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Outdoor classes, school, NOLS, courses

Anonymous Wed 15 Oct 2025 17:33:41 No.2845009 View View Reply Original Report

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Hello /out/!

Have any of you taken any outdoor courses of any discipline? I would be really interested in taking something that would be beneficial to outings like they experience on Alone, purely out of interest and curiosity. I'm a 30+ burger so I feel like I'm kinda too old for NOLS but any experiences you guys have would be interesting.

Ran into a guy that did this, he had a lot of great things to say about it
https://www.boss-inc.com/pages/program/primitive-skills

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Anonymous Thu 16 Oct 2025 02:57:29 No.2845090 Report

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>>2845068
I lived in SLC for three years and kept meaning to take a backcountry skiing/avi class but put it off too long and moved.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Oct 2025 02:59:07 No.2845091 Report

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I'm totally going to take the beginner whitewater kayak course at the Bryson City NC NOC next year.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Oct 2025 05:23:17 No.2845110 Report

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>>2845041
enough to know they are a waste of time and money
>>2845066
group settings are ESPECIALLY a waste of time and money and solo training is just a cult of personality. its like religious teaching. if you have to pay for it, its probably no good..

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Anonymous Sat 01 Nov 2025 00:56:58 No.2847351 Report

Quoted By: >>2847364

>>2845110
high school was a struggle for you, wasn't it

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Anonymous Sat 01 Nov 2025 04:14:22 No.2847364 Report

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>>2847351
high school is a tiny blip far in the distant past that meant nothing. referring to high school is a underage comment to make. you must be over 18 to use this forum.

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Anonymous Wed 08 Oct 2025 20:48:08 No.2844006 View View Reply Original Report

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Just ordered the largest head mounted umbrella I could find. Are they any good?

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Anonymous Thu 16 Oct 2025 16:26:12 No.2845158 Report

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It came, we saw, he died.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Oct 2025 15:28:21 No.2845348 Report

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Anonymous Fri 31 Oct 2025 13:01:29 No.2847273 Report

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>>2844006
>gust of wind
>neck status: broken

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Anonymous Fri 31 Oct 2025 13:52:35 No.2847275 Report

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>>2847273
They better send it with a warning or else I'll come to America, get moderate whiplash at my leisure (probably while fishing), and then sue them for damages. This is my big ticket into the land of the free baby I can feel it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 31 Oct 2025 14:02:25 No.2847279 Report

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>>2844010
same
fucking kek'd at the flat .jpg water on the umbrella

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Anonymous Mon 22 Sep 2025 12:54:02 No.2841602 View View Reply Original Report

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I need a very simple headlamp with a single function that can be very easily turned on and off
No flash mode, no dimmer, no red light, no other bullshit.
I need a single light function and a very simple on/off switch with no stupid modes in between. preferably a slider switch.
Show me what you got

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Anonymous Sat 18 Oct 2025 03:49:53 No.2845467 Report

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>>2842142
It really seems impossible. I have NEVER seen one. Everything has multiple light modes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 05:47:35 No.2847022 Report

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>>2845444
Do those take 18650 batteries? And does it have a redlight feature?. I specifically like the one on the left since it has the middle strap

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Anonymous Fri 31 Oct 2025 11:55:45 No.2847270 Report

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>>2841602
Use this with a simple clicky

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Anonymous Fri 31 Oct 2025 14:00:08 No.2847277 Report

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This one is no bullshit. See the 2 buttons? The first one is just a simple "on/ON/off" function with no flashing bullshit. Bright, very bright, off. Then the second button has all that other shit.

I will say that the red light is good because i can walk around pretty well in the dark while also being a lot more hard to see by others, just a dim red light pointing out the immediate lanscape.

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Anonymous Fri 31 Oct 2025 14:02:22 No.2847278 Report

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My headlamp is ON only for simplicity.

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Camping jams

Anonymous Thu 16 Oct 2025 16:34:28 No.2845159 View View Reply Original Report

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What kind of music do you guys play around the campfire? I like either electronic or hip hop, the fire actually looks really trippy with the beats

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Anonymous Thu 16 Oct 2025 17:57:02 No.2845176 Report

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>>2845163
>I generally go with a few friends
white people talk too much...

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Anonymous Thu 16 Oct 2025 18:05:09 No.2845179 Report

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>>2845176
Im black

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Oct 2025 18:21:04 No.2845188 Report

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>>2845179
black people talk too much..

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Oct 2025 06:04:54 No.2845288 Report

Quoted By: >>2847250

>>2845159
The farther you are from civilization when you pollute nature with electronic noise, the less likely anyone will hear the gunshot.

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Anonymous Fri 31 Oct 2025 02:40:37 No.2847250 Report

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>>2845288
lol you dork. If you lived in a rural area you'd know there are gunshots all the time and it's only quiet at night.

