I know there was a thread about minerals and rocks but i cant seem to find it.
Would anyone here happen to have any idea what kind of rock this is?
It's pretty light i doubt its even two pounds.
It's shiny on the outside but is dull when cut.
Has a bunch of little tiny holes in it.
And is not magnetic.
I found this out in the texas panhandle around 5 years ago and it was the only thing around that looks similar.
Several rock "experts" have had no idea what it is. One said it may be part of a meteorite but im not getting my hopes up. I figured /out/ may know what it is. Sorry for poor pic quality
pic of cut side
I'd also like to mention it does not float.
Do you guys ever practice "post-apocalyptic" scenarios, or just hike around and camp for a night or two drinking beer? I'm not talking about zombies or any faggot shit, but something realistic like power goes out for a week, or a national disaster that destroys your house and you live to live in the woods nearby for a few days until help comes. My family has 80 acres adjacent to a National Forest and I'm thinking of crafting a bug out location, and digging a hole that I will stockpile and hide canned goods in. If I were to bury it, how likely would a bear or other scavenger dig it up? Also planning on digging a separate hole to hide ammunition. I'm going to make cordage out of bark and set u snare traps for Raccoon and around beaver dams since they are legal to hunt year round. Also thinking of making a hut/igloo out of natural materials. Thoughts? Anybody else here autism camp?
>>722028
Fuck all that. If/when SHTF, I'm gonna go buy a bunch of heroin and OD. I'm not tryin to deal with all that.
>>722028
>autism camp
I haven't but it sounds like a fun idea. I'm not into the whole prepping thing but i'd do it for self sufficiency reasons.
It would be a fun exercise to give yourself like 30 minuets to fill a small backpack with gear then hightail it to the woods and see how long you'd last. I might have to try this this fall when the hunting season starts up again.
I imagine building a shelter then living off squirrels/rabbits/whatever the fuck for a few days.It would also be a plus to do it stealthy and avoid contact with other people to further the role playing.
Imma sperg out for a minuet here. Who else is eagerly awaiting the day ultra realistic VR becomes a thing? Imagine a MMO world where we could all act out our autistic zombie fantasies. Dot deny it annons. You know you secretly day dream about Zombie scenarios even though you know its fucking retarded.
We all dream about a zombie apocalypse the only downside for me I'm a ukfag so guns are pretty scarce although I do have an awesome crossbow to fight off the undead
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This is even cooler OP, and probably even more expensive
>>721838
The old fuckers that rules the world behind the puppet states.
The sad fact is the only people who can afford these things, it's their toy. They literally have so much money they need to blow it on expensive toys like this to feel good about themselves. They play with it for a month then forget about it and move onto the next toy. Never finding anything that gives them a lasting sense of happiness.
What is objetively the most dngerous /out/ activity?
Off the top of my head some that seem the most dangerous are:
>open water sailing in the Drake Passage
>high altitude climbing
>free rock climbing
>underwater cave exploration
Pic related.
>>720361
Big cat rape.
Almost no chance of survival.
>boating at night
>boating drunk
>boating drunk at night
statistically drunken waterfaring is one of the most dangerous activites you can do, outside of attempting suicide or other self-destructive behaviors
oh, and oral sexing meese ':[
Besides Alaska, what's the best state to live in for that log cabin in the mountains, snowy winters, tons of game to hunt, lots of fishing, type of /out/ place to live?
I currently live on a farm in Texas and it's boring as fuck. I want some trees and mountains, game to hunt for food, fishing, etc.
It doesn't exist anymore for the plebs. The price of entry for that kind of a place is only attainable by the elite these days.
>>718980
Really? Because I can buy what I want here for less than $400K, excluding the mountains. And the hunting because hardly any public land here. Don't feel like paying to hunt on private land. I'm sure it doesn't cost much more to buy the same house in a more mountainous state. I'm not asking for hundreds or thousands of acres. Just 10-20 adjacent to a National Forest or Public Wilderness
>>718983
For idyllic "cabin in the mountains" you are talking Jackson, WY, Ketchum, ID, Big Sky,MT, etc. $1.0 million is a "starter home" for a "handy man." And it won't have any land. These are the places the movie stars and ultra rich have been buying since the 1980's.
Have you explored a cave, /out/? What was your experience like? inb4 mom's vagina jokes
I have camped in a cave network before. It was serene, echoey, drippy and there was this constant gentle current of air.
I was able to do so because it's a private cave on private land, you can't get away with this in federally owned caves or they'd be full of hobos.
I brought a kamprite tentcot to keep me up off the damp cave floor and to shield me from occasional water droplets from the ceiling. The temp was surprisingly comfy, I didn't need my jacket most of the time.
There's often a stream running down the cave, at least during some of the year, which is handy for carrying your piss away. I shit in a big ziplock bag and packed it out with me.
One really nice thing I thought to bring were chemically self-heating cans of coffee and soup. You turn a key, chemicals mix inside and it self boils right in the can. This let me have hot food down there. Can't make a fire for obvious reasons.
Silly white boy sticking your nose where you ae ill-equipped. Get attacked by a mountain lion.
your moms vagina
So this Summer I'll be working in Yellowstone National Park from May-August.
It's a full time job, but nothing special (kitchen/restaurant work).
>~35hr/week and 2-3 days off per week.
On the upside, I'm looking forward to some great climbing, trails, and back-country hiking.
I've never been to YNP though, so I'm curious if anyone has some trail suggestions or a "must do" list of other things to do/see while I'm there.
good luck
that's awesome OP! get book related. about half the people or more who die in accidents at jellystone are employees. it would be good to know what mistakes they made on their days off.
also are you a boy or a grill? i stayed there in early May when the place was completely empty and every girl who worked there wanted me to bone the shit out of her. receptionists, front desk clerks, waitresses. i couldn't get them offa my caulk.
