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>how to get started
Purchase a corn cob pipe (or a cheap briar pipe) and a pouch of Half and Half or Captain Black tobacco from a smoke shop or online. You will need a lighter or match, and something to tamp it with--a large nail works well if you don't have a pipe tool. Fill the pipe with tobacco, pack it down halfway, top it off, pack it down to 3/4, top it off again, pack gently and enjoy. Smoke slower than you think you need to, the tobacco tastes best when it is burning cool. Tamp and re-light as needed. If you still have trouble, try different methods on YouTube until you find one that works for you.

>smoking a pipe will give you cancer
Originally the Surgeon General found that pipe and cigar smokers, following a careful study of the statistics (at a time when most adults smoked, so they had a good sample size), had insignificant death rate increases. Nowadays, tobacco is being legislated against while hard drugs are being legalized. Put two and two together. Tobacco is just another good thing under attack by the government.

All tobacco users welcome. Stoners will be taken to Singapore and caned.

Sometime this week I’m hoping to hike the Presidential Traverse in New Hampshire, weather permitting. I’m just looking for some sort of reality check on the book times, which are 12-14 hrs for ~20 miles and ~9000ft. I am fit, and have plenty of experience hiking/backpacking. I’ve done the Pemigewasset loop in the Whites, and moved quickly over that ridgeline. I’ve done 20 miles with a heavy pack and plenty of daylight to spare - albeit over maybe easier terrain than the whites. I understand the potential risks posed by the extreme weather, although this week looks good other than cloud cover.

Just looking for someone to tell me if I’m grossly underestimating this.

I want to go on a 4-5 day tent hike anywhere in the Alps.
I’d like a place that’s not overcrowded and doesn’t require walking under cable cars or crossing busy streets.
A day dedicated to a peak with some scrambling or easy climbing would be cool too.

I'm not necessarily looking for concrete routes, but more so advice on how to plan a trip like this. I can't find anything that fits my requirements.
I live in Switzerland, but ironically it seems like a terrible place for a multi day hike like this.

This part of America is peak, FYI

Would you make any modifications like going through La Dotse?

A dramatic rescue operation was launched in Oberperfuss on Sunday evening after hikers reported hearing screams and a loud bang in the mountains. Police feared an accident, but the cause turned out to be far less serious: a German hiker had dropped his expensive DSLR camera and shouted in frustration.

At around 7:10 p.m., police were alerted that several people near the Roßkogel had heard loud cries that sounded like a call for help. A police helicopter was dispatched for an initial search but found nothing. Witnesses near the Krimpenbachalm told officers they had clearly heard both the screams and a dull thud.

Later, a moving light was spotted on the mountainside, apparently from someone descending. By 9:00 p.m., officers made contact with a 58-year-old German hiker. He explained that while photographing the sunset, he had dropped his high-end camera, which was badly damaged. As he tried to recover it, he shouted loudly in frustration. He noticed the helicopter circling but did not realize it was searching for him.

The man was uninjured and was able to hike down on his own to his car, parked at the Inzinger Alm.

The operation involved the police helicopter Libelle Tirol as well as patrols from the Fulpmes and Kematen stations, including alpine officers. According to police, the damaged camera was valued in the low five-figure range.

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Alps-bros, how do we get rid of German tourists on our mountains?
You'd think training our cattle to attack and kill them would've been enough deterrence.

Didn't see any Make Your Own Gear thread so I am making one.

Currently making a leather sling bag for my offgrid travels around the world, and my idea for it is so unique to what I discovered I used and needed when travelling that I'm pretty sure this bag would suck for anyone else using it.

Pic unrelated.
Are you using anything you made yourself for your /out/side adventures or did you trash everything away to buy premade gear?

/out/ bros whats going to realistically happen if roadless rule gets pulled?

Whats your favourite climate?

is this still alive or is it dying already? can I just water it and keep it outside or do I need to do something else?
there was a tiny spider living between two of the leaves but I kicked it out already
it says phalaenopsis on the pot

Recently moved to JC, TN from the west coast, life is good here. While I enjoy my comfy times and walking to the grocery store again, I don't know where to start exploring here.

Any tips, do I start here in Appalachia or do I go right to the Smokys? Any good day hikes?

I'm planning on doing a small backcountry Nordic skiing trip this winter. it'll be my first time doing any extensive cold weather camping. what kind of pant layering do you guys do for this sort of thing. will i be fine with my wool thermals and a ski bib?

