost me while were working out the details, what the fuckI even try to send some personalized openers based on their fucking profile and bio and pics etc, with some the combo rolls better with others it gets bogged down, I'm not a giga charming chad but I'm not that bad at chatting.idk I lost faith in tinder, guess I need to meet actual people, which I'd do happily but I have 2 friends of which one is now in another cunt, no friend group at all and very little if any acquaintances.I'm not in the us btw so idk maybe in other cunts the culture is different or whatever
>>2724590I have never had any luck with online dating of any kind.
>>2724590It's not you. Start an account of an average woman. Watch as you get flooded with replies. OLD is shit and you'll need to do things the old fashioned way.
>>2724629Facts
>>2723397it appears it is (not who you responded to, I just hate that shit too)
Doing a camping trip in the next month or so and have been roped in as the camp cook. It's a three day trip, what would be good foods to bring given we're going to be camping out on public land in the western US? Was thinking eggs and corn beef hash for breakfast, something light for lunch, but drawing a blank on dinners. It'll be a three day trip, so will need foods that will stay well in a cooler. Have a double propane burner, and a single butane one.
>>2725062>leg oflamb
>>2725053>doesn't pass around a hip flask at the summit
>>2724883Love this guy. The reason I got back into cast iron when car camping.
>>2725088It's the best. I still go backpacking regularly, but camp cooking's why I overland so much these days. Waking up to a sunrise in the wilderness and having some fresh biscuits and jam and a bacon egg skillet. That's living.
>>2723740Yes. But it won't work very well without a convection function to move the air around. I've used my convection oven a bunch of times for chili peppers, but if you don't have one a food dehydrator shouldn't run you more than $40 though.
Seriously why tf are people like this on the LT and AT. I tell people my legitimate name and they always surprised when it’s my real name.
>>2720451I think it's a big AT thing.
>>2716326Thats an organic nickname, and a darn fine one i'd say, despite being kinda generic. I'd wager that half the people ive know with nicknames, the names are negative, like "dribbles" for a friend who got a little piss on his pants one time. or "beandip" for a chubby kid who got beandipped(someone flicked one of his nipples, idk why it was called that)>>2720451>your trail name is now the last tool you used coupled with the last meal you ateKnife Salad
>>2720451>last tool you used coupled with the last meal you ateUCM meatballs
>>2716234we called my best friend Sonshine growing up because when he moved pack from New York he had hair like that kid in remember the titans
>>2720451Man, drill driver dirty rice just doesn't sound that appealing though.
I don't know how to use a compass. I cannot read a paper map. I only use my phone.
>>2725060What are you going to do when your cellphone dies, you never learned to use a paper map so didn't bother packing one, and you have to find your way back to your vehicle? Let me guess, that'll never happen to you. You're careful. You've never broken a cellphone in your life and you packed a spare battery pack. Well, you're throwing the dice on dying of exposure a quarter mile from your car because you never learned how to navigate properly. Throw the dice all you'd like, just don't brag about it like you're some sort of badass because you take stupid risks that could be easily avoided.
>>2725070plug it into the backup battery
>>2725076Murphy law is a bich anon
>>2725076You.... shouldn't touch grass. It might legitimately be bad for your health. Just you though.
>>2725024This is a genuine question, by the way. I really want to know what knowledge I should have to prepare for unexpected
How do you protect your gear at a resort?
>>2724235>>2724896Let's cut it sort and hear what our guy has to say:When, long ago, the gods created EarthIn Jove's fair image Man was shap'd at birth.The beasts for lesser parts were next design'd;Yet were they too remote from humankind.To fill the gap, and join the rest to man,Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a NIGGER.If this is true, you can't even fault them for stealing, and I reckon the ones in lovecraft's days were much more behaved.
Is this /newfag/ general? Praise kek!
>>2724896G
>>2724190NIIIIIIIGGGEEERRRRR, NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER!!!!! NIIIIGERRRRRR!!!
