I'm a very amateur hiker looking for good overnight hiking trails in Victoria, AU. Ideally 1-2 nights. Currently looking at the alpine region and Wilson's prom as options.

Why do i need snow shoes in winter? My boot seem to do just fine walking through snow as is.

What is the best training I can do at home or the gym to make it easier and more enjoyable to hike, ski and climb in the mountains and to to prevent injuries, boost performance when doing outdoor activities?
Please don't cite some men's health article, reddit or some PT bullshit. Only personal experience on how training affected your enjoyment of the outdoors.

Have you ever stealth camped before?

Now that the bears are asleep why aren't you hiking gizzly territory?

im curious what /out/'s stance on delta smelt and trying to maintain biodiversity in californias water ways?

seems like the argument is that the smelt is not worth the hinderance to growing food or the inconvenience of rationing water in an urban setting. ya/na?

and isnt the argicultural issue that they would no longer be able to flood fields for cheap food and have to use drip irrigation which would be more labor intensive? (meaningful jobs growing more food)

The purpose of this general is to encourage people to go /out/ and find cool fossils and artifacts. This thread is also a place to share our own collections and things we find when we are /out/ hunting.

Rules are as follows,
>To just post and discuss fossils and other related geological subjects.
>When you post about a fossil in your collection, please label it with what formation it is from, what it is, and where in the world it is from.
>If you don't know where it originated or the species that is ok, just label it as so
>You can post rocks and minerals as long a they are ones that you have found while /out/
Helpful Links
https://paleobiodb.org/navigator/
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
https://zoom.earth/
Geologic maps of US states (usgs.gov)
A Beginner's Guide To Fossil Hunting - Fossil Hunting Trips - The Fossil Forum
Listing of Historic Resources (alberta.ca)

Frett not other Fossil anons, I am back! Just went through a hell of a big move from Dallas to Houston in the past two months, still going trouh all my boxes to find all my fossils to put back in my bookcase. For a thread starter I'll post on of the last nice ammonites I found up in Dallas before I moved. Placenticeras sp. Eagle Ford Group Britton Fm. Denton Co. Texas

Hello /out/, I decided to jump the gun and get a ski pass + lesson for this weekend then promptly realized I needed winter clothes since this center does not rent them out. So I got all this crap in Amazon, wondering if it looks retarded to those of you who ski often. I also got some The North Face snow gloves but those look rather good (posting pic later).

The jacket is probably shit, I wanted a Columbia interchange one but they wouldn't get here on time before I drive out. But it was just $33... I would imagine a rental for a day or two goes for around that much, so meh

I just bought a mountaineering jacket that costs more than all my other gear combined and i'm not sure how I feel about this.

I have this landscape view and i want to get some optics for observation. Binocular or telescope. Maybe even an astronomical one.
Ideal is to be able to observe animals on those peaks.

What do you think?