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>>1028145
I have no idea why it flips this picture upside down

Serious question. Why are you spending 3-4 days on a 25mi trail? If you walk a little over 6mi per day, that'll take you 4 days. At 3mph, that's only 2hr of walking per day. What are you going to do for the other 22 hours each day?

>>1028145

>Water
Should be able to carry between 1 to 2 liters of water at least. Should have some method of procuring more water from the trail. A good solution is the Sawyer mini water filter. If that doesn't work, you can also use water purification tablets, or simply boil the water. Boiling takes a lot of time though, you have to wait for it to cool down, then you have to pour it through a filter (coffee filter or bandanna) to get the burnt ash out.

>Food
Should pack 1,500 Calories a day at the very least. I would avoid canned foods because:

1) The metal is heavy, and since you can't litter, you have to carry it with you.
2) The canned food has a lot of water content that also makes it heavy.

I recommend relatively dry foods like granola, cereal, summer sausage, energy bars, Spam, etc... You could also carry cookable foods like dried egg powder, rice, oatmeal. Since these foods are dry, they require water to supplement or cook, which hopefully you can procure from the trail.

>Fire
Bring a couple of Bic lighters and a book of matches.

Make me you bearded cunt

>>1027930
whats your endgame?

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Is he the Terry Davis of /out/?

>>1026972
Not doable outside the tropics, man. Cavemen wore footgear and used knives.

>>1026972
>All natural
Humans had fur when they were all natural

No gear, yes skillz.

And more than skillz: curiosity, playfulness.

For sleep, try different things. Trix are climate/soil/astrology dependant, so no 1 trick is magic bullet. Try:
• dig hole, maybe hole is warm.
• pile leaves for a blanket, like hedgehog.
• sleep in sun like lizard, travel at nite.

Also barefoot is possible for most peeps during non-freezing days. Lukewarm semi-wet mud best for feet, cold dry asphalt worst. Only remember: zen. Barefoot is problem if you hurry and sleepwalk mindlessly. When barefoot, forget goal; focus on journey. Care and slow is good, at first anyway; your feet will grow strong and agile and gentle and smart. Trust + rispekt + love + harmony <- these you learn to experience towards your feet, your body, once you set it free to grow.

Most shoes are foot prisons and foot torment chambers / humiliation chambers. Feet who grow in shoes for 30 years (like mine did) are like malformed retards at first, feeling only fear and pain and embarrasment when first time free... But persevere! Take it easy at first, start by walking on soft moist grass / mud / sand. Then rest, eat well.

If your feet hurt, take a day off. Give your feet a massage, a bath, a scrubbing. Bandaid the cuts / abrasions, use healing lotions and salves.

Try new shoes too, google "barefoot shoes" and save up that $$$ to get a nice pair of lite-weight/thin-sole/super-flexible shoes. Vibram Five Fingers(tm) meme shoes can be ok, but also try lite/thin/flex shoes that just have wide room for toes to spread; no 5-finga style needed really.

...

Read up, dream, try/play/experiment.

Build huts, dig holes, try using rock instead of axe.

You didn't hear? They cancelled the gathering this year because drumph

>>1018676

Oh, you mean the one where a bunch of homeless people congregate to be intentionally dirty together and pretend it's not just because they're poor?

Last time one happened in a town near me people were going into the grocery store and urinating on racks of food, so they could steal it all from the trash when the store had to throw it out.

>>1018795
You mean pretending to be poor.

They're all from the burbs.

My old high school buddy lives in a canvas wall tent up in Montana. He works on a large farm and they just let him set up a little place of his own. I went to visit him last Summer and it was pretty sweet. I don't think I could do it though. While I enjoy going /out/ on the weekends, I still need my high speed internet to play video games during the week after work. But he seems pretty happy. The people he works for are very nice as well. Took me on a hunting trip and we went fishing and then hung around my friend's tent with a bon fire and enough beer to supply a spring break beach party. The locals were pretty cool too. It was a small town off a major highway and everybody was pretty chill. Everybody rode around in 4 wheelers, UTVs, bunch of old trucks with farm use tags. Felt like back home in the country where we grew up but much nicer scenery.

