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Well I did it and it feels damn good desu
Moving my family from the city and headed for a small town in the mountains
Oldest son is 5 and it's now or never with setting roots and making friends
Who else here done it
well i hope you' ve set out on this uprooting journey for the better of your family. i hope the best for your son and family. good luck
>>627130
I live in Leadville.
Have done for the last 30 years.
prepare your anus for 9 straight months of winter.
>>627130
so you quit your job and shit and are gonna work at the gen'ral store or blacksmithin' or something? also the friends your kids will have in a small mountain town will be the kind that kiss their brothers, get pregnant at 13 (sometimes from a family member, sometimes not), start smoking at 11, try H and/or meth by 16, and eventually will OD, start a meth lab and go to prison, or move the fuck out of there by 20.
godspeed to them.
Is there anything better than being /out/ with a happy, dopey dog?
Sure. You could be the lucky guy who pumps some lead in your aggressive offleash mutt
I pepperspray all barking dogs on the trail, on the leash or not.
If the owners bitch about it, I spray them too!
What's /out/'s preferred innawoods vehicle? Looking to drop <3k
>>626571
Depends what you do, I mostly hunt and fish and haul things, so I use a truck.
>>626571
Mountain bike. I don't know about you guys, but I wouldn't be able to carry a truck on my back up the side of a cliff.
>>626597
Just for some quick overnight stuff, nothing lengthy. Was considering a suzuki samurai (hence the pic)
Are pork rinds good survival food?
Light weight, high calories, solid fat content, delicious. Sodium content is a little high, but you need a little sodium when you're sweating a lot. Shouldn't a bag of pork rinds be an auto-include for all my /out/ expeditions?
Also other auto-include /out/ foods. Bonus for no-prep.
>>626017
I think that's the wrong kind of fat. some types your body can't use, and it's just excreted in fecal matter and through your pores, usually clogging both. Plus, its a high volume, so depending on fat content, it may be okay for car camping, but definitely not for hiking.
My go-to is MRE peanut butter. 250 calories, well balanced between protein carbs and fat, made partially with soy so it has a full amino acid profile, tastes like real food, makes excellent squirrel bait.
>>626023
>peanut butter
>made partially with soy
What the fuck kind of peanut butter are you eating?
>>626017
It takes up a lot of room for not much food content.
Anyone in here that likes to dirt bike? I'm looking for someone to price my nephew's dirtbike. The model is a 2007 Kawasaki 110cc. Pic related.
>>625874
Get your bitch ass to /o/ you cock sucker
>>625874
2500 dollarydoos senpaii
>>625874
>Anyone in here that likes to dirt bike?
A little. Rather be on the snow, but in the summer I'll take the two-wheeled option.
Didn't ride nearly as much this summer as I wanted to... lots of other projects going on. Hopefully next year I'll have a little more weekend time to twist a throttle.
This spring it'll be time for a cylinder replate, new piston... probably put in a new rod bearing and have the crank rebuilt... go through everything. It's got...
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While walking in the wooded patch behind my house, I found a weird metal pipe. It had a weird end-cap and I looked at it for a while. There were weird circles incorporated into it and when i shook the pipe i heard rattling. The pipe kinda looked like a pipe-bomb, but when i pried off the end cap with the crow-bill of a hammer i found that the weird end cap was a bunch of silver pennies melted together! What Have I Got Here, 4Chan?
Some kid's hidden stash. A stupid counterfeiter's hidden stash. Something you probably shouldn't have messed with if you thought it was a pipe bomb. Etc, etc....
>>625739
Possible Shrapnel?
probably some dumbass kid in the 70s tried to smelt the pennies for their sweet silver or some dumbass kid thing like that.
once i lit a fire and threw the end of an extension cord into it thinking that it would power the extension cord so I could plug lights into the other end. kids do dumbass shit all the time, there's almost no way to guess what dumbass shit thing was going on through their heads.
anyway, cool find. finish what they started and smelt that silver anon.
I'm a little unequipped for going /out/side, I have the very very basics
I.e firestarter, water tabs, fishing line etc etc
Just very basic stuff
I want to get some proper gear but a little unsure what is necessary and what isn't.
Any help is appreciated.
(UK so no guns)
Feel like I should be a little more specific, it is gear which could let me go into the wild for at least a few days, ish.
>>625562
What kind of /out/ activities will you be doing? Hiking long distances will require different gear than say car camping.
Your question is pretty vague. Give us some details so we can help.
It all depends on what you're doing outside. Hiking, camping, hunting? What kind of activities do you want to do?
If you're hiking, invest in good hiking shoes/boots.
Camping? Look into hammocks and tarps, or lightweight tents. Yukon hammocks on sale at woot today.
