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>>789028

Deuter is masterrace.

Millet is good also.

Fuck your brand placement ads

Wayyy to broke for that

>inb4 "so that's your backback, huh?" gets posted over 9000 times

gregory baltoro 75 should be arriving tomorrow.

>>788892
It depends. Are you below the treeline? Find a low spot among trees and bunker down.

Are you above the treeline? Try to find a boulder to hide under or move aside rocks and hide deep down in the boulder field as possible. Then pray to whatever God seems closest

>>788892
I wouldn't worry about lightning as much as flash floods or land slides depending on the terrain and how much rain that comes down.

>>788932

okay, definitely makes sense since we had big floods in nothern bavaria during the past weeks.

>>787832
Fake and gay

>>787832
You forgot your trip bugguy

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This may have been an actual rape, and you should probably start therapy.

in what parallel universe is nz the most hyped outdoor country? definitely not here on /out/. or is this from some dumb clickbait "top 10" travelblog written by someone who's only seen 2 pictures of each country

nz probably wouldn't even make my top 40

>>783369
Only strayans and bongs go there.

You must live in the city, my great uncle moved there years ago and lives in some bumfuck nowhere town in the south island miles from anything of consequence and boasts about how firearm laws are way more lax there than in Aus

Somewhat effective, but not nearly as effective as bear spray. Carry bear spray and a high caliber handgun. Bonus, bear spray works on humans, too.

>>791558
What if I toss a few flares ahead of time and spray the offending bear before dual wielding some reserve flares to fight and hopefully blind the bear before making it away to safety?

How hot do these things burn?

>>791561
If I bear wants to fuck you up, you aren't going to have any time to light flares. There isn't any sizing up or shit talk.

Carry the bear spray on your hip. Make lots of noise while traveling. If you see signs of a bear, carry the spray in your hand. If you see a bear, also immediately draw the spray. It's most effective at about 20 feet. The idea is to create a cloud of irritant that the bear will inhale and his highly sensitive nose will become hell.

Source: I live in Alaska

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>>791323
ya dun goof'd, anon
i told ya to get a garmin

put it on ebay for $25 and hope to get your money back, buy something that has reasonable 3rdparty/mfgr support.

>>791348
i know... i know... :(
(Thanks for remembering me tho. Cool to see /out/ has a memory)

>>791343
0 seeds and 0 peers... If i leave it on overnight and it downloads anything, i'll be fucking THRILLED!!!(I dont care if the topo maps are old, the planet has not changed much since its release)

I'm from Arizona, so I don't have much experience with large cats, but it seems entirely possible to me that that was just a black bob cat/mountain lion. They look quite like jaguars to someone who has never seen one in person.

>>791264
They can be black? This was much larger than a bob cat ive encountered those before

The north American black cougar has never been photographed and sightings are thought to be errors, as per wiki. Now's your chance, OP, photo that Puma!

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>>791230
What is the crisis?

It's obviously not paraplegia.

Watch out for the rape gangs.

>>791237
Internal

Really autistic

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>>791223
easy to maintain, isn't scary looking, handbag friendly, inexpensive, legal to carry pretty much everywhere

>victorinox climber

>>791244

She just wants a knife, not a screwdriver, nailfile, saw, hook, cooking apparatus and all that.

Just a simple folding knife.

I recommend you post in the knife thread instead of making a new one >>788947

>no roof rack

Casual Kayaker detected.

>>790900
Exactly.
I think it's a fucking sofa cushion at the back.

>>790900
Casual Kayaker here, why does it fucking matter? Why spend the money on a roof rack when I can LITERALLY achieve the same effect by strapping it down with some cheap ass straps I bought at the hardware store

Desitin Diaper Rash Cream

>>790831
Less chafe-y bottoms. Grab some running shorts or something.

Compression shorts work fucking wonders. Go buy a pair at wally world for like $12.

>>789604
Looking at the photo I'd say apparantly yes.

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If you got any OC pictures from the same trip as the story, share them fool.

