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/mu/ here. What do you play when you're innawoods?
The skin flute
spoons
i can't really play properly and people hate it, so it's lots of fun. i don't bring my acouie /out/, too big and too expensive. i also have an egg shaker i should bring, and maybe pick-up some cheep bongos so we can have a real pow-wow round the fire.
Doing some hunting is this mushroom safe
If you get sick and die after taking advice on mushrooms from this board you almost deserve it.
Thats an Armillaria mellea, they are edible, but may cause an upset stomach if found growing on hemlock, buckeye, eucalyptus, and locust trees
>>621730
It's totally safe bro. Not going to kill you or anything.
Hey I'm new to this whole /out/ thing and I'm noticing there's a lot of bearded men on here LOL...curious: any other women on /out/ if so what's your fave /out/door activity? Mine is channel cat fishing.
>>621405
Nice brickettes you have there!
What is your race, mixed? A bit undeterminable from thqat pic.
>>621405
tbh grills don't usually go out. can you post more photos?
>can't tell what brand it is
General Dive Thread
There seem to be lots of hiking/hunting threads
so I just wanted to know if there's much of a scuba crowd on /out/?
Post about your most resent dives, favorite dives, anything goes! Also feel free to say where you're based - the chance to meet new potential dive buddies is always welcome!
Pic related is Pompano Reef, site of my most recent dive where I got to watch some lobstering and saw a really cool stoplight parrotfish - no sharks tho :/.
Lastly I'm based in sw FL and I'm totally free for doing any...
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>>620642
I'm certified but haven't been in a few years. I live 2 hours from the Texas coast but the water is too cloudy to make it worth while. The last time I tried to go off Palm Beach I was sick and couldn't equalize. Sucked that I had to sit on the boat as others dived
>>620642
Is spear fishing (with a spear gun) considered unsportsmanlike if you're using scuba gear? Is free-diving the only 'real' way to do it? I'd like to get into it and am PADI cert but I can't hold my breath for more than 30 seconds. I know that you can work dynamic apnea skills but combining scuba with hunting seems fun
Any thoughts on Lloyd Godson's new underwater habitat project?
You are out in your cabin in the middle of a snowstorm and a stranger approaches your window, it is very cold outside and you do not know him. He sees you have a fireplace and has no where else to go
what do you do /out/
We have about 6 forest service cabins in my area and this happens all the time. You have to pay money to reserve them and people just think they can show up, "oh... I didn't know you had to reserve these. You're not going to make us walk back 5 miles through the forest at night are you? There's plenty of room for us" Or they are already inside the cabin and you show up and have to kick them out.
I don't let them in and kick them out when they are there unless they were near death.
Walk up to the window, turn 360 walk away.
Let them stay in a few minutes to dry / warm up. Get some food in them, and send them off.
Even the most normal looking people can be psycho's. You just cant tell.
Who was the better MGTOW?
>>617631
pic related
A challenger is appear !
How has /out/ changed your life?
Me? I have three new hobbies:
>Cairn kicking.
>Dumping bags of pennies in places where metal detectorfags ply their craft.
>Pooping in geocaches.
It has honestly reinvigorated my desire to get out innawoods.
Thanks guys! I actually mean it.
>>615137
Thanks for the tip on pennies I hadn't seen that one.
Got one for you I picked up in the scary stories thead: climb up on high ground above someone camping and hurl stones down on them.
Bet it'd be a lotta fun.
I've become a gearfag with shallow personal relationships.
> itt maladjusted, asocial, weeboo, hipster faggots
On the bright side, op will never find his first cache.
no multi-tool thread?
let's have a multi-tool thread!
i just went to fondle a bunch of them most of them were leatherman and a victorinox swisstool.
all the leathermans were fairly easy to handle but had a flimsy and cheap feeling compared to the swiss tool. the swiss tool on the other hand was fuck unergonomic. it hat great quality tools that you can't possibly open unless you have a thick long strong nail. wtf? why does victorinox do that?
i can't buy this shit, is there a manufacturer that got it all right?
leathermans are best. ive never held one that wasnt a sturdy tool. ive never used a swiss multi-tool but they always seem to just have way to many tools on them, id never use half of them
i have a leatherman surge and i think im gonna be getting a charge soon, we'll see tho
>>613225
tool density is the same tbh it's just the swiss tools blades and awls and everything is stronger more durable better at doing shit.
but you need a tool to deploy the tools which is insane.
leathermans are not nearly as tough and robust and good quality, they have gimmicky features too, buut they are easy to operate even one handed on certain tools.
many supertools rebars and surges have been bent using the plier the frame can't take what the plier head can take the skeletool is the other...
