Currently camping in the white mountains with my .22 (308 was 8 pounds loaded so fuck that), give me your best experiences, /k/

Last time I went camping I fucked OP's mom in a national park.
I see he brought one of our spare condoms so his boyfriend can ride him bareback.

>>63742978
Those are exclusively for me and my model 140 you fucking jezebel

>>63742967 (OP)
>Thinks an 8 pound rifle is too heavy.

Some of you guys are pretty wea/k/.

>>63742967 (OP)
Story 1
>Travelled north to see a friend who had moved away.
>Went camping with friend and his Gen X father.
>Saw a mountain lion. Cool!
>Old man inserts the obligatory, "if you can see it then it wasn't hunting you.

Story 2
>Walking innawoods.
>See a boar. Super dangerous, those cunts are aggresive
>Boar gets obliterated by a rifle before I can shoot it. Bullet went right through it and then hit a tree near me.
> for a short while I can't see any other person.
>Someone runs up, "sorry I didn't see you there."
>Lucky to be alive.

Story 3
>Visiting family in a different state.
>Walking near a lake with a cousin, mud everywhere.
>We see a cottonmouth.
>Cousing obliterates it with a Glock in .40. Dumped a full mag on the snake.
>Looks at me, "Did you know ancient egyptian women would use snakes to masturbate."
>Kek, he must spend as much time online as me.
>Shame I couldn't stop him from becoming a degenerate.

Story 4
>Finished a hiking trip.
>Putting all my stuff back in the trunk of my vehicle.
>Old man walking nearby sees my .22 LR and starts the longest monologue I'd had that year about how I should switch to .17 HMR for better performance.
>I tell him that I like my cheap varmint cartridge. LOL
>Good on him for getting an upgrade though.

>>63742967 (OP)
what’s the sleeping pad?
what’s everything i would need to go innawoods and never need to have to come back out?

>>63743805
>what’s everything i would need to go innawoods and never need to have to come back out?
Knowledge and experience.

>>63743223
It's light until you're 4 miles on foot down a trail and the sling's been digging into your shoulder for the past day.
>>63743805
Picrel is my kit. Some basics you'll want are:
> Bug spray and more importantly Sage incense (keeps bugs away better than deet)
> Sleeping pad (insulates your warm body for the MASSIVE heat sink that is the floor)
> 1qt saucepan (for cooking) and tinfoil (use as a lid)
> Sawback machete and gloves (cutting firewood)
> Candle nubs (firestarters)
> Chemical water purifier and container the size of the measured purifier amount

>>63744156
I almost forgot
> padded l tactical belt (carries water, tent, machete, and pan on your pelvis and doesn't fuck up your spine from the weight)

>>63744156
most everything you listed seems like things you’d run out of and need to replenish.
i’m talking shit you’re able to only carry on your person and pack going in the woods to sustain as long as you can without coming back
>>63744062
gear specifically

i’m trying to put a pack together that will allow me to survive indefinitely.

>>63744253
if you are asking /k/, there's no amount gear to allow you to do that

if you actually had the knowledge and experience necessary then it would be quality hand tools, oil and files to maintain those tools and some starter seeds

>>63744293
and fishing line

>camping in a camp area
>glamping, trailers, retirees, etc no biggie
>neighbor campers come over and we hit it big
>shares with me his chili with no beans style
>its really fucking good
>eat 3 bowls with sour cream and corn bread
>2 am wake up from a dead sleep and run out my tent in the dark to the bathrooms
>sit there and shit for 1 minute straight of the most firey hell crap imaginable
>god damn razord blades and 1000 monkey claws coming out my anus
>30 degree weather and im sweating balls and heated up
>walk back exhausted to my tent and dont even get in my sleeping bag
>wake up around 11am walk out my tent
>theyre reheating the chili for lunch soon
>eat more because its good.
>dont have that issue again in the night

maybe it was the breakfast freeze dried stuff i had and not the chili.

>>63742967 (OP)
>innawoods thread
>get lectured on being a pussy softboi instead

>>63742967 (OP)
Invest in a lightweight AR if that's heavy for you
>>63744156
Invest in a better sling. Things do not have to be this way anon

bacon sucks over an open flame, use a pan or the grease falling on the fire screws it up

>>63743481
>Did you know ancient egyptian women would use snakes to masturbate
W-what?

>>63744478
like Japanese girls and eels

>>63744156
Cozy

>>63744156
>It's light until you're 4 miles on foot down
Skissue

JK, kind of, glad you're getting out there having a good time.

>>63742967 (OP)
over many years of my misspent youth
>did a 10 day trail in 7 days cause we were homesick
>nearly got hypothermia cause weather dropped to freezing due to a cold snap and we didn't have proper clothes
>attacked by bees (not African, thank fuck)
>saw vipers, boars, and deer; didn't get attacked (unlike the bee incident)
don't have pics, this was before camera phones and when even point-and-clicks were heavy, expensive, fragile, and had piss quality

>>63744156
Dont let the gun sit loose on you like everything else. Boy Scouts learn to kit properly.

noguns here, why don't hunting camo and military camo look alike? I mean, it's both for hiding in brushes right?
I didn't want to make a thread for this.

>>63745156
hunting camo is usually very specific to season and environment, military is usually just desert and everywhere else

>>63745156
Hunters need to freeze. Soldiers just need to not be wearing British red or French blue

Lived Like this for half a year
ama

>>63745156
Hunters sit in a stand or a bush for hours, civilian patterns of camo are literial pictures of nature.

Military doctrine is alot of movement, concealment, not cover, thats why its blobby.

>>63747856
What motorcycle?

>>63747869
07' VLX600, a Honda copy of a harely sportster with a better engine and radiator

>>63747856
describe your toiletry arrangements in detail

>>63743223
he’s just fucking camping

>>63744253
>pack that will allow me to survive indefinitely.
That's the problem, your gear will not last indefinitely, esp. if you ever make a mistake in using or maintaining them. For this level of self-sustainability you will hsve to be able to make your own clothes and shoes, make soap out of ash lye and animal fat etc.

