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So whenever I've gone camping I've always had a good bag. I was recently looking at cheap sleeping bags rated only in the low 40F range and a thought popped into my head. So long as you are aren't hitting sub 30F is there anything stupendously horrible about using a bag that's not rated as well and sleeping in warmer clothing? Will this be able to keep the temperature up or is it pretty much just useless?
>>813375
Putting you're dirty ass clothes in the bag. Although I never really cared. I used my military bag system every single day for a year twice and washed them every other month.
You need a two bag system. And use them together when it gets cold.
>>813379
Is the need to layer or the bag or will the layer around yourself provide enough warmth if wearing the proper clothes.
>>813386
If you add clothes it can add a little warmth. Yea I used to use my basic bag down to the 40s in my acus. But we had 30 guys to snuggle up with if necessary. I would be careful if going out alone with a basic bag yhat will barely get you by.
But once you get down what is comfortable with each bag then you only need to bring both in winter. Buy 2 bags or a set. Being able to use different bags is great.
Hi, I need a hard case for an iPhone 6S that can be taken off and put back on a lot. The otter box I have now seems to have broken because I removed it too often
Suggestions?
>>813026
>>> .... literally any other board but this one
>>813030
It's for hiking and /g/ is a fucking cesspool
I am going to be building a square foot garden over the fall winter season in my back yard. I used to have two huge beds back at the old house. (lived on a acre in WV, Now I am in a town house in zone 7). I figure if I want to grow anything worthwhile square foot and going vertical are my only options.
So far I am building 4-6 beds each with 6 squares in them.
Would anyone have suggestions for sellers of seeds. (heirloom or organic) Or what verity of veggies you have had a great experience with. I am ready to try more than yellow squash, zucchini, spinach, peas, and tomatoes.
Also post pictures of your garden guys!
>>812988
You can find seeds online easy. But if you want to find something in your area that will for sure survive contact your local Master Gardener or ask around at a farmers market if you have one. Someone might be willing to sell you some seeds. BTW, Potatoes grow great in vertical drums. If done well a 50 lb drum can produce 40 lbs of potatoes.
>>812988
see
>>812151
and learn to use: >>>/out/catalog
>>813229
You do realize this was to start a general discussion on the subject of square foot gardening? I see post everyday about hiking and fishing that are repetitive. This subject after a search did not come up.
>>813097
I have tried local farmers and growers I know sadly most are very tight lipped around here. I was just hoping for suggestions of new variety to try as the options are endless. Potatoes are what I will be planting this weekend actually. Last year I got about 95lbs out of 4' of space.
Anyone heard of n95 steel? Is it any good? Just got a boker arbolito esculta, micarta handle. Is boker any good too?
>just got [thing], is it any good?
Why don't you ask if it's good before you buy it you dumb sack of shit
Upper-mid tier stainless, perfectly good if the heat treatment is done properly and it's a well made knife.
boker tree brand makes a good knife.
I own a Boker EDC boot knife that while it is too heavy, is a durable, good knife
Pokemon GO is forcing me to go outside and experience actual human contact
Tips for surviving in a world without AC and with large scary people?
>>812667
carry a knife
use the pointy end.
>>812667
Maybe try to actually put the phone down & experience the outdoors with virtual mediation? I dunno, it's really up to you. Just watch out for buses & coyotes, they'll fuck ya up real good of you don't watch where you're going.
>>812667
You need a gun. A big one. Remember that these people are out there...
Time for a bit of a story, I was bushwalking with a friend near the Glasshouse Mountains. We are both pretty inexperienced, so we stuck to the tracks and whatnot. I'm in front, chatting and walking, having a lovely time when i see a snake about a foot in front of me. Having grown up in Brisbane, I immediately knew it was an Eastern Brown.
>shitfuckshitniggabackthefuckup
i backed up slowly and it slithered off the track. Still scared the shit out of me. it looked like it was about 2 feet long and a darkish brown colour. I am pretty sure it was an Eastern Brown but are there any lookalike snakes that It may have been, and how do you avoid snakes while /out/? not my photo, but the snake looked identical.
>>812588
Do you live in the area? I'm in Mapleton.
I'd probably do the same as you desu. Snakes just aren't worth fucking with.
Fucking weird, i was at the glasshouse mountains too today
Hiked up Mt Ngungun, was great
> that thick as fuck fog though
>>812588
Im Brisbane boy and have a lot of experience with local wildlife through my adventures in the bush.
Firstly yeah it was likely a brown snake but could have been a coastal taipan which look kinda similar but with a more pronounced brow. One good one to identify browns because their colour varies is to see if they have orange splotches on their belly (obviously this isnt often easily accessible unless you catch it first)
To be honest as a lover and owner of reptiles i feel like people really dont get snakes and get caught up in unreasonable fear. Whilst they are poisonous and browns are known to stay and fight on occasion instead of fleeing they really arnt a threat unless you do actually make contact with them ie stepping on them.
For example, last christmas holidays i was sitting in a little sand bend in a creek enjoying the peace when i started hearing rustling coming from around the bend of the creek. Sure enough a two meter brown comes round the bank. Im sitting cross legged and just thrilled to see it (currently with the impression it would just slide past at a 3 meter distance) but it ends up leaving the bank and goes onto the sand straight towards me. When it was half a meter away i decide i dont want to risk it getting closer and then suddenly realizing im alive and it panicking so i stood up. It just looked up at me and did a u-turn back up into the bank.
