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Fore the record I've technically been solo camping a bunch but I've always been within eye sight of other campers. I've been wild camping with friends/my ex but never alone.I'm not usually afraid of the outdoors and when I do feel nervous about something once I start doing it I'm fine. I love to go through night drives and explore hoods, which I know is way more dangerous.My main fear is for some reason I'll go a bit crazy and flee from my campsite and get disoriented. There's some mountain lions periodically out here but they're super super rare. I slept in grizzly country before but, again, not alone. Anybody else feel a bit nervous then realize it wasn't that bad once you got out there?
>>2732830>statistically impossible for two serial killers to run into each other in the best place to hide a body.Not to mention who tf asked
>>2729100I've been "solo" camping multiple times, but if I'm heading off without other people I always bring my dog with me. I've not been in grizzly country but I've spent a lot of time hiking and camping in mountain lion territory. If I'm going to be alone, having both my Malinois and a gun with me goes a long way to making me feel more secure.
>>2729100I'm too scared of people to sleep anywhere near them while camping, unless it's family/friends. Just be scared of others judging you and you'll prefer the unsafety of solitude.
>>2732853> Implying that OP is a serial killer. XD
>>2732868>Going into mountain lion country alone>Bring dogs That's quite literally statistically the worst thing you can do. Being alone is bad enough, alone with dogs is way worse. There's a reason a lot of places in mountain lion country don't allow you to bring dogs.
What are some dangerous jobs that an able bodied person can make a bunch of money in?I've been looking into wildland firefighting but it seems like Oregon is the only place to go for that. Also the pay doesn't seem substantial.
>>2730936The seasonal Alaskan fishing industry might be up your alley.
>>2732910these guys are fucking with us rightwhat the fuck are they even saying?i refuse to believe that two guys are speaking this undocumented "language" and understanding each other perfectly
>>2733344Nah it’s legit. I’m from rapid city and we’d get these guys from the mancamos when they’d job hop. They actually talk with their own weird slang as a mix of different USA regions and shit like Tagalog, Russian, romanian, Spanish, Chinese, and Portuguese. People used to hate them and see them as rough vagabonds but I never had issues with them.
>>2733344It's hard to believe three random Bakkenites are in this thread but they know the lingo so maybe it's legit. My dad moved us from Bakersfield after the crash and I lived in a family unit in a mancamp for two years until we got enough for him to move back to Cali. He never talked like a Bakkenite with us but could do it with others and I picked some up and yeah it's actually true they talk like this. These guys aren't even talking full Bakkenise probably because nobody's talked with them in it for 10+ years. The one guy said Bakerites aka people from Bakersfield like my dad. Siskis are from Siskiyou county, Ogalamaks = from western Nebraska. I used to get hate from the few other kids from being Bakerite.
>>2733344BTW the "ya hear me" is from from ghetto blacks but not ghetto blacks from LA or Chicago or Philly... I mean southern ghetto blacks from the Mississippi delta. They literally end every sentence with "Ye hear me" and a ton of them flocked there, especially from deep Louisiana
Moobies with /out/ feels.
>>2733334Shite movie. Feel embarrassed about ya post.
>>2733334https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZQdYvVXaughttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlfJcU3nnl8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emo0uffHltkThree of the best out movies form the 70s
>>2733398Two more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGp9u56FJKshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjAi5ER5FOU
Tracks (2013)Wild (2014)
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: >>2729875Over knee high by 4th of... June. Next month looks to be pretty dry for a lot of us. Mulch around your plants to help the soil retain water.
my corn is reaching critical levels of dark green that defy all bounds of reality
Morel editionFound about a half pound over Easter weekend, upstate SC.
>>2733373what about >>2733178? is it a caesar?
>>2733393Too dry and old to confidently ID it
mushroom
mushroom eating matcha
something munched on this russula
Why do you like nature more than people?
>>2732763>Remove this concrete,,,bethe,moving.,,BLM land is FREEEEEEE!,for 14 days.,,,after 14 days the poop circle is toosmall!,,,,,,,sidenote> HUMMINGBIRD FIGHT!!!orisit?sexytime?,,,,op?whynot Love both?