>>2724190someone had to give the nigger a coat so he could go up the mountain, whoever gave him the coat should be lynched. the entire reason you can leave your shit around and it's fine is there are no niggers. but this nigger had to go and advertise to all his nigger friends on tiktok where they can go and be thieves. I have supreme darkie exhaustion.
pastebin:https://pastebin.com/Mvfh8b87New USDA zone map has been released: https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/Koppen Climate Map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/K%C3%B6ppen_World_Map_High_Resolution.pngSearch terms:Agrarian, Agriculture, Agrology, Agronomy, Aquaculture, Aquaponics, Berkeley Method Hot Composting, Cold Frames, Companion Planting, Composting, Container Gardening, Core Gardening Method, Cultivation, Deep Water Culture (DWC), Dry Farming, Espalier, Farmer's Market, Forest Gardening, Forestry, Fungiculture, Geoponics, Greenhouses, Homesteading, Horticulture, Hot Boxes, Hügelkultur, Humanure, Hydroponic Dutch Bucket System, Hydroponics, Keyhole Garden, Korean Natural Farming, Kratky Method, Landscaping, Lasagna Gardening, Ley Farming, Market Garden, Mulching, No-till Method, Ollas Irrigation, Orchard, Permaculture, Polyculture, Polytunnels, Propagation, Rain Gutter Garden, Raised Beds, Ranch, Rooftop Gardening, Ruth Stout Garden, Sharecropping, City Slicker Composting, Shifting Cultivation, Soil-bag Gardening, Square Foot Gardening, Stale Seed Bed, Sugar Bush, Truck Farming, Vermiculture, Vertical Gardening, Window Frame Garden, Windrow Composting, Alpaca, Snail, Toad, Trumpeter, Turkey, Wormprevious: >>2710237Spring is here.Hope you got to enjoy the eclipse.
>>2720615A sheet of plastic or mesh over the entire property. Aircraft or drones could still see even if you somehow convinced every satellite company and government in the world to not show anyone.
>>2724541double kek
>>2724921Rip it out with chunk of the roots that reverted to thorny state. After any part of a periclinal chimera like blackberry turns thorny it will never be thornless again, don't let it grow.
>>2724722thanks for the advice. I potted that plant before watching a significant amount of videos on the subject so I feel like I have a much better understanding than I did at the time. However the current pot has the benefit of allowing for faster growth in the short term which I think is good considering how small the plant is right now. It also doesn't have enough fine roots at this point to survive a shallow pot with bonsai soil. In a year or two I'll consider repotting it in something more appropriate.
>>2725072I ripped it out but it was coming from the clump so there weren't many roots, it sort of just snapped off. The other 6 new canes are coming out normally
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>>2725048Sometimes I can see them at a lake. But depends if it rained recently.
>>2725048Get a pair of polarized sunglasses. They aren't necessary but help a lot.
>>2725028>I've read that it's really good for getting PRsI'm in Iowa and my experience has been anything from October-ish to April-ish has been either skunk or 1 decently sized fish, usually a PB. I caught an absolute unit of a freshwater drum in November, but I had probably 10 other times I went for an hour or two and caught absolutely nothing, which is very frustrating.
>>2725031>he doesn't make scallop penis goji chang soupMassive loss ameribros.
>>2725048America
What is required to do activities like: rucking, climbing and swimming? I want to do physical activites /out/ but I usually dont do more than jogging
>>2724172>exercise is idiodicokay
>>2724220Exercise is fine, but you have to be smart about it to avoid ruining your body.Lifting weights isn't stupid, lifting weights like someone doing crossfit is stupid.
>>2724306I don't know how to exercise properly, therefore nobody else does eitherokay
>>2724369>fucked up my greentextWell that's what I get for pre-coffee posting
>>2724178Kek. I understand the sentiment but I just want to be sure that Im not putting myself at unnecessary risk>>2724369Im not sure that other poster is genuine about their belief, if they are then they overestimate how destructive walking with weight is
And what do they do to protect the woods from weekend warrior citidiots?
>>2724748They are cousins and stuff not immediate family. I don't hear from them unless they want a favor. I hunt ocassionally but generally I'm sort of down on it tbqh. Not once has one ever said "hey can I go dig up a x seedling." "Can I go take some pictures etc." If they texted and said hey let's go look for a Magnolia seedling or a Willow Oak seedling not only would I let them but I go with them. Anyways, what pesters me the most about it is they have land of their own kek. I have non family members/neighbors that have free reign because they are friends and don't always have their hand out.
>>2724748Nah, fuck that, some family are freeloaders. I have an uncle that tried to cause a big stink because I told him he couldn't park in my driveway to trespass and poach deer off my neighbors property.
>>2724398I'm just letting you know, I'm a photographer and you missed a once in a lifetime photo right there by getting your finger right up on the lens
>>2724528A lot of places I've see that sort of crap is only accessible via ATV after a long car drive. A lot of adults never grow up and continue to use the world as their personal trash bin until the day they die.
>>2724439You think people travel from out of town to chuck an old toilet off the side of the road or to dump a truck bed full of trash in the forest? >>2724671Beer cans and bonfires, sure. But they’re still locals. And the household and construction debris isn’t teenagers, it’s “adults.”
