For me:>Tent: MSR Hubba Hubba 2>Bag: Gregory Baltoro 65>Sleeping bag: Marmot Sawtooth 15>Sleeping pad: Zlite
>>2726171>on top of my sleeping bagRetard
>>2726180I wrapped it around like a foil burrito. Over around and under. How is that retarded? Was there a better move?
>>2726182I guess the issue is that you're trying to reflect heat back through your insulation, but a mylar blanket will ultimately be a bad fit for a sleeping bag due to moisture concerns regardless.
>cheap amazon 3x3m tarp>generic military style rucksack>an old bag from the loft that belonged to my dad>s2s etherlite xt insulated - had to invest here as I never got a good night's sleep on my dad's old thermarest
>>2719229usgi goretex bivvy with a 2lb down bag, nature for groundpad/cover some 40L packMora knife and a tomahawk Sawyer mini filter Freezedried potatoes + seasoning mix + rat traps for catching squirrels + fishing line/hooks for canepole fishing + gather plants/shrooms Ozark trail cookset, just the frypan and bowl/lid Coffee in tea bags + tea in tea bagsZippo with torchy insert + ferro rod + homemade firestarters
Current boat vessel is an intex sea hawk 3 inflatable which I have a 3 stroke honda gx35 air cooled motor mounted when going out. It works a dream on choppy and rough waters and its only 2HP, Its light and durable and fast.The other day I took it out to a river where im from called the Hunter River an hour before sun set. The water was very choppy which then calmed as the tide start coming up. I went a little bit further out than usual. Whilst attempting to return I was unable to get back maybe 300 meters from the boat ramp, I thought it may have been a the tide and my engine wasnt powerful enough, however I would float with the current and 20 meters down I could start the engine back up and power against the current then get stuck again at that certain spot and just not move. I attempted to row even with the motor going but the raft would not go any further. I tried different part of the water but it just would not let me through. I tried to for hours trying to get back. I put my oar into the water and it wasnt shallow, the engine would cut out after sitting in the sport for 10 seconds and just cut out when id slowly float with the current then Id start the engine and power back upWhat cause this? I ended up having to get someone to meet me at a different point 600 meters away.
>>2725358They're not a bad engine and the Intex inflatables are okay too, my mate has one and they're really good for power to weight ratio
>>2725358god i hope you're wearing a life jacket on that toy
>>2725358>I have a 3 stroke hondaExplain yourself?
>>2727374its a 4 stroke honda with 2 hp
>>2728137>only two HPShit CON score, better re-roll the character
When does it stop becoming camping and become “eating food outside”
>>2726743when you bring the facilities to cook normal low-effort meals I'd say. car camping is still camping if you're awkwardly crouching over a fire roasting hot dogs. If youre at a place with electric hookups to power your crock pot, then its just eating outside. I mean ffs Ive been to organized picnics with less amenities.
>>2726743Do boomer camping, it was a good balance.>drive up to some state forest's gravel parking spot>hike like 5 miles further in with an 80lb pack>have lots of comfy stuff but you're actually innawoods>you brought food but fish and hunt squirrels for even more food >stay a week or so
Where's the generator?
>>2726743>eating while camping magically makes it not campingThe mental gymnastics you faggots perform is unreal.
When you add sleep/shitting/living outside because just eating outside is a BBQ. Also I kinda want all this shiznit for my larger main tent (I have a little light titanium stove and smaller tent) Thinking its about the size you could cut frozen pizzas in half, toss them in a cooler and cook em with it.
>be dumb girl (pic related)>get lost in the woods for 28 days>somehow live>lose 40 pounds and get more attractiveIs /out/ ketomaxing a valid weight loss strategy? I want to lose 20-30 lbs.
>>2718639Drop by /fit/. Specifically, the fasting general thread.You’re more likely to preserve muscle mass if you’re already fat, so fasting is a poor choice for losing the last few pounds or to get a six-packKeep active while fasting, otherwise your body will cannibalize muscle instead of fat and skinTry not to be in a position where you need to drive or stand up quickly>>2718744Fasting will drop your T levels, but fat will also suppress your T>>2720279A two-day fast knocks out a lot of junk-food cravings for some reason, at least for me. The first meal after a two-day fast is something I need to ease into over the course of hours, though, starting with soup. Rebooting my GI tract is a slow affair, and if I rush it, my stomach hurts like fuck and I feel bloated
>>2718639she looked exactly right in the b4 picture
>>2726935>A two-day fast knocks out a lot of junk-food cravings for some reasonone theory is that you're killing off the bacteria in your microbiome that eat junk foodbacteria can influence food cravings to get what they want through the gut-brain axispeople who eat mostly real food also report this
>>2718667The fridge is so close
>>2718712>>2718734>>2726537>1 month in some forestshe looks like she was stuck on Robinson Crusoe island for 30 years
I met some frens while rock hunting today
Met some sheep while looking for ramps a week ago, also went in a cool cold war bunker
>>2724604>cold war bunkerComfy. What country?