Snakes really arnt bad creatures, just dont tread on them and you will be fine. However just stopping loudly will scare them with the vibrations you create as that is one of their main ways of sensing threats.
I'm in New York for a week (around the Buffalo area) I've never been to New York before, but I was wondering if there's any /out/ stuff to do here
Bump. I wanna know more /out/ stuff to do in this state too
Lots in the Adirondacks, which is unfortunately 5 hrs from B-lo.There are probably some OK hiking places in the Western fingerlakes. Look into Letchworth. Not that familiar with that far West though otherwise.
>>812414
Letchworth is very beautiful but due to the tourism hardly /out/ at all. There's plenty of trails around the finger lakes but of course no mountain views like the ADK has.
I have a question /out/. I know very little when I comes to Iron Stoves. This guy I found wants 150$ for this puppy and I'm tempted to try and talk him down to around 100$ for it. Is it worth it?! Seems like a decent investment.
Pic directly related 1/4
Also General Cast Iron Thread, Post Your Iron!
2/4
3/4
Was big enough to fit a medium sized log and shut the door
4/4
I'm going to look up the company but it felt like quality. I'm going to clean it up a bit but I'd have to look into how to do that as I have no idea on the subject either. I've always kept my cast iron beautiful
What's the craziest hike or outdoor adventure y'all have ever done or been on?
This was me after crossing 4 or 5 snow fields at Boulder Pass in Glacier National Park. Proper hektik m8.
>>811679
One time I was in afghanistan for a year and hiked for miles each day wearing almost 100 pounds of gear going up and down mountains, through wadis and over walls.
>>811679
Glacier is great, but walking across snow fields isn't all that crazy. Was this meant to be tongue in cheek?
>>811695
The ones suspended across the side of the mountains take ages to cross and are sketchy if you are ill prepared and lack proper gear like crampons and poles or an axe like I was
Foraging thread. Found this beauty earlier today. I ate some, sold the rest to a local restaurant.
>>811461
I also collect elderflower and elderberries. I make liqueur from the flowers, the berries go into beer.
>>811483
How do you make the beer?
>>811589
All grain brewing in 5-6 gallon batches. Pic related is everything I used for my last elderberry brew.
So recently I've gotten interested in climbing trees. It seems like a really good skill to have when you go innawoods.
I would like to not have to use equipment to get to the top though. I have found a technique that I would like to try but I'm not sure it will work with trees much thicker than the ones in the video like older pine trees.
Does anyone have any experience? Can I just wrap rope around the tree to help compensate for the wider girth of the tree? Do I need anything special in terms of footwear or will my chuck taylors be fine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnaewHWR5mg
>>811084
Are you 7? Just go climb a fucking tree!
> hence the expression
Be careful climbing a tree.
You can fall and really hurt yourself.
>do I need anything special in terms of footwear
Did you watch the video you posted?
What can you do to avoid leeches?
Going on a trip soon. Last summer went to the same place and got some leeches on my legs. Obviously, stay out of slow moving water, but what else?
as far as keeping leeches off your body wholesale I'm not sure, but I do know that proper deployment of an anti-tick condom will keep leeches off your dick and out of your bladder.
>>810137
I like to pull them off of me and put them in a bucket full of water, sometimes I like to fill a bathtub and take a bath with them. It is a spiritual and sexual feeling to feel them suck and wriggle against me. It is there I see that all life is connected.
Ok its time for a new pack. My old pack is from the 80s and lost in my storage unit somewhere.
There is a retired outfitter in Santa Fe NM who sells gear for cheap out of his house but it is all at least ten or more years old and much of it 20 years old.
What improvements am I missing out on if I get one of his older used high end packs?
oh good, just what we need, a 527th active pack thread
look in the catalog you stupid useless fucking faggot
>inb4 umad?
goddamn right i'm mad
>>810062
This is about used packs and older tech.
how about the flextrek 27,000,000,000,000 WHIPSNAKE edition?
post your fav fishing photo you've taken
We's fishin buddies.
Got a few
hey bois
wanting to get into bowhunting for feral pigs down in Victoria, dos e anyone else bowhunt on /out/ ?
if so whats a good starter 40-50lb bow. i know not to get those shitty Chinese bows but all the forums suggest $500 + bows. i only want to sped up to $250.
thanks
>what is Google
Yeah, ausfag
I always recommend whatever the entry level hunting Samick recurve is at the time; I think it's SAGE nowadays (was Talon a little bit back)
50 pound is fine for a noob
I like Eastern Legacy aluminum shafts; you generally want to go heavy with shaft and broadhead against pigs; Cedar shafts work too
Practice a lot before taking to the field. Whatever range you can hit a paper party plate with certainty is your hunting range.
Sights.... If you want. I don't like 'em. I just shoot of the plastic tab rest.
Should be able to get a Sage for around $200
Some bowstring wax
A finger tab (don't really need a arm guard unless you're shooting like a target fag)
You didn't mention what bow type. I reckon a recurve is good enough, but you know.
>>809099
thanks man i was looking at just that bow. big help anon