Nature is the constant, the unchanging, and pretty much the default form of existence. We as humans like to take control, and change the world we live in, but by doing that we make it complicated, confusing and obtuse.It doesn't matter who you are, where you're at, and what you have or what you don't have, you can always return to that constant as it lies underneath the facade of society we've built. I think its no surprise that people who've never experienced the constant let alone established a relationship with it are unhinged neurotic messes.
>>2732845how old was Diogenes when he died?
>>2732652nature never called me a chud
>>2732707I disappoint people, nature doesn't care.
For all things fire lookout / fire tower!Previous: >>2694387
i suggest signing up to be a member of the FFLA, you get a periodic magazine with neat updates about lookout restoration and some of the folks that used to/still staff them
>>2731455forest jannies razor wired this one off despite it being at the highest point in the ozarks
>>2732825i think this one was a gabled L-4, very beautiful
>>2732827love the base structure
>>2732828here's what it looked like inside
#504- “Mother’s Day” EditionPrevious Thread:>>2725386janny pls…Thinking about picking up a new hobby? Want to get a memecaster? Haven't mastered the Palomar knot? Click here! http://www.pastebin.com/u/fishingandtacklehttps://imgur.com/a/1Xw3NNew Bong Fishin Guidehttps://pastebin.com/sDB5SQTqFirst for best telescopic rod is the one you exchanged for a 3pc.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Ponytail frog works
>>2733332Make me a list of shit that doesn't work for bass.
Good day fishing today but what’s the id on this beauty?
>>2733390Green sunfish
>>2733391Thanks
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>>2733259Ouch. You’re lucky you’re not dead.
>>2733322Rotated because 4cuck removes exif.
At a Rendezvous in a state park with a bunch of buckskinning bros. I tucked myself in a sweet corner under some pines. I had a few hikers come through with questions. Other than some hawk and knife throwing splitting playing cards. Even got a few hikers to throw hawk and knives with us.
>>2733384sounds like a great time, i loved going to rendezvous as a kid
>>2733179>>2733186after looking on streetview for a bit i realized that the roads are so in the boonies that they arent covered. however there are decent views on the 21 and 16 near the upper buffalo wilderness, as well as the 5 that comes off the 21 and goes into the national forest, they dont have the best coverage though
Dudes I went to high school with now have house, wife kids truck dirt bikes side x sides and fuckhuge camper trailersI'm fucking disgruntled
>>2659347and dead parents
>>2720364>>2711683fuck off we're full bru
>>2714727>being able to use a computer at adult level is being very privilegedOff yourself nignig
>>2732565kek
>>2729625It is sort of crazy. A woman I work with mentioned doing a reno on their house, pouring a pad, and adding a metal shop to their backyard. She told me that they paid for it by cashing out her husband's 401k and then taking a loan as well. They have matching UTVs that aren't paid off and a travel trailer. I make more than she does and her husband makes a little less than her. Fucking crazy. We're all mid thirties and make decent money but some people spend like it's going out of style.
How well are you prepared for zombie apocalypse and what are you going to do about them pesky perky drones?
>>2729805>But a financial dip (not 99% unemployment) is much more likely.On one hand, yeah, financial crises are absolutely more likely than many other emergencies and probably the first thing most people should be prepping for. On the other hand, surely everyone already has financial security as a goal? Like, if you tell someone they should pay down their debt and have enough savings to ride out an illness or period of unemployment, aren't most people just going to say "yeah, I'm fucking trying". Maybe some people need the reminder.And it's not like a sensible amount of preps will have any real impact on someone's finances ... you're more paying down a mortgage for the cost of water filter, a first aid kit and a few dozen pounds of rice.
>>2729691this, my retirement is on track, house will be paid off in around 7 years. job security is better than average. I have a 12 month emergency fund. I have a couple guns and know how to use them. I could go 3 months without leaving for food, water, or fuel. If you camp and have a couple key items like a battery bank and solar you're pretty much set.people think they're going to die from roaming zombie hoards. they're really going to die from bad water, mal nutrition and infected scrapes because they don't have first aid supplies.
