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My girlfriend is trying to make me sign up for one of these things but this feels like a complete scam. $300 for a backpacking trip at some park. I've been thinking about signing up for a mountaineering course with AAI and it's like 1.8k for a week and you're actually climbing real mountains miles into the backcountry.
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>the east coast has no real mounta---
why do /in/tards say this again?
why do /in/tards say this again?
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outdoor reality check
Are there plants on the fields where you live ?
Or are they empty ?
Are there plants on the fields where you live ?
Or are they empty ?
(millions of) peaches, apricots, apples, keffir pear, sour cherry, granny Smith, crabapples, and an unnecessary number of "Methly" plums.
they have all been planted over the last 2 years. ranging from 1m to 2m tall.
new land we bought it in 2022.
~1,000m, 50cm rain, 35°+ in summer, -27° winter. 2,700hrs sunshine annually. we have drip irrigation set up. we have a beehive. we planted with, and will continue to mulch with rabbit manure (mostly) and separately, some compost from kitchen and sheep pen combined.
what should I expect here, and on what sort of timeline?
they have all been planted over the last 2 years. ranging from 1m to 2m tall.
new land we bought it in 2022.
~1,000m, 50cm rain, 35°+ in summer, -27° winter. 2,700hrs sunshine annually. we have drip irrigation set up. we have a beehive. we planted with, and will continue to mulch with rabbit manure (mostly) and separately, some compost from kitchen and sheep pen combined.
what should I expect here, and on what sort of timeline?
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Or otherwise just make them uncomfortable so that they don't come back. I don't want to share these spaces with women. They've completely ruined society and half the reason I go out in nature is to get away from women and the feminist system that runs everything. I don't want to even have to look at them when I'm hiking. What's the best way to legally discourage women from going outside?
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Anyone used Roof-top tents?
What’s your experience with them?
Also why does it seem like so many people hate them?
What’s your experience with them?
Also why does it seem like so many people hate them?
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Large backpacks:
>Increase spinal compression, traps heat on the back, gear is not accessible without taking it off, weight all concentrated in one place, gets in the way if you're in town or on a train
If you're using a packable compressible sleeping bag, and are using a bivy or light tent, there is no need for a giant backpack, it's much better to carry shit the traditional way (belt/hip/thigh pouches and straps for heavy items + bandolier with pouches + optionally cargo clothes with lots of pockets). This is far more ergonomic (weight loaded near center of mass, dispersed weight distribution, removes pressure point on shoulders, convenient access and organization of gear). You can still carry a smaller civilian backpack for bulkier items. You also don't look homeless this way when you leave the woods to visit town.
Total hiking backpack death
>Increase spinal compression, traps heat on the back, gear is not accessible without taking it off, weight all concentrated in one place, gets in the way if you're in town or on a train
If you're using a packable compressible sleeping bag, and are using a bivy or light tent, there is no need for a giant backpack, it's much better to carry shit the traditional way (belt/hip/thigh pouches and straps for heavy items + bandolier with pouches + optionally cargo clothes with lots of pockets). This is far more ergonomic (weight loaded near center of mass, dispersed weight distribution, removes pressure point on shoulders, convenient access and organization of gear). You can still carry a smaller civilian backpack for bulkier items. You also don't look homeless this way when you leave the woods to visit town.
Total hiking backpack death
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"You sweat, you die."
What is the best wilderness/survival advice you've gotten /out/?
What is the best wilderness/survival advice you've gotten /out/?
Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats.
Let me paint you a picture.
You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode.
Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed.
Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.)
You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something.
The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms.
It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache?
At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure.
(The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done).
There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate.
Let me paint you a picture.
You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode.
Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed.
Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.)
You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something.
The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms.
It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache?
At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure.
(The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done).
There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate.
