can anyone recommend a good pair of hiking boots? price doesn't really matter, i'm just trying to get a decent pair of boots that won't bust a hole straight through the bottom like my last pair (my walking posture is fine)
>>2858326Wore these in the military walked around for 5 miles or more a day on concrete and sharp rocks. Lasted roughly 14-16 months went through 3 pairs in 4 years. These are the closest in design to the traditional jungle boot. I will however say that anything made by Rothco other than Buttons are trash. Corcoran Marauder 10" Soft Toe Work Boothttps://www.carolinashoe.com/en/corcoran-marauder-10-inch-soft-toe-work-boot-16444.html?dwvar_16444_color=Tan
managed to nab nike woodside for really cheap
>>2843740it shifts the weight towards the ball of the foot otherwise theres a tendency to tire the heel
>>2843610Boreal Maipo. You can go up to a 20k, they are not double boots, but they might be one of the most solid rigid boots out there. They are indestructible, cheap and comfortable. You don't need princess feet like with La Sportiva, their foot bed is pretty wide.
>>2843610>can anyone recommend a good pair of hiking boots?My Dad is a lifelong Elk hunter, and has tried MANY different brands of boots. He swears by "Asolo", and due to the hype, is now using "Crispi", and he likes those too. I have a pair of "Asolo" that do the job.
thoughts?
>>2868806I have house sparrows at my apartment complex that keep trying to nest in the radiator of my bedroom AC unit. I used to think birds were nice, even idyllic; but hearing them a few feet away at 5a, 6a, and 7a every morning for months on end while your neighbor puts out bird feed is a brutal experience. Really most of my experiences with birds are related to being annoyed; taking food, making noise, being aggressive, shitting on stuff..We once went backpacking where the trailhead was at the base of a ski slope. At 4am, the whole crew was woken up by a woodpecker who thought the outdoor PA system megaphone was a good place to do a little pecking. Of course, by a little pecking I mean the bird went for ~30mins until we were throwing sticks near it. 20min later, that sly dumbass was right back at it
thoughfs? looks like an ancient chink painting
It's ok bro, this is biodegradable
>>2868356You would hate my back garden, broski. Nothin' but food scraps. Great for the soil. Not even traditionally composting, I just throw veggies and fruits and eggs and such back there.I had 20+ gourds grow out of the old food patch last year. The vines grew so large that they actually hung off of the neighbors bush-fence like grapes.
>>2868733Based retard, that public high school education really hit you hard didn't it
>>2868733Based Gardener.>>2868753Mad bitch boy who seethes at orange peels on - trail.
>>2868356zero fucks given about this if they throw it 50 feet off the trail, but I keep seeing pajeets just dumping it at their feet on the good lunch rocks.
>>2868784Why do they dump it right next to the trail? For that matter, why do they shit next to the trail, especially when there are accessible pit toilets in line of sight? I've seen shit and wads of toilet paper maybe twenty yards from a bathroom. >>2868754Odd response but you tried? I think.
Last thread >>2856593This is a thread for enjoying a pipe while doing outdoor activities. If you ask why this belongs on /out/, you've never spentan evening by the campfire with a pipe silently enjoying the nature around you, and you're missing out.>how to get startedPurchase a corn cob pipe (or a cheap briar pipe) and a pouch of Half and Half or Captain Black tobacco from a smoke shopor 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. Smokeslower than you think you need to, the tobacco tastes best when it is burning cool. Tamp and re-light as needed. If you stillhave trouble, try different methods on YouTube until you find one that works for you.>smoking a pipe will give you cancerOriginally the Surgeon General found that pipe and cigar smokers, following a careful study of the statistics (at a time whenmost adults smoked, so they had a good sample size), had insignificant death rate increases. Nowadays, tobacco is beinglegislated against while hard drugs are being legalized. Put two and two together. Tobacco is just another good thing under attack by the government.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2868747Is it just a nutty flavor or is there actually any meaningful amount of alkaloids leftover to feel something?Any claims of euphoria from this is probably just explained as a placebo. Still though, I love poppy seed
>>2868677I don't like aromatics just because I don't like them that much. Carter Hall type aromatics is the most I can really tolerate as being smokeable. Even something like C&D's Bijou is just too much aromatic for me even though I really wanted to like it. You need to smoke them way too slowly to get them to taste like anything other than just hot air. Though I will say, a cigar shop I went to while sort of out of town (hours away) had this house blend that was kind of like a kitchen sink blend. Perique, Latakia, Burley, I'm sure Virginia, Black Cavendish, etc. Just kinda everything, and it was topped with some light chocolate flavor. That was an aromatic that I could easily see myself smoking, but it's just too far away to go get and I haven't found that blend online anywhere. It was like 90% cigar and vapes so I have a hard time believing it was genuinely a house blend, but it might have been.