>>2731288>surely everyone already has financial security as a goal?nope. you'd be really surprised who shitty the average Americans personal finances are. like unbelievably bad. I work in finance. Half of people can't come up with 1000 dollars without putting it on credit. Half. Only about 20% are save more than 5% of their income a year. Financial shit hit the fan is coming for everyone. It might be an economic downturn or it might be nothing happening and getting to retirement age to find out social security means you're going to be eating nothing but rice and beans ever. a medical hiccup puts you into bankruptcy.No bad debt (anything but a house) and an emergency fund should be priority number 2. The only thing more important than that is your health.
>>2732449You work in finance, do you have any insight into why this is? Is it really that hard for a baseline normie to stay afloat financially, or is it because they get too much uber eats and shit?
>>2733244I'm not in finance but do earn six plural figures. My wife had cancer, my kids and their activities are expensive, and I had to plant my boomer parents in the ground after medical events. I spend on work attire, food and gas on myself, no hobbies except a library card. There isn't much leftover for retirement, I invest for my children. I have nightmares about waking up under a bridge I live under. I feel zero security despite frugality.
whats your EDC?for me its a sheffield 16 in 1
this or a skeletool?milwakee>utility blade>one hand deploy, one hand closemostly same tools as the skeletool besides the pliers and carabineri never really use multitool pliers, if i need pliers, im gonna go get my pliersbut i think the skeletool would be sturdier? am i correct?
Not pictured: iPhone 13 ProSometimes will add a butane Zippo and a G-Shock Rangeman. I am a heterosexual.
>>2733342nice Sig, never got a leatherman charge myself, considered it when upgrading from a wave, but just went straight to a Surge (this was before waves had replaceable wire cutters)i am Bi, not sure why this matters but, i guess we are sharing for some reason?
>>2733323It's a tough call. Personally I find the knife style in the Skeletool a lot more useful for everyday stuff than one of those utility blades and it's a surprisingly slim and compact tool, maybe easier to carry than the Milwaukee, but it's dogshit as a screwdriver compared to that.
>>2733342>keeping anons from copying your house keysI see you are also a man of caution. And what the hell is going on with that table/desk/dresser top? It looks like you epoxied road salt onto it.
Also cooking kit thread I guess. Post em.
>>2732820Cat can stove is optimized to boil water for dehydrated/freeze dried meals while being very lightweight, easily DIY'ed. I've never used a full Trangia kit but the promo material around them seems more 'cook a proper meal like at home'. 2 very different use cases between the two.
>>2732288trangia=trannya
>>2732631(You): "When's dinner ready?"Trangia: "By breakfast. Maybe."Or if you're in the snow:"It won't be."Like I said - if you've got time to burn.
>>2733190you are retarded>>2733200so are youbrain rotted -IQ mongoloids, i bet you´ve never actually cooked outside, and have DEFINITELY never used a Trangia
Blue Ridge famous recipe
Is this a good water filter?
>>2731143Ok then purification tablets?
>>2724027>chemicals are in the water where you go "out"kid this board should be reserved for people who actually go outdoors, not to paid tailgating spots with paved parking lots and power hookups
>>2731443Yeah, they're fine. Filters work out cheaper in the long run but it's not like anyone is bankrupting themselves buying aquatabs. Some tablets leave a chemical taste in the water and they're obviously not going to do anything about particulates in the water (but filtering through a bandanna is usually enough for that anyway).Only major downside to purification tablets is that most of them are ineffective against cryptosporidium (or if they do work against crypto they require a 4h treatment time). On the other hand, filters don't generally work against viruses. In most areas crypto is a bigger threat than viruses but t b h you'll probably be fine with either.
What steps are required to prevent these filters,themselves,from becoming bacterial breeding grounds? I'm a little sketched out about carrying around a filter full of crud.Is there some sort of sterilization procedure recommended for any of these? Do they ever get moldy?
>>2733255FirstNeed Purifier instructs to draw a little bleach/water up the intake and outflow for lengthy storage. Otherwise, use alone jettisons any nasty debris. Just squirt the first issue into your source water and screw on the water bottle.
