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IMHO Aragorn would be way better off with a crossbow than a short bow. Short selfbow is practically useless in an individual combat, and crossbow is both more accurate and more powerful for hunting but can be just as compact if well designed. Name other instances where wrong choice of /out/ equipment was promoted shamelessly in media.
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>>2835524 He sounds like an unbased injun. Why didnt he fish or just have the eagle drop him off a sandwhich?
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>>2837143 And they would have lived to 75 if they’d had a crossbow from birth?
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I always hated crossbows...
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>>2835511 Luckily for him Aragorn is like 100 years old and descends from super-human numenorians.
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>>2833764 >hunter on the move someone doesjt into lotr lore
he's quite literally apart of a group of rangers that protect the shire in secret because they cant protect themselves
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/qtddtot/ - Questions that don’t deserve their own thread
>>2793358 (I think)
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>>2839824 You could probably stuff one inside your sleeping bag's stuff sack or even roll it up with the sleeping bag. It compresses pretty well, but is firm enough that it keeps its loft when you're sleeping on it.
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>>2837876 They make sense for people running ultras and shit, but they got marketed to casual hikers that really don't benefit from them
The 2x1L smart water bottle + sawyer squeeze is peak hydration provided you can reach them without taking your pack off. If you can't, it's a shit pack and you should get one that isn't shit rather than dealing with bladders.
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>>2839824 Next piece of gear you should buy is a down sleeping bag/quilt
Especially on a bike where you can't carry a 70L bubba pack, it's a gamechanger. I regret not buying one sooner
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>>2840026 Peak would be accessible pockets with a larger pocket on a shoulder strap that can hold a .5L bottle. If a pack doesn’t have pockets that can be accessed from the front then I wouldn’t even consider it. It’s a total deal breaker for me.
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>>2840027 I really want one, they're just fucking expensive. A quilt would be ideal for most of the camping I'm gonna do and I've seen how tiny they pack but the cheapest decent ones are pushing $400 and I need to stop pouring money into motocamping gear and put some into the bike itself for a while.
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Alternative cooking methods Look folks, it's 2025, fire is out the window. Your risk of starting a forest fire is too high, and smoke gives away your position to anybody. Obviously, fire is fucking dumb. The comanche would cold camp without fire to evade the Texas Rangers. But luckily, there are some really cool alternatives to using fire for cooking. >cold soak Dehydrated refried beans and othee foods can simply be left in water >solar grill These are really fucking cool and work great for cooking>non-cook solutions Muh protein powder, fiber powder and multivitamin gauntlent Im quite fond of the cold soak, I rarely even use heat to cook at home. The solar shit is really cool.
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>>2837721 Kek based
Nta, what is the other use for these sticks, as pot handle?
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I'm in my country's version of the National Guard. We get MREs everytime we're out on exercises, but they also get us hot meals. So I got a fuckton of spare FRHs, and just bring whatever MREs I got left, or buy some commercial meals.
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>>2837565 >Bone app the teeth I had to read that one out loud to understand the joke.
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>>2837574 >Biolite stove Do those things still exist? I remember when everyone and their aunt were making youtube videos like the stoves were the second coming of Jesus Christ.
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>>2837544 >Your risk of starting a forest fire is too high >and smoke gives away your position to anybody. I've cooked entire family meals on open wood fires. If you know what you're doing, and have dry wood and a solid base (fire pan, flat stones, doesn't matter), there's no smoke, and no risk of the fire spreading, either.
On the other hand, if a retard like you who can't even handle fire tried to use a solar cooker, I'd suggest bringing a welding mask. You might just end up blind, otherwise.
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I hate the sun on the steppe. Let me live in a coniferous forest where there is snow.. I beg . T_T Who's with me?
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>>2840040 Unfortunately I'm not good a taking pictures in winter, so enjoy these instead
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coniferous forest is the worst possible kind
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>>2840041 >>2840042 >>2840043 these are still really nice pitchers, and I love imagining this place in winter
Pic related is my local woods, it's creepy in winter but actually scarier in summer. This is the dark spot in woods where the coyotes live and hunt, so often this spot is littered with the bones of rodents and squirrels and even fox skulls and such. In winter it's still uneasy but at least there's no undergrowth so you have visibility of what's around you
>>2840045 how so and in what ways anon?
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have any of you had issues with animals stealing stuff from your yard? i've had a possum steal a foam soccer ball from my yard (3 times, the same possum too), and now i've had a groundhog steal a tennis ball why do they do this? don't they know thats a crime?
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>>2839924 How did you keep getting the ball back?
