I've Never Done That Before. Also Merry christmas.

Thoroughly clean all of your gear once you get home. Never leave it dirty. It is a slow and relaxing process almost meditative. Do not leave your gear dirty as a performance to other men. Maintain your kit.

Since I think all y'all would be the most mature and knowledgable board about this:
I need to settle this debate for our families emergency kits when a snowstorm or power outage hits. (I checked for a stupid questions thread but there wasn't any)

I am arguing in favor of getting two butane gas stoves/burners for general use, see picrel
The reason for this is that I want to be able to cook indoors for obvious security reasons. We all live in the same, but pretty cramped subdivision, and everyone can look into eachothers front and back yards.

However, my brother is having a mental breakdown how carbon dioxide will kill us if we'd cook indoors without mechanical ventilation or a range hood after a power outage. Regardless of cracking a window or two.

For indoor use I would prefer to use one of those flat stoves rather than something tall like those stoves that you screw on top of a canister, due to its much higher center of gravity. I know there are some safety concerns with those flat stoves, but to my knowledge that is caused by using pots or pans on the stove that are way too large, reflecting and conducting a lot of heat back down to where the gas canister is, causing it to burst under pressure, and the gas igniting from the lit burner, causing a nice thermobaric effect I suppose.

Let's focus the discussion purely using a propane (butane too I guess) stove indoors in an emergency with regard to breathing safety.

Are there any risks if you just cook in one room upstairs with the window(s) open?
Do the risks outweigh the safety/security offered by cooking indoors to your opinion?

Any experience using Meshtastic devices out on a camping trip or whatever?

Is it possible to hike in North Korea? It's mountain ranges are basically prime backpacking territory and peaceful solitude.

Anybody ever paddle the Erie Canal?

Slept on a lock in Brockton for a roadtrip last year and the idea has stuck in my head ever since. Never kayaked such a distance before so any advice would be appreciated. Planning for late august 2026/2027

Mainly how do you handle the car? My current plan is to drive to buffalo, drop my shit somewhere private, park at the airport, and take an uber to the canal. Then when I finish hide my shit, fly/bus back to buffalo, and drive back to Albany to grab my stuff. That seems like a ton of work but I don't have any contacts in the region or friends willing to drive that much just to pick me up/drop me off

The snowy world you grew up in no longer exists.

There are those out there who made billions depriving you of snowy winters.

as a semi-shut-in i spend a lot of my time going to random cool/pretty places on google earth and yearning for exploration

Me and some friends have this dream of walking from Seattle to Miami. I'm currently working through the logistics of the trip. Our current plan involves 15 hours of walking a day, well have packs with pad sleeping bag and mainly just a lot of water, we only want to carry enough food to get to the next place we can buy more with a little extra just in case. Timing wise the summer after we graduate is looking like the most likely time to do it. Heat wise I'm not really concerned about the Washington through Wyoming section of the journey, we've all done lots of intensive summer backpacking before, I've worked 10 hour shifts in 100+ degree weather before. I am however worried about Nebraska onwards. I'm from the mountain west and have no real experience with humidity which i am told makes things entirely different. a conservative estimate would have us at the Wyoming Nebraska border by the end of July and in Miami mid September, but we will likely be moving faster than this. Is covering this region on foot in this time of year doable or will our plans have to change?

Anyone from /out/ tell me if the Kantamus 60L is worth it? Looking for an endgame backpack that will survive the apocalypse.