>tfw homo and no boys anywhere
>>718762
Yeah, the first thing their HR department told me when I accepted the job was about employee deaths.
I'm a (single) guy, so I do plan to capitalize on that.
Spontaneously bought an eno doublenest hammock with my rei dividend.
Are hammocks just a meme or the comfiest way to enjoy the outdoors?
Comfiest, yes. Most expensive? Will be if you go too deep down the rabbit hole.
there is no such thing as meme
>>715499
How far does it go?
Can we get a food general? What do you bring? This is 2 nights 3 days of food for me.
This is about 5 days of food for me.
>>690741
Breakfast: 3 pop tarts, 3 oatmeal pies, 2 instant coffee, 2 hot chocolate, 3 cliff bars.
Lunch: tortillas, block o cheese, olive oil, baccon bits.
Snacks: rye chips, sweet tarts, twix, electrolyte drank mix.
Dinner: instant potatoes, pasta side. Both dinners pair with the cheese, olive oil, bacon bits.
This was for a 2 night 48 mile hike. Showed up to the car with only a twix and a tortilla left.
#20 - Salty Takeover While Pepsi is Asleep Edition
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>>720908
Happy Easter. I busted my reel. Fluke got a new one and made a neat needlefish plug. Pepsi and mainebub with the usual.
Talk about fishin'
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>>723319
What are those two fish? In Australia we have two very similar species, the top one is like a grinner/Sargent Baker and the bottom one is very similar to our bream.
Dude with a lathe but no wood here. Maybe try turning some green wood and some live edge pieces for a change. But obviously, you aren't going to find such raw material at the Big Orange Retail Giant and the woodworker shops charge a pound of flesh for decent sized hardwood blanks. But I have a park/forest nearby. A deciduous, mature forest packed with red oak, sycamore, ash, maple, osage etc. Last time I came here I brought my Gransfors Bruk axe (because I need at least some reason to own it) and tried to take home some log sections but the tool proved to be totally unfit for purpose.
I need a good folding saw. It has to be big, but be able to fit in a backpack. It's gotta cut fast so I can cut down a tree, grab a piece of the midsection and dash home before park rangers notice. Any ideas?
>>719637
Fuck you.
>>719637
Aside from the obvious legal and moral problems you will be reminded of in posts to come...
I would use a laplander or a cable saw. Cable saw's aren't always extremely fast but they have the benefits of being extremely portable and flexible. I like them because they wrap around the wood and cut more surface area at a time.
The success with either will depend on how /fit/ you are but both are more stealthy than an axe.
just got about 20 feet of fallen pacific yew today to make into some longbows
>Be /out/
>Be british
>Mild climate
>No dangerous animals or insects
>Gorgeous countryside for miles
so comfy
New England best England
As far as I know you guys still have ticks.
>>719052
>>719064
Rainy and fucking gray/grey almost all year round.
Get on my southwest usa level
>>719064
Yup, we still have ticks, I actually have a friend with lyme disease :(.
To all anons that was telling me not to buy telescope, fuck you. This is best thing i've ever had
>>711358
Looks fun to play with when you're all stoned. Why would anybody tell you not to get it?
>>711360
arguments were
>you will get bored really fast
>there is nothing more to discover and thats so false in poland one guy discovered 10 supernovas in 2 years so yeah
Can you legit see galaxies and nebulas and shit like that with these things?
I used to have (a really cheap) one as a kid and did get bored of it kinda fast since all i could see were slightly magnified white dots.
>few weeks ago
>hiking several miles to a secluded glen to do some camping
>discover several other people already camping in the spot I was going to camp in
>decide to hike on to camp somewhere else
>curiously note that everyone has their cellphones out and using them the entire time I'm there, mostly they are texting but two were gaming
>find it a bit difficult to hold more than a 1-sentence conversation with any of them
>shake my head a move on, camp for a few days
>break camp and return the way I came, meet the same people, same scenario occurs
Smart phones
Sat phones
Tablet
Laptops
PLBs with texting and internet
Solar panel rechargers
Extra battery packs
>shit like this in the image
I even had to outfit my old boss with "high tech" shit so he could get wifi to do business while camping with his family while on vacation. So, he had a laptop with a USB wifi dongle fitted into a dish. He said it was the best vacation ever simply because he could get wifi.
I really don't get it at all. Can someone explain this to me? Is it just like all hobbies where the mediocre majority starts to shit it up when it becomes more accessible to them? At least I have the choice of moving to another location and don't need to hear "beep-bloop ding" shit at 2am.
>>711350
80% of th people you see camping, hiking, etc., don't even like it. In fact, most of them are first timers that are giving it a try because they see how cool the photos look or whatever other reason.
Phone gets turned off when I go out. Only piece of electronic gear that I use with frequency is my camera.
Biolite stove is unnecessary.
Solar chargers,, sure at a push could be useful for extended trips to recharge camera batteries and 18650s for my head torch.
>>711355
>most of them are first timers
Likely, I remember when I started to go /out/ by myself (used to hike a lot as a kid with my parents). I bought tons of gimmicks n shit, and was surprised that it was heavy to carry.
Still don't get it why people bring tablets or similar, for me the reason to go out is to disconnect a bit with society and connect a bit more with nature. Bringing electronics sees a bit counter intuitive to me.
I see no EDC thread...
>I see no EDC thread...
Oh he got you so good, rook!
Every day cancer thread?