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life-changing /out/ experiences?

Anonymous Mon 16 Mar 2015 00:46:55 No.479525 View View Reply Original Report

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I'll try to keep this brief. Basically, I've spent my whole life doing nothing. I don't drink alcohol, do drugs, party or date, and I have no hobbies.

I plan on finally doing something big next summer. Anybody do any /out/-related stuff that really changed their life? Any suggestions of where to go or how to start?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Mar 2015 00:56:09 No.479527 Report

Quoted By: >>479542

You could do a thruhike. You could do something like the JMT or Long Trail or really jump in and try something like the PCT. Being out on a trail for so long, you learn to live simply and deal with all kinds of obstacles (bad weather, injuries, food). You'll meet a lot of interesting people from all walks of life.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Mar 2015 01:31:52 No.479542 Report

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>>479527
+1 for this suggestion.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Mar 2015 01:36:32 No.479543 Report

Quoted By: >>485872

Quaaludes

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Mar 2015 01:38:34 No.479544 Report

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>>479525

Start throwing yourself out there and walk local trails, buy some basic gear that you like such as a good pair of boots, a good knife, maybe a bag. Get yourself outdoors and just take in the beauty of nature.

Also, study Marxism-Leninism.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Mar 2015 01:39:14 No.479548 Report

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I've got a similar issue. Travel is where I think its at, had an opportunity to go to Costa Rica and work out there. To facilitate lots of traveling (if you are not rich) try getting a job at an airline for some flight benefits. Although road trips sometimes do it for me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Mar 2015 01:42:47 No.479551 Report

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Just go to any national/county park. they're usually always cool. Then boom you have your hobby.
Doubt parks could be life changing, though, i've done psychedelics in the desert and it was just fun, not life changing.
People that say their life changes from ONE event are usually liberal faggots.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Mar 2015 01:44:13 No.479552 Report

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>>479544
>Also, study Marxism-Leninism.

Uh... Care to elaborate on that one?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Mar 2015 01:57:34 No.479558 Report

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>>479525
Don't bank too much on the life-changing bit.

I've spent months /out/ at a time before, and while I've got a bunch of fantastic memories and I don't regret a second of it, at the end of the day I was pretty much the same person I was when I started, just with some really strong tanlines.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Mar 2015 05:33:08 No.479691 Report

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>>479552
Don't ask, you're just encouraging him.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Mar 2015 05:34:57 No.479692 Report

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>>479558
This

Hiking is a recreational experience and only that.
Finding meaning is like supporting a family and having a job that contributes to your countries GDP.

Mule

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Mule Mon 16 Mar 2015 05:48:06 No.479699 Report

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Bought a snowmobile.
Made a bunch of friends.
Get /out/ all the damn time.
Great way to stay in shape.
Racing? Yup.
Huge truck to pull the trailer. Lots of miles in the truck with friends, all over the mountains.
Burn all my vacation days in the winter.
Got really good at turning wrenches.
Have a hell of a lot of fun riding and pushing myself to be a better rider.
Love showing people all about the mountains (like all last week, riding with a crew of flatlanders for their first time in the mountains).
Started teaching avalanche classes, now i'm an instructor... there goes more vacation days.
Got sponsors that outfit me with gear/equipment every year now.

Used to be just some guy, now I'm "the snowmobile guy".

Had no idea that check I wrote for my first sled would lead me to where I am today.

>Pic extremely related

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Mar 2015 08:25:48 No.479731 Report

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>>479692
>Finding meaning is like supporting a family and having a job that contributes to your countries GDP.
oh god

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Mar 2015 11:52:40 No.479782 Report

Quoted By: >>479921

>>479525
Start volunteering in emergency services and get dem certs.
Backpack around your country you dont need money.
Go to local outdoor sporting clubs
Hikings alright but i find if i dont go out with something to do it gets really boring

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 16 Mar 2015 16:57:26 No.479921 Report

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>>479782
>i dont go out with something to do it gets really boring
Like what? give me some ideas plis, Im about to go hiking for 6+ months

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Mar 2015 01:11:55 No.480182 Report

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>>479525
>, I've spent my whole life doing nothing. I don't drink alcohol, do drugs, party or date, and I have no hobbies.
wut

Step away from the computer, I'm serious. You can't waste your life online.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 17 Mar 2015 02:31:02 No.480232 Report

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Some great suggestions so far. I live near the APpalachian Trail so I think I might attempt some of that this summer, and I like the idea of volunteering for some emergency service. There's a MTB rescue thing at a park near me that I'm considering.