>>2868747don't do it again or you'll become addicted to polish pastries >>2868761you can get high off it, so long as its the correct poppy varietyin fact, even half of a dried poppy pod has killed a guy after they made a tea out of it
>>2868795This is making my mouth water. I love poppy seeds UGH. In addition to tasting great in pastries and muffins and overnight oats - I went through a phase where I considered making unwashed poppy tea. I never considered grinding & smoking them, though. Would you be able to do it with regular ol’ poppy seeds obtained from a grocery store spice aisle? Or do you need more virginal unwashed home-grown ones. In minecraft; this is all about the hypothetical efficacy
>>2868797if its "breadseed poppy" (papaver somniferum), yeah, you can do itsome people will buy a shaker of seeds & make a tea out of it for pain, but the pod itself is where you can really get the power out ofthe biggest issue is that you don't know how much it actually has though, so you can pretty easily kill yourself if you're abusing it (well, that and the fact its extremely addictive, since its literally just opium)smoking it would definitely be the most dangerous way, since you'd have basically no time to tell if you're starting to overdose, along with the specific method being more addictive too
Did you put in for a permit this year?
>>2868193I could name a place that is extensively glaciated, but I don't want faggy tourists going there or discussing it.
>>2868210Doesn't exist in the US outside of the Cascades or Alaska. Places in the American rockies have small dying glaciers, like the Winds or the mountains in GNP. But nothing compared to the Cascades.
>>2868172explain?A guy comes up to your tent at night and asks for permit, then you just dribble your lips?What about the little trail-janny cuck shacks right on the trail, where they are going to check your gear. I always assumed that's what would happen.But you're acting like nobody is there, and there's nobody to check your permit off? Is this the case? I am scummy enough to cheat the system if I will not get consequences.
>>2868193rainier, and mt baker both have large glaciers. I think rainier is one of the most glaciated mountains actually or something.
>>2868789Both of those are in the Cascades.
What's the highest mountain in your country/state? Do you feel jealous of places with higher mountains?Mountains in Poland are fun but the highest one (picrel) is 2499 m, which is much lower than Alps. Moreover, highest mountains in Poland are often quite crowded. This makes some Poles jealous of poeple who live near Alps.I'm 99.9% sure people who live in flat countries like Lithuania feel jelous about our mountains but I wonder if people who live in mountains like Alps or Rockies feel jealous anout Himalayas or Andes.
the 5000 pound concentration camp oven is the active gas chamber.
>>2865685kek>>2865690>i'm in spain, which i guess isn't so bad because it has a few with more than 3k meters but they are all 8 hour drives from where i live so it's fucking bullshit.That's not bad at all. Road trips are fun af. I'm in southern California and I do 10 hour drives to get to Shasta / Lassen / Lake Tahoe every summer. 12 hours to get to Crater Lake.
I've lived in Colorado for a few years but done very little hiking. No more than 2500ft of elevation gain and all below 10k ft. Want to try and do some 14ers this year. Started running at the beginning of the year to improve my cardio and am down about 30lbs. Any recommendations on hikes to start with and general advice?
>>28655373,491 feet / 1,064 meters for the appropriately named land of the hills. i do not feel mountain envy because i enjoy living in a coastal plain and visiting the mountains, which are readily accessible. i also don't care if east coast mountains are typically smaller. my platonic ideal of outdoor adventure is to explore the magnificent beach forests, not reach the highest point
yeah southern ontario fucking sucks
What does your backpacking kit look like & what are your favorite pieces of gear you have that are unusual or greatly increased your quality of life on the trail? This is my basic kit alot of the gear is 10 years old or more I have recently added a camp chair & a little bidet that goes on a water bottle. My favorite piece of gear is not pictures but it is a frybake pan which is basically a lightweight dutch oven I will be using it on my trip at the end of this month to roast a chicken & make stuffing.
>>2868519ok thanks, this is really helpful. we have falafel mix here but i never used it, and was thinking to maybe freeze and vacuum seal fresh raw falafel patties, and shallow fry them in oil. but that's more messy than your way.side note, i just received 2 of these 60 mL dropper bottles for hot sauce and soap. these containers have confounded me from the start. when i first started camping, i carried three 500 mL hard plastic nalgenes for soap, oil, and whiskey.now i have an 8 oz plastic bag flask, and am looking at 30 or 60 mL droppers of lemon juice and hot sauce and soap, 125 mL pours of olive oil, and/or maybe some wide pot of butter, and electrolyte powder, and maybe bringing back baby powder for hair shampoo, all in the soft plastic nalgenes.i've found it surprisingly hard to figure out the exact style of bottle i need for liquid and powder items. like it is the most iterated-on class of container in my setup, i am not buying a million dyneema compression sacks, but i am never done buying nalgene tiny plastic bottles.