An axe may last you a lifetime, but a saw probably won't. You will grind through a couple of knives during 40+ years of wilderness life where you have to make nearly everything from scratch... Think you can fit a lifetime supply of boots and soap and sleeping bags and water purifying tabs into a backpack?

>>63747886
Based Honder. I want a Monkey

>>63747856
How did you shower/bathe yourself? What did you do for work? What gun did you carry for this time?

>>63743805
>what’s everything i would need to go innawoods and never need to have to come back out?
There is nothing that lets you do that, real life isn't a videogame. Or I guess
>and never need to have to come back out?
Well you can go innawoods bareass naked with a pistol and zero other supplies and indeed "never come back out" lol. Course you won't be doing anything else in there except being food for the ecosystem either.

>>63745156
>noguns here, why don't hunting camo and military camo look alike? I mean, it's both for hiding in brushes right?
You've had a few replies but none really get to the heart of the matter: military camo is vs humans, in multiple environments and on the move where you can't always pick and choose your background. It must be effective at many distances (both actual distance change and virtually since said humans may be equipped with scopes/binoculars). Humans are big on pattern/shape recognition, and whether something is "out of place". So military camo tends to be built around the idea of breaking up shape with semi-fractal designs that work when you examine them more or less closely, and make it harder to pick out individuals and do sizing and such even when moving on varied backgrounds.

Whereas hunter camo is designed vs animals, who have different visual systems. The hunter gets to choose their environment and specific hide and sit still.

Just comes down to different problems driving different solutions.

>>63744253
Anon... if it was that easy, logistics wouldn't be the major deciding factor in warfare. There's a big reason why agriculture took over the world the moment it was introduced.

Even still, knowledge is key. Edible plant books can be useful for knowing the basics but won't be very useful for your area. Look for local edible plant walks in your region. Take notes and experiment with the best ways to fulfill nutrition, but realize you're asking for something that's *very* hard to do

Shit in the woods once

Unpleasant experience really, wouldn't recommend

>>63749616
It'd help if that guy specified what he meant. If we're being realistic, choose the right area, route, etc, then I guess it would certainly be quite doable to last some number of weeks to a month fairly easily for someone younger, fit and knowledgeable and with the right resources to sink into it. I've done that myself twice. On the longer one I did the basic old expedient of making use of water (same as explorers of yore), if you have a kayak/canoe you can take enormously more mass much longer distances. It takes planning for portage between rivers/streams and an area that has such water networks of course, but you can go quite deep and setup.

>>63748389
If I Had to piss, Id piss into a Bush
If I had to shit, Id go for a 10-60min drive (depending on where i was at for the night, i had multiple areas i suited for rest) to some gas station. there's a few times I shit in the forest but I didnt like chancing the odds of a mushy shit that would smear and stink.
>>63748986
>How did you shower
For awhile I didnt, I wetted a rag and washed myself with it. I didnt smell nearly as bad as almish or a druggie so most people didnt look at me like i was a hobo. I cleaned my clothes in restroom and resturant sinks, I used their soap and it worked well enough, but to avoid walking around with bags full of wet clothes i focused on stains or armpits not the entire item.
>What did you do for work
I was a security gaurd with a few locations through Kansas and Missouri. 4 days when I worked Id charge my phone in a company car along with 6 mobile batterys, a plasma lighter I used for fires and a flashlight. 3 days id explore to try and find more suitable locations for sleeping.
>What did you carry
92FS, Anything bigger and it was a felony since I wasn't at a house or in a car.

Post 92FS. Very cool story anon, sorry it sounded a little rough but it does make for a good tale

>>63750393
No need to be sorry, it was one of the most rewarding times of my life and I like to think I learned many things then, But I digress.

picrel is what I work to work with a chest holster for my 92fs, a Gen1IOTV dyed Black. No plates, just kevlar. ID tag and a generic hat that said security. took the photo at the time to see how put together I was which was something i needed alot.

in a few places I used that hat afterwork just so people wouldn't talk/ask me questions about me being in strange places, the bystander effect is awesome.

>>63744367
>>63744366
I can't live like this, my region is tick central. I'd be covered in minutes

>>63750490
image is mirrored, my bad

kinda spooky not really thrilling:
>on ATV riding around with nods
>on hilltop facing woods downhill
>about 200 yards away see weird pulsating light
>oh must be a trailcam or something
>not even near it, don't have any supplemental IR or anything pointed at it, just my passive nods
>stare at it a bit
>pulsating "orb" type light pulsates once every 15 to 20 seconds
>nothing known to be like this in that area at all, nobody lives there, no people, maybe hunters? that's about it.
>kinda freak out
>act like tard and just book it out of there going back on ATV I hit a ditch and flip the entire thing on top of me
>luckily it fell perfectly to where it didn't crush me, I was pinned between the seat and the ground but nothing on top of me actually crushing me
>I flip the entire ATV back to standing position again
>high tail it out of there thinking aliens might probe my asshole

>>63750490
You’re a big guy

>>63750304
>I didnt like chancing the odds of a mushy shit that would smear and stink.
>He isn’t marking his territory in 2001 + 24

>>63750304
>For awhile I didnt
don't the larger American service stations have showers? I see them on trucker youtubes

>I didnt like chancing the odds of a mushy shit that would smear and stink
tissue paper is biodegradable, mate

>>63747856
What was the cost of living like and where did any income come from? Sorry if it's too personal a question

>>63744156
That’s a neat little set up. I like it. I really want to get my set straight and get some expeditions under my belt. Well done fren

Has anyone used an entrenching tool? I'm thinking of buying one but I can't think of any points in the past in which I've needed one.

>>63744478
>>63744487
>SSSssssSSssss I’m a ssssssnake pleassssssse don’t usssse me asssss a dildo hahahaha that would be embarrassssssing haha don’t put me inside your pusssssssy pleassssse haha

recorded this a couple weeks ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ya4QKuzjG0

>>63750984
>Has anyone used an entrenching tool?
yea they work great at digging in hard rock/clay/thick dirt, they're kinda like a spade good to get stuff started

>>63750972
Throw a sandwich in a backpack and just get out there, anon. Look up a park that looks fun on Maps and make it a day trip for the weekend. The only thing that's really stopping you from getting started and experimenting with what does or doesn't work is yourself.

