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How can i get these magpies out of my house?
http://icwdm.org/handbook/birds/Magpies.asp
>>712531
Thats actually a really handy guide! Although i think frightening them would be a bad idea, i dont want them to start swooping aswell
>>712523
Ratshot in a .22
Has anyone connected with their inner self, either through nature, through meditation, through lucid dream, or through euphoric experiences. What are they like, do you discover who you are?
Have you discovered*
>>712435
The 'inner self' is bullshit. It's just consciousness, ego and perception. All this stuff has a mystic cultural hippy filter over the top of it which makes it seem like crap. Makes me cringe how pretentious it is sometimes because the core is very important. Just take the time to sit in silence for a while and understand who you are and what your place is in this existence. Spirituality is not about shrooms and peyote and dancing around at festivals. Obfuscating your senses and fucking with your perception is the exact opposite of discovering who you are. Not...
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how do you guys keep your DSLR charged while out for like a month?
I presume solar panels, but in that case what product/brand?
>>711468
Bumping for interest
>>711468
Batteries
Surce: lolpro photographer
Oh yead, and dont buy a mirrorless, its a meme camera
I bring my EOS 6D with lenses everywhere I go. I take 3 batteries, it's enough for 1 months as long as you don't film or use the screen too much. Also, there's no pop up flash on it so it saves battery.
Mirrorless camera can be awesome (Sony a7 for exemple) but the battery is really (really) shitty compared to DSLR
Tfw just went out in my yard and on the other side of the creek in the neighbors backyard heard something big break a branch. Then I went towards it and it made three heavy exhalations that sounded almost like a horse snorting. I tried to repeat them but my lungs were clearly much smaller than its. Then it ran a bit further away and made two of the same noise and I again repeated, then tried to make Indian noises to elicit a response. Then nothing happened so I figured I should try to approach it, but I thought it might be a lion escaped and got paranoid so I backed off. What...
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>>710960
you forgot moose
A wild boar
why is canada's wonderland the best amusement park ?
>>710183
>>710183
Apparently someone has never been to Santa's village.
Do you ever get high or drunk when you're /out/?
Mainly thinking of hallucinogenics but alcohol and weed experiences are equally welcome. I've been considering to try acid next time I go hiking, anyone recommend for/against it?
I always bring a bottle of vodka with me (not just for drinking)
I end up drinking a good portion of it before bed :P
I always take my trusty hammock and some weed when I go out for day hikes some times if its cold ill take a flask of some thing
>>707509
Yes, mushrooms usually. They create the feel that is, for me, the best fit for a natural setting. LSD is a close second.
I am curious, does anyone here have bad health that hinders you from trekking through hilly mountain paths at a consistent pace? Not out of shape, like bad heart, lungs, back, butt, bent dick or anything that would really fuck your shit straight up.
How is taking everything /SLOW/?
>>715244
After thirteen years of smoking a pack or two of cigarettes every day and only being active when actually out, my heart is about ready to pop. I probably won't see it coming.
The wife has had bradycardia and syncope from low bp since we started dating. She had a pacemaker placed almost a year ago. It cut the frequency of her pass out spells in half, so hopefully we can do more backpacking. So all we do is rent campsites at a local lake 2-3 times each month during the summer. We both love camping. It is just we cannot be too remote. It is a less used area so we rarely see other campers. Otherwise she's in great health. We just can't be out in the middle of nowhere and have her hit the ground.
I smoke too, so..... sucks
Winterfag here
We don't get much snow in my part of Kansas, but when we do I'm in that shit.
>Nice cold air
>Even colder, comfier nights crammed by fire and sleeping bag
>Water source everywhere
>Pure uninterrupted blankets of white
What do you guys like about hiking/camping in your favorite season?
>>714288
Winterfag reporting in
It's real nice here in Massachusetts/New Hampshire
Literally no better camping/hiking season
>challenging
>forests look wicked nice
>cozy when camping
And no ticks/mosquitoes
Australian bush in summer
>swimming all day every day
>sleep under the stars without freezing
>lots of rabbits to eat
>>714298
No ticks/mosquitoes are a HUGE plus.
Has anyone caught a striper when the ocean is 40 degrees? Its March now and I NEED to be at the ocean BAD
>mfw at first i thought you said sniper
whew, i almo
>>714158
>mfw you think that, with a striper as image
just go to it who cares if the fish is there
Weigh in on this /out/, i wanna do a 56 mi trail by myself. My only previous experience is doing a few overnight hikes to a couple mountains and doing the summits. I do this all by myself cus,i got no one to go with. Considering i feel comfortable cranking out 10 miles a day, do you think i can push it, safely, to 4 days for the whole trail? Am i just being pussy for second,guessing myself? I have all the necessary gear but idk
>>713639
you're being a pussy. just do it. don't break an ankle.
