Guys, I think my dad will kick me out soon. Can I realistically survive in Winter? I live in a wet part of Europe in a city in the plains, but the mountains are close and that's where my heart lies and will head there, since I want to be far and cut all safety nets and bonds to them, not because I hate them, but because I love them and don't want to hurt them no more. I have little funds and thus not enough money to use a car, I have a bike, but it seems unwieldy in the forests especially now when there is probably snow and if not snow a lot of mud. Can one survive with only a backpack until spring, I don't know where if I would lay camp, we have some land in the mountains, but that would probably lead me back to them. But a backpack seems too little space, I would need a tent, some pots and tools, clothes, books, a sleeping bag and a couple kg of flour, I'd eat fish for meat and also I will need my laptop, although I wouldn't have electricity and it would probably get wet. I have this image of Sam's backpack from Lord of the Rings. Books and clothes seem like they wouldn't fit, I'd also have to somehow cycle trough the books at home or borrow from libraries in the mountain cities. I also am tempted to take one of my telescopes, but it definitely won't have space because of the mount and tripod. Books and telescopes are desires and I'll have to settle for libraries, e-reader and laptops, but clothes seem essential for a long winter trip. Farm and shepherd dogs will also be a likely problem. My hopes are that the wild will toughen me up. What do you guys recommend?
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>>2860278 Im a gunna rek ur anus, ill lube it up good with a dollop of Vaseline, then ill launch a fast hard torpedo (my erect penis) into your gayass adhd autististic tard hole, im gunna put a can of tennis balls in your rectum
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>>2860278 >>2860300 We’re gunna play meat steaks and puberty boy. I’ll put you in a box with your balls hanging out covered in peanut butter for the birds and coyotes, if you pull them into your body I’ll have my sister’s friend kick them out again and we’ll sing songs and celebrate puberty boys coming out party, lick lick
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>>2860278 My friend can hand pump scoops of protein powder into a hole
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>>2860278 Enabling parasites is harming society not helping it, you arrogant twat.
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>>2860188 >Guys, I think my dad will kick me out soon. Join a conservation corp. Alternatively, join the military.
They will house, feed, pay, and educate you. The trade off is you work hard like 12 hours a day.
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#532- “topless” Edition
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>>2850406 janny pls…
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Talk about fishin
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>>2855137 >fishing kayak in the ocean Thats sounds fucking awful. I dont even like taking them around gators/bull sharks or when its a little windy
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>>2860163 i watch some jap fishing streamer sometimes
she fit the stereotype of being over geared with over complicated rigs and not catching a lot of fish
asking google is your best bet, also japs are stingy about laws and regulations, especially with foreigners so i assume you should be extra careful about fishing licence and regulations
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>>2860297 fair enough
but why not using a different attachment instead of letting them dangling, or use hooks that would hold better on their own like twin hooks, or embedded hooks like some spoons
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>>2860163 You should do tenkara. Got into the mountains and catch some iwana.
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The nature is harsh, dry, not welcoming, the people are very dumb and either friendly if they can't actually help you, annoying when they want to help you ged rid of all cash in your wallet or rude when they don't care for your existence. Frequent interaction with the wild animals is what made it worthwhile though.
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>>2860216 >You're the Dutch guy who met some other old Dutch guy on a motorcycle trip, right? Nope, that's not me.
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Based thread. Thanks op.
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>>2860176 Here are some pictures
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Seems like I lost a lot of them
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Winter wanderings edition. Who's had any good /out/ings so far this winter? Every aspect of your edged what kit have you worked on lately? What plans do you have for the coming spring?
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Sweet waiting for this thread to appear! Did a display of my stuff at an Event at a park. God some good questions. I'm Wisconsin.
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>>2860109 I'm sure I could find some people, yeah. If you were searching around, what terms would you use? Living history? Reenactment? Period camping?
Nice impression, by the way. Post more pictures, if you wouldn't mind!
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>>2860168 Supremely cozy. It would be awesome to spend a few days living out of this. Very jelly, anon.
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>>2860182 Ive since upgraded to a wedge tent. But im planning on converting my diamond fly into a dinning fly ive see so many other camps do. But also keep it handy for treks.
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>>2860240 That rocks. Nice camp, anon.
Would you? Have you lived in one, built one, or simply stayed overnight? Explain yourself.
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>>2860075 >simply stayed overnight many times.
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OP here. Like a moron, I created a thread and forgot to contribute. I hike a lot and tend to favour woodlands and forrests over any other biome. As for cabins, I've never built one but have stayed in many overnight, in several different countries, my favourite being a cabin in Austria where I stayed overnight whilst I was on a hiking trip. It was a basic cabin with a bunj bed and a small fireplace. It was close to a fresh water spring which was useful. It was freezing outside, around 14 degrees F but inside it was cozy as fuck. I hope to build my own cabin one day. I have a patch if land in Ohio but I haven't developed it yet.