>>63750615
The trucker stations and gyms do have showers, but memberships cost money. Doing what I did wasnt Convenient but it was free, plus I could do it as soon as I wokeup without a drive through the city.

>Tissue Paper!
yea, it's biodegradable, but at the same time it's not going to degrade unless there's activity. where I would camp or most of the time only laydown my cot to rest would be sanctioned woodland or nature reserves, One of my favorite places was an abandoned cement factory that nature was taking over that could only be accessed by a drive used by the local school bus drivers to store their busses and maintenance vehicles.
I didn't want to litter. It's not all that smart to leave behind things that make others dislike you, those bus drivers knew I was living out there in those woods for weeks at a time before sleeping somewhere else but if I ever saw them as I was driving back onto the gravel road They would only wave at me as I went by. I don't mess with their shit/fuck up their scenery and they don't call the cops on me. I think it's a pretty fair agreement. Just dont be an asshole, I had pockets, I dumped the trash nextime I needed to shit and refilled my gallon thermos.

>>63750929
>Cost of living/income
Its more explained in my previous responses but I worked many locations as a security gaurd and thr cost of living was about $300 A week. I spent alot more on things like energy drinks, But water refills are free if you dont get ice so i didnt need to spend as much as I did. I drove alot and thats the biggest cost, I ate tuna and mixed fruits out of cans since i didnt want to carry pots/pans. Id charge my electronics or rest at fast food joints and buy a cheap food item or drink and order togo to get a bag for the small thing but then sitdown at a table near an outlet, the bag made it obvious I was a paying customer so they wouldn't get pissy.

>>63750490
>Youre a Big Guy
Not really, im 5'11, 170Lbs. Just good posture & well toned.

>>63751075
I probably will some day, but life is pretty crazy these days. Can’t complain though, it’s busy with a good school career, interviews for good jobs, a wife, and house hunting. I’ve barely had time for hobbies, maybe the range every month or so. For now I’m just trying to through together a car camping trip with the wifey, but our days off are always opposite. Not to mention I live innadesert so most of the year is too hot to just pop out for some outdoors time, I have drive 3 hours north to find trees and suitable weather.

>>63750497
no ticks, no bugs, maybe a spider
I do miss fall in western NY
but I just pulled out an old ar10 lower I picked up in Buffalo and it still has a cuck stock attached to it, so I dont miss it that much

>>63743805
>what’s everything i would need to go innawoods and never need to have to come back out?
A noose.

>>63744156
>It's light until you're 4 miles on foot down a trail and the sling's been digging into your shoulder for the past day.

Bitch

>>63751091
>it's biodegradable, but at the same time it's not going to degrade unless there's activity
bury it along with your shit and it'll naturally rot away
>I didn't want to litter
which is excellent, we should always haul our rubbish out of the woods and dispose of it properly

>>63744156
Smart to have a orange bike reflector-- to help you not get shot in the back. Read LETTERS OF ELMER KEITH. He had a buddy shot and killed by another "friend" while hunting (he was a pack guide). He wrote a letter to the family and explained best he could. Very sad.
Bright colors/day-glo is only about 60 years old.

>>63752759
a moose would also work

>>63755211
not if you lack the skills and knowledge to preserve it
see >>63744293
McCandless shot a moose then it all rotted when he fucked up smoking it

>>63742967 (OP)
When I go hiking camping, I always bring my USP 45 for animals and a suppressed 22 for plinking fun.

>>63748654
If you aren't camping with a battle rifle and at least 5 mags you can go fuck yourself and prepare to get got

>>63750497
I tried to use a pup tent camping one time (central Texas, summer) and was wise enough to get a bug/mosquito net to put in it before I used it. Went camping with friends, woke up and the entire net was covered in wolf spiders. Literally everywhere between the net and the tent itself. Never wanted to use it again after that, I like having my space void of bugs

>>63743481
I saw a fuck off huge rat snake last week when backpacking. Usually they are scared of humans and book it but this one wanted a fight. Didn’t wanna be forced to shoot it so we ended up leaving it alone.

>>63758833
>so we ended up leaving it alone.
What else did you consider doing with it?

>>63750601
For you

>>63744478
Old Egypt was really big on high-end "luxury" bestiality. They went to a lot of effort and expense to acquire and train various animals for sexual performances. The snake one is new to me, but they had baboons trained to rub and lick pussy, dogs, the usual livestock to fuck or be fucked by, etc

>>63759305
please see
>>63751005

>>63758833
In my cousin's defense, cottonmouths are highly venomous, while rat snake bites are not dangerous to humans.

>>63742967 (OP)
My G36 is by far the comfiest gun I've ever slept with.

>camping in a random spot inna mountains
>no tent, just a tarp
>hear pickup truck and talking
>scared as shit
>grab rifle
>peek over, pray they don't see me
>random rednecks checking out my car parked 50m away
>they turn away
>thank god

>>63759465
Fucking Kek I literally almost spit my food out laughing, and IM the one that made the ssssnake post.

>>63759860
my issued G3 sucked at sleeping as a conscript in german winter.

>>63750984
I've never done much serious camping, but it's a good tool to have around. I used it to split wood in a pinch when I forgot my hatchet, and used it to dig some small trenches in my campsite to mitigate water during a multi-day storm.

>>63742967 (OP)
>camping in mountains with cell phone
Did you haul a gen set in as well so you can play your x-box and enjoy the whole outdoor experience?

>12miles deep in the Mark Twain Forest
>About to start camp fire
>Buddy "dude let's sit in the dark and gain our night vision"
>Fuck ok.
>Can't see shit
>Both of us get paranoid
>45min of small talk, the felling of being watched and bordem
>Hey this actually working anon
>Let's hike down the trail a bit, leave your flash lights
>10 min down the trail
>BLOOD CURDLING SCREAM
>Fuck fuck fuck, dude run
>Buddy trips
>I trip
>Run 10 minutes, start laughing
>I think it was a fox
>Spend the next half hour walking back and forth down the trail because we didn't mark camp and all our gear was camo.
>Got fire going, ate salsiccia burgers.
10/10 best camp with my bro before he had kids. Haven't gone with him since.

