/out/ - Outdoors

Went backpacking with a 20L backpack weighing under 8lbs, sadly I do not have a Rin figure of any kind but this is my first time making food while on a trail head

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I want to quit society and live out in nature.
Where can I do this, and how should I prepare?

#528- “fishing is gay" 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!
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New Bong Fishin Guide
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First for best telescopic rod is the one you exchanged for a 3pc.

Talk about fishin

friendly reminder that the vast majority of canada is nothing but utter and total isolation in every direction for at least a hundred miles, and it looks fucking beautiful too.

Am i doing it right guiz???

>walking along a trail minding my own business
>Suddenly 5 pic related fly out of the brush
Wtf? If you just stayed still everything would have been fine but you have to try and give me a heart attack.
Fuck you, im hunting these fuckers now.

Easily the most underrated /out/ state. It's funny how so many people just think Nevada is a desert

General thread for freediving and/or spearfishing, since I don't see one mentioning either.

My personal questions:
I've been thinking about taking a certification course so I can learn to do these things correctly and safely. I'm probably happy just doing the diving, but spearfishing seems like an easy and practical extension. I only casually skindive and rod-and-reel fish at the moment. Does anyone have experience taking such a course?
I know I'll need my own gear early on, but each instructor I can find seems to have their own equipment shops, so I imagine they wouldn't be impartial about the quality of other gear on the market. I live on the Pacific coast of the US, so I see that a 7 mm open cell wetsuit is strongly recommended. What good/bad features should I look out for on wetsuits and other equipment? For non-competitive diving, carbon fiber fins are almost certainly not worth the price, right?

Tent or Car?

what apparatus do you cook on? what have you cooked recently? post pictures of your shit.
i just bought a twig stove. did i make the right choice? i'm new to this whole camping thing.

Where can i find the list of basic stuff i need to go one or two nights camping in nature?

i'v never been camping and i would like to try

thank you

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

*gets on you*

Weird hole in the ground edition.

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Title. Fiction or Non. Picrel fucked me up, I knew about the cannibalism but that was the least of it. Looking for more recs, /out/ related preferered but whatever you like or are currently reading is cool too.

I was looking into camping/hiking and touching grass again, I had an alice pack in the military a long time ago and that was alright, but is there high tec super light stuff out there now that carrys a lot? Id like a full frame pack that is as light as possible that could carry 50-70 lbs. What about actual waterproof? Or do you still need to wrap everything in garbage bags?

This board is so dead/shilled. what a shame.
new seasons of Alone has started airing!

https://www.history.com/shows/alone/season-12

Anyone here suddenly get horribly ill while on an outting? Green text time from my experience.
>last fall
>out in the back 40 on my own doing some survey work
>all is good, weathers comfy
>day two of five i suddenly start feeling horrible, guts constantly cramping
>next minute unending diarrhea, cold sweats, feeling freezing cold
>cant get warm at all, realizing i am in trouble
>manage to hike back 3km to my truck
>bury myself in my heavy down parka i keep in my truck for crap weather, try to drive back but starting to get delirious
>make it to a gas station where the high road meets highway, get them to call hospital
>get driven to hospital, docs have no clue what hit me, spend two days recovering

Bear spray or firearm?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/europe/american-journalist-found-norway-intl
Why are americans so bad at hiking?
>gets lost in a Norwegian national park
>breaks his knee
>stranded for 6 days on a glacier

>having a look at white sands national park
>look slightly north
>White Sands missile range
Most American shit I've ever seen. A fucking military missile range in a national park.

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

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

is mountaineering only for rich trustfund babies?

I think I am going to start bow hunting this year. I have woods behind my house that has some decent sized bucks. I have an old compound bow that is 25ish years old. Anyone have a recommendation on a bow? I would like something up to 85 pound draw. What do you shoot? What do you hunt?

>stop by stream/river to get some water
>keep walking upstream afterwards along trail
>see pic related in middle of that stream/river
What do you do at this point? Do you just accept that you fucked up and will likely get sick?

ITT: [spoiler]Post holes[/spoiler] and why you're digging them
>Water catchment for arid area

Anyone into prospecting/panning/using similar tools to get shiny things while you're /out/? I recently bought a kit and tried it out yesterday, seems like a fun hobby. With the currency at all time lows it might even be lucrative.
Might head up into the White Mountains this weekend and try my luck.

Those of you who hike/backpack camp, do you ever bring a chair with you?

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

/qtddtot/ - Questions that don’t deserve their own thread
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There is nothing more retarded and gay than "stealth camping".
>im camping behind a road sign or in a trash can
Nobody cares stupid faggot

Is /out/ brave enough to pick up a wild snake?

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

+any hitchhikers here also?

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?

A Norwegian hiker has gone missing in northern manitoba Canada . He was planning on hiking from Ontario to Alaska. Police have so far found his back pack and rifle. His last coordinated on his GPS placed him next to a river

why does it seem like all you people want to go out and be “in le nature” but don’t give a single fuck about preserving ecosystems or native biodiversity? You feel entitled to go out and be in nature and treat it like your personal fucking playground, damaging the ecosystem and demanding roads and trails be paved through the wilderness so you can “heckin enjoy it”? And then go home and continue to fuel the 6th mass extinction with your destructive consumerist habits?
Anyway, I planted some Texas native wildflowers today to help the declining pollinator population in my area. What did you do?

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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.

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.

I need pointers and experienced advise for running away from it all and starting an off the grid homestead?

What is the /out/ consensus on this debate?

Can we rank all countries in Europe according to their /out/ value?

do anons have any fabric/fiber recommendations for clothing that protects against the sun and is not plastic?
i assume tighter weaves/knits are also better since there's less air between them, but i also don't want to die of heatstroke

Just ordered the North Face Stormbreak 2. What tent are you rocking? What do you love and hate about it? What tent do you want?

Homesteading and prepping

With the way everything's going this is looking inevitable. What are you doing to prepare? Have you started a self reliant homestead?

How would you camp in the north eastern Victorian wilderness in and around Mount Buffalo?

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?