Rank each season on comfiness

It seems like a higher risk, lower reward game. I know that more elevation doesn't always equal more fun but I don't think the likehood of avalanches equals fun either. I don't think any kind of fun is worth almost 30% kill rate. And if you just wanna kill yourself in mountains, you can try rock climbing with no rope or simply hiking in winter in swimsuit.

sometimes When i feel sad i go out for a walk, and i go south, there is a stream nearby, i usually stop there to comtemplate it for a while

Looking for a sidearm for solo backpacking. Shotgun stays home—too heavy. Been relying on blades but want something better for defense (animals or creeps).

Would prefer something not too bulky, and manageable recoil-wise (small hands, not a big person). Reliable and woods-worthy.
Revolver or semi, open to either.

What’s /out/ carrying?

are rice picker hats unironically the strat for excessively hot and sunny excursions??
(I'm white btw)

The edge of morality
A case of transforming nature

A common slogan regarding evolution is “evolution doesn’t stop at the neck.” The basic idea is that the same evolutionary forces that work on our bodies—determining our height, method of reproduction, and so on—also work on our brains. Our minds are not unfiltered Cartesian egos, unaffected by evolution, and the assumption that they are is a source of serious error.

But there’s a similar dogma when it comes to ethics that is as widespread as it is indefensible. This is roughly the notion that ethics stops at the edge of society—that ethics, in other words, has nothing to say about nature, and there are no values to be promoted in nature; all we should do, with respect to nature, is preserve it. This idea strikes me as clearly wrong!

When you tell people that you support modifying nature to reduce suffering—trying to get rid of predators that rip their victims limb from limb and of flies that lay eggs in the bodies of live animals, eating their way out from the inside—they act like you have grown another head. But I think the worthwhileness of modifying nature follows from every plausible ethical view.

We normally accept that it’s bad when animals suffer. We think there’s something noble about helping out an injured deer, but nothing comparably noble about helping out an injured plant. When, in the 1980s, surgery was performed on live dogs without any anesthetic, we correctly recognize that such a practice was ghastly and horrific. The reason it was horrific is that it’s bad to be in excruciating agony. The fact that huge numbers of dogs were in excruciating agony was a bad thing. Surely it can’t be that it’s only bad for dogs to suffer if humans are the culprit—this would imply that it’s wrong to treat horrible diseases dogs have, if treating the diseases causes them any suffering.

tourist from /trv/, how do i protect myself when in very very hot environments in terms of clothing? what works in your experience, what doesn't? i know some of you like to lurk around in deserts so i figured you lads would know the best.

Is Elbrus the highest and most magnificent mountain a European can climb without spending as much money as on a decent condition car?

>you will never get to explore the coast redwoods or the temperate rainforests of North America pre-logging
How do I cope with this thought?

can anyone recommend me a good bike for bikepacking? A bike that can handle gravel roads, and offroad, but that is also suitable for traditional bike touring? Preferably also one that can be used as daily comuter to/from work.

Question. How far off the beaten path do you guys live? Closest town to me is roughly 15-20 miles on roads like these. Wife loads up on groceries, like two carts worth to make less trips. Aside from not having cell reception. I love it up here. I feel my heart pressure drop when I get to the treeline road to my neck of the woods. I enjoy my weirdo neighbors. lands cheap out there too. And i can literally shoot game from my porch

*gets on you*

Would you like to live in mountains?

I'm planning on going to the summit of the Kilimajaro and later the Aconcagua on the slower easier routes. What kind of preparation people do fitness-wise? I live at around 800m above sea level and work out every day. I'm fit enough so can run 10km in 1h and people said i will be fine but idk if they did so i would use their expedition services.
I've already done multiple days hikes but nothing quite as high and altitude fucked me up when i was in Peru.

Blue Grosbeak Edition
post you're bird photos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silt

this is so beautiful.

In northeastern area where would be the best areas?

Do people in Japan really buy hundreds of dollars worth of gear just to backpack half a mile from the bus stop to a gravel patch in someone's back yard?
Granted it doesn't seem that much different from western people buying hundreds of dollars of gear just to camp in some dirt by the side of the highway, but is that really what /out/ is like over there?

I only have enough RAM in my head to memorize five knots.

Which ones should I learn?

Weird hole in the ground edition.