If it's only 56 miles AND one of your first long distance hikes, then you shouldn't be pushing yourself. Don't set a day goal, give yourself a solid 6 days just for comfort and go easy in the beginning. Any beginner can easily go 56 miles in 6 days given a minimal amount of physical preperation. Enjoy yourself! No need to rush or put unnecessary pressure!
I think you can do it. If you've already done overnight hikes, you already know that hiking with a heavy pack is not at all the same thing as hiking unencumbered.
But 14 miles a day with a pack is very do-able, as long as you don't pack like a retard. Make sure you keep it as light as possible, and pack more food than you think you need (like if you think you need 4 days food, bring 6), but make it light food.
Water is the other consideration. Does the route have plenty of water sources you can draw from? Check the maps ahead of time. If there's...
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People who live in areas which aren't /out/: do you ever just load up your pack and hike into a local forest preserve then start cooking some freeze dried meal on your backpacking stove?
I'm starting to go a bit crazy here in the midwest and need SOMETHING to give me an /out/ fix.
Pic unrelated, it's where I'd go on casual saturday afternoon hikes before I moved here.
No, I have to drive to my /out/ locations. Since I live in a small euro city with no /out/doors culture, if I did what you're saying people would start thinking I'm a weirdo if I did that alone. If I was doing that with a bunch of friends, which I've done before, it's just a picknick.
Sucks having to drive a few hundreads km to enjoy nature. Gladly I have a beach couple km away tho.
>>713019
What country is this?
>>713015
I live within walking distance (four miles) of a preserve with a six mile trail, so a lot of times I'll grab some torts, summer sausage and cheese sticks and go walk most or all of it. It's not exactly my favorite place, since I can't have a camp, fire, fish or even pick berries, and I'm pretty sure I'm not even supposed to drink the water, but fuck them on that; there's no way I'm doing a 20 mile without refilling my water.
It's also a western US pine forest that got major...
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Moving next to a national forest this summer. I've only limited out experience. What do?
Image related
>>713003
>Going to go live in the woods alone and with no real-world experience.
>What will I do?
Die, probably.
But it's beautiful there, so I may come watch you die. It'll be fun. For me.
Die or get molested by the Rainbow Family. Either way, better to stay indoors.
>>713041
Who said I'm living in the woods? I'm living in a house in the same county. That's why i used the phrase "next to."
Anyone have a Wetterlings Les Stroud axe?
It seems like a good choice for general camp use. Mid-sized so packable, but still big enough to split wood without a lot of effort. Has a hammer poll.
No. We buy plastic Fiskars axes
I wanna buy a wetterlings but no one sells them here in Canada other than some fishy ass canoe companies online store. also julia kalthoff is still the queen of /out/
>>712579
She looks like she's visiting her retarded brother in a mental institution.
Going out to the American West over Spring Break for the first time to hike in Colorado and Oregon;
What can I expect the trails to be like?
Also does anyone with personal experience have some good trails for reference?
All I am going on so far is google references.
Have hiked the Appalachian before;
No worries about difficulty.
Also, General Trail and hiking thread.
Colorado mountains will be full of snow, except the very front of the front range, like Boulder. Some passes will still be under like 20ft of snow in the high country. Snowshoes would be helpful haha.
>>710556
Get some yaktrax or anything in those lines. If you find yourself going down on a steep path covered with mud because of the melting snow, it will really help, specially if you are carrying a big backpack.
Keep at hand cheap construction leather gloves and use them when fixing camp. Nothing worst than ruining your hands because of wet and muddy rocks and wood.
>>710556
Oregon here. You will need to purchase a recreation pass/license if you wish to use our trails. Not even joking.
Does anyone here make their own mosquito/bug repellent? I'm allergic to DEET and most commercial bug sprays. I tried using pure citronella oil but that didn't work out too good on our last fishing trip. I'm such a fag but I need help. Please tell me what non commercial repellents work for you. I'll almost try anything at this point.
I do have some "bug off" clothing that works pretty good but it's expensive and parts of my skin that aren't covered just get bitten like crazy.
AVON Skin so soft is a body cream in UK, but also used by UK army as insect repellent. Does not contain DEET or any other repellent, just works cuz perfume reasons
https://www.avon.uk.com/product/354-1203/skin-so-soft/skin-so-soft-fast-hydration-dry-oil-spray
Results: A total of 74 events occurred. The event distribution was as follows: placebo—40 events; special mixture—28 events; Avon Skin So Soft—6 events; DEET—0 events.
Conclusions: When tested against a placebo, both DEET (P<.0001, NNT=1) and Avon Skin So Soft (P =.0001, NNT=1) were found to provide significantly better protection, while the special mixture did not (P =.30). When tested against the special mixture, both DEET (P<.0001, NNT=1) and Avon...
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