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I'll start, my favorite out related book and author is HD Thoreau and his Walden
What enjoy reading while /out/ are Saigyo's Poems of a Mountain Home, I'd recommend it to all people rven if you think you don't enjoy poetry

For me its either Tolkien's The Hobbit, or The Silmarillion

I like Environmental literature, atm I'm reading The Skeptical Environmentalists which is about the exaggeration and true representation of statistical data in the environmental field - as BOTH sides are liable to over exaggerate.

Prior to that I read The world according to Pimm: A scientist audits the earth, which is all about quantifying our resources and challenging the outdated mentality of 'limitless bounty' (ie natural resources, typified by the amazon or the image of the open oceans in the 19th c.)

I like anything to do with nature.

Bill Brysons a walk through the woods was a good modern shout,

Gary Snyders writings are awesome too, especially if you like poetry - but his long essays are great.

I also like reading 'challenging' books outdoors as there are less distractions, recently read Zen Mind, Beginners Mind, by S Suzuki, being inna is a good setting for this kind of book

>drinking alcohol while /out/

I'm down. Guy in the previous thread suggested the peaks.

>>801291
What are you afraid of? Getting lost in a square mile of light forest and being mauled by a rabbit?

>>801276
>tfw live in london
>no car
>also don't want to sell kidney to afford train travel

>>821123
Where in Louisiana?

Because once you get within 50 or so miles of the coast it is hard to find a place where you are more than a few minutes from a great fishing spot, or crabbing, or oysters, or crawfish, etc.

The whole state is covered with hogs to hunt and little bitty durrs. Flatter than shit so hiking is boring but you can go a long way in short time.

>>821147
Fort Polk. Does anyone do any bird hunting down here? Up north it's phenomenal for everything from duck and goose to upland game like pheasant, grouse and partridge.

I suppose it's mostly ducks down here and maybe quail and dove.

>>821184
Ducks is the main bird, but its a lot of types of ducks down there. That and various shore birds.

I lived near Houma for a couple of years and still know some people down there. Never hunted birds other than ducks and geese and don't know anyone there who does. We used to ride around the marshes in a bass boat and scare ducks up off the high ground and shoot em. No idea if it is legal but guys do it all over the place and they don't get busted.

>>820633
most of the parks around me don't got homeless people because I don't live near a city.

but the homeless people near me are bomb as fuck with their ghetto rigged camp sites. they hide in the forest/swamps along the roads, and crawl out during the day to beg for drug money. but I can still respect them for living in a fucking swamp.

plus some are pretty resourceful, I've seen them forage too, along the highway the county planted loquat trees HUNDREDS of them along miles of road. when they fruit, I always see the poor folk out there picking them up off the ground [idk why they pick them from the ground though]

nice meme! is this a meme thread? are we gonna have more memes in this thread?

England

>>820169
Yoker, Glasgow

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>>820333

>>819973
If you paid more than $50 USD, then I would say there is a doubt.

It is just a blade.

>>819973
So...does it make you feel like you are no longer a beta?

> multiple units zip together to create enough space for a crowd!

Oh boy nothing like having to hold in 45 PSI of gasses in your intestines all night so I don't rip ass in front of Stacie and Hannah. 1 person tents for me thank you.

Maybe if they invent a fucking airlock system so a can have my own stank tank, but still be able to have a group orgy after a long hike.

Gimmick

quechua makes similar tents, I think coleman makes them too now. they are fine for fair weather car camping.

For normies that struggle to put up a standard 2 pole dome tent with 2 people involved on an open patch of freshly cut grass

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I think Muley knows about this stuff

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>>819908
>geepsbro

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>>819908
Had both good and bad experiences with SAR. Never needed their services myself.

Here, you have to be a resident of the county to be on the county's SAR team.
Even if I know an area/region well and have tools/equipment (snowmobile/motorcycle, first aid training/equipment, communications, avalanche rescue gear/certifications) they won't talk to me.
It's also a big time "good ol boys club". If you're not "in" the club, you probably never will be.