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>>2840003 the first time, it was stuffed under the stairs
the second, it was dragged off into a bush
the third time, it was taken even further into the treeline, past where we could get it
i guess its technically 4 times, since it was totally gone few days later
i don't know why it did that, but it was very funny to watch it take a ball that was almost as big as itself & slowly drag it away
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>>2839924 How else are they going to get balls to play with, anon? It's not like they have money to go buy them. Maybe leave out a few more toys for the beasts. You could make friends.
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>>2839924 A dog took one of my socks from a basket under my clothes line and left it at the end of my driveway.
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>>2839924 i have possums and raccoons raiding my garden. here is a possum im trying to tame down. he has a bad eye so i named him pirate
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Got a complete Tasco 1959 7TE 60mm Refractor in original box with all accessories along with a whole bunch of books with some other stuff for $20. Did i do good?
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>>2838712 Not bad, this is from an old cheap Fuji digital camera with telescopic zoom
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>>2838210 I saw the rings of Saturn for the first time via one like it. A couple years later I bought, secondhand, a 6" F8 Newtonian with a heavy equatorial mount. I suppose my favorite sight in it was M11.
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>>2838971 It was also pretty nice for projecting detailed images of the sun, and came with a screen that mounted conveniently to it.
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Super crappy pic of Jupiter and three of Galilean moons. iPhone held up to the eyepiece in a Explore Scientific ar102 refractor.
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>vegetation able to grow at higher latitudes and in the greenland and antarctic interior >antarctica now a kino massive volcanic island chain >half of eastern ch*na flooded >like a fifth of br*zil flooded >globohomo coastal megacities flooded >most of evropa safe >flooded land would create shallow seas ideal for massive reefs and marine ecosystems to form >higher temperatures and expanded oceans would lead to higher rainfall in previously arid areas maybe our iceless future won't be so bad
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>>2837815 I know that it exists on the real world map too but god damn the Himalayas look silly. It’s like a knot of muscle above India
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>>2837815 >Florida gone >Southern Louisiana gone The US is winning
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>>2837815 The map is wrong. It says I'll be underwater when I live hundreds of metres higher than anyone else in the country, including places it said would not be underwater.
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>>2837815 >Countless species go extinct because climate changed too fast for them to adapt
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Lets talk about minimalist camping. Cowboy / Backpack / Minimalist / Bushcraft Tools, bedrolls, bags, tents, clothing.
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>>2817065 total larp setup, that pack barely fits shit and half this shit can be replaced with modern alternatives that are less aesthetically pleasing but are way lighter weight, cheaper, more utility.
i know modernity is soulless as fuck and full of microplastics but when it comes to doing outdoor shit, modern shit is just generally better.
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A waxed zeltbahn tarp is enough. Can make it a hammock or a shelter. I sleep straight on the ground because I'm a man.
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So I've thought of looking over historical photos of frontier folks, like gold prospectors and such, and try to build a modern equivalent to their loadouts. How viable would something like this be for a backpack only setup?
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Decided recently that I wanted to move away from a lot of the plastic-heavy items, and instead opt for a more traditional setup tho still being light. So I guess minimalism will have to do. This is the current plan:>old cotton canvas pack from the 50's >wool poncho/blanket >waxed cotton poncho/tarp >(granfors bruks large forest axe) >knife >msr alpine stowaway pot >fire starting kit >some form of water carry(1-2L titanium canteen?) >toothbrush >extra pair of wool socks >thick wool sweather Thats just the basic starting idea, I'm not entirely sure about the axe, as its obviously "heavy", but also very useful and versatile. Maybe a smaller version would be more ideal as I likely wont fell large trees. I'm also wondering if I should consider another form of ground insulation, like reindeer hide/sheepskin. Finally Im also wondering if I should consider some equipment for keeping the fire off the ground as much as possible to prevent damaging the ground and creating burn spots everywhere I go.
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Can we rank all countries in Europe according to their /out/ value?
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>>2838181 The top European countries are no better than B tier compared to North America, North Asia, and Australia.
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>>2838264 Doing anything that remotely looks like free camping in Italy will get you in trouble unless you're brown and with no papers or a trailer gypsy or an actual criminal doing something illegal, then the law can't touch you.
It's only legal to camp above 2000m as an emergency.
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>>2838181 None are in S nor in F if you exclude city states and the oversea colonies (French Guiana, French Polynesia, Greenland).