>>63760011
3/10 bait amused me a little

>>63749634
Personally i love shitting in the woods amd my gardens reek of piss

>1 month ago
>go to myakka park in sarasota fl, want to spend some time testing gear for a potential AT hike
>pack all my shit and start my hike at 11pm, way later then I wanted
>fucking 90+ degrees
>hike for 10 miles make it to the site
>feel heat stroke coming on
>as im walking into the camp site get ambushed from 9 o clock in the brush by a fucking turkey
>thought it was a boar or bobcat at first and felt like it was over
>swing my trekking pole at its head a couple times and scream at it. It fucks off
>it circles the camp site while I collapse into the dirt
>Pour water all over myself to bring down temp
>pitch camp, make dinner and just kind of hangout
>throw up the bar bag and get into tent
>can't fall asleep for hours
>finally fall asleep, I then wake up around 3 am to a cool breeze on my face
>my tent flap is quarter unzipped
>I start hearing fucking wood knocking noises ( I am not fucking lying here, I know what this implies)
>im so tired at this point I just shrug it off and go to sleep
>wake up and quickly pack up camp, back to my car by 1130am that time and made a really good pace

Florida fucking sucks for outdoors shit desu

>>63758833
I found a yuge one some months ago in my backyard that was the size of a hose. No pics tho. Dogs wanted to kill it and my puppy hates snakes now lol

>>63760011
NTA but I'm basically a paranoid schizophrenic who concocts insane scenarios in my head that would(probably) never happen IRL but they make me want to at least keep my phone on me in some capacity when I go camping. I do not know why I am like this and it makes me pack way more than id ever need on short camping trips to be "prepared." I have spent a lot of time trying to unwind from this autism

>>63762124
Yeah i didnt enjoy my time in florida. Too humid and fuck mosquitos

>>63762124
Sorry you had to poop your pants to the Skunk Ape anon. I'm more sorry about the heat. Seriously why were you camping rn? Camping season in Florida is pretty firmly in the winter while it's cool out. You only have yourself to blame for the miserable experience

>>63758476
>the entire net was covered in wolf spiders.
Why would they do that?

>>63750571
spooky in multiple ways

>>63759862
Think they had any bad intentions or just curious?

>>63760128
noice

>>63747856
Based and Kino no Tabi pilled

>>63762191
>>Think they had any bad intentions or just curious?
it was a remote area, not touristy at all and they were probably not very happy about some random guy showing up camping their spot, so at worst their intention was to scare me off and at best they were just curious about a sedan car parked in the middle of the hills.

>>63762135
Had a couple of days where it was mid 70s most of the day. I had planned on getting on the trail at 750am but the drive took longer than I thought and I just got fucked by the weather and late start.

Huge lesson in taking the heat seriously as well unfucking my sleeping equipment. I wound up swapping everything out sleeping related for a new system.

>>63742967 (OP)
Back during the summer of 1986 (yeah I'm old) me and my best friend spent most weekends camping and fishing. Normally we went to State parks (where the girls were) but his Uncle had a bunch of acreage with a huge pond which is where we ended up going late one Friday night due to the closest park being full. While hiking back we can hear people laughing and see a fire (there wasn't supposed to be anyone there according to his Aunt). Lo and behold it's a group of girls drinking and playing what turned out to be a combo of strip poker and dare. Our first thought was to go introduce ourselves but instead we watched. Within the hour 3 of the 4 girls were topless and one was nude except for the panties. They all then decided to go skinny dipping but that stopped once they started to sink into the soft banks. They all got dressed but went back to playing cards. We decided to go over and meet them. As we walked into camp we asked permission to enter (typical thing to do). They ALL started screaming but calmed down soon enough. One girl was the daughter of the next door neighbor and the others were her friends. We ended up sharing their fire for a while but once we let them know we saw them in the buff one girl got real defensive and demanded us to leave(which we did). We went to the side we were on originally and put up our tent. The next morning all the girls were gone but their stuff remained. We spent all day Sat fishing, some drinking, wondering when they were going to come back for their stuff, and generally wtf. It rained really hard that night and our gear got wet so we packed out everything except the tent and sleeping bags at like 2 in the morning. We went back Sunday to finish breaking camp and 2 of the girls were there, at our camp (there's was down). They wanted to take pictures of us for some reason. After that they went over to where their car was (other side of the pond, where they camped) and flashed us. They then took off never to be seen again.

>>63745156
hunting camo is for sitting still in the woods, military camo is about breaking up the figure of the body against the background when moving and meant to cover a range of locations

>camping with some friends at goatman’s bridge last October
>friends were dressed in t shirts and sweat pants
>I had my entire ALICE rig, an M15 gas mask, my flecktarn shirt, and cargo pants as my outfit
>spent most of the evening walking on trails, a few kids got scared by my outfit
>at one point we’re at our campsite (a dense patch of trees with a clearing in the middle)
>hear a bunch of teenage boys being rowdy and walking around with lights
>we don’t want them to see our site so we don’t speak a word
>I open up fucking Duolingo to practice some Polish
>volume was almost all the way up on my phone
>Duolingo ding sound plays, echoing throughout the woods
>shit shit shit
>friends turn and stare at me, I turn my phone off and put it away
>luckily no one approached our campsite
>later on getting ready for bed
>have to shit
>use folding shovel to dig hole
>squat
>fucking rabbit sized turds come out of my ass
>finish and start speaking like a jeet when I come back
>later hear a woman screaming in the middle of the night as we all try to sleep
All in all was pretty fun. The rest of my friends now have German field shirts and we’ll be visiting the Longhorn ammo plant soon enough

>>63744487
The electric ones? The ahegao must be impresive.

Why do you faggots think you need a gun to gio camping

>>63751075
>Gay flag and duct tape body armor
What is this

>>63772038
I keep a g26 for meth heads when i hike the Appalachian

>>63770948
>>later hear a woman screaming in the middle of the night as we all try to sleep

Unless you could actually decipher words, it was a fox

>>63759984
Lies. A real bundeswehr would have loaded up on enough curry wurst to give himself meat sweats to ride a fever through the night till he shat his brains out before muster. I know this because it was in Storm of Steel.