SAR is good at what they do, i'm not knocking them in any way.
I also feel that for some calls, they turn away a lot of useful help.
Been working with local SAR agencies to develop a "local area experts" pool... these are people that have gone through some vetting process and are able/willing to put in volunteer hours and equipment for certain calls.
A pair of hikers is out later than expected, that's what SAR is for. Two very skilled snowmobilers in a technical area caught in an avalanche, why not let a few racers on modern turbo'd sleds help out.

In the snowmobile community, for example, there's certain groups of people who ride certain areas regularly. They know the areas well, and have skills to get around. They're probably carrying two-way radios (FRS/GMRS, not P25), have survival/first aid training and equipment.

If I ever get into shit and can't get myself out, I'd much rather have a team of snowmobilers that thinks like snowmobilers, and has snowmobiling skills to get into the area I'm in faster looking for me than SAR who might have more radio/first-aid equipment but not have modern snowmobiles or decent skills to ride it .... or opt for a mode of travel they're more confident with like skis or snowshoes (i'll see them in about 3 days, vs. covering that same distance on a 150hp snowmobile).

>>819755
>cruiser
>noteworthy
>/out/
no

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>>819722
I left them in water for now until I'm sure what to do
(I'm fucking retarded)

>>819722
If the area is moist you can ram them into the ground, if not let em root in water for a while

>>819726
Well it's mixed, the top soil is fairly moist (because of the moss I think) but it's pretty dry deeper down.
On estimation how long should I expect it to before they root? Also I'm a little worried because the leaves seems to wither a little. They are placed where the sun shines the most in nutritious water.

>>819630
I'm going in the next couple of years for sure. I think for me, the idea of being on an island with those wolves is pretty cool. Pics make it look pretty beautiful, but having spent a lot of time in the general area, I imagine it's nice but not incredible.

Depends on where you're coming from I guess. If you live in northern california and it's a pain in the ass to fly up to minn/wis and then drive up and the hit a boat, I imagine there are other places in the country that are prettier and easier to get to.

It's kind of like the boundary waters for me. Just need to cross it off my list.

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>>819633
Wolf pack may be gone soon. Numbers are way down.
I had the /out/ing of my life 4 years ago. Took two 15 y.o. daughters for 7 days. We started at Rock Harbor, had a water taxi take our canoe us and the canoe to Chippewa Harbor. Portaged to Lake Ritchie. Stayed on the Island in Lake Ritchie that you can only get to by canoe. Got fat eating Northern Pike.
Portaged to Moskey Basin, then back to Rock Harbor.
The portages were hard because there is not an even step on Isle Royale. On our 3rd day, doing the portage from Chipewa to Lake Ritchie wiped us out. Hardest thing I've done in many years.

We made it to the Lake but couldn't go on to the Island before dark so we set up camp on the trail head. At some point in the night we start hearing wolves howling and it's obvious they are on the move. That got the loons going crazy and they are making those loon calls. Then we hear moose crashing thought the woods and splashing into the water - it sounded like it was 10 ft. from the tent.
In the morning we find wolf scat 50 yards up the trail. The most intense /out/ experience ever.

As soon as we wet the paddles in Lake Ritchie that morning we came upon a moose cow and her calf.
I will return. I have to return.

Last I heard there were 2 wolves left, one fell in a quarry hole recently. They're all inbred as fuck.

take a tunnel to Australia

https://youtu.be/SVu7CN-nbJg

>avoid the FEMA camps

Water filters, colloidal silver and Tangy Tangerine.

Swim

Sneak into other people's tents and take photos of them with their phone while they're sleeping.

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>Read
>Practice with crossbow
>Fish
>Find food sources, just in case
>Poke fire with sticks

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take acid and stay up all night shitposting in knife threads