What are your thoughts on going /out/ in calk boots? i work in forestry and everyone who has them says it makes walking through the woods 5x easier, and is like having 4x4 for your feet Anyone have experience with them?
autistic/10
>>787915
they're built for a specific purpose. wearing them for anything other than walking on slippery logs all day is a dumb idea.
if you want some extra traction for certain occasions get some strap on cleats or whatever
>>787915
Interesting.
I have been looking for a pair of rubber boots with a very stiff sole.
I wonder if these would work.
I've got two questions for you guys.
Firstly, I am tanning the pelt of an animal I can't identify. I thought it was a raccoon when I picked it off the side of the road, but it's definitely not. The face was all black; no cute coon cheeks, and heavy padded forepaws, not like raccoon hands at all. But about the same size, and with a ringed tail. Long fox-like snout.
It looks *exactly* like pic related -- except pic related lives in South America, and I'm in Maine. Do we have invasive coatimundi population in New England, or am I crazy?
It's not a fisher cat, it's not an oppossum.
Second question: this lardass's pelt has been driving me crazy trying to scrape the fat off it. I'm stretching it over a plank and all the techniques I can find on google. What am I doing wrong?
ITT: Anon tans somebody's missing cat.
This thing lives in the southwest. It's called a Ringtail Cat.
Somebodies pet coati . That's why it is so fat.
Anyone knows a good survival game like S.T.A.L.K.E.R?
Pls no fallout , its shit
>>782371
This is really stretching purpose of this board OP.
Try Rust if you haven't already.
hahah, i am real forester just i broke my leg and only thing i can o rn is play some pc games :D
sry m8's
>A lost hiker in Maine starved to death after waiting for rescue and then accepting her fate, heartbreaking journal entries have revealed.
>Geraldine Largay, a 66-year-old from Tennessee, disappeared while hiking the Appalachian Trail in Maine on July 22, 2013, and the newly disclosed journal shows that she survived for at least 26 days, the Portland Press Herald reports.
>"When you find my body, please call my husband George and my daughter Kerry," she wrote in an Aug. 6 journal entry. "It will be the greatest kindness for them to know that I am dead and where you found me — no matter how many years from now." The final entry was dated Aug. 18. Her skeletal remains were discovered in a tent 3,000 feet from the trail more than two years later.
>Largay, who was trying to complete a "bucket list" hike from West Virginia to the trail's end solo after a friend left for a family emergency, was reported missing by her husband after she failed to make it to a rendezvous point. A huge search and rescue effort followed, but it was suspended after a week.
>According to a 1,579-page Maine Warden Service report, Largay became lost after leaving the trail to go to the bathroom, the Boston Globe reports. She tried to text her husband at least a dozen times, but she was unable to get a signal even after moving to higher ground.
>She then set up a campsite on a knoll, where authorities found a handmade flag and evidence she had tried to start a signal fire.
As someone who got to read her journal I can tell you that despair can be tangible.
>>778059
>As someone who got to read her journal
Care to share a link?
>>778059
Fucking link us you massive faggot
>>778059
So some hippy lady gets lost while trying to remove dingle berries from her hairy essential oil smelling asshole and I'm supposed to care?
>nope
Tell us about the places you've explored and your experiences while you were there, share pictures, and ask questions or advice.
>>770137
All dat amazing brickwork.
>>770137
>Old boarded up building
>Only way in is through broken window
>Full of drug addicts squatting
>GTFO before I get stabbed
>10/10 would see why kids stay in school again
Done tons of climbing and investigsting old buildings and train tracks. Also know the entire storm drain system of my city. I can travel 10 miles across my city without being seen at all. You have to keep moving though because you run out of oxygen quickly in the tunnels and get dizzy.
I had these cacti for a pretty long time now, but around 2 years ago, some kid fucking mutilated one of them (the one on the right) with a knife. Ever since, it never really healed and i'm not even sure if it's still doing fine. Is it still healthily alive or have i wasted 2 years of my life watering a dead cactus?
>caring about plants
RIP cactus
Unfortunately mercy kill is the only humane course of action at this point
Hey /out/, I need some help.
I just invited a girl to go camping/possibly backpacking to pic(related)tured rocks in a couple weeks.
Last summer I did a bunch of camping and backpacking with my brother. The only problem is he was the one who bought all the stuff/told me what to buy/planned it all.
I'm looking to buy backpacking equipment so I can start going on my own. I'm not looking for the super expensive stuff, but not the cheapest either. Probably going to go for a couple days.
Any advice for a good pack? Also what else will I need that I might not think of? I have good hiking boots and I'm pretty sure I have a good tent and sleeping bag. What else will I need?
Also if any of you have ever been to pictured rocks and have any good spots, trails, cliff jumping sites, etc. That would be awesome.
I'm planning on buying enough equipment to be able to go on 2-3 day hikes by myself.
Thanks for any and all help!
bumpppppp
If you guys help me I'll post pics of her after the trip
>>788777
Post what you remember taking last time maybe?
What do you do in this situation /out/?