these silly girls followed me down the trail for about half a mile yesterday
>>2727281they didnt want to cross the rubicon though
>>2724570>hunting rocksyou retard rocks can't move and you can't kill them
What's up with Krauts, specially boomers, and their kitted out rigs?I'm in southern Europe and every time I go to the beach, no matter the time of the year, there's always many, many hundred thousand €€€ traveling/camping rigs there and 90% of the time they have German plates.As I post this there are a couple 100K vans, mercs sprinters I think, fully prepared for world travel and parked on a gravel road right up to the beach.
>>2723691Not in Germany. In Canada absolutely you see these vans everywhere, in the US absolutely.
cuz theyre sick as hell?I wish i had one of those things i would just sell my house
>>2726202>Not in Germany Cap.Every year I see maybe 100-150 of these with german plates on, french tags are probably second but 1/10 or even less.If you're a kraut and don't see them then it's no surprise because they all flock south, it would be retarded if they had a vehicle like that and stayed confined to your authoritarian industrial hellscape.
>>2718464getaway vehicles after you burn a quoran but you get followed in a hyundai hatchback and flipped upside down by high test middle easterners
>>2718541Only Dutch people drive those though
Welcome to beekeeping general. Discuss apiary and bees.Old thread: >>2577491
>>2727518How hot is your climate? I'm in the rockies where the summers are easily 110 degree at its peak and they're fine. The cue that they're too hot is if they're bearding (e.g. sitting in front fanning their wings trying to cool the hive), sort of looks like picrelated. If they are bearding you can swap your bottom board to a screened bottom board and that will get them some circulation. Its very likely your bees are doing their orientation flights as they're getting used to their new homeHive beetles aren't a problem in my climate so you'll need to do your homework there, from what I understand dealing with the beetles has a lot to do with prevention and setting up traps and preventing them from getting a foothold. Do your research, as far as Varroa mites goes, learn how to do the powder roll test and the alcohol bath test (alcohol bath is lethal to the 100 bees so I prefer powder). Your bees are probably fine for now, but you should do a test for varroa at least once a month and treat if they breach threshold (2-3% or 2 mites per 100 bees) (https://www.instructables.com/Sugar-Coated-Honey-Bees-or-How-To-Test-for-Varroa-/). I typically have to treat at least once a year during the fall and I use formic pro strips cause they're easy, but there are a bunch of other options, some you can treat with your honey supers, others need the supers to be removed.Learn how to spot for other conditions too, things like European Foul Brood, Nosema, Tracheal mites, chalkbrood, etc. They each have their own symptoms and ways you can treat. The big one you should learn are the signs and symptoms of American Foul Brood, which unless your bees are vaccinated unfortunately requires you to euthanize and burn your hives. My state (utah) requires us to register our hives and we get notices if there is a AFB outbreak in our area, (we had a scare last year but all my hives were unaffected fortunately) but if your hives get it, you gotta act fast.
I got stung on the face today, I was checking to make sure the queen I bought for a split got released properly, I finished boxing up the hive and left for 30 minutes and came back with a level to make sure it was still fine and had my hood down. She either was just coming in hot and I was in the way or she was just pissed as fuck but she got me on the chin. I might have to give my suit a vinegar bath since Im thinking my mere presence tilted her (they're not typically aggressive right off the bat)>>2727518speaking of level, this is important, make sure your hives are generally level. I made that mistake on my first hive and it caused me a ton of problems for a while cause they drew out their comb on the empty frames wierd and it took forever for them to correct it. (drawing comb is very difficult for the bees, so if they can do it right the first time the better)>>2727633imagine the ambient bzzzzzzzzzz
>>2727633Wild photo
Haven’t posted in some weeks. Lot of changes for the better. We built swarm traps, placed them in all sort of places around the county. there is no shortage of older folks who want nothing to do with swarming bees. Put together more boxes, nucs, frames, and including wax frame and bettercomb foundations to see how well the work. We typically use plastic foundations but either get them already coated or coat them in beeswax ourselves. Either way, we got our hands full now. Recently we drove to some place in Northern Ohio to pick up some packages of bees and queens. All of them are of the Saskatraz variety. packages were placed into new boxes with frames, some of which have some comb built onto them or are waxed. The all have some sorts of feeders, either frame feeder or top feeders. Queens went to hives that either swarmed (most were caught), had older queens that need to be replaced, or went to captured swarms or trap outs that need queens to keep genetics in line with this group of hives.We also have nucs that got swarms from traps and trap outs, a couple of which were from our hives. Nucs that needed queens got them. We tried to salvage old queens or when possible but with some effect as only few bees cared to accompany them. Did I mention swarm traps? yeah we got a lot, they’re everywhere and they’re are cheating. The shere amount of swarms we have caught so far is nothing short of amazing. I would like to say our methods are sound but it has also be ~20°F/7°C above regular temperatures so flowers as blooming and bees are breeding like mad. it’s gotten to a point where we’re low on boxes, nucs, swarm traps and are almost out of frames. i had to pick up 50 the other day as we only had about 4 left with all others in use.I lost count but we jumped from 5 hives to over 20 in the matter of days, with more to come as we have around 6-8 swarm traps with bees and a number of people with bees that need to have them removed from their properties.
