What are some of the best books to have for survival/homesteading/fishing/knots?
military survival manuals sometimes have useful information
this is a good list
http://animeright.news/toro/4-outdoorsman-survival-books-to-read-and-learn-about-the-altwild
The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency by Jon Seymour
old, but good
Do i have to boil snow or can i just melt it and drink it straight away? It's filtered and recondensed by nature right?
Fyi i dont mind the taste of smokey water, but is it safe?
>>967256
You need to boil it after melting it.
>he's never played "The Long Dark"
>>967258
>vidya game
Do i need to boil fresh rain water?
>>967256
If it's fresh snow not around any area with chemicals, melting will suffice.
If it's stale snow, around lots of animals or man made areas, best to boil.
Smoky water is fine. A life time of it and you might get a stomach lining issue from the ash, but that can also happen from too much BBQ, medication, fried food, etc. In other words it's fine.
When I boil water on a cold night for drinking, I love the crisp taste with a slight smoke flavor first thing in the morning it's an amazing thing.
What the fuck do I do
>>967209
Save up so if you decide to go get a different degree or change careers you've got something to fall back on. Find a good location to work in and prioritize time off over getting all the pay raises you can
>>967209
How would an electrical engineering degree condemn you to city life?
>>967209
Get a job in the oil industry, or locate in a city near good outdoor places.
Hello /out/, I need help with finding a cheap tent for 30-40 people. Anybody have recomendation?
>>966966
>40 people
wat anon, you'll need a barn.
>>966966
Your local party rental store
>>966966
What you're looking for is a circus tent.
Develop an entertaining and dangerous skill to lul the carnies into a false sense of security then steal their tent under the cover of night.
what the hell is this
wrist piercer
>>966956
Definately this, I am an expert on wrist piercers
>>966958
le thanks xD
What's worse for the environment? Letting my dog poop in the park and not cleaning it up? Or using a plastic bag to clean the poop up?
Or actually, what do people in civilized countries do about their doog pooping out in the park or the street? Is there an environmentally friendly way to clean it up?
>>966821
Who gives a fuck about the environment? People who don't clean after their dog should be shot on sight.
>>966825
Alright, thanks. Just making sure since my country is going insane about being eco friendly all of a sudden this year. Shops don't give away plastic bags, there's TV ads against pollution, etc. So I was starting to wonder if it would be worse to use plastic bags to clean my dogs shit than the actual shit only because dog shit is "ugly to look at" while plastic bags take forever to decompose.
>>966821
Everything that lives poops. Imagine if we had no cars like 115 years ago. What is worse: The shit of 2 billion horses, or the exhaust or 2 billion vehicles?
I have more 1clic-styles like this
And it very big resolution, if cant see something just open image in new window and zoom up. Map like 1x1 meter in RL
And it also show the truth.
This one coll too
Hi /out/
I'm new here and I want to get educated. I know zilch about /out/ing, but on a long-term basis (in 3-5 years, I'm 25 now) I want to do start hiking and ideally experience living in a cabin for a few months, if feasible.
What would be some essential /out/ books, documentaries, or general suggestions?
Anything more constructive than 'kys' is more than welcome.
Best wishes
Jonathan
>>966723
> Need to hit the books, watch documentaries, get educated... in a few years I'll start going out
you've got it backwards, start going /out/ today
you'll learn more one day innawoods than any book
will ever teach you
>>966726
>I wonder if I can eat this poisonous looking mushroom
>Guess there's only one way to find out!
>>966726
>you'll learn more one day innawoods than any book
Eh.. he should do both.
OP we need more info though...You are asking for very broad info and giving 2 very specific goals (hiking/cabin). What do you want out of it?
Hey /out/ I'm a first time backpacker and I've recently come across some gear, my local gander mountain was closing down and had a massive sale so I bought what I could and everything else seen was either given to me or bought secondhand. Any thoughts on my general setup? Is there anything that the people of /out/ think I should add or subtract from my pack?
The thing with the boys out logo on it is a quilt that folds into itself for transport and the ziploc bag has bug spray and some fisrestarting stuff in it if anymore clarification is needed feel free to ask.
>>966619
>Namefag
Aren't you that knife freak? As for your gear unless you are going to the Artic or climb Everest, it seems pretty much ok.
>>966631
Idk I started a thread a few weeks back with a picture of my esee 4 plumb axe and folding saw but I haven't started any knife threads. It was probably someone else with the same name
A post in the comfy cozy thread got me itching for my dream again.
Do any of you guys own a cabin? Not like a multimillion dollar mansion on a lake with neighbors in your ass, but more like pic related. A very secluded lake with deep woods all around and it's just you and your closest friends/family for miles.
It's always been a dream of mine to have a place like this to just escape to. How would I go about securing something like this?
>>966077
Building laws in the USA will never let you do this "legally" without hooking it up to the moneymachine. Perculate for septic, hook it up to the power grid, laws and regulations.