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Chaparral

Anonymous Mon 27 Oct 2025 03:33:06 No.2846766 View View Reply Original Report

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Is there a more boring ecosystem out there?

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Anonymous Mon 27 Oct 2025 03:36:08 No.2846767 Report

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it's not as nice as moist temperate broadleaf forests, that's for darn sure!

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Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 00:32:24 No.2846889 Report

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>>2846766
Yes. Pic related
Fuck trees. Cut trees down and turn them into meadows and savannas and wetlands.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 01:18:37 No.2846894 Report

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>>2846889
>Fuck trees
Only between November and April. Rest of the year is fine, with October being the greatest. Picrel is from this afternoon.

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Anonymous Fri 31 Oct 2025 02:02:42 No.2847249 Report

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>>2846889
based, grassland is bestland

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Anonymous Sun 28 Sep 2025 16:45:42 No.2842507 View View Reply Original Report

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Look at this giant mushroom

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Anonymous Mon 27 Oct 2025 14:14:49 No.2846815 Report

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Final one.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 20:17:08 No.2847094 Report

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Rubroboletus eastwoodiae, satan's bolete

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 20:20:00 No.2847095 Report

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Another

New captcha is fucking retarded.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 18:05:46 No.2847211 Report

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>>2847094
That looks cool, is it edible?

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 21:12:55 No.2847228 Report

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>>2847211
Unfortunately, no, they are not. They're called satan's boletes because of the red color on the pore surface, but also because it's one of the boletes that will make you sick. They won't kill you or do any permanent damage, but they will cause gastric distress. I have read online that they can be eaten if par boiled and leached a few times. But I don't know anyone brave enough to put that to the test, including myself. And all of the books I have say to just avoid eating it.

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Living in camper

Anonymous Thu 09 Oct 2025 09:45:34 No.2844081 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2844677

>be me
>plan to buy camper to live in friends backyard
>midwest but i probably will not stay in it thru winter

Anything I should lookout for? Obviously i want a maintained roof and no prior leaks.
Im looking at 4-6000 campers right now and wondering if I might as well drop 8-12k
I already have an outdoor kitchen,
Maybe I will build a roof or porch for it.
Any advice or considerations on buying and also living in an older camper?

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Anonymous Mon 13 Oct 2025 11:56:01 No.2844677 Report

Quoted By: >>2844723

>>2844081
>>plan to buy camper to live in friends backyard
Will you be paying your friend rent or utilities? Let's just say you will be paying your friend a few hundred bucks a month to park that POS eyesore on his property and connect to his utilities.

That, combined with you spending $8k on a trailer, another few thousand fixing and maintaining it, and you are in rent territory with none of the benefit of an actual roof over your head.

Unless you have some reason to live in a trailer (drugs, most likely), you can rent a room in a house with roommates for $600 a month, depending on the city, everything included. I don't know anything about the used trailer market, but I don't imagine those pieces of junk hold their value very well. You must really value privacy to make that tradeoff.

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Anonymous Mon 13 Oct 2025 19:12:56 No.2844723 Report

Quoted By: >>2847190

>>2844672
>showers
No, is it better than lake baths in December?
>>2844677
>no benefits
Come back to me when you can use your imagination enough to name at least 2 benefits of living in a trailer in a back yard
>roommates
Thats enough of a reason to live in a trailer
>>2844663
>build carefully
Yeah good point, ive been wondering about how adding crossmembers or something to really anchor the framing to the trailer deck

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Anonymous Mon 13 Oct 2025 20:41:22 No.2844736 Report

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>>2844663
>take it on the highway
A trailer house on the highway? That doesn't sound like a good idea, regardless of how it's built.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 08:13:27 No.2847166 Report

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All i can say is make sure you have a way for proper ventilation and if possible create a positive pressure. Im surrounded by faggot cunt neighbors who burn wet wood and garbage year round and its been a nightmare keeping this thing properly insulated. I dont have time to do a full remodel of it so its had to do for now but fuck me man between that shit and the car exhaust make sure you are in a good spot away from stuff like that. Also these things act like giant tin cans and every low frequency sound for miles is going to travel through the ground and up through your camper. Put your camper near big trees and away from noise

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 13:30:35 No.2847190 Report

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>>2844723
>lake baths
Nobody wants your feces shitting up the local lakes

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scorpion stung

Anonymous Thu 23 Oct 2025 16:12:55 No.2846272 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2846346 >>2846354

Hey /out/, what should I do if I get stung by a scorpion while camping? I’m often far from medical help, and they won’t sell me antivenom, i already asked a lot of places.
I remember hearing about a plant that works against scorpion venom about 15 years ago, but I can’t remember the name. Does anyone know about this or have alternativetreatments?