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>>613189
I got a beat up Leatherman Blast for $20 at a yard sale. Did I did good?
Is it completely retarded/impossible to try to live in a parked RV full time in Alaska? I just got here about a month ago. In the specific town I'm moving to, your only options are fancy and super expensive vacation rentals, and I don't want or need anything that big or nice. I actually love the idea of living in such a confined space. Granted that I could find a spot with hookups, what all would need to be done? I really don't know what I'm doing at all.
What town do you live in? I live in Fairbanks, it'd be hard to live in an RV with such harsh winters but if you're a bit more south then it should be doable. People live in much worse, trailers are fine
>>626692
>keep a shitload of blankets inside
>cover windows with something(Curtains, blankets)
>supplemental heating that won't catch you on fire (tough one)
>cover outside maybe
>hang blankets on walls i guess
>winterize the fuck outta everything
tl;dr cover fucking everything and youurself in blankets to make...
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>>626693
I want to move to some place far north eventually and I'm thinking either Barrow, somewhere in Yukon, somewhere in Nunavut, or north Greenland.
Do you have any experience with the farther north areas like Prudhoe Bay or Barrow? I had to cut a lot of meat out of my diet for health reasons and I'm wondering how hard it is to get vegetarian food up there. I heard that Barrow is extremely expensive but that they also pay much higher wages up there to make up for it, so I'm curious as to whether it evens...
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Does anyone know the extent of campfire laws in the UK
If I was to make a campfire on public land i.e any public forests, controlled and out of the way.
Would I expect to find much trouble, and if I was confronted by anyone, could I justify the fire by saying it was legal?
>>626296
Are you even allowed to carry matches in the UK?
>>626297
Yes but you have to have them attached to a special match holder on the outside of your coat. And of course you have to get a license to carry
>>626300
Since it's bongistan, I can't even tell if this is a joke
Want some improvements, show me what you've got so far, emphasis on cheap and easy. Also best well rounded nutrition with minimum weight foodstuffs.
Shitty loaf pan pot
Assorted spices
Bags of tea/sugar teabags in with tea
Little jar of salt
Spoon
Tinfoil
Cup
Empty peanut butter jar for little stuff to go into. It fits in the loafpan well
Flask
Popbottle full of rice n lentils
Talk to me about the rice and lentils anon.
What is the highest elevation you have cooked that concoction?
>>625149
Have not cooked it before, but next ime im out with my buddies n not to trashed i probably will n see how it works. Would altitide have a large impact on how it would cook?
Anyone here use the Enzo trapper as a general use outdoors knife?
wanting something more than my trusty mora.
looks like a cool knife, but i'm wary of any fixed blade w/o a finger guard
2cents
>>625080
it has a very slight one. my current edc (enzo pk70, no locking blades in UK sadly) has almost no finger guard and i never have a problem with it.
>>625078
I've had the D2 flavour for about 3 years now.
Don't be put off by >>625080 and his fear of finger guardless knives. The trapper has a nicely contoured handle, and despite the smooth looking micatra it fits your hand like a glove with a solid, sure grip.
if youre upping from a Mora, the biggest difference you'll notice (or at least I did) is the thickness, and in turn the weight.
it's a good knife if youre on a weekend long camp...
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any birders on /out/?
Seen any good stuff recently?
Took a walk yesterday and saw a bird sitting on a power line. It took a shit and I saw it fall to the ground. Surprisingly in all my years I had never seen a bird take a shit. I've seen the shit, I've seen the birds, never seen them combined.
It was interesting. My dog didn't care.
>>621565
really? i have been shit on by multiple birds.
i live on the texas gulf coast and every winter we get tons of birders. i don't really care about it but i know alot of people do. i have been within about 50 yards of a whooping crane though, that was sort of cool. that bird was as tall as me. and supposedly there are only like 300 in existence anymore.
Indeed, I saw grey-headed and black woodpeckers last weekend. Also common crossbills arrived to my country, so I saw them as well.
Daily reminder that even our king says that there is not a knife made that can perform as well as a hatchet while /out/.
http://youtu.be/T97j9bPiKWg
Daily reminder that even our king says that there is not an orange made that can perform as well as an apple while baking apple pie.
>>612174
In what way is he our king and a wedge shaped bit of wood can do the job of knives and hatchets.
>>612176
> Doesn't recognize our king
Welcome newfriend
Hey guys, didn't know where else to post this. Was out inna woods earlier near my house with a friend and we found these mushrooms. Neither of us have seen this kind before and I can't seem to find any information on the internet about identifying them.
Anyone perhaps know the name of these things? Also gonna dump pics I took of them (theres 5)
If it helps they were growing on an live oak tree knot.
