I've never camped before. Is fall/winter a good time to start?

Is it eatable?

> actually drive across much of the west
> 75% of it looks like pic rel
> nothing but diseased pine trees
Is this the true beauty of the west people shill on here? How can the East even compete?

I love goats nigga

I love going /out/, but I have a disability and as a result of that I have to take trekking poles for the harder trails, which help me in uneven terrain (where I lack the stability of a healthy person), with climbing elevation and whenever there's something like a larger rock in the way. They are kinda like a railing that I take with myself and enable me to do hikes that would be too complicated otherwise.
This year, after a particularly long day I was so exhausted, I tripped and fell over, cracking my carbon fiber hiking poles with my knee. I duct taped them together and they lasted the rest of the hike, but now I need new ones and I have some questions that may be some anons can help me with:
- How are folding trekking poles compared to sliding ones? Particularly when there's muddy terrain, if they unfold themselves in mud they aren't an option for me.
- I considered going aluminium alloy instead of carbon fiber, the idea being that if a similar accident were to occur, they'd be stronger and less likely to splinter (and instead bend). It's more weight, but might be worth it for me. Does that logic check out?

Picrel are some I considered, no. 1 is the one most closely resembling what I had before.
Here's some stats for the stuff in the pic:
# Carbon fiber
- 193 g/pole
- 62-135 cm
- 36,19 €
# 6061 Aluminium alloy 1
- 235 g/pole
- 62-135 cm
- 23,98€
# 7075 Aluminium alloy folding
- 234 g/pole
- 115-135 cm
- 38,62 €
# 3k Carbon fiber & 7075 Aluminium folding
- 221 g/pole
- 115-135 cm
- 46,10€

Thanks for any advice anons, I know trekking poles are a bit of a meme on /out/, but for someone with a disability like me they are what enable me to do hikes that I otherwise couldn't and thus they are what enable me to go /out/.

theyre made of leather and heat and cut resistant, but do they keep warm?

what can stop me from constructing an 1890s drilling rig in my backgarden

i wanted to leave society and live as vagabond ever since i was a little kid. but ever since i could, there were always "convenient" happenings that emotionally coerced me into staying a slave. im 27yo now and notice that everyone i know seems to try to keep me from leaving but also wants me to suffer.

over a year ago i tried to follow my dream, had no money and no equipment, just left out of frustration and walked for 2 days straight. the first time i tried to sleep i was attacked by a weird women on a bicycle staring me down followed by demonic voices all around me. i got up and ran as fast as i could.

did any of you experience similar things? how can i be free?

you guys got any pictures of instructions like rope knots, traps, basic shelters, scavenger stuff, home made rope, water purifiers stuff like that

"TREES could be here" he thought, "I've never been in this neighborhood before. There could be TREES anywhere." The cool wind felt good against his wrinkled forehead. "I HATE TREES" he thought. That'll Be The Day reverberated his entire car, making it pulsate even as the $0.50 peppermint circulated through his powerful thick throat and washed away his (unmerited) fear of trees near houses. "With an axe, you can cut anything you want" he said to himself, out loud.