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Anonymous Fri 24 Oct 2025 04:13:17 No.2846346 Report

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>>2846272
Remember that deaths or serious injury from these kind of things are largely limited to the elderly or kids or already sick. A healthy adult will do fine, or at least the odds arent much different than other freak accident odds people accept while out like lightning or trees falling. Just check for them in and around your shit.

To answer the medical question, for an /out/ trip all you can really do is bring sting relief cream/wipes to lessen the pain of a possible sting. Or pay for a gps device to have an sos at all times.

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Anonymous Fri 24 Oct 2025 06:45:16 No.2846354 Report

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>>2846272
>what should I do if I get stung by a scorpion

Poison's protein-- hot as the hottest bath you could tolerate water over the affected area. Same thing as stingrays. And black light thing per >>2846295

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Anonymous Sat 25 Oct 2025 01:45:22 No.2846435 Report

Quoted By: >>2847172

>>2846274
Like the other anon said, it's only life threatening if you're a little kid, super old, or weak. The antivenom wasn't commonly available until recently. My wife got stung by one and her doctor basically told her to just suffer. She kept the scorpion as a pet for a while.

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Anonymous Sun 26 Oct 2025 03:19:05 No.2846642 Report

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>>2846295
You should always shake out your shoes or boots in the morning before putting them on. My taught me that at a young age and I remember my first back packing trip I shake out my boots and this big ass black spider fell out the damn thing.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 09:23:29 No.2847172 Report

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>>2846435
>it's only life threatening if you're a little kid, super old, or weak
or allergic. in my cunt we have a snake that is somewhat poisonous. been bit once, hurts a lot but didn't kill me. it's more of a infection risk than anything. but for those people who react weirdly to that kind of poison it genuinely fucks them over real good despite it being weaksauce poison.

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Anonymous Sun 12 Oct 2025 23:08:13 No.2844614 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2847096 >>2847167

>shields you from the sun and rain
>easily paired with a beanie for warmth or bug net for bug freedom
>makes 5 panel retards look even more gay
why don't you wear it?

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 20:05:31 No.2847092 Report

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Ordered one today. I think this might be nice in a light drizzle. It's probably too warm in the sun.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 20:06:32 No.2847093 Report

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>>2847092

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 20:21:39 No.2847096 Report

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>>2844614
Wide brim hats are superior in every way. Also a hat like yours will not shield you from rain lmao, maybe the top of your head but nothing else. Especially if it's raining hard or coming at an angle.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 21:03:08 No.2847102 Report

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>>2847093
i got a version of that but part of the top part is a breathable mesh, it's great. i used to use a truckers hat but it was shit, had to move it constantly to keep it pointed towards the sun,. didn't cover the neck anyway, never going back

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Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 08:24:38 No.2847167 Report

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>>2844614
>shields you from the sun, rain, arrows and blows from above
>easily paired with a bevor for face protection
>makes barbute retards look even more retarded
why don't you wear it?

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Anonymous Sat 18 Oct 2025 03:07:10 No.2845458 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2845971 >>2847158

I'm thinking of going to Big Sur for a week around Christmas time. How could I get the most out of my trip there? I would be coming from the South.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Oct 2025 19:29:56 No.2845531 Report

Quoted By: >>2845535

>>2845527
I know that the south is a lot less 'nicer' than the northern end but i'm hoping that's a normie filter and would mean there is less people around. I know there are still a good amount of redwoods in the south too. I'm thinking of camping at plaskett creek campground.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Oct 2025 19:43:44 No.2845535 Report

Quoted By: >>2845547

>>2845531
>plaskett creek campground.
thats a pretty cool area. there is a nice beach across the road. and limekiln is cool. Naciemento-Ferguson rd gets you way up into the hills but could be sketchy in big rain. Same with Plaskett ridge rd- worth checking out. there probably are less people coming from the south but you'd be missing some pretty cool stuff. I love big sur. I miss it. enjoy.

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Anonymous Sat 18 Oct 2025 21:18:27 No.2845547 Report

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>>2845535
Yeah in the past I've stayed at limekiln which was cool and also I stayed at the top of prewitt ridge. Don't know if you can get up there any more though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Oct 2025 15:12:39 No.2845971 Report

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>>2845458
Depends on what you want to do and what you want to see. Daytime temperature will be nice but it is likely to be wet; not a bad thing since it means that it will be a lot greener and the cold will keep the bugs more away.

The trails in the Ventana wilderness aren't maintained well and require a good amount of bushwhacking, but you'll be completely alone. Map out your water sources before you backpack.

The coastal highway tends to close on the regular due to landslides.

I day hiked Ventana Double cone last January and it was a miserable 32 miles, but the sunset and views were world class and I only saw two people near the trailhead by the end,

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 05:48:57 No.2847158 Report

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>>2845458
SLO is pretty cool, hiking bishop's peak was my favorite, morro rock is nice as well if you're looking for some more places to stop on the way.

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