Most European countries parts will be between C and E if you desire more than hiking in a nice cultural landscapes such as abundant interesting wildlife, the right to roam, free camping and easily accessible hunting and fishing then you will have few attractive countries. No European country has it all but usually there are a couple of excellent spots and possibilities to enjoy the outdoors. The again how many US-states have it all? Maybe 6?
Norway is a B in my opinion: it has great landscapes and offers a lot of freedom but has very little wildlife that can be spotted outdoors besides seabirds and it has little variety in flora. It's like an early Minecraft version world. Fishing is great, Small game hunting is really good, big game hunting is mediocre.
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putting Russia lower the A tier is a crime wtf
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>>2839869 ahahahahahahahahahahahahah
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what strange / spooky stuff have you seen? once when i was in the desert, there was a telephone pole, on it looked exactly like a 10ft tall bird of prey, just eyeing me down it was about a good 5min of walking, which felt like forever, just to see that it was a transformer that looked weird, none of the other poles had it either sounds dumb, but it really did look exactly like a gigantic human sized hawk, and the "head" even seemed to follow you too, really interesting illusion, since it also hit all the primal parts of the brain that gone "you're about to be fucking eaten by a bird!!!!!!" a year or two later, when i was gonna take a picture, it was gone, which adds a strange air to "it was right there, i tell you!">inb4 go to /x/ for this shit i want real stories, not >i smelled the rotten shit fart gas, and my best friend was turned into a skinwalker, and then i pulled out that gun from videogame and blasted it, dude trust me
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>late summer of 2020 >bad breakup, pandemic - life is falling apart >plan to cross the Dead Mountains alone - a three day hike in the Austrian alps >first day goes smoothly if slower than expected >day two the heat ramps up >I'm exhausted - nausea keeps me from eating enough >the thought of day three looms heavy in my mind >terrain will only be harder from here on out - nothing but bare rock - the Rotgschirr rising up in front of me like an insurmountable wall >decide to stop early for the day - plan to set up camp near this scenic mountain lake - pic related >descend into the valley flanked by steep walls on either side >not a soul in sight >take an absolutely horrible shit >the light is fading fast - only flat-ish ground is close to these abandoned shepherds huts - finally finish up with the night closing in fast >doze off feeling feverish and exhausted >i shoot up suddenly >there's footsteps circling the tent >they're close >unzip, crawl out - nothing but the pitch black staring back >my heart is pounding >weighing the options >after listening intently into the darkness I lie back down >footsteps again, then harsh barking echoing through the valley >sometimes distant, sometimes as if coming directly from the abandoned shacks only meters away >I keep lying there - I accept my fate - the cycle repeats in a vortex of echoing dread >eventually I pass out >the morning comes - I wake up, alive >pack my shit fast >the valley as empty as when I made camp - the still water and deserted huts >I descend - trying hard not to think about what lies behind
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>>2802993 I've heard ravens "speak" like that too. Their "voices" are creepy, like a deep croaking whisper. They're smart too, probably just like to fuck with humans sometimes.
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Back in the 90s, a friend and I were traveling down the 101 through Northern Cali when my truck started overheating. We stopped in a small town in Humboldt County in the late afternoon. The only repair shop in town wouldn't be open until the next day and we didn't have enough money for a hotel room, so my buddy and I decided we'd just go find a spot in the forest to camp for the night. We drove outside of town as far as we could and then walked down from the road to a small clearing we found in the forest. Everything was fine until it got dark We had built a fire and we were just getting comfortable when, all of a sudden we started getting hit by rocks that were being thrown at us from the surrounding darkness. The rocks seemed to be coming at us from different directions, but we could also hear them bouncing off the trunks of the surrounding trees which made it impossible to tell exactly where they were being thrown from. I became irate and started screaming threats and insults into the forest. The only response were more rocks. Whoever was throwing them made no sound whatsoever the entire time, which scared the shit out of me because I had been screaming vile insults toward them at the top of my lungs in the hopes of drawing them out. We even put out the fire to try and make ourselves less obvious targets, but it didn't help much. After about 15 minutes of this my friend and I looked at each other and agreed without saying a word that it was time to GTFO. We stumbled back up the hill to the truck in total darkness as we didn't have a flashlight. They seemed to stop throwing stuff at us once we left the clearing. In hindsight I believe we stumbled upon some kind of illegal grow operation and the "farmers" were trying to scare us off. We didn't know it at the time, but we learned later the area we camped was pretty dangerous at the time due to all of the illegal activity. I guess we're lucky that whoever it was didn't respond to my threats.
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>>2839920 norcal gets a lot of bigfoot sightings, and rocks being thrown is a common report