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how do i traverse this? im going innawoods in northern ontario next weekend and going off-road but it seems like muskeg is absolutely fucking everywhere and i'm scared to walk on or go across it because i heard shit like caribou can just sink inside it with no warning and are unable to get back up, plus its all wet as fuck and its insect heaven and its like walking through really thick mud

is muskeg just untraversable? is this why nobody lives or goes off road anywhere in northern ontario? just because of this swamp-like abomination?

Extremely fun, addictive hobby, I am thinking of becoming one of these degenerates

My only pet peeve is that, how does the TPU Nylon handle fishing hooks?

What are your personal experiences?

In my heart there are two men. The first is primal and wild, a forest dweller living in defiance of nature as a triumphant victor of resource conquest. He can build fire with his hands, slay prey, and reroute river systems. The second owes the bank money and wage slaves away to live a dull, unadventurous, and sterile, life completely devoid of exuberance and vitality. Anons in similar spirits, how do you cope?

one of my favorite things about wandering through the wilderness is that I can serenade the world with many a merry tune without the mush brained npc normcattle on the street fluoride staring at me

Hiking would be a lot more fun if private property were abolished.

I got stung by a bee yesterday while watering flowers at work. I felt really tired on the way home, which I heard was normal, then proceeded to eat dinner (I was sneezing by this point), go to sleep earlier than usual, and then woke up an hour later from my "nap". I sat up and felt super congested, sneezy etc, with what could best be described as an "allergy cough" you'd get from something like hay fever. But I never once felt like I couldn't breathe (save for the congestion) and had no feeling of shortness of breath when not breathing out of my nose. I took some ibuprofen and the sneeziness went away soon after.
>tl;dr Should I still see an allergist? I work outdoors and while I've been stung before I don't wanna randomly drop dead from something as preventable as a bee sting.

has anyone ever encountered one of these things? and also, how do i avoid getting killed by one?

#527- “Soft Plastic” Edition

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janny pls…

Thinking about picking up a new hobby? Want to get a memecaster? Haven't mastered the Palomar knot? Click here!
http://www.pastebin.com/u/fishingandtackle
https://imgur.com/a/1Xw3N

New Bong Fishin Guide
https://pastebin.com/sDB5SQTq

First for best telescopic rod is the one you exchanged for a 3pc.

Talk about fishin

Time to settle the great debate for good
Which one is better for the outdoors?

Someone shot up a bunch of Catholic school children and now they just assassinated Charlie Kirk

Society is getting too violent

I need to strategically plan my exit from society. I'm thinking off-grid homestead. Full off-grid, no GPS, no radio, no sewer, no power, no cell.

Who's with me anons? What do we need to do to carefully prepare our homesteads and survive off-grid?

Where is a good piece of land to start?

/prepper thread/

Is climbing based and trad?

Alternative cooking methods

Look folks, it's 2025, fire is out the window. Your risk of starting a forest fire is too high, and smoke gives away your position to anybody. Obviously, fire is fucking dumb. The comanche would cold camp without fire to evade the Texas Rangers.

But luckily, there are some really cool alternatives to using fire for cooking.

>cold soak
Dehydrated refried beans and othee foods can simply be left in water
>solar grill
These are really fucking cool and work great for cooking
>non-cook solutions
Muh protein powder, fiber powder and multivitamin gauntlent

Im quite fond of the cold soak, I rarely even use heat to cook at home. The solar shit is really cool.

I hate the sun on the steppe. Let me live in a coniferous forest where there is snow.. I beg . T_T Who's with me?

>vegetation able to grow at higher latitudes and in the greenland and antarctic interior
>antarctica now a kino massive volcanic island chain
>half of eastern ch*na flooded
>like a fifth of br*zil flooded
>globohomo coastal megacities flooded
>most of evropa safe
>flooded land would create shallow seas ideal for massive reefs and marine ecosystems to form
>higher temperatures and expanded oceans would lead to higher rainfall in previously arid areas
maybe our iceless future won't be so bad

anyone w experience in switzerland (Bern, Interlaken, Grindelwald...)
planning to go there and could use some advice :-)

+any hitchhikers here also?

Where my Wind River Lake CHADS at? Anybody want to share their favorite holiday honey holes? Where do y'all like to fish on vacation?

Alright, which one of you mentally ill losers was this?

https://www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/article/weaverville-pipe-bomb-hiking-trail-20807909.php