Keep in mind you just chucked your driver into 4ft of untamed and overgrown foliage.
Do you call the phone number on the back of the disk and/or drop it off at the lost disc collection box
Or do you take what is rightfully yours, it's the nature of the sport.
>>788741
Wut? It's a frisbee. Who cares.
>>788744
>not knowing a decent disk runs you 20$
>>788745
>spending $20 on a frisbee.
What the fuck op?
Please sign this change.org petition to allow Hammock Camping within New York State DEC parks.
>>788689
https://www.change.org/p/new-york-state-dec-allow-hammock-camping-in-new-york-state
Here is the link, thanks for any support.
>>788689
>change.org
How delusional are you?
>>788689
Online petitions, the Prayer of the Internet
Add my snapchat I do hikes everyday new rivers waterfalls and places everyday! Maybe one of the users of 4chan will contribute snap cash so I can do more of these adventures and show amazing parts of the outdoors and let you live my life through a video! I'm a free runner so I jog up mountains then explore as I go.
Snapchat
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I do porn and construction for a job so my snapchat is always funny lol.
Donate so I can keep adventuring everyday!
Step onna nail faggot!
I don't charge and my adventures are better.
>>788492
And I have adventures year round
This throwing knife doubles as marijuana pipe.
Every day we stray further from the gods light...
probably only useful as a bowl and not an actual knife. I prefer my one-hitter for the trail since it looks like a cigarette. much stealthier than smoking out of a fuckin knife.
>>787820
But what if you needed to stab a nig trying to steal your stash... Like right then.. You could just like *whatchaaa!* and stab em.
Pic related will always be my number one.. Bulky, inefficient item that could easily be replaced by a spare battery, power bank, hand crank, or not needing the phone in the first place.
>>787820
That's what we need is a bunch of high people holding knives up to their faces and then trying to pass them blade first to the person on their left.
#52-"3D Fisherwoman" Edition
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>>785540
>Mepps are still GOAT
I should've gotten out fishin' this afternoon since it was nice and cloudy all day. Had to catch up on that Sunday night DVR action though. Silicon Valley amirite? Maybe tomorrow I can get off work at a reasonable time. It's nice that the June sun stays up until close to 9pm, but that means I get home from sunset fishing way too late when I have to wake up at 4:30am.
Maimi anons outfished me the other day, I was proud.
Mainebub, what is the word on the strippers?
Talk about fishin.
Op is a fag
Anybody else have an opinion on this? >>787478
Mostly for leaders, but I'm curious if anybody has run it as main line too. I use Vanish for leaders, and had #4 Vanish on an ultralight but ended up going to braid because it is so much easier to work with. Vanish hasn't failed me for leaders, but in another 5 years when I finally kill that 250yd spool of #20 Vanish, I may try something else.
>>787506
i use 15 lb stren flouro for pickerel leaders, and it works great, have had some big pickerel on there that havent bit through, , though ive had pickerel go clear through 8 and 15 lb mono easily , waay too stiff to use as a main line
I just got a new pair of hiking boots and sprayed them down with NeverWet. How well does it work? Am I going to be impressed or disappointed?
>>787460
Just remember that there's no such thing as being really waterproof. Just water resistant.
My boots have a sympatex liner. No leaks yet, but I haven't really tested them too hard. Puddles and streams mostly.
>>787460
I bought the Bass Pro RedHead brand spray like that for my knock-off Tims.
One application helped a little, but after two applications and it got much better. My main problem was the morning dew soaking into the fake leather or whatever they are made of. If I totally submerge them, my socks will still get wet. But I can now walk around the grass in the morning for an hour or two without getting wet socks. And I sprayed them quite a few months ago and haven't had to do it again yet.
tl;dr:
Don't expect a miracle but it does work.
>>787460
that looked like a Jedi w a lightsaber in the thumb :(
What light to do use for your /out/ activities?
I've been using a Fenix E21 for years and it's done the job, and I was planning on buying another to leave in my car but it turns out they're discontinued. So now I'm thinking about buying a Fenix LD09(pic related) but wanted to see if there were any better alternatives.
I don't actually have a picture of it because it's laying in my truck, but I've been using this streamlight for a little more than a year.
Just clip it somewhere on your chest or belt and go, the clip is actually pretty sturdy, I've even run and had it stay on me. It has a good beam, there are better lights indeed, but this has never left me wanting.
I know what you're thinking, and a head lamp would probably serve me better as far as wearable lights go, but I am subject to the rule of cool, as we all are.
>>785813
Princeton Tec headlamp and little LED MagLite that runs off 2xAA batteries. I already collect fishing lures, no need to waste any more money on tacticool flashlights and knives.
>>785813
My favorite light is a nitecore P12GT.
Great throw and adjustable.
Anybody know anything about his knife?
>>785102
Made by western, that's all I know
>>785102
That is an old paratrooper knife made by camillus is the 1950s that was adapted into a hunting knife by an individual person
>>785145
There aren't any markings on it as fat as I can tell. What about it makes it a camillus?