>>63772038
This has to be the most absolutely retarded comment I've seen in a while

>>63768530
Why do boomer stories always center around seeing girls slut it up but still not get any pussy?

>>63742967 (OP)
>weminuche wilderness northeast of Durango in late October
>hiking chicago basin with gf and another couple. Set up camp in evening near tree line at an alpine meadow to do some peaks the next day
>2am…. Have to poop!
>put on head lamp, grab gp100, TP, and trawl
>walk about 60-70ft from camp and find a fallen tree to sit on
>drop gigantic loaf
>hear a SNAP! about 20ft behind me
>turn head and see a big ol tom of a mountain lion with half its body out from behind a bush looking right at me
>reflexively yell “HEY!”
>pull up long johns with onr hand and scramble in pocket for gp100
>back up against a tree head and light darting everywhere
>sprint back to camp
>gf asks what happened
>tell her mountain lion nearly ambushed me
>she says something like “yeah right, you’re trying to freak me out, mountain lions aren’t this high this time of year, they’re in the valleys packing in the calories before winter”
>I say I’ll show her in the morning
>show everyone my gargantuan doo
>big paw tracks about 20ft from poo
>follow them about 100 yards. The cat had actually approached me from the front and circled behind me. Mustve scared it away because it left tracks going back down the basin


I bet a lot of those missing 411 cases are people ambushed by mountain lion or hobos.

>>63774329
Teen in 86 is gen x, but yeah, a lot of boomers are strange gullible cowards.

>>63774822
Based pooper

>>63742967 (OP)
>WMNF
>in late may
>not just tarping it out with a bivy and ISO mat

You a masshole, or something?

>>63775013
I had a spring in my step the rest of the week we were out there. I swear I mustve lost a couple pounds of shit and sweat that night.

>>63775417
Nearly forgot. The GP100 in question. In mid-00s “target gray” PVD coating.

>>63775417
There’s nothing more comfy than taking a singular massive dump in the morning after drinking coffee

>>63759860
you an american? if so where'd you get the g36, I've wanted one but Tommy stopped doing conversions so I'm screwed on that front

>>63768530
>>63774329
>Why do boomer stories always center around seeing girls slut it up but still not get any pussy?

Since females norms have changed and modern women have no issue with being a whore I'm guessing that's why. It's also why no one is marrying them.

For any weather, for me, it’s the Glock.

>>63780205
Watch out for the Abominable Snowmen Yukon Cornelius anon.

>>63782854
BUMBLES BOUNCE

One time I went camping and it got so cold that my drink bottle froze and the ground was covered in frost the next morning. I woke up at 3am shivering, while wearing 4 layers and being in a sleeping bag. I had to put on a 2nd sleeping bag just to survive.

>>63785968
>carrying 2 sleeping bags
Strange…

Odd inclement weather or improper gear? There are warm weather and cold weather sleeping bags.

>>63786122
I dunno. I got the first bag from my Dad and took a 2nd one because I was going to sleep on an air mattress. Those things have no insulation, so I figured I'd use it as a liner. Instead I just got into both.

>>63772068
Some of us have gay friends, anon. I'll also have you know that my Improvised Outer Tactical Vest is a fucking paradigm of destitute body armor design and I won't hear a word of criticism towards it.

One time me and my friend were out shooting these huge twin I-Beams we found sticking out of the river. And mind you, we were in the middle of nowhere and deep in the woods, so this looked quiet peculiar. Anyways were shooting the good old chinky stinky steelcore, and we were about 20 m away. Couple of rounds in and out of nowhere I felt this intense pain on my shin, akin to being slashed by a strong hockey player. I look down and I see a hole in my pants around my shin, picrel. Miraculously it didn't go any deeper and punch through my leg, nearly glanced off and left a little bruise. From that moment on we decided that's it's not a good idea to shoot steel from this close of a distance, and we hiked on. Couldn't find the slug :/

>>63762137
Just bugs being bugs
Your luck is only in what happens to stake out your bit of fresh free real estate
One time for me it was a swarm of millipedes

>>63779851
>It's also why no one is marrying them.

Not no one. Just not decent White men. Others seem to be fine with getting a White whore.

>>63762137
The wolf spider eats crickets, other spiders, ants, grasshoppers and many other types of small invertebrates. I'm guessing that there was a lot of bugs that were attracted to anon's CO2 and body odor. That in turn attracted the spiders.

>>63743481
>>63759393
Can I go one fucking day on this board without reading about bestiality?

>>63788059
> Shooting steel core
> Over a body of water
> At a target that isn't perpendicular
Anon...

you guys ever see a bigfoot or a dogman in the woods?

>>63788486
>One time for me it was a swarm of millipedes
I wouldn’t mind that. Millipedes are frens

>>63792190
I got pretty big feet so I just gotta look down and bam I see big foot

>>63792012
You can go back to /b/. They talk about drawn children there instead.

Don't have a story but I'll be out in CT for the summer, bumming out in some state forest. Unfortunately I'll be noguns and it'll be reliant on local infrastructure in the food sense since its less camping and more being homeless and trying to live and get a job while also living in the woods. Will build a sick shelter though. Wondering what I should do since it'll be long term and when not working I'll be in the woods.

>>63794122
You should probably still try and have some sort of protection, even if you can avoid dangerous animals, poachers, bandits, crackheads, moonshiners, etc. roam the wilds.

>>63794122
I'm sure you don't need me to tell you but make sure you stock up on toiletries (nailclippers, comb, soap, handrag). That stuff is indispensiblenif you're roughing it for extended periods.

>>63792190
>bigfoot
Yes, had a couple “encounters”, it’s real
>dogmen/skinwalker
No, it’s BS

Been hiking the remote parts of the lower 48 for 15 years.

>>63768530
Best story here. Thanks for sharing but NFI why boomers come to /k/

>>63792190
Yeah. Been 'escorted' out of a couple areas, pincered, whistled at, heard them doing the mumbling talk at 1am, had camp circled

>>63797155
I’m >>63795093

>mumbling at 1am
Yep. Same experience. Packed camp and left the next morning. Also combined with some hoots, deliberately loud foot steps snapping sticks, and LOW growling. I wasn’t scared once I knew what was going on, I was also armed.