I just spent 2.5k buying a whole set up to start backpacking, I've never done any of this before. I'm going full ultralight. I feel like such a retard spending that much but it doesn't matter, I injured my spine 2 years ago and I will eventually end up in a wheelchair and then I plan on killing myself. For now my back is still holding and I want to climb as many mountains as possible,
>>2868551>I just spent 2.5k buying a whole set up to start backpacking, I've never done any of this before.Probably not the smartest move, because you'll learn from going out once or twice what works and doesn't work, but maybe you chose well, so wishing you luck on that front.>I injured my spine 2 years ago and I will eventually end up in a wheelchair and then I plan on killing myself.I'm legally considered "severely disabled" in my country, due to a very rare disease (think single digit cases in my country, and I have a mutation of it that is unheard of) that makes ~60% of my muscles not work, so I'm very weak. If I can go /out/ so can you. You just have to adjust expectations. In my case, that's using hiking poles (If I fall, it's really hard to get back up for me, so they really help), light gear and shorter distances. When I grew up I've spent a lot of time with other kids in research facilities (like experimental medical stuff, not fiction evil villain lairs) who had worse disabilities. If there's one thing that taught me it's the power of human resilience. I was friends with a kid who was in a wheelchair, and each day he'd try to train his legs by getting up from the chair, taking one or two steps, then inevitably collapsing onto the floor and pulling himself back into the chair again. There's always ways to find a good life, even in horrible circumstances. >For now my back is still holding and I want to climb as many mountains as possible,That's a good mindset, don't wait to start living in the future, start living now. You're probably much stronger than me, so climb those mountains and have your fill. I never had the option.Just don't kill yourself please anon, spend that time until then living life and finding mental resilience and happiness and you won't have to. Godspeed.
>>2868531circling back to the media bottle pantry. i spent some time using my experience, and some AI to rubberduck my assumptions, refining it. i'd previously been lazy about selecting various bottles for things. i also ruled out lots of stuff like worcestershire sauce, tamari, balsamic vinegar, liquid aminos, sesame oil, nutritional yeast, miso, paprika spice mix, the coghlan's spice rack thing, etc., but notably *not* an egg suitcase. here's the final tally with the types of containers and their sizes for a 3-7 day trip. it's ultralight inspired, but i care more about eating well than minimizing weight. it's my template so if you wanna substitute lemon juice with crystals, or furikake with salt + pepper, go for it.>fat- olive oil in a 2 oz LDPE dropper, for supplementing meals and frying things- ghee in a 2 oz PP jar, for crackers / bread + cheese + sausage>umami- furikake in a 1 oz HDPE bottle, for general seasoning- better than bouillon in a 1 oz PP jar, for drinking at a campfire (i'd previously brought cubes)>acid + heat- lemon juice in a 1 oz LDPE dropper, for semi-raw fish packets- tabasco sauce in a 1 oz LDPE dropper, for boiled eggs and everything elseComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
do you bring a multitool for hikes?
Discuss /out/tubers here.
>>2865800welll, I do like hoes
Not that /out/-worthy, but I do watch that guy Shawn(?) trying to make a forest out in the Texas desert (Dustups its called)I like the concept and idea, but not how he does itAlso he seems to be allergic to manual laborOne true /out/ hiking guy I like to watch is Sintax77
>>2867642>Not that /out/-worthythis Shaun guy might be the most out channel linked heremf is BUILDING is own forest
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>>2865800foresty forest hit that
Realistically. How do we get poor people into practicing ski?
>>2867470Kek I remember my first run, beelined down the green then promptly ate shit.
>>2866467Make sure that resorts can only be locally owned within a certain radius, kill international monopolies like Vale resorts that try to buy out literally everything.>>2867470Everything is potentially dangerous, but people still do it, often with insufficient safety equipment as well.Skiing drunk with no helmets used to be the de facto standard, now it's just skiing mildly drunk with a helmet and getting properly pissed in the valley.
>>2863311Real tard brained shitMade me laugh tbdesu. Just go outside.
>how do we make poor people able to practice for a sport that is extremely expensive??? This is like asking how do we let poor people test drive lambos for free just to then turn around and tell them they can't buy one
Rank US States (or regions in your country) based on natural beautyhttps://tiermaker.com/create/us-states-36606
>>2868277>zero mountains>zero unique animals>zero unique plants>zero landmarks>zero old growth forestWow sounds fucking awesomeMidwesterners should be banned from /out/ and I am not even kidding you people are so fucking stupid lol
>>2868319>>2868359wisconsin has gnomes which makes it S+ tier for /out/. Wouldn't expect a westlet to understand.