>>1027886
Looked into putting up a yurt. Properly insulated, it does pretty well in cold climates but does seem to be that great for warm ones like where I live in north Georgia.

>>1027815
Fuck off and die. Do you really need to start this thread again?

>>1027815
Needs a bath

>>1027817
>Do you really need to start this thread again?
At least weekly i think.
He is the best of us.

><$15
>block uv
done

>>1027793
Polarized

>>1027813
I was looking for something that covers my eyes almost like goggles to help prevent sand getting in my eyes and to protect my eyes from wrinkles where normal sunglasses don't protect

Yes. I primarily use it for a ground cover down to the 50s. I also use a thermarest for my torso.

>>1027785
If there's a possibility it will be below 60F I always take a sleeping bag over the wool

>>1027785
wouldn't be warm enough for me.

depends on what you're wearing also,

depends.

>>1027465
Depends what the bottom is like, but in short, no. Weight isn't really the big thing, you really just want to be hooked into the ground, weight can help that. Danforth style anchors are great. For one they're really light, and secondly they dig in very well to mud. But not every bottom is mud. If you're in the Louisiana bayou, and there is a maze of Cypress trees below you, you're gonna get a Danforth stuck. In that case something like a mushroom or a cannon ball might be better so you don't have to cut anchor lines. I'm assuming that you're going in the ocean with a boat like that , if it's mud bottom (I don't really go near the ocean) go with Danforth, but if it's sand , I'd go with something a bit heavier, but will still hook. A navy style anchor will likely work well. As far as weight goes, I am not positive, but we used a 25 pound navy for a 28 foot Pontoon in calm water. (Lake calm not ocean calm). There's also something that works very well called "the claw". It's an odd shape but works very well. Two tips I have is to leave maybe 3-5 feet of chain between your rope and anchor, I find it holds better. Secondly a general rule is to multiply the depth of the water by seven and that number is how much rope to use, for example if you are 10 feet deep, take 70 feet of rope. This is something I read, and I don't really anchor in anything bigger than 3 foot waves. Hope I could help.

>>1027465
Jesus, I've been here too long. I thought that was a butt plug.

Grow a spine, faggot

>>1027314
>diogenes
find a carboard box, sit in it in the middle of the city

>>1027314
>m'land
Holy shit
m'land = m'lady
The /outsoc/ merge is complete
It really was a psyop to destroy self sufficiency

>>1027280
Like what, flowers?

>>1027351
yeah or ferns or even like tree leaves

>>1027280
I've been thinking of doing this mostly with edible plants and mushrooms. I need to learn to draw the plants well first

By the way I am going to be using it mainly for school or day hiking

Anything but Osprey. They are incredibly ugly.

>>1027278
I use an older version of that northface bag as my school bag and it works very well. Most of their products are overpriced yuppy shit but they make solid daypacks/backpacks.

>>1027132
Stop the shilling please.

>>1027132

Go and climb back up the faggot tree. Experience life. Instagram is for women and homos.

>>1027672
I have a job that requires me to be in a vehicle riding from place to place. During this time, it's nice to check out Snapchat. I'm just getting bored watching all the breast augmentation surgeries that Dr Six does, need some outdoor stuff.

>>>/n/

>>1027101
Toe clips. Install them immediately. You will wonder what you ever did without them.

>>1027101
>vintage
Dude, my Rockhopper doesn't even have shocks.

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>>1026744
chance are it was a tree or some other plant for example IIRC female Ginko seeds smell like death that if they are planted by mistake in the city they have to cut down once they become adults. they have a rancid butter kind of smell.

so i assume its a plant using flies to pollinate

like
Escallonia viscosa - swines
Thymus comosus - terpenine
Calla palustris - death / rotting meat
Phallus impudicus - death/ meat

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>>1026744
my best bet would be mushrooms, there are some species known for smelling of fish or shrimp.

had a similar experience OP, turned-out to be an adolescent squatch having potent nocturnal emissions about a km away. nothing to worry about.