The other time was… disturbing. Not scary, just unbelievable. Something that I think back to frequently since. I was in the mountains west of Bonners Ferry Idaho near Kent Peak.

>Alpine meadow near the tree line.
>gigantic wild blueberry patch
>signs of recent bear activity, I don’t blame them
>i’m crouched down on the meadow-side of the blueberries. Behind me are the peaks
>I hear heavy breathing and quick steps that don’t sound 4-legged
>still think it could be bear, draw revolver and wait.
>i’m down wind as the wind is coming up the valley
>through the bush I see a huge dark shape, brain thinks its a bear at first, but then I see it reaching and picking berries with an appendage. I can see glimpses of its face.
>the wind changes and it snaps its eyes and face RIGHT AT ME.
>After maybe a second it stands up and walks away quickly. It doesn’t run. Just walks really freaking fast.
>the whole thing lasted maybe 10 seconds.

Yeah.

>>63742967 (OP)
Get a single shot break action shotgun and carry that if you're innawood and didnt expect to bag something

I carry $99 walmart shotgun with a a dozen of buckshots and couple of slugs just in case

>>63742967 (OP)
>Fucking around nearawoods with friend in high school looking at creepy places in the summer
>We have an abandoned circus ground and a bunch of burned out overgrown houses 5 minutes from the main road in the suburb
>Grass is waist height, I end up getting 50 chigger bites by the end of it despite long pants and socks
>Come across a homeless person in a tent in the woods, clearly off his gourd, babbles something about us being aliens and we excuse ourselves and leave
>Go far off into woods without any trail, can barely make progress because all the branches are waist level and higher and we're trying not to poke our eyes out
>Finally reach a small clearing
>There is very carefully arranged circle of cacti in the center, almost like a garden
>Never seen a wild cactus before in my state
>I go off and start eating wild mushrooms
>Vomit over the side of a bridge at some point
>I have no recollection of any of these events except for wading through the grass to the burned out buildings and going through the tree branches to find the cactus shrine
>Have huge argument with best friend about it later after I start college because I don't remember the homeless, mushrooms or bridge parts which he is adamant happened
I experience a lot of /x/ shit, ghost dogs, random handsaw-growls from the woods and knocking on my house afterwards, poltergeist activity, seen two demons and an angel in different incidents (not religious), etc. Gf has witnessed some with me and thinks I'm a magnet so I'm not just schizo. Mom recently told me I was always playing with ghosts as a kid which I have no recollection of.

>>63774291
Anon, I recently read Storm of steel, where does he eat enough curry to give himself the meat sweats? I don't think he ever mentions getting the shits either.

>>63762124
>I start hearing fucking wood knocking noises ( I am not fucking lying here, I know what this implies)
Sorry, never hiked, what does this mean?

>>63799534
It means squatch (or hobo) territory. Pack camp and leave at your earliest convenience.

>>63799534

>>63799534
Poster of that story here.

Wood knocking is associated with the heckin bigfoot. Myakka is known for being the wilderness where the mythic skunk ape supposedly lives.

My theory on it is this, whatever made those noises whether person, great ape or big foot analog, was probably surprised that a camp was set up out there in the summer and they probably smelled me before even seeing the camp and use wood knocking as a warning to others that something is out of the ordinary.

No one hikes out there in the summer, I was literally the only person out there in that big ass forest. I've camped more times than I can remember in FL including a week in the Everglades and I've never heard those noises in the wild, literally only on history channel bigfoot episodes. If I really had to hazard a guess, it was hobos like the rainbow children. On the other end of possibilities, it's a regular great ape that was someones exotic pet that got dumped out there, FL is ground zero for that type of bullshit behavior.

>>63799426
Tell us more

>>63801965
>bumps larper thread off page 9
Cope

>>63750984
Went to a national park that was snowed in. The snow plow had covered half the parking spots and you couldn't park anywhere. Saw some dude trying to dig out a spot with his hands for his car. So I took out my etool, dug out the snow bank, and drove on top of the snow.

Used it to dig cat holes for BLM camping.

Doesn't get used a lot, but when it does it's worth its weight (for car camping).

Had to carry it for humps and don't really recall using it.

>>63801965
I can tell you about the handsaw noise story. Scared the shit out of me.
>Previous week or two I almost had to shoot a neighbors dog, it was off leash and full sprinted towards my gf and her dog, drew my pistol and held it in it's face until it's owner picked it up a couple minutes later
>Me and her scared of dogs ever since, nightmares etc. Gf had a nightmare about a dog even before the incident
>Was walking back from my car after work in the middle of the day while she was out teaching college kids, heard something weird
>Some combination of a hand saw and a dog growling far off into the woods, sounds far away and close at the same time, very loud
>Stand there for a minute figuring out the situation because her shitty door lock would leave me vulnerable while I figure out how to open it
>Sudden loud band right next to me on the opposite side of where I thought the sound was
>Wait another minute before getting the courage to finally open the door, get inside and lock it
>4 sudden knocks across the outside of the house going down the external kitchen wall
>Our dog freaks out and whimpers like something bit it, runs around looking for a cause
>Minutes pass and dog wants out to piss, reluctant but ok
>Deliberate on leaving the door locked or not, decide unlocked is the best way to get back in if it gets weird outside, make sure door is closed
>Absolutely normal walk, come back to house, door wide open, which it can't be because I was deciding on locking it or not and knew it was closed

>>63801965
>>63804506
>Notice closet door upstairs is wide open as I enter, decide to save it for last as I sweep the house with pistol drawn, nothing unusual found, shouting outloud for anyone inside the entire time
>Go upstairs and investigate closet
>Closet jacket positioned just right to look like a person standing there, decide it'd be funny to take a pic and send to gf during class, pic related
>As soon as I take the pic, glowing orbs scatter and dart off like cockroaches when you turn a light on
>Im scared shirtless
>Cuddle AR15 with my dog the rest of the day until gf comes home

>>63804510
You might have Paranoid Schizophrenia. Truly. Please get looked at.

