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In my local area I just have state parks that are simply for trails and daytime use.
While I understand it's probably agasint the rules, how do I get away with an overnight camp, obviously off trail and how do I park there overnight without a cop or ranger passing by and clearly knowing a dudes camping somewhere in the park?
I'd assume they could simply give a ticket on the car.
>>765210
Try looking for a national preserve or forest. They are typically your best bet for backwoods camping.
>>765210
You sure you can't camp there? Park closed maybe means that you can't get in past sunset, but it doesn't says you can not camp there.
>>765210
Do you like hiking/camping with full gear (yet know how to pack light, what you need/don't need) and consider 10 miles per day to be amateur stuff?
If so, a whole lot of wild areas become accessible that otherwise are very hard to get to.
If you have friends who will keep their mouths shut, get them to drop you off at a start location and have a time and place for them to pick you up later.
Carry something that makes you sweat if you stood still in the cold with it on.
Carry something...
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What is a good hiking boot /out/? Something around $100 would be preferred.
>>765101
>good boot
>around $100
>>765101
The one that meets or can be easily made to fit your specific hiking needs and you have tried on in the store, it having turned out to be comfortable for you.
Why only one?
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I have found a few patches of thimbleberries (Rubus parviflorus) while hiking in the woods of western Oregon. That's a nice surprise. Salmonberries and blackberries are the most common finds, though. Anyone else feast on berries as much as possible while /out/?
>>764932
Wow those are in Oregon? When I go up to my grandparents place in Minnesota I eat them all I can. I thought they were raspberries!
>>764948
I think they're actually most prevalent around Michigan and the upper Midwest. They aren't that common in Oregon, but they're around. If you go off-trail, you will occasionally see them.
I like them better than raspberries for the most part. They have smaller "drupes" (the individual segments surrounding each seed) and tend to have a slightly sharper flavor.
I'll chow down on blackberries and dewberries when I see them. We have a lot of wild strawberries around here too but I've never tried any (I'm not a fan of garden variety strawberries so I can't imagine that the wild varieties would taste any better to me).
Can anyone identify these mushrooms?
>>764927
A russula of some kind. Probably russula rosea. Probably not poisonous but not edible either.
>>764927
Show us the stems and the underside. Could be a Russula pascua.
Alternatively, might be Blotched Woodwax (Hygrophorus erubescens).
>On a hike to a new river I planned on fishing (canada)
>Turns out to be a gorgeous trout haven biggies jumping errywhere
>As I walk to a spot I notice a visible dark cloud blackflies right behind me in hot pursuit
>Fuck, forgot about these niggers
>Experienced the best fly fishing of my life for barely 45 minutes
>Literally almost entirely covered in these flies and they were starting to...
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>>764913
bug spray...?
>>764913
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I swear those things home in on boats and fishermen in particular because they know you can't escape in short order.
Bug spray, long sleeves and a mesh hood, try some of those clip on insect repellent things. No idea if permethrin works but it's good practice to have an outer layer with that shit on it for the sake of ticks anyway, don't use it if you have cats.
Really though, there's no 100% avoiding it, but on the upside biting flies in NA don't tend to carry or transmit diseases to humans unlike mosquitoes and gnats. If it's just black and sand flies be grateful that the horse and stable flies have other targets in mind.
Just get a bug jacket. They'really cheap and work great.
About a week ago I was /out/ fishing in some woods and on my way home I grabbed a maple sapling for him cause he asked for one
Now I don't know what kind of maple I got and neither of us are botanists
So what kind of maple is it? Its about a foot tall so I can't really see the bark
>>764845
Him being my father, I am a bit out of it sorry
>>764847
What region are you? Looks like possibly rock maple
>>764850
North east ohio near akron
So for a few weeks now there's been a snake roaming around my dad's store. A couple of employees and customers have seen it but have not been able to take a picture of it and identify it.
Here's a picture of its skin that it shed yesterday. Can someone identify it based on its shed skin? Is it venomous?
Also this is in College Station, Texas
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Rat snake m8
Had one for years
>>764851
Probably this, the pattern on the back is fairly visible. Maybe a corn snake.
Not venomous, not dangerous. Eats rodents. Total snake-bro.