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>>2860106 And there were 2 major snowstorms that hit him in the last 2 1/2 weeks.
Hes either dead in his car on the side of a mountain or at his parents house.
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>>2860075 Back when my family owned 50 acres we'd stay in a small cabin with 2 sets of bunk beds
no running water, electricity was from a generator and the restroom was an outhouse.
It was fun until the last day because we would all just sit around and i wanted pancakes. So i'd get pissed off we were just sitting around when i could be eatings bacon, eggs and pancakes
we ended up selling the 50 acres because the land was between two counties so property tax sky rocketed.
It was literally in the middle of nowhere and i was next in line for inheritence. Owned 3 hills/mountains at one point
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>>2860289 i also fell down this hill once
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Why is half an acre the absolute minimum land area needed to be self sufficient?
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>>2854983 I honestly think it's shills who are terrified Americans will get back into homesteading.
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>>2860069 My brother in Odin, do you fuckin think a chicken lays five eggs a day?
This has got to be a troll.
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>>2860080 Urbanites are clueless when it comes to livestock or food production.
Theres a greater chance hes serious than hes a troll.
Reminder that these people have the right to vote
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>>2860264 He took all that time to do that junk math too. Sad.
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>>2860274 >250 pounds of eggs from 50 pounds of feed.... Its like the president of Zimbabwe saying they dont need farmers because food comes from the grocery store.
>OH MY GOD ANON YOU HIKE UP MOUNTAINS? I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO DO THAT! CAN I COME WITH YOU >sure you got the gear >WAIT I HAVE TO SPEND MONEY TO NOT DIE IN BELOW FREEZING TEMPS?!?! Every time. It's hard finding people are actually passionate about things and are willing to invest money into the equipment to do said things. Normgrels nowadays want to go hiking on their nike sneakers and pijamas.
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>>2859710 I climb mountains solo just fine but I wish I had a bro like you. You seem like a great friend. In lieu of that I try to treat strangers on the trail with this level of kindness (without overstepping boundaries of course).
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>>2859713 >>2859729 You're right, we should have celebrated with a firm (gloved) handshake and eye contact before heading back down in complete silence.
>>2859775 Being friendly to people on trail is pretty easy, the way I see it everybody out there is experiencing the highlight of their week and usually in a great mood. I'm always happy when people ask about the trail conditions and such, but there have been times where I'm on my way down and I see people like
>>2858279 still going up at 2 or 3 in the afternoon. I'm not their mothers or some forest jannie, I can't tell them to turn around but I have told people respectfully that there isn't enough daylight left to do what they're trying to do or that they'd need snowshoes and spikes to go much further.
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>>2859710 What mountain was this?
More frustrating than OP bitching about poor friends are getting friends that want to do this stuff with you, you tell them how they should train for it and get “I’m in good shape bro I work out” because they do a bro split 3x a week and are in a beer softball league. Then when you’re out on the mountain they get wrecked and kill any summit chance you had
Have had this happen with 3 different friends now who all “work out” and think that supplements that training needed for serious hiking / climbing. Unless you do endurance training (triathlons/cycling/marathons) or are a rucking queerbait then I don’t want to hear it you’re going to get out there and get your ass kicked
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>>2859902 Moosilauke via Gorge Brook Trail. By any count an easy walk-up. I think its a great one to bring new hikers though because you still get above treeline and the views are great.
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>>2859705 i know you motherfuckers have piles upon piles of gear. don't tell me you don't have any loaner gear you have used in months/years.
is Arcteryx a poser brand? what are some tr00 kvlt core dirtbagging brands?
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>>2856345 Tbh it's just incoherent babble.
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Never heard of em till i did a job in Boulder. Overpriced.
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>>2857619 Boulder is a funny place. Most of the hippies end up being millionaires
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>>2857625 Then they aren't hippies tebelebedesu
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>>2855627 What the actual fuck does that sentence mean?
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Was he retarded? or free?
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>>2830748 >short sided short SIGHTED
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>>2831002 he should have been wearing this.
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>>2858238 The slop actually had some interesting info on the background of the other guy stranded on the road that night that wikipedia doesn't mention.
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>>2837852 Chris was a pretentious retard who thought he was a modern day American philosopher, found out how much of a dork he was at Slab City, then went to the Alaskan wilderness and died from making every kind of mistake he could in an attempt to gaslight himself into believing he's not a dork. Schools waste time and taxpayer dollars by teaching kids to idolize this mongoloid.
>>2838077 >majored in political science and African American studies >"educated'