>>63802042
It's board culture. Not that you cared to learn that before spamming your bullshit, faggot.

>>63742967 (OP)
>Out hiking alone, day 3/6 in backcountry. About 40km from trailhead. Autumn, 2019.
>Wake up to something at first light walking by not too far away, it's a quadruped of some weight. Uh oh.jpg
>Get up quietly, grab knife (no guns since it's a provincial park).
>It approached my food bag hanging.
>Cursing myself for being lazy and having it so close.
>Hear a whine from a canine. "Ah it's just coyote, I'll scare him off"
>Unzip tent and see a fucking golden retreiver.
>He's such a good boy and just looks me, I do a double take and observe him.
>I am dumbfounded standing there naked (I just like it like that).
>Looks to be nothing wrong other than his mangled fur and an emaciated frame. Collar says "Clover".
>Give him food and love, he wasn't even apprehensive to my presence.
>Turn back with him, he did great. Got back in two days.
>Get to rangers hut and explain the situation. They inform me a couple lost him while canoeing 2 months back.
>Rangers radio in to the station and I'm on my way in my car.
>Base station calls a vet and the couple when I get there. Get to town ane they're waiting for me at the vet.
>Woman is bawling her eyes out and thanking me, man asking me how I found Clover and other info.
>Gives me a firm handshake and $200.
>Guess it was worth it to come back early.
God I wish I had a phone with me to take some pictures with him. I prefer to keep electronics in my car when I go out. Never really stopped driving so I never had the chance. Wonder if he's still around.

>>63804603
Idk I've seen a couple orbs innawoods but can't comment on the rest of it
>>63804990
Nice, anon

>>63747856
Any spooky stories? Fights with spooks or druggos?

>>63804603
Gf is a clinical psychologist and diagnoses mental disorders and has seen some of the same shit with me, mostly poltergeist activity. We've had at least 3 objects get thrown in front of us since I moved in. Most recently we heard what we can only assume was a banshee from off next to the pond in the woods. Genuinely blood curdling scream like someone getting axe murdered. We both called the police but they didn't find anything off with the neighbors and no one else heard anything. Ghosts and shit are real man

>>63805381
What situation did you see the orbs?

>>63809081
One was outside the dry cabin of a woman whose husband had died about 2 years before, and after that she was having strange hairy man activity. Cabin wall slapped next to her bed at night, pebbles and pine cones thrown onto roof, she felt very intimidated and afraid. She was in her 80s living alone. Hard woman. We came to interview her, document tracks and check for territorial markers around her property. We were having dinner and she noticed the orb floating outside the window. We went outside and observed it slowly move away from the cabin into the trees. It had a soft off-white color and was between a golf ball and soft ball in size. Watched it for about 30s. Impression I got was it was curious why we were there. Found interesting trees woven on the property. No hairy man activity while we were there. We setup game cameras and ir lights and the activity fell off a bit, but we did catch an orb moving on video (about 5s) and strange mechanical clanking noises.
Second was a camp site at the end of a trap line trail next to a swamp. Same guy as the cabin was with me. This was a couple miles from my own hairy man encounters (ran into the same family group about 10 days apart). Found female hairy man tracks, could hear something that sounded like a mother coddling a baby, doing baby talk in the distance. After it got dark I decided to go for a walk with nv/thermal, as I was leaving camp I watched an orb appear over our low camp fire, when I noticed it I got the feeling it became aware I could see it and it zipped off about 25yds and disappeared. It felt curious. Very creepy spot and about half the time I go back there your hair stands up, adrenaline hits and skin crawls like something's staring a hole in the back of your head. During another visit i hiked further in from there to check out a couple small valleys, about hit a wall where I got the distinct impression that I should stop and immediately turn around.

Always trust your gut, anons

>>63742967 (OP)
since everyone else is doing orb dits I'll tell mine

once on a hike with a group, we were setting up camp in the middle of a thunderstorm, absolute blinding rain, dogshit visibility
we were carrying heavy gear and supplies from our vehicle to the campsite through thick undergrowth, when my assigned buddy broke the cardinal rule of
>tell your buddy where you're going if you're gonna split up
so unbeknownst to me, he sat down by the tiny fire we'd got going and I was alone making my way back to the campsite from our vehicle, carrying the last load
now my friend is both the tallest in our group and wearing the only white T-shirt
so with the rain bucketing down, and me being a specky git and my glasses fogged up, all I saw in front of me was a blurry figure, who was tall and wearing a white shirt - or at least, it had a white torso
so I followed it into the brush, until suddenly it took a right turn into the thickest bushes, and in the opposite direction of the campsite
I stopped, yelled at "my friend" and asked him where the hell he was going, the site was this way
but it just went on and disappeared into the undergrowth
so I went in the other direction, to our campsite
and there I found my buddy

>>63799426
well I AM religious and I say get the occult stuff out of your life, and find God
you know it's real, you have been shown oodles of proof, yet you don't want to do anything about it?
your GF is correct; people who fool around with the occult are magnets for the supernatural

>>63804990
aww nice

Not anything paranormal but I have had one or two kinda unsettling innawoods experiences. One time me and some buddies were camping. At the time noguns while out because pre-bruen commie state. As the sun was setting hear pack of coyotes going apeshit in the distance. Nbd. As the night goes on we were chilling around the small fire we had and heard them again from a different direction but closer. Later at about 2-3am I heard the pack going crazy again sounding about less than 100 yards from our site. Grab glock brand glock knife and sit in tent listening real closely. Thankfully they kinda all fuck off and nothing came of it. When back in cell service I read that coyotes don't really fuck with people but hearing the "laughing" that close to our tents made me pucker a bit.

>>63809331
>interview her, document tracks and check for territorial markers around her property
Is chasing bigfeet just your hobby or some sort of actual work? Any squatch stories?
>>63809764
>yet you don't want to do anything about it?
The impression I got from the angel was that I'm already doing my best and that's good enough for a being of what seems like pure compassion and love. I only saw it when I was at my lowest low. Last time I encountered a demon or spiritual parasite I just told it to fuck off and it did. My takeaway is it's some sort of message about internal strength and living my life the best I can rather than external prayer or religion.

