east coast hikes are more hardcore than west coast hikes

fantasy books recommendations?

I think my coldest /out/ was a sleigh ride in -14°C when I was a kid. The coldest I've ever been outside for a few minutes was -22°C.

This is literally the most gun that anyone needs in the woods, unless you’re in bear country. Even then, if you can aim then you’ll be fine.

Religious Utah MORMON father charged with TORTURE and child abuse for taking his little kids on a way-too-hard hike:

https://archive.is/lPaqu

the trail in question where he was found with his 8 year old daughter, and 2 and 4 year old son:
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/utah/broads-fork-trail

It's 2000 ft of elevation gain over 2.2~ mi each way so pretty steep.

Initially, some news reports hailed the rescue and the father’s efforts to keep the children alive in unforgiving conditions. There was even a GoFundMe fund-raiser, where Mr. Smith was said to have suffered frostbite in trying to keep the children safe, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.

Two of the children were in critical condition after they were found, the sheriff’s office said after the rescue, and one was in stable condition. Mr. Smith was in fair condition, the statement said.

District Attorney Sim Gill of Salt Lake City said during a news conference that the children were told to “march on” despite being afraid and that the path Mr. Smith took, known as the Broad Fork Trail, was “not an easy hike that you would take a child upon.”
Mr. Gill also said that the children discussed climbing over “rocks that were slipping” and having to hold onto vegetation as they were trying to hike.

The 8-year-old girl was found “alongside a boulder with ‘a few sticks stacked against it,’” and the 2-year-old boy was under his 4-year-old brother, who was exposed and unconscious, according to the news report.

The news station also reported that Mr. Smith’s daughter can be heard in a video that was found on his phone asking, “Are we going to freeze to death, daddy?”

Is this the best area for /out/heads to live?

How does /out/ feel about Arkansas/Missouri or the Interior Highlands?
Calciferous biome, endless water, rolling mixed wooded forests. What's your opinion?

>My parents are pretty lenient with me when it comes to chores.
>Wash my own dishes, put my cloths in the washing machine and that’s about it.
>They even fold them for me.
>An apology for being too rough with me as a kid I think.
>But there is still one chore I do anally, and even if they offered too do it for me I’d still do it myself.
>Every year on the first snowfall my trampoline must be taken down. The constant weight of the snow will cause it to stretch and warp otherwise.
>If I don’t the cloth will stretch causing it to loose tension and you’ll have to work harder to jump and it won’t be nearly as satisfying to use. A while of that and you need to buy a new net and springs, years of neglect the frame will buckle and you just have to get a whole new trampoline at that point.
>When I was a kid my trampoline was my safe space, if my parents were being hard on me or school was stressing me out I’d just climb on in and get lost in my imagination. The weight on my shoulders disappearing in the momentary weightlessness of zero g.
>I’d imagine fantasy worlds with wacky characters and if I was angry I’d imagine those characters tearing people apart until the anger brought me to tears or mental exhaustion.
>My therapists at the time told my parents that they shouldn’t bother me or attempt to “correct my behavior” while I use it and that its healthy for kids to have a private safe space. To their credit they didn’t.
> I’m in my early 20’s now and I’ve never grown out of the thing, it is still my safe space, a place for me to unwind, and now that I think about it my sole source of exercise.
>Today is the first snow of winter.

I'm going to post birds here that I see from my dinning room window. I might post some from other locations too.

Is long distance countryside biking considered /out/?
If so, let's have a thread about it