I am thinking of ditching my tent and matress and sleeping bag for a tarp and a hammock.Any experiences on this?
>>2724848yeah I've spent enough time tinkering with hammock setup that I would never want to deal with rigging that thing after a long day. >>2724855use skins/sleeves and you can usually get away with just wrapping your suspension up a bit on the outside. I've never had a problem anyway.
>>2724897i use a tensionless anchor and attach to that with prussiks. easy and adjustable.
>>2724853If you have it set up correctly there is very little tension in the system and load on the anchors is minimal. I'd trust >>2724841 in high winds more than I'd trust most tents. In a normal tent the mode of failure is that it falls over on you. In a hammock the first thing to fail in extreme winds is one tarp anchor. the hennessy tarp I have has simple plastic o-ring and hook tarpline tensioners which will just pop loose before there can be any damage to the lines, the tarp, or the stakes. if that happens you groggily make some random adjustments until shit stops flapping around and go back to sleep.the way things get really bad with a setup of this type is when your anchors aren't trustworthy for whatever reason. anchoring strategy is different for every scenario, every soil, every situation and the only way to git gud is to git gud.
>>2724820I don't know how much loft the Costco down has, but at the rate you're doing all this rigging and sewing you could make Apex underquilt and have sufficient insulation by choosing the right thickness. At 30F you've also entered the territory where drafts are problematic so you'd have to take that into consideration in designing. Personally I would try this at a warmer trip where you can get some data on whatever system you end up building. It's one thing to push something you know to the limit, its another to discover if something works.>>2724848I never understand this idea that hammocks are so complicated. There's maybe a little more fiddling once everything is up but it's not like I didn't spend time looking and cleaning an area for the tent. Whatever extra time is a very minor trade-off for getting a nice tarp and hammock in camp.>>2724855All my tarp and hammock rigging just goes in an external pocket on the bag right as it comes of the tree.
>>2724833>trees spaced perfectly apartThis has to be the same person saying this in every hammock thread, right? I mean I’m pretty sure 99.99% of the people who would comment about hammocks know they have an adjustable suspension and tree distance can vary but a lot, so it has to be just one retard who keeps saying this… right?
Is there any chinkgear out there that's actually a good value for the money?
>>2722397I sincerely hope it serves you as well as mine did me.
>>2722385That's a whopping 5 grams lighter than the Widesea pot. I will not be ordering the Widesea at risk of herniating my back and not being able to walk the last 100 meters back home due to exhaustion from a too heavy pack. You have truly saved my life anon. For serious though I really appreciate it and I am autismally shaving grams.Adding to the rest of your conversation: Aegismax indeed seems like a solid brand. But for sleeping bags, I'm looking at Cumulus, which have stupidly light and warm bags if their ratings are to be trusted, which I suspect they are. They are anything but budget chinese stuff, but this is an area where I think that you cannot save money unless the Aegismax offerings fit your exact needs.>>2722388Oh, hey, look. Cumulus. Hehe.>>2722378I have a shitty, heavy, super cheap synthetic bag. It SUCKS. At least I didn't spend more than I did. If I did it again I would get a sus chinese noname goose or duck down bag. It would cost about twice as much as this did but not cost a ton, be about as stupidly heavy, but I'd at least be warm. The CW400 others have mentioned is less heavy than the nonames I mention, so it is probably a safe bet. The main thing you want to figure out is if you're actually going to stick with this. If you are, then consider paying more for something better rather than buying something intermediate and paying even more for another bag later down the line.
>>2722378one more recommendation, lookup /read up the standard used for the temp rating. it's gotten better but the temperature rating used to be extremely misleading. rated for 5°c meant SURVIVAL aka you dont die at 5 from hypothermia... and not for comfort at 5°c . Sleeping rating meant sleep possible but not comfortable/restful with for example curled up fetus position > the upper limit is the highest temperature at which a 'standard' adult man can have a comfortable night's sleep without excess sweating. > the comfort rating is based on a 'standard' adult woman having a comfortable night's sleep. > the lower limit is based on the lowest temperature at which a 'standard' adult man is deemed to be able to have a comfortable night's sleep. > the extreme rating is a survival-only rating for a 'standard' adult man. This is an extreme survival rating only and it is not advisable to rely on this rating for general use.
>>2695132NTA but god I wish. Bog standard /26\ with spike bayonet.
>>2700587In the market for a headlamp. You like those two? Which would you recommend if I'm only getting one? Ideally I'd like to use it bike commuting and ski touring as well as backpacking so I'm fine with paying more but I'd like it bright and I'd like good battery life on at least one setting.
Virginia is beautiful, but some of this shit is annoying.