>>2728265sorry if my post is somewhat illegible. New phone, new proportions, new keyboard layout, new autocorrect. Grammar and spelling nightmare trying to type even the most simple of sentences. Also 20 might not be the most truthful. we have most hives at the farm, but we have a smaller farm down the road we’re putting hives and nucs as we ran out of space at the main farm, this is where most feral swarms will go. Our small bee keeping unit also has a third person involved, any captured swarms near our farms are taken to his place sad he lives just farm enough to deter any bees fucking off back to their original locations. We place nucs on one side of his property and he gets captured swarms from near us placed his hive rows while we get ones near him. He also has the honey extraction equipment and excess bee keeping stuff stored as well. His approach is less in involvement due to work and scheduling issues and being more wooded in tandem with that results in his hives developing beetle issues, where one of our hives will have 1 or 2 at most while one of his can get 6 or 7 on a given day! All of our hives combined are now 30+. I can only imagine what it will look like this time next year. We’ve been in the game for a short time, we don’t even know how to extract honey and wax yet but only a few hives right now hard topped with honey supers. We’re also curious on how effective different hives will work, we have a combination of wood, BetterBee polystyrene hives, and some apimayes. The apimayes and better bees were chosen over a few other brands in termsof cost/capabilites. We ruled out a HiveIQ and some Finnish brand hive too but we will use them when needed. While many here will probably scoff at these plastic based hives, they do offer better protections in extreme temperature compared to wood hives but we’re not abandoned wood!I could go on and on but i’m so hap-bee.
Why does everybody want to drive hours to some tourist attractions when there's perfect /out/ right under their noses. I live in the suburbs with a few parcels of green space wood land of several dozen acres in size. It's undeveloped and has no obvious access or trails so I am probably the first person to have been there in years or decades even.
views + waterfalls
>>2727626normals are afraid and when /out/ they dare not take a single step off the trail. I have stopped inviting people out for this reason
I visit my local park to hike and run the trails 2-3 times a week. It's a pretty big area and the hills really weed out most people so once you get a couple miles in, it can feel like true innawoods sometimes. It's fun on it's own, but I treat it just as much as training for actual innawoods mountain hiking which I like to do several times a year in various locations. Plus my local spot becomes an arid shithole in the summer. You can't just limit yourself to local stuff when there's so much /out/ to see in the world.
>>2727626As I wrote on another thread, local parks are okay for scratching the itch on worknights or when your weekend schedule doesn't allow for more serious outings. Those places aren't really "perfect out" like you said, however. They're typically smaller, more crowded, have fewer interesting natural features in most cases, usually don't allow camping, and lose their novelty after you've gone there a million times already. The only real advantage is convenience for people living in urban and suburban areas.
a lot of my cities old fortifications and citadels have been turned into parks, canals too, i trap crawfish ín the canals, fish too
Just got an REI membership and all I want to do now is consooooom
>>2700073The only /out/ store faggier than REI is Dicks/Public Lands.
>>2723544and whichever one you're in at a given moment
>>2700086I need sun protection anytime I'm in the sun, and Mountain Hardware makes great UPF 50 hiking shirts, as well as normal flannels.Like their trail pants too
>>2723544Dicks is just a sports store. They don't sell outdoor gear. They sell football pads, golf clubs, baseball helmets, basketball hoops.
>>2728160Dick's is an 8 billion dollar family of companies with 41,000 employees. Dick's -branded stores do sell outdoor gear. including tents, fishing gear, camp stoves, lanterns, sleeping bags and, formerly, firearms such as duck hunting shotguns and ammunition.Ignoramous.
Moving out to Oregon for a job: near the cesspool called Portland. Any suggestions on places to hike for someone who has never been in the NW.
Cove palisades
>>2728049>Cove palisades Lake Billy Chinook is okay, The only thing worth seeing is the Metolius Balancing Rocks.
>>2727948>Can you in the crater where the explosion happened?No it is illegal>Is there snow on top of the mountain all year around? No. It will be gone by some time in July or August.
>bump
Off topic, but does anyone know any good beginner caving spots in Oregon. Want to get into that hobby but don't know where to start.