>be me
>be innatent
>be inna Selkirk Mountains backpacking
>it's almost 3am
>woke up at 2am to piss
>unable to fall back asleep
>just laying there thinking about how unspooked I am
>forest is making foresty noises
>slight wind, moving branches and such
>hear a pronounced branch crack sound
>take notice, but the forest is gonna forest
>then I hear it
>two low grunt noises in quick succession
>"oh fuck I did not just hear that"
>hear them again, little closer this time
>they're coming from the direction of my feet
>heart racing, palms sweating
>bear spray is next to me
>the grunts are happening in sets of two
>within 30 feet of my tent
>at this point they are coming from right of my head
>quietly squirm arm out of mummy bag
>grip bear spray, slide off safety
>sitting up now
>justfoundJesus.png
>the grunts continue, slowly moving away from me now
>hear breathing, bushes rustling
>jimmies are also a rustlin'
>the grunts continue away from me
>can't hear them anymore
>wait 5 minutes, sitting still
>crawl out of my bag, unzip tent, shine light all around
>still pretty spooped, but the badassness of the situation is starting to sink in
>put spray back, crawl back into mummy bag
>no chance of sleeping now
>starts to get light at 4:30
>never been so happy to see the sun
>finish trip on a pretty good high from the night

pic related: low quality shot of my tent illuminated at night, taken the same night as the bear encounter. I've been close to a black bear before while hunting, but never that close, and never while I'm in my undies. This was last weekend and it was a badass way to start the summer.

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Another

>be bow hunting whitetails in the Little Pend Oreille Wildlife Refuge in WA
>No snow on the ground, but it's cold as hell
>three days in of five
>haven't seen much worth shooting yet, but my standards drop each passing day
>day four
>sitting in my blind by sunrise
>see pic related; it's comfy in there
>forest starts coming alive as the sun comes up
>none of the critters know i'm here
>about an hour after sunrise I see 4 whitetails
>problem is they're hoofing it at a full sprint
>now I'm pissed, wondering how they saw me
>they're 100 yards away
>I'm upwind
>I havent moved an inch
>wtf.exe
>they continue to hall ass away from me
>about 50 yards behind them I see it
>holy shit!
>fucking mountain lion in hot pursuit of these deer
>it's moving low and fast behind them
>grayish color
>long tail
>obviously a big fucking cat
>i'm shitting a brick in excitement
>this spots toast but fuckin a', i aint even mad
>I stay put for about 30 minutes after the sighting
>pack up my shit and head back to camp

I came home from that trip empty handed, but it's pretty high ranking in my list of badass shit that I've seen innawoods

I got many stories but being honest I am not going to type them out if noone reads them. Just tell me if I should.
>Trapper for 8 years
> hunting for 16
> hunted with bow, rifle, shotgun and side arm

definitely a tick, well fed too. if it had any diseases to transmit to something, it has done that.

>>787892
definately a tick..

>>787892
Get a needle, inject it with hydogen peroxide. Watch it bubble up and burst. Hilarious.

>>787123
Most issued military equipment really isn't that great, especially the older stuff you'll see in surplus stores. It's designed by people who don't have to use it, and produced from the lowest quality material in the most cut-rate way possible. They just need to equip troops with the bare minimum necessary to accomplish their task, so it's often usable, but just not really the best option.

Sometimes there are great pieces of gear that get issued though, like the American woobie or the West German folding shovel.

My recommendation would be to not buy anything made before the 90s other then tools and maybe clothes.
Ergonomics and comfort was not really a big deal in military equipment back then.

>>787123
I use shit from the military all the time while /our/ but that was stuff they put out recently. Those boots in OP pic are garbage. Even the issue boots now aren't that great. My unit bought us s2v boots every year.

The old alice pack is a beast it might be worth buying. The poncho + woobie is great. If they have the goretx shells for cheap i always loved mine, but i had to give that back when i left. The acu/bdu pants are pretty comfy too i left with a boatload of those and wear them innawoods.

For the most part those stores sell old shit or useless shit but there are some nice finds in them if you know what you're looking for.