Some items that /out/ likes:
Morakniv Companion Knife
Stanley Cook pot
$10 amazon stove (Etekcity brand)
Merrell Moab boots
Hello /out/, I need advice for preparing what will likely be a solo Winter Appalachian Trail hike in mid-December, which should last between five to seven days. I've done solo AT hikes before but never in the dead of winter, and since the temperatures at that time of year can get to the single-digits (if not lower if there's a wind chill), I need advice on what I should prepare myself for, via both items that I need to bring (clothing, socks, etc) and miscellaneous tips. I've already sown up loose ends on my 20°F bag and I've added with it a liner that brings...
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Pic related, my new boots. Also I forgot to add that I live in Atlanta, and would preferably start anywhere that is within a three hour drive from here; I am not sure if I would be doing an out-and-back, or if it would be feasible to just go north and pay for a shuttle ride back south to where I would start. What would be the better option?
Which part of the AT? I used to do stretches in CT and MA during the winter months. You might have a few cold nights with a 20°F bag even with the liner. Depending where you are, snowshoes might be a good idea. Make sure you have a nice long sleeping pad that will insulate you from the cold ground. Stay warm and pack some powdered apple cider!
>>625571
Preferably somewhere around Mt. Pisgah by Asheville, so not particularly far north; I've usually gone to Standing Indian for training, but I intend to see more of the trail that I haven't trekked before
So my friend was out hunting a bear yesterday, took a few shots with his 30-06. He says he got off at least one good shot at it. Anyway, he tracked it for a while before the trail disappeared, and then searched blindly for a while. He didnt find it, but as it got dark he heard a death moan.
I helped him look for it for a while today, but to no avail. Again, as it got dark, we heard the noise again coming from where my friend said he heard it last night.
My question is whether is possible a bear could give death moans for over 24 hours. And do you think it is...
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Congrats, your nigger of a friend winged a bear. He'll either bleed to death or starve too death, I wouldn't worry about it to much.
Tell that bitch to try harder next time
>>624676
Tell that bitch to learn to shoot!
Not take the shot, if he can't make the shot!
>>624676
>bleed to death
>clearly doesnt understand how bears work
Wildlife Stories General 1/2
Ran into some wolves yesterday, how much danger was I in?
Greentexting because it's probably the most convenient format to read, I dunno.
>So I live in a national park where there are a number of deer, elk, coyotes, bears and wolves. The deer and elk come directly into the town quite frequently (especially the deer, which are practically tame) but I had never seen a wolf or bear since moving here.
>Anyway yesterday I was walking on a trail about ten kilometres away...
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>>624605
2/2
>Since I was walking uphill, and faster than the wolf I was out of sight pretty quickly when I turned and walked rapidly for a minute or so before I entered the woods to get around the wolves
>I ended up in a marsh and circled around back to the trail and never saw them again
So was an attack likely at all? I know non rapid wolves rarely attack humans but they also rarely approach humans as well I believe and since I live in a national...
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>>624606
*rabid*
And I should add that the wolves didn't display much in the way of aggression that I know of, there was no growling, for example. Pretty cool experience all in all, they were sort of qt.
I really need a new recording. But anyway, was camping with a couple friends and we were up really late (and rather buzzed), so to keep our spirits up my friend told a joke.
I usually bring one of my recording rigs and record several hours hoping something cool happens. And the rest, is history...
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Alright so here in this thread we can talk about what skills weve learned what techniques we think are the best etc aka woodland knowledge, feel free to post videos or infographics if they happen to apply
Example: best way to make a shelter
This should be based on personal experience and can be a little thing that makes shit easier or a bigger skill that took practice to master
I will start with just a simple trick I've learned which is bring 91% isopropyl alcohol for quick wash downs after exposure to bad shit such as poison oak or poison ivy, I used...
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>>624020
Oops upside down!
Another oregon pic hopefully not upside down
>>624020
perhaps silly, but using snacks as kindling works well.
I was recently in Big Bend NP. No open fires allowed; only charcoal grills (absurd rule) and being desert there is no kindling to collect even if i wanted to. I had cheapo charcoal but no starter fluid. I used a handful of Doritos to get the coals started and had a lovely dinner of canned corned beef hash.
There is enough oil in fried snacks (doritos, fritos, cheetos....) that they burn like a candle
Hey /out/. Does anyone here have the ultimate goal it be totally self sustainable off the grid? I have a pretty good life in society but I'm really getting sick of it. I think I'm going to start saving up my money for it.
Completely independent subsistence farming is actually really, really hard to achieve. Especially for a single person or a small family/group.
>>623852
How small are we talking? What about a group of say 8 people?
For an individual. I believe its be a lot of work, but totally possible. I would think that coming I to town to trade or buy supplies like anyone did for thousands of years.
That idea isn't unsavory. People need things that they can't make themselves. Unless you plan on having one person who specializes in a trade living with you.... Who might want to have their own house.... Who might live next to you... Oh wait, this is starting to sound less off the grid and More like A TOWN
