What is the largest and best hip bag you can buy?

>goes innawoods avoiding law enforcement for almost half a year
>was actually dead the entire time spending only one week in the washington wilderness
so that's it isn't it, there's no way modern man can ever make it in the wild ever again

now that the dust has settled. does a bear shit in the woods?

>scouting america

8 thousanders excluded. I'm neither crazy enough nor rich enough

Why we shouldn't rewild land

Rewilding is the process of converting fairly substantial tracts of industrial land back into nature. What once was farmland or a logging area returns to its natural state. The consensus among most people tends to be that it’s a pretty uncontroversially good idea. This consensus, I think, is badly wrong. Rewilding is extremely immoral worse than almost any other thing we do and we should refrain from it barring exceptional circumstances.

What’s so bad about rewilding? The basic case against is that it majorly increases wild animal suffering. If we assume wild animals are spread uniformly across Earth’s land, then each square mile of land contains 1,754-17,540 mammals, 1,754-1,754,000 reptiles, and 1,754-1,754,000 amphibians.

https://benthams.substack.com/p/rewilding-is-extremely-bad?utm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true

Where things get really extreme is with insects.

On average, a square foot of land contains about 750 insects. https://reducing-suffering.org/the-importance-of-insect-suffering/ This means that if you rewild a square mile of land, over the course of a year, 20.9 billion additional insect life-years will be lived. If we assume that each insect lives two weeks a fairly reasonable https://benthams.substack.com/p/there-should-be-less-nature?utm_source=publication-search estimate then a mile of rewilded land produces about 585,480,000,000 (five-hundred-eighty-five-billion-four-hundred-eighty-million) extra insect lives and deaths annually.

Are exposed ridges the coolest kind of trail?

I am looking at getting into cross country skiing. I live in Alaska and am looking to get out into the woods more during winter. I have some outdoors experience from thru hiking and hunting but when it comes to skis I am a complete beginner. I have downhill skid a couple of times years ago so I know the bare bones basics of the pizza and french fries and thats about it. Cross country seems a bit more practical for exploring around my area, riding a lift and going down the same hill over and over again doesnt really do it for me.

I dont want to spend a ton of money especially since I dont know what to look for in equipment, I am considering picking up some gear off facebook marketplace. I have some nice hiking trekking poles which I assume would be fine to use?

Can somebody point me in the right direction towards a beginners guide or some good youtube videos to get me started? I am trying to figure out what gear I need, what size/length skis (I am 193cm) and what shoes might be compatible with what skis etc etc
Also do I really need to wear those tight ass queer pants?

Pictured here is one of my favorite plants, if not my favorite. Broadleaf Plantain.
It's a healing plant, vulnerary, useful especially for bug bites and persistent itchiness. Makes amazing balms.

Where were you when you realized that plants are god's consolation for the skeeter?

Any herbalists ab/out/? any stories of being saved by your wide knowledge of wonderful plants like these?

I was looking for a large hemp backpack when I found this good looking one
https://www.ecofrico.com/products/himalayan-bag
I was wondering if it is of low quality sonce it is cheaper than others i found.What does /out think?