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Only when I was like 14

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>>1018049
Story?

>>1018010
once, back when I was 17, a friend and I just used it to get across town
Hopped off a block from his house and had a good laugh

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>>1017954
Know if there are bugs in the area. If there are bring a mosquito net, otherwise your night will be miserable. If it's raining or the ground is wet make sure you have a tap big enough to partly fold under your sleeping pad/bag. This will help you stay dry. If there are no trees where you're camping bring hiking poles and rope/paracord to use like in pic related.
It's not really rocket science, you just have to think ahead a bit more than with a tent. Consider wind direction and the temperature too; if it's warm and there are mosquitoes but also prevailing wind, you may want to set it up so the wind blows the bugs away.
Oh, and don't forget stakes

>>1017965
Thanks!

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A beginner would do well to get a large flat tarp, in the 9'-10' on the longest side range. Square tarps will let you do a diamond pitch, or any other pitch. I think a basic A-frame pitch would be the most common, but the nice thing about a flat tarp is that you have options. You can experiment with a cheap blue Walmart tarp, but a silnylon tarp, made specifically for ultralight backpacking, will be easier to pack, lighter, easier to pitch and generally more durable. Check out Oware to look for a basic flat silnylon tarp.

A catenary ridgeline tarp or "cat tarp" (pictured) provides some advantage in your ability to get the tarp taut quickly in an A-frame configuration without additional pull outs. Flat tarps sag and will require additional guy lines. Since this is a very common and useful pitch, it tends to work out, although you can be limited in the ability to really buckle them down in a storm. There is also a cost of losing head space and pitch options with a cat tarp.

My preference right now is a closed shaped tarp - a pyramid-like shelter design (will post picture in next post). It provides a lot of stormproofing, the most head room of any design and all the floorspace is going to be protected from the elements. The disadvantage is losing some airiness and your views of your campsite through the night. It can be really nice to be laying under your rain shelter and be able to star gaze until you go to sleep; you can't really do that with a pyramid tarp.

There are also open shaped tarps, like the MLD Patrol Tarp Shelter or Zpacks Hexamid Pocket Tarp (many ultralight companies make similar sorts of rigs), which are shaped, usually with a catenary ridgeline or half-pyramid type design for ease of set up, but provide significantly more stormproofing than a typical cat tarp. They are also more open and airy than a pyramid (usually no zippered door), so stargazing while you're in bed is possible.

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>>1016398
According to NASA it's already here.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.independent.co.uk/environment/nasa-april-world-second-hottest-month-137-years-on-record-weather-latest-news-a7738096.html%3Famp

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>>1016398
At least you are not stranded at a truck stop on I80 :(

>>1018700
Where you at nigga im about to hit 80 from sterling colorado

My #1 recommendation would be to contact a licensed animal rehabilitator. If it's just mice, corn snakes and small owls may be the best bet. Both may have a go at baby bunnies or birds, but that's virtually unavoidable, even with a snake as small as a corny. Still, passionate rehabilitists know their animals and I suspect they'd welcome a person with land willing to take something. BTW, corn snakes are very mild mannered. Now if you have rats, that complicates things.

BTW, are the mice getting in the house, barn, feed, what exactly?

Shane woods

End yourself, commie.

>>1015892
*wheezing*

The air bro

Seriously, though, how is China for /out/ activities?

>>1013445
Fuck ticks. First they were just an annoyance. Then came Lyme Disease. Now these motherfuckers can make you allergic to red meat.
Fuck. Ticks.

>>1013445
PNW here
Almost zero chance of getting anything from a tick
>buddies gf gets out of truck at cabin
>immediately has a tick on her jacket
>freaks out and wants to go home
Ugh...
>>1013451
Jokes on you. I already can't handle red meats!!

tfw no gf to check my ass for ticks after a day of hunting
tfw live in the Northeast
Just fuck my shit up

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First outing of the year, breaking in the new barbecue.

>>1009925
>Mainsail still wrapped
>Traveller sheet frayed to shit
>Boat at berth
>Mess of loose gear around helm

Do you even sail?

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Back in highschool I used to take my sunfish with my friends to the Pamlico Sound in NC and throw out traps for blue crab. Then after a day of sailing I'd collect my crabs and cook them with beer and old bay on the beach while watching the sunset.

>tfw I don't live near the beach anymore and haven't been in years.

I've jerked off in my tent. Does that count?

>>1004959
In the 1980s every skinny dipped here in the local lakes and I skinny dipped until my 20s. Now it is illegal.

>>1004965
Where exactly?

why wait? end it now surrounded by the humans you cant live without.

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>>1020597
Make it to space and chill w aliens

>you would kys
Do it now faggot

>>1020597
Power my computer with solar panels and jack off to hentai forever.

Be Prepared

>>1019856
Where are you planning to get your food, OP?

Eat food to live, water helps too.
Don't fall over.
Wear clothes.

What sort of tips? You're being a bit vague.

>>1019646
But why? Why do you feel this way. You mention indians. are you yourself native american?

The thing is you qre probably feeling repressed hatred for a perceived wrong. And i would be glad to talk to you about it. But if you are making camp anywhere near a 35 foot camper, you are not trying to solve the problem.

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>>1019670
That's a good possibility. I really don't care about campers when I see them in more developed areas though, so not sure if it's perceived wrong or just personal bias.
Ah, but you're avoiding the question. Do YOU hate campers?

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>>1019678
I hate literally everybody. That's why i camp.

Fish.

>>1019643
The same things I do any other time of the year.

>camp
>hike
>fish
>hunt

Molest boars.

Anyone been to jade lake?

>>1018984
Lake Colchuck, Gothic Basin, anywhere around Rainier in the summer

>>1018984
>my qt 3.14
Any pics?

Know the local area well enough that you don't have to ask here for advice.

Also, poison ivy makes great toilet paper/tinder in a pinch.

Remember to soak your socks in water before long walks to lubricate them against the boots.

ah, /out/
never change

>>1018135
Kys

>>1017909
top of the cock?

>>1017909

No. They died beforehand. Mallory died first. They still haven't found his partner.

Messner and Conrad Anker both said no. There about 3 "steps" he'd have to free-climb to get there, and that is considered difficult even by today's standards.

However, there is a theory that he could have swung out to the right of these obstacles and managed to find his way to the top. It's a possibility.