Hey,
I'm planning a 6-8 month backpacking trip in Central and South America. I am planning on solo hiking in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Patagonia. Hence I am looking for a tent and backpack recommendation.
I usually bring 35-45 litres worth of clothing and equipment with me when I am travelling, however usually I do not camp.
Could you give me some advice on approximately how much volume all the camping equipment takes up in a pack?
For the UK-based readers, could you recommend a good tents and backpack I should look out for?
I am a geologist, so I know the importance of having good equipment, which feels well (backpack/boots/jacket) and I currently use Kestrel 38 whenever I go hiking.
Ideally I am looking at lower-end tents or bivvys and good, solid backpacks.
Thanks guys.
Anything else you need you pathetic slug?
>>835073
RIP
Judging from where you're going I assume you're going to be in the highlands/Andes? Make sure you know the ecosystems you're going to since northwestern South America has a huge range of ecosystems and the climate can vary wildly depending on where you are. Since you plan on going solo, learn as much Spanish as you can between now and then (if you don't already speak spanish). Columbia is less dangerous than it used to be, Ecuador is awesome and the people are very kind, Peru can be dangerous, and solo travelers like yourself are prime targets. That's about all my south American traveling experience, most important is knowing the language that will save your ass more than anything
If/when SHTF I need to make it 2000 miles west from where I am. No specific reason other than I don't know how survive here in a tropical region, and I can in a desert region.
I don't have the artistic ability to describe a scenario to you, but imagine that once you go as far as you can by vehicle, you end up having to resort to walking. Obviously the answer would be to siphon gasoline somehow, but humor me.
How would you travel from Point A to Point B? Remember, this is not a short distance, like across a town, This is walking for tens of miles in a day, hundreds over time, stopping to rest/hunt whenever required.
Should I stick to major roads like interstates and highways, or should I punch in a GPS coordinate and walk on my merry way through the brush?
>>834713
when shtf, gps probably won't be an option. first of all because electricity. second because the chinese or the russians would shoot down the satelites. so pack a map and a compas.
the best way around will probably be staying the fuck out at first, unless you get out ahead of the panic. then steal what you can.
if you are ahead of the panic, small town stores will have gasiline still. just stick to the secondary roads and steal gas. a pump would be useful for this but you can make a jackoff pump with pvc tubing and a bag if necessary.
when all else fails a good touring bike is your best bet. I have a marin 29er that I put saddle bags on for my town bike, and I have a surly off road trucker that would be my go too.
also, if you don't have water in your truck, your house, and your go bag, your already dead.
>>834713
a tropical region is way easier than a desert region
op confirmed for cosplay LARPer
Fallout isn't real you know
>>834722
I have topographic maps of both where I am and where I'm going, and highway/interstate maps for inbetween.
O'm out of the loop out in the boonies, but the county would probably announce something service wide, volly firefighter ftw.
I have no idea how to siphon gas, all I know is that most cars now have a means of preventing people from shoving a piece of tubing down a gas tank.
I only have old mountain bikes laying around. Could look into it more.
I have a 30 gallon tank ready to load into my truck at any time, I'd just have to find steady sources.
>>834755
Lived in Utah for 15 years, less a desert where I was and more arid climate. Foot of the mountains, pretty nice place most of the year. South Carolina is easily the shittiest place I have ever lived. Humidity is ridiculous year round, August is like hell on Earth, no way to escape the heat other than to go inside and pray your AC doesn't fail. Rains too much, usually only floods shit out and makes it a pain to get around. It's almost inhospitable. I'd take dry as a bone any day, because you can put a baseball cap on and it be 10 degrees cooler in the miniscule amount of shade it gives you.
New Vegas is the best FO game, by the way.
What advice would you give to someone thinking about hiking the app trail who has virtually no overnight experience?
>>834161
My advice would be for you to contact your therapist, because your bipolar is in an upswing and you are having visions of grandiose
>>834167
I've day hiked before and realize it's a hell of a challenge but is it conceivable in the least?
>>834161
sell you're house and go for it!!