/out/ smells you love
>mygga
this stuff is the best smell
i am honestly considering wearing it as deodorant
fucking love that the smell stays with you for like three days so you can keep remembering the good times
Alfie :3
>>764643
thats gay, but gay in a good way
>>764638
>i am honestly considering wearing it as deodorant
Don't, people can smell your autism already
Did you go /out/ today?
It was unusually nice so I went hiking for a few hours.
Another one from today
Cut across country 6-8 miles as the crow flies into town, found what I'm fairly sure was an illegal mine and is now an illegal dump site by the looks of some of the biohazard looking barrels.
A lot of city folk moving into some of the quainter parts around here lately, they're all severely suspicious, private and standoffish, I think due to the stories of thievery and shenanigans my area is associated with plus just the general city mindset, it saddens me to see such misgiving about a lone man in the fields, and such a lack of community mindedness, fucking city...
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Questions that don't deserve their own thread
>>764402
I'll start. So I'm looking for a cheap sleeping mat and have found a couple. One's a folding egg carton design, and the other is self inflating.
Which one is better? Is the folding one going to be complete shit or would it be ok?
self inflating:
http://au.sportsdirect.com/gelert-camper-deluxe-sleeping-mat-782035?colcode=78203518
folding:
http://au.sportsdirect.com/karrimor-folding-sleep-mat-782058?colcode=78205816
>>764405
It would depend on the type of terrain you camp most of the time. Inflating pads get a bad reputation because people are not carefull. I have had the same chinese brandless one for 10+ years and never had an issue with it, and I camp over rocks in mountain terrain most of the time.
That being said, I know that when it gets a puncture it will be while I camp, probably during the night and it will be a pain in the ass to fix that thing, so I am looking for something like the folding one you posted. Besides the fact...
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Anybody know the laws of their country regarding camping and the laws around camping activities?(gathering firewood, bushcraft,..)
I know for Belgium that you can't go wild camping and have to go to a designated camping place full of dutch hicks. Also if you want to hunt or fish you'll need a season permit.
I'm wondering what the laws are in neighbouring countries, especially France and Germany with their big forests.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley_Marathons
This is one bitch of a race
Pussies
>>764106
>Potential entrants must complete an essay on "Why I Should be Allowed to Run in the Barkley", pay a $1.60 entry fee, and complete other requirements subject to change. If accepted, an entrant receives a "letter of condolence"
>The Barkley starts any time from 11 p.m. to 11 a.m. on race day, with one hour till race start signaled by blowing a conch. The race officially begins when a cigarette is lit by the race director
I'm...
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>>764135
Pussy
Hey /out/. So a while back I was watching a bush craft video claiming that a certain plant could be found that when put in water kills fish and causes their bodies to float up. It's been a while and am not sure which video it was, (nor did I find it with a google search.)(Though I think it was an alfie aesthetics video). So I was wondering if anyone of you knew what the plant is. Thanks for the help
(Pic unrelated)
Ur mum
>>763817
Had a bad crap?
this is something i was interested in as well, and ive seen that many different peoples from different parts of the world used different plants to the same effect. so i think its the properties of the plant that are important.
there is yucca, and some rainforest root. the commonality is the liquid from both create this dense, foggy, sudsy substance. so the effect might not be so much that there is a poison in the plant, but the properties displace properties of the water that make it uninhabitable for fish. perhaps making respiration impossible. i think if you follow that line of reasoning, youll find the properties necessary to fish with whatever is available that shares said properties
Why aren't there any low cost am recievers that run on batteries?
>>763224
they stoped making them because muh hifi
>>763224
Do you have a Dollar General or Family Dollar nearby? They sale one for like $10 that runs on AA batteries. The DG and FD stores are a bastion for old technology. The one near my house still has VHS tapes for sale. I bought a casette adapter there the other day for like $2.
>>763224
There's a lot of them you can get at aliexpress for 10 bucks
Any know way to get dogs off your trail.
>>762748
pepper spray is best kills their nose for an hour at least
i usually try not stealing from white people
>>762748
lay out a pile of wet food soak in pic related
but i'm not sure they had anti-freeze back in slave times anon
FUCKING BLOOD BLISTERS
>>762706
Use liners faggot
>>762706
Git tuff
My feet are about the same from 10hrs in steel toes 5 days a week.
>>762734
those are blsiters, not blood blisters
pic related is a blood blister