You can thank all the fags with tiny houses or people who want to make a house of used soda bottles.
The alternative is just doing it anyways, but you'd need some serious land to get away with this.
>>966077
>It's always been a dream of mine
And it always will be you lazy faggot. If someone handed you a deed and a key you would still find a way to fail
>>966094
>Building laws in the USA will never let you do this "legally" without hooking it up to the moneymachine. Percolate for septic, hook it up to the power grid, laws and regulations.
That's not entirely true. In most parts of the U.S., you can have a cabin with no electricity or septic, and you can live there a lot of the time. But in most parts of the U.S., you can't legally claim a place like that as your primary residence, as it doesn't meet most states' minimum habitation requirements.
Then again, I know more than a few people who live in places that never got a Certificate of Occupancy, and claim them as their primary residence. Nobody really checks, and at least around here, nobody really cares.
Spring
>>966076
>Spring he says
>>966111
Yea canada sucks. I've been to the beach twice so far this year. The water is still cold as shit but it is pavific summertime teir.
If it wasnt supposed to get cold tomorrow i wouwld probabaly be on the beach now.
>>966076
Spring? Not sure what that is.
It's already summer here in Phoenix, it started a couple weeks ago. Double-Summer is coming up in May, then Triple-Summer in July.
#135-"Golden Round-Eye Bowfin" Edition
Previous Thread:
>>964374
Still looking for good stuff for the Pastebin and Imgur. Maybe we can get a list of Youtube vids and put them in the Pastebin or keep a couple important ones in the OP.
Thinking about picking up a new hobby? Want to get a memecaster? Haven't mastered the Palomar knot? Click here!
http://www.pastebin.com/u/fishingandtackle
https://imgur.com/a/1Xw3N
Talk about fishin
Ned rigs are meme bass tactics. Are there any other ones?
>>965948
Calling it a ned rig is what makes it a meme. Its just half a worm on a ball head jig, nothing meme about it.
>>965950
more like half a worm and three quarters of a ball head..
teach me to hunt without any guns. i want to go hunting small shit like small birds and maybe rabbit but i don't own a gun ( it's illegal in my country, and i don't have a hunting gun license ) so i figured i could use other things. i have a bow and can acquire a slingshot and i suppose i can craft a spear that i can throw at animals or that i can use to chase animals on foot like a retard, what else would i need ?
A fucking life?
>>965745
fuck off man i'm just trying to have fun with a couple of m8s hunting, but we're all poorfags
>>965748
If you can't reliably dispatch your quary you shouldn't be hunting it unless you're in dire need of food.
What country are you in?
Ive finally got my Jeep ready for innawoods mess. I am wanting to go camping with my jeep. Im looking for tips and storage options so that shit isnt flying all willy nilly while i am off road. I am also looking for good quality and decent price camp axes. i dont really need advice or help but i figured there might be some knowledge out there that could benefit me. So more or less general Jeep Camping Thread.
>>965541
> dont really need advice or help but i figured there might be some knowledge out there that could benefit me
sounds like you do if you're asking 'hurr durr best quality and price camp axe'
>>965543
I'm sorry you can't afford a jeep and I'm sure you belive in your Bear Grylls Gerber shit. I'm just looking for /out/ knowledge I'm not aware of. It beats the hell out of someone trolling from another board.
What I see most people do when they turn a smallish vehicle into a camper is build a plywood platform to put a mattress on and then either slide rubber-maids under it or just make a big honkin' drawer that slides out. Is the picture in your post your jeep or just something similar? Depending on the size, you're gonna have to yank out your passenger seat to make room.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG4M2Vfhdo0
This guy has a pretty nice setup, but his is more for long-term living rather than wilderness trips. For a cheap camp axe, I would recommend the Cold Steel Trail Boss. It's nothing especially nice, but it'll last you a good while and preform just fine.
Don't really know which board this belongs, but here goes.
I'm interested in cycling through the Europe with a bicycle, but I'm completely lost with regards to bikes. Prices go from 0 euros to 15,000 euros.
Don't really know which touring bikes are actually good for long distance biking and which are not. I'm willing to spend some thousand euros on a good bike that can last the journey without physically killing me - and the length of the journey would be 5400 kilometers.
Any recommendations?
/n/ would probably be the better board to ask. Lost of bike fiends and threads about touring on a bike.
>>965461
I am looking at a touring bike as well. I have been test riding and researching. I really like the Jamis Renegade, for 800 USD. It is aluminium, but steel would be better for long rides, plus it has a really weird tire size at 700x36c. I test rode the Marin Lombard and Trek Crossrip Comp. Both were excellent but pushy on price and were designed for city, not touring.
Other bike tourists I have heard about like the Surly Long Haul Trucker, and Co-Motion Pangaea. Both are really pricey but excellent bikes.
Oh man, my cat just barfed!