>>480182

I don't even waste it online. My typical day is

>wake up
>work
>classes
>gym
>bed

With meals in between.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Mar 2015 02:15:00 No.481460 Report

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>>479731
Yeah once you grow up you'll realize this. Have fun with your spirit science and "It's teh coporerationz mannnnnnn"

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Mar 2015 02:43:31 No.481474 Report

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>>479525
I very nearly died ice climbing an 80ft frozen waterfall

.
It made me start drinking alcohol, doing drugs and partying.
I also started dating and got some hobbies.

Realising how close I came to death changed my life for the better

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Mar 2015 15:36:00 No.483476 Report

Quoted By: >>483518 >>483572 >>483631

>>479525

This isn't life changing experience, but it certainly felt good:

>Be me a year ago.
>380lbs of straight up amerifat
>perpetually drinking, hate self for various poor life choices.
>stumble onto /fit/
>get tired of being fat, start to do something about it.
>Begin working out, see weight start to drop.
>Quit drinking, work hard, work out harder.
>Get a promotion.
>Get a new job at a different company with a substantial pay raise.
>Move to new town, and start lurking /out/
>Start going on hikes through parks
>Yesterday, I went on a 12 mile hike through a park.
>Came up on some bluffs that overlooked a nice river valley.
>Mid afternoon, warm but not too hot.
>Found a comfy place to sit and just watch the hawks ride the thermals.
>Had a chocolate bar, made sure to count calories, but it was nice to have a snack in such a beautiful spot.
>Sat and thought about all that I had done over the last year, feel really good about the 130lbs I've dropped since March 6th, 2014.
>Think about how I would not have even been able to get to that bluff in the shape I was last year.
>Good feels, good feels all around.

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Anonymous Sun 22 Mar 2015 17:03:48 No.483512 Report

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I hiked the Lost Coast in northern California a few months ago. I took this picture of my friends at sunset while I was on acid. This was definitely a trip that got me back into hiking and backpacking.

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Anonymous Sun 22 Mar 2015 17:27:30 No.483518 Report

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>>483476

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Mar 2015 18:18:52 No.483536 Report

Quoted By: >>483634

>>479525
lived in st. george, utah almost all my life.

Practiced alot of survival skills pre-navy enlistment

Used to live in a wikiup now and then completely isolated from society with no electronics.

many life affirming experiences and I plan to make it routine after I graduate with my degree in botany.

Go dick around outside and learn bushcraft I love it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Mar 2015 19:39:03 No.483572 Report

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>>483476

We're all going to make it bro.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Mar 2015 19:44:10 No.483575 Report

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>>479699
You been to Tug Hill?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Mar 2015 19:44:57 No.483576 Report

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>hiking in Finland for 3 weeks
>almost die from falling through lake ice like a faggot
>decide to ask gf to marry me when I get home
>go to her dad to ask for his blessing, find out she's been cheating on me
>mfw it was true
>tfw I'm now single and the best trip of my life is now tainted by the fact she was fucking some dude whilst I was almost dying

Not all life changing experiences are good Anon. They make you do stupid things

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Anonymous Sun 22 Mar 2015 20:37:26 No.483593 Report

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>>479525
join the army

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Mar 2015 21:43:05 No.483631 Report

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>>483476

I'm on that same journey, bud. Started out at 260lbs, I'm down to 230, doing daily jogging and hiking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 22 Mar 2015 21:46:31 No.483634 Report

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>>483536
>degree in botany
how exactly does that work? like, what will you be doing with it?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 22 Mar 2015 21:53:22 No.483638 Report

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Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 23 Mar 2015 01:47:03 No.483758 Report

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>>483512

This is almost a coming of age ritual for Nor Cal. I've had amazing experiences there as well, been going since I was very young. Not three weeks ago I had a whole beach to myself and three tabs of LSD. Magic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Mar 2015 13:12:34 No.485323 Report

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Camino the santiago, i swear haha

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 Mar 2015 14:25:30 No.485872 Report

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>>479543
I got the lemons!

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