Went Wild Camping in Scotland (Galloway Forest) as I was wanting to try out my new bag and Axe.
However it turned into a complete disaster, after a 4 1/2 hour drive we finally got there it looked amazing such a beautiful place. Little did I know what was going to unfold.
The weather was relentless with the rain, the land was completely inhospitable as it was thoroughly saturated in what was mostly thick moss.It had become like a marsh to make matters worse the trees were so closely planted together that it was near impossible to work your way into the forestry without what would have been days of clearing.
After about 5 hours looking for somewhere that was at least manageable we reluctantly called it quits ended up sleeping in the van to wake up with a burst Tyre. Was such a disappointing trip felt helpless with the situation ..
So let's discuss /outs/ worst camping experiences
Connecticut in February with an old 3-season bag. Wouldn't do it again.
>>833226
Funny you should mention that, in my picture above I was in Canada about minus 26 degrees or something. My sleeping bags zip broke because it froze shut when I needed a piss haha
My DofE bronze expedition when I was wee young and in cadets.
>Didn't know shit about hiking or camping.
>Only 15 and weak as fuck
>Carried a heavy 3 man tent that my parents used occasionally
>Weather fluctuated from heavy as fuck raining to super sunny, I was ill prepared for both and got soaked and sun burned over the two days.
>Carried heavy cans of food.
>Carried a whole load of other useless shit that I though would be useful.
>My boots weren't broken in and were massive as fuck, I could do dot to do on my fucking blisters I had so many.
I fucked hated myself after, but it was a big lesson and is something I told to other cadets so they could also learn something out of my suffering.
For fishing, boats or just tying shit up. Knots.
first for noose
>>832981
Palomar knot. Easy to tie and indispensable for fishing.
>>832981
Animatedknots.com
show me your meal /b/
>>831411
>>831413
>maruchan and not nissin
fucking plebtastic, thanks for the laugh anon
>>831421
Ramen is a last resort poor-person food. Why the fuck would you ever buy anything but the cheapest kind you can get? Cheap is the point.
What's the best way to kill a bear that you come across during a hike?
MODS
>>831379
Depends on the bear, some can be killed and some cant.
>Black Bear
Charge at it, with or without a weapon, while yelling at it and calling it a weak pansy faggot bitch, and it'll run away faster than a nigger waking up in a job service center.
>Brown Bear
High caliber gun, Shotguns, Rifles, a tank, GAU-8, a ford superduty AWD at over 80 mph. Do not attempt to attack one without a weapon of some kind, they will kill you.
>White Bear
You run, into the closest lake or river you can find, you dont stop running until you are out of its reach by at least 20 feet. You cannot beat a white bear, they do not have the concept of pain or fear, youre only option is to run and hope its lazy,
blind it with a laser and wait for it to starve
Hey out
Any of you also photographers?
What camera do you use when out?
Looking for something compact and lightweight but still take decent quality pictures
Depends on what your goal is, the iphone and some others have a great camera on them and can do macro pretty well. an iphone 5 or newer will perform as well as almost any point and shoot
Something with interchangeable lenses if you need optical zoom, wide angle, long exposure, etc
Worrying about image quality isn't a real concern for anything made by a reputable company in the last 5 years is can produce amazing photos.
>>831358
Look at some of the Canon Powershot SX cameras if you want something compact with a good lens and good zoom.
I use an old Canon SX130 with the CHDK firmware so I can shoot raw. Great image quality, has a really nice zoom for critters, and takes AA batteries so I can carry as many eneloops as I think I'll need. It's starting to get flaky though so I'm looking for a replacement.
Also have a DSLR and a mirrorless but the former is pretty bulky for and the latter has shit battery life if you can't charge it every night.
>>831360
>iphone 5 or newer will perform as well as almost any point and shoot
No it won't. It still has a cameraphone size sensor and no optical zoom which makes it extremely limiting for real photography unless all you want to take is wide angle landscapes on sunny days. All those "shot on an iphone" ads are just using it in ideal conditions.
