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Why should being a loner stop you OP?

Are you not self-sufficient enough on your own terms?

>>758128
>Are you not self-sufficient enough on your own terms?
I am, but is it not supposed to have someone securing the rope at the bottom?

>>758115
You literally cannot. You can rock gym as a loner if you smile and act nice. You can boulder as a loner all day. But you cannot alpine as a loner and i hate that too. Because i also hate people.

If they can do it, good for them.

I met a girl who was traveling the world and had gone from South America to Asia, the Middle East, and Africa by herself and was planning on going to Europe afterwards while working in Africa. She was pretty bad ass.

>>756889
>in the wild
as in, out of the kitchen?

>>756891
Meanwhile, the girl who I was working for was a lazy, unintelligent, unadventurous grad student who clearly needed her hand held as I ended up doing most of her project for her.

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Posting more photos.

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I'm a yuge fan of the Pentax DSLRs. They have ridick weather sealing on their entry-level models. Nobody else gives you weather sealing at that price. I have a K-50 and it gets poured on and I know I don't have to worry about it fucking up. It has a rugged polycarbonate body (over stainless inner chassis) as well which takes hits without denting, faking, or fatiguing. Even the kit lenses are weather sealed for dirt and water. Not it can't be submerged or anything, but you can legit drop it in the dirt and then take it in the shower to clean it off.

>inb4 /p/ finds this thread and it all becomes a shitshow

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That's quite obvious.
No tribe that lives in the world survives without meat. Just face it.

Does fishing count as hunting? tribes didn't survive on hunting to the same extent as fishing

>>756034
>That's quite obvious.
For me it wasn't.
I actually believed that you can survive on berries and insects like in all the TV shows and books until I tried a fruit diet at home and almost fucking starved although I ate a decent amount of fruit.
Now I know that all this stuff is short-term survival only. I feel my muscle loss and foolishly enough, I even worked out in this malnourished state.


>>756038
>Does fishing count as hunting? tribes didn't survive on hunting to the same extent as fishing
I believe that the coasts of seas and rivers are the natural habitat of the human. That's why mountain and desert people who see no water are so dense btw.

Also I'd consider fishing as a form of hunting because you kill and eat another animal.

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Good guy that did good work for the sierra club. Saved it from potentially being a shitty fear mongering environmental organization.

I personally like him because he came up with a minimalist style bench that requires one board, 6 carriage bolts, and a fist full of screws. I made 8 of them for my Eagle scout project a few years back.

>>755647
that bench design isn't really that impressive, clearly he wasn't a wood worker.. dunno how you can inspire someone based off a "minimalist" bench that uses carriage bolts and a fist full of screws.

minimalist would be joinery only and I can tell you how to build a one board bench doing so. so do you aspire my set of skills? I would hope not.. you don't know me.

>>755655
I always figured Aldo was more of an intellectual guy when it came to /out/ stuff. He was a forester, went to Yale and was an adviser to the UN on conservation when he died.

Does you /out/siders know of any other influential, famous folks like him? I'm admittedly short on knowledge of the outdoors myself

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>>762818
>5-600 lume

>>762818
Just get a maglight

>>762822
Yeah right?

It's not like it's what I meant is totally obvious.

>>762832
No.

>>762346
85l is MORE than enough for 4 season use.

123l is unncessarily big and you're just going to end up doing your back in with a 30kg pack

>>762346
get one of these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAtzN_ScKXY

>>762346
why do you want something so big?

>>761708
How do you go about cleaning your arse after making poopoo in the woods, toilet paper or baby wipes? Also, what's the official policy of your institution on this matter? Any regulations about it? Your answer is very important because it might help settle a long going on dispute among us. Peace.

To do your stuff are you guys also emt trained?

>>761708
Tell us about the staircases

>>760753
i think every bachelor has this comfort. the economy of security comes from family folk who dont have the option of disappearing into the night with a bag of nuts and a lighter

also, you will eventually become a rat, because it is almost impossible to both be a drifter and be confidently self sufficient. either you are eating out of dumpters, limiting your movements to social areas, or are on the unbeaten path and have 0 reliable food and water sources, which will either herd you back into society, or force you to settle down in wild areas with resources, effectively taming the supposedly unchained soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISVoAijFMao

I've found regular grooming and frequent laundering of your clothing makes things much easier all around.

>>760753
Seems cool in theory but in my fantasy I'm a highly skilled guy that goes from town to town solving mysteries and saving people from greedy land developers or whatever. Reality would be a lot more dirty and depressing.

>>760584
>Alfie's back
The same content again and again

>>760584

>Bells

Disappointed in u m8

Ah sweet. I kinda figured Alfie retired from ütube †bh. What's he been doing this whole time

>>760358
>triggered

>>760359
I wish! My cock went 3/4 chub when I saw this pic

>>760251
doves it looks like. tho they look bigger

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>>760251
The kind that flies. First time outside of NZ ?

>>760258
Should I have killed it?

Sierra Trading Post. Their selection is inconsistent, but it's not hard to find really good stuff for ridiculously cheap there, especially with the easy to find coupon codes they always have.

Campmor is more consistent with stock and also usually have a coupon you can use.

Those are my two favorites. Backcountry (and Steep and Cheap) can also have good deals, as can REI's outlet section. And so can brick and mortar stores, if you're buying stuff out of season. Outdoor gear is actually fairly easy to find cheap because of how often manufacturers updates models of things and putting old models on closeout, in addition to the general seasonal nature of most products.

>>759670
thanks for the informative response!

>>759665
>broke college student

Your typical large sporting goods store like Sports Chalet in California or Academy in Texas. They'll be stocked to the brim with products like Coleman which are very cheap but honestly work just fine.

If you feel like splurging on high quality shit like Osprey backpacks or titanium campware, REI.
I am an REI whore and they'll do big sales every so often and the "garage sale" every few months. (look it up. You can get badass shit for 30% of original cost) You gotta show up to the garage sales at like 5am or earlier though. Think black friday for all the best camping gear. REI also has a good membership program that will get you some shekles back.

>>>755715

>>759357
see if I give a fuck

>>759349
Get saddle bags

Just wear an eye patch. After a month or so you basically have night vision.

>>759083
I'd prefer something that wouldn't be temporary senpai

>>759086

You got to get sent to a slam, where they tell you you'll never see daylight again. You dig up a doctor, and you pay him 20 menthol Kools to do a surgical shine job on your eyeballs.