>>2715900What this guy saysHe's a professional larper and you can take his word for this theoretically correct response
Whatever the tallest 'mountain' in scotland is. Everyone took the zippy zipper sit down thing but i was trying to get in a cali girls pants so we walked. It was windy at the top and foggy
>>2726808so did you get herpes or not?
>>27145519,159 feet on a tourist mountain you can drive up most of the way. I've hiked and camped higher but not at a summit.
About 13,000 ft/4,000m, Nevado de Colima in México. I'm from Jalisco, I want to try the Iztaccihuatl next.
Modernity is so goddamn gay, decades ago you could hitchhike easily and truckers would pick you up really fast, nowadays they aren't even legally allowed to pick you because laws, company policies and insurance garbage.And this is just an example of many, as we move forward and as the population grows things get worse /out/ wise.
>>2709914Don't thumb it. Hang out at gas stations and rest stops and ask for a ride.
Had the opportunity to hitchhike and pick up a few travelers on Hawaii, seems to be one of few places where hitchhiking is a common sight.Each had a lesson, most memorable was picking up a middle aged woman who casually invited me to come check out the commune she stayed at, after saying no words of thanks for the ride, which was a suspiciously short distance to the beach. I later drove by the entrance out of curiosity, and decided against visiting instinctively, which was later corroborated by a hitchhiking crone who had more stories than I could handle about what kind of sick shit they get down to at that specific place (involving their children) and on the island in general.If you ever visit paradise, avoid all devils disguised as hippies, or everyone but the natives who are genuinely cool.
>>2717854>What was the point of the voucher?To get truckers and other people driving down the road to pick up hitchhikers, thus moving more people around per gallon of gas.
>>2709914what? hitchhiking is still a thing here, no laws against it. if i can i will try to pick up hitchhikers when im on my roadtrips, they are usually international travelers and has lots of stories. once picked up a danish girl who had traveled all the way from denmark to north cape, norway and was heading home when i picked her up.blew my mind when she told me east euro truckers, the kind you really dont want to deal with, they are batfucking crazy, drunk or on drugs, where here best and safest rides. they absolutely wouldnt touch her, no sexual harassment, nothing, just total protective bro-mode.
>>2726842>can't enjoy riding on the bedngmi
>west virginia>3Holy shit I share a board with plebs
>>2727751>live in VAyou must be in DC area? >any kind of /out/ activities whatsoeverthere are mt biking, fishing, paddling etc closer than 5-6hrs.
its an 8 hour drive from chincoteague to bristol, all in virginia
>>2714695Illinois was fine until you city niggers exported your politics to the rest of the state like the AWB and increased trailer sticker prices. I would gas anyone north of I-80 and east of I-39 in a heartbeat if I could.t. peoria suburb-fag
>>2714695>forest preserve Those are always crowded as fuck when the weather is nice.
>>2713595Wisconsin has some of the best waterfowl and deer hunting in the country. Trapping is big here too, as is ice fishing. It's also one of the few places where you can still spear for sturgeon. If you like marshes and wetlands, then you'll love Wisconsin. The northwoods/UP is god's country, and we have two great lakes to choose from at any time.
I've tried asking on 'dog' forums but I get nothing but a bunch of hysterical fucking pearl clutching faggots who start throwing accusations and character defamation around because I may not be of the opinion that dogs are actually human babies.I need a dog that can tolerate at the minimum sleeping overnight on its own, in a dedicated plush outhouse of its own, but still with some good guarding instincts and physical capabilities.All the personal protection breeds are faggots who will start whining and crying and pissing themselves if they're physically separated from their owners and forced into the indignity of not sleeping in your house according to the literature.Which rules out the otherwise ideal breeds ie Dobermanns, GSD. Any Anons had experience with dogs that are still down to ride like a Dobe/GSD but don't suffer separation anxieties?Thanks outists.
>>2726741none
>>2728030Dogs are absolutely endemic to North America
>>2726741Just keep them outside at night from the beginning. They will learn quickly. You might need to chain them up or fence them in if they run off or start attacking strangers. Consider climate. Can they handle cold weather if that's what you have in your area?
border collie 100%just note that you need to work itelse it will go absolutely crazy
>>2726741Beagle, basset or bloodhound
How the hell am I supposed to fit a sleeping bag in here? I got a 50L bag which seems too small now
>>2722541I have internal frame packs and probably dwarf this dude in terms of mileage and nights /out/. >supposed toLel
>>2722522How did you manage to find such a cold bag that takes up that much space?My extreme winter bag takes up a third of that when compressed.
>>2722522the sleeping bag is the issue50L is more than enough
Honestly had the same issue for a while, until I bought a similar specced but smaller sleeping bag. It is just worth it.But, I'd also suggest a 90L bag or similar. You can always not pack it with stuff, but it gives you so much more options.
>>27225221 get a down sleeping bag2 strap it to the top or bottom