>>2858679didn't put the overseas territories because I've never been and don't know them well enough to rank them. They probably all go to S or A+ though.>>2868339>France should be A+if you go by diversity it's hard to put mainland France above A, including overseas territories I'd move it up yeah. Italy B+ is criminal though
>>2868339>>2868340>>2868381just different standards? every country on that list is beautiful, even most of the ones I didn't even rank still have beautiful areas. If this were my states >>2858694 tier list and Italy were a state it would be S tier, Taiwan A
>>2868179Agreed, with one exception right here. Anyways, educate yourself fool:>>2868147Iowa has underrated green rolling hillsOklahoma has some of the most remote yet green reservations and vast yet diverse areas in the eastSouth Dakota is more naturally diverse than you apparently know, and it is out of the wayAll underrated pearls where one most likely won't run into paste eaters like yourselves.
did you know that the colorado river doesn't reach the ocean anymore, and hasn't consistently since the 60sit all gets sucked up for irrigation and municipal water on arizona and mexicothere's just a dry delta in baja california where it once wasa similar fate has actually befallen a bunch of rivers in the southwest
>>2857110The top 100 largest land owning families in the USA own about 68,000 sq miles of land, or 176,000 sq km. And no one talks about this ever apparently. American feudal nobility.
>>2862823crops is not just human food but livestock food
>>2862814It's annoying that agriculture is still profit-minded when the US government made it clear they would always subsidize it for existential reasons after the dustbowl.A lot of junk food seems to have hijacked this system so they can externalize costs to taxpayers (and ecosystems).
>>2850988>colorado river doesn't reach the ocean anymorejust pump the great lakes to the mouth of the colorado river and restore its flows. Leafs dont need the water anyways.
>>2868703southwesterners love nothing more than wasting biblical amounts of water on their golf courses and data centers, so judging by their habits they'd drain the great lakes entirely within a week and be right back to where they are right now.
/out/ with dog
>>2857694Is this near Big Sur?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqqKFGSI3GQ
this is Jack
>>2865924Does he ever hit the road?
>>2865925does he come back anymore?
First edition for my /spee/ fellow amateursHere we talk>Equipment>Courses>Game advice>Personal progress>Anything related to your own practice of the sportPro tournaments and large events discussions will stay on >>>/sp/
>>2865214>get first tee time of the day>run and hit all you want>?>profit
Well this idea for a general failed miserably
>>2867197Well it was going ok but then people insisted we couldnt talk about the masters here, only on /sp/, so everyone went back there. At that point why come back? Not enough obsessive autist neets to maintain this thread like the sumo one
Found this on Facebook Marketplace for $60Would this be good for my first set?I am a complete amateur
>>2865156Yes, this board is dogshit for most of these reasons.
Have you gone morel hunting yet this season, /out/?
no rain in over a month so mushrooms 404
season officially opened
>>2868629I don’t trust any mushroom that isn’t on a shelf with a label telling me what kind it is.
>>2868629Chanterelles or nothing, so it's a few more months of waiting.
This is as close as I've found this year. It's been a great year from the FB posts I've seen. I just haven't been out to where they are....car troubles..
>European StarlingsWhat do you guys do to get rid of them? I just put on imagerelated & shoot them, they don't really notice it when shaded (or care if theres dead starlings all over the ground either).The suit is a bit annoying though, so are there any other good camos that they can't see easily? Do standard turkey/duck hunting sets work just as good? I know certain birds see different colors and other weird stuff, so I won't wanna get something that stands out like a beacon to them.
>>2868101Xhe's right guise, OP should be killing pajeets instead.
>>2868104All bird species alive today could be considered invasive couple thousand years ago. All species of organisms go extinct except a very very tiny fraction you get to see today that managed to adapt better than the rest, which then evolve further into more species and they go through the same process. Environment changes and a species does better than the rest, which is considered invasive behavior by you retards. You are doing neither good nor bad, since your dumbass is a part of the planet's ecosystem. It is by the hand of humanity in the first place that the environment has changed and starlings are doing better. It is however more annoying than it is funny that you retards think you could play the hero for some quick appreciation from society. And in 4chan of all places. Fucking clowns.I could tell you niggers to kill yourselves, which would neither be good nor bad as well, since I am a part of this ecosystem and I get to exist and type these encouraging words. I like starlings, they are extremely intelligent birds with incredibly flexible vocal cords and the ability of mimicry of almost every sound i could imagine, so do them a favor and kill yourselves.
>>2868545midwit take tbqh, you sound like a redditor
>>2868547nah he's right and you are the only midwit here, you couldn't even come up with a good retort, you just started spewing buzzwords like a redditor
>>2868690even midder-wit take tbqh, you sound like a twitter user