>>63766008
reasonable

>>63788486
>>63791939
gal dang, bros.

>>63804833
checked

>>63804990
>"Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out."

Keep right with Jesus and you might meet that doggo again someday.

>>63812029
My buddy collects hairy man stories from the indigenous population and people that work in remote places. He knows I have nerves of steel so I come along for backup (plus you don't want to go into active areas on your own)
Probably the most distributing accounts for me are when the things kill people's dogs. They absolutely hate dogs. In one case a large male caught the guys dog, broke it's back and squeezed it to make it yelp and lure the guy into the brush. There were several more trying to flank the guy at the same time. He saw the dog, shot one of them in the chest with a 300wm, and ran.
In another case the guys dog had disappeared the night before so he went to look for it, crossed a slough and found some fur from the dog, then spotted more pieces in the brush. Went into the brush and one of these things threw a thigh at him. He ran, it followed him back to the cabin and he sold the cabin shortly afterwards.

They also seem to enjoy torturing people, especially women, with cabin slaps, punches, vocalizations. Especially new construction or noisy mining equipment, they'll destroy the equipment or the structure being built. Grouchy and autistic.

>>63813715
Why hasn't anyone dropped one and made the scientific discovery of the century? How'd it shrug off the 300wm?

>>63742967 (OP)
I have a few stories but they're /x/ material and you guys wouldn't believe me anyway

>>63813927
It grunted and fell back into the brush. It wasn't there when he went back about 3 weeks later but 2 of the walls of his cabin were collapsed and everything inside was thrown into the yard. The inside had urine and feces.

There have been several harvested but the feds find out and recover the remains through coercion. I know of 1 body that was taken in the 90s and is allegedly floating around somewhere. The natives only shoot as a last resort and vacate the area. When they are mad it's not something you stick around for. They are never alone so taking a shot in some cases ends up with people going missing or found folded up, stuffed in a tree. Missing persons cases are never closed here so you can't FOIA the files.

>>63743223
>Thinks an 8 pound rifle is too heavy.

Never understood the yank obsession / fear of weight. I've carried a 1954 full wood nugget 30 miles with a couple hundred rounds in my pack last time I was out in the boonies pig shooting, No dramas. Just chuck it on your shoulder FFS.

>>63804510
Clean your room

>>63813715
>Grouchy and autistic.
Guess I’m a squatch

>>63814618
"squatches" are probably just ornery hillbilly types pranking campers for shits and giggles

>>63814890
>"squatches" are probably just ornery hillbilly types pranking campers for shits and giggles

>>63799534
Glowies being pissed the guy picked their designated dead children burial ground and gave him a warning to leave if he doesn't wanna join the next batch.
All the other explanations are cover-ups

>>63814912
you forgot
>hairy oversized paws typed this

that said, it's not just squatch fingers that are long and thick, iykwim ;)

>>63742967 (OP)
gay, I did a 2 day 23 mile trip in the whites like two weeks ago with an 8 pound rifle, and regularly bring my full stock 21" fal innamountains.skill issue.

>>63813943
>cope cope cope
And I'm sure they magically sense game cameras and have never once walked in front of one, or if they have then government agents were the ones to magically sense it and immediately flew out in black helicopters to confiscate the footage.

>>63751593
Hello fellow ex buffalonian, currently sipping on my reserve stock of loganberry i keep. Picrel from a camping trip on the east otto state forest. Great public land for shooting and larping. The granite state was the move though.

>>63744253
>i’m trying to put a pack together that will allow me to survive indefinitely.
are you retarded?

>>63816003
They seem to have excellent situational awareness, I'd assume they can smell game cameras in a similar manner to bears on a bait station. Some speculate they may be able to see slightly into the infrared band and can spot NIR motion sensors on some game cams.
I know of one person who had all of their devices confiscated in the field and they were threatened with de-banking and foreclosure if they didn't destroy or hand over everything. Another person was paid close to 7 figures for their footage. Both were coerced to sign NDAs and deny everything.
There is legit footage out there. I've seen some, very clear & close. Not that fake Todd standing makeup. It has to be handled very delicately to avoid that negative attention.

>>63780205
what jacket is that?

>>63815939
How does get started doing something like this? I live near the desert, though, not the woods. Do you have to worry about people stealing your car?

>>63818464
Generally most people in most places aren't actually scumbags who'll fuck with your car if you leave it somewhere, especially if it's in a place frequented by other people who would see them. If you're worried though, you can pull the fuse to the engine computer or the ignition on your car or unplug the distributor or something under the hood (if your car is old enough to still have one). A thief isn't going to go through the trouble of diagnosing a mystery electrical issue and probably just leave it alone. Though you might wanna have a jump pack or something in the trunk just incase you come back to a dead battery.

As far as the desert thing, idk I've never really been out to that kinda climate to know what major differences in considerations besides the obvious of sun protection and extra water.

>>63816084
As long as you've checked the jew york bullshit at the door, you can chill here.

t. NHigger.

>>63818464
It depends on what you mean by desert. If you mean relatively arid scrub highlands and pinion/juniper forests found around the western US, then it's not that much different from the woods except you'll have to pre-plan your water draws for longer trips. If you're talking barren desert, then it's more challenging. You would most likely have to pack in all of your water, and in the summer you would have to travel mostly at night. Packing enough water for two days is doable. Three days is pushing it. For longer trips, you're going to have to cache water ahead of time or plan your route carefully to cross known reliable water draws at the right time.

Other than that, it's a good idea to get some basic outdoor skills like land nav and basic survival, then you just pick a place, plan a route, and start walking.

>>63742967 (OP)
>Currently camping in the white mountains with my .22 (308 was 8 pounds loaded so fuck that), give me your best experiences, /k/
I know people who did exercises in woods with mass graves in poland and saw lines of people staring at them that were visible under NV that were not there in, bad enough that the whole exercise was canceled one guy who was sorrounded by them reaching out and trying to touch him lost his marbles and wound up in a strait jacket

>>63819761
>>63819975
Thanks, bros.