Does anyone else use public charcoal BBQs at local parks? I often see immigrant and ethnic families using them but never white people. I like using them once or twice a summer, it's a fun outdoor dinner.
Does your city or town even have outdoor BBQ?
ITT: we discuss how to best utilize public charcoal BBQs.

>boomer coworkers: you need to get outside some more man, see the other side of life!
>other side of life: this but filled with pajeets, drug addicts, and geriatrics
>either too old or young for any sort of co-existence with nightlife
How does one touch grass without touching the trigger of a gun to their head if they live in a situation like this?

I posted this thread on the travel board, but I thought maybe you guys would be able to give me some advice too...

So this is gonna sound really stupid and crazy, but I'm so fucking miserable and I just hate my life and I'm so bored all the time just tired of everything. And I'm out of shape, and I'm really stupid and worthless. I can't take care of myself. I'm addicted to self destruction and I want to change so bad. I want to do something really dramatic, something that will shock my whole nervous system into survival mode so I can find God and become the Man I know I can be.

Sorry this is really melodramatic and unhinged, I'm kinda cringe. But I want to walk.. like from my house all the way to Alaska. I just want to walk there. I'm broke, I have no car and very little money. But I figure I could just walk there, and start a new life.

I know it would be hard. I have about $3000 in savings and I would probably need that mostly for food and stuff along the way. I might have to figure out news ways of making money on the way. I'd need to figure out all kinds of things.

What I'm most worried about is freezing to death in my sleep and encountering territorial wild animals somewhere. Besides that I also worry about being robbed or murdered by other humans.

This is sort of a radical question, so I'd appreciate any and all opinions / advice / suggestions things I should learn / read / buy before I go. Or on the way. I know this is probably stupid but please try to keep an open mind..

Have any of you tried these wild button mushrooms, pretty tastey

This is a correct tier for a hike with a mutt?
Wieners are too stubborn and disobedient as everyone says?

Post YouTubers you wanna go
/out/ with

General thread for freediving and/or spearfishing, since I don't see one mentioning either.

My personal questions:
I've been thinking about taking a certification course so I can learn to do these things correctly and safely. I'm probably happy just doing the diving, but spearfishing seems like an easy and practical extension. I only casually skindive and rod-and-reel fish at the moment. Does anyone have experience taking such a course?
I know I'll need my own gear early on, but each instructor I can find seems to have their own equipment shops, so I imagine they wouldn't be impartial about the quality of other gear on the market. I live on the Pacific coast of the US, so I see that a 7 mm open cell wetsuit is strongly recommended. What good/bad features should I look out for on wetsuits and other equipment? For non-competitive diving, carbon fiber fins are almost certainly not worth the price, right?

anyone else here who can't sleep outdoors? I've been staying in a tent on 5 different nights during hikes, and not a single one of these nights could I get any sleep.

It's weird because there was a sixth night I was in a tent, way back in 2021, when I did get some sleep. not during the night, mind you, because I was new and underprepared and was shivering from cold during the whole night. but when the sun came up and the temperature increased, I was able to sleep 2 hours in the morning. and in 2022 I tried sleeping in a Haven tent (lie-flat hammock, pic related), and in this I slept great the entire night.

I've tried varying the amount of air in the matress, from fully inflated to somewhat soft, but this had no effect on my sleep. would be nice to hear if anyone else have dealt with the same and found a solution.

>shluuuurp
>leaves bullseye to mark domain
>nothing personal kid

If your right handed, should you buy a left handed or right handed baitcaster?