>Worrying about image quality isn't a real concern for anything made by a reputable company in the last 5 years is can produce amazing photos.
Depends on your standards, I print big and exhibit and find some cheap cameras definitely lacking in quality.
>>831367
your old ass powershot isn't going to compete with an iphone camera
What is your favorite mountain range?
For me its the Sangre de Cristo .
So much out stuff to do.
Can get away from humans very quickly with dispersed camping everywhere.
The sunset sometimes turns the mountains blood red hence the name. Its just crazy looking.
>>830968
For me it's the Purple Mountain Majesty
The sunset sometimes the mountains purple hence the name. It's just crazy looking.
Sierra Nevada
Who here /white suprememacy/?
Pics from your /out/ist life round two
I built a fort today
How long did that take?
cool beans OP! that stand of pines is a got damb forest fire waiting to happen. be careful!
How about a meet up at the campsite of the infamous Maine hermit?
Late summer early fall?
Might be a good first step in getting the commune started.
Late summer at the latest so we can loot cabins and lay in supplies for winter. As long as we follow his roadmap we are golden
>>828410
>As long as we follow his roadmap we are golden
Maybe we could hire him as the MGTOW keynote speaker
>>828383
leave /o/ur bum holes alone, no one is going to fall for your tricks here.
What har the best hairstyles / beards for /out/?
>if your buzzedyou get sunburn
>if you have longish hair its harder to keep clean and the sweat will make you itch
>if your shaven when you go /out/ you get beard itch
>if you have a beard you get burned tip from blowing the fire ( or burn your whole fricking bead/face off, happened to me one time)
what the hell are you supposed to do? there is no winning
The ONLY 2 acceptable /out/ hairstyles are long hair, or very short hair (no undercut or shit that requires wax or gel)
>>825931
/fa/
>>825949
but what about beard?
advantages / disadvantages?
Anyone else /cozymountaintown/ here? I want to live in one but haven't found any jobs out west yet
I used to stack net on a salmon fishing boat in Valdez, AK. The fishermen and cruise companies are always looking for help out there in the summer. Winters are just dark and cozy
Where have you been looking Op?
>>823591
Get on some compootah job where you can work from home.
Assuming you are in the US, the Rockies are great and all but there are tons of areas in the Appalachians where you can be secluded at home yet less than an hour from a medium-large city for work and other comforts.
Being younger with no kids, I like living in an urban area because everything is so damn close. But if I make it to 50 or so, I think I'm going to try and get some acreage innawoods or onnamountain. It's so easy to get anything you need from Amazon Prime anyway.
Let's talk hammocks.
Post pictures of your set up.
Ask questions.
Have fun.
Remember, tenters and hammockers can be friends. Both have their merits.
This is a happy hammock thread.
>can't sleep on the ground worth a shit, even with a sleeping pad
>go backpacking once, bring hammock as a luxury item
>midnight, get fed up with not being able to sleep, go sleep in my hammock, open air
>slept like a fucking baby
>transition over to hammock camping primarily because muh beauty sleep
>want to go backpacking in a place like pic related
fugg
>>808216
>>808216
Using ground stakes some zing it and trekking poles you can get off the ground in flatlands
I'm trying to go to Arches this weekend with a friend, we'd like to camp somewhere near by but I can't find information about dispersed camping. The nearest National Forest is Manti La Sal (which for some reason is divided in completely unrelated parts across the state). I can't find any details about dispersed camping in the Moab district, does anybody know if you can just drive wherever in there and set up a campsite? What are the roads like, can a sedan get through?
If not there then did anybody know about the forests in western Colorado? Or a little further south I think that might also be part of Manti La sal
Couldn't tell you senpai but have a bump
>>837568
That area is so popular and fragile that dispersed camping is not allowed even in BLM land.
They do have campgrounds near Arches though
http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/moab/recreation/campgrounds.html
Don't forget to bring water
>>837676
How fast do the campgrounds fill up on weekends? And what are they like, am I going to be camping 20 feet from a bunch of other people?