Its been a hell of a week.
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also I plan to buy a webcam or digital camera once I figure out where I'm living next so stay tuned for pics
James Rustles
Hey man, I think you are the same guy from this thread:
>>64536 You homeless?
Whats the story there?
Anonymous
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check the liver to see if it is dicolored/spotty that is bad, if its nice and red and healthy thats good. also check the intestines see if there is anything unusual about the poop, worms etc..
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>65195 Yep I am.
Quit university and my job a week ago. I live innawoods right now. I might start selling crafted goods or do independent web development for gas money, besides that I'm set.
Anonymous
Where can I find your other adventures?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
I found a great spot in the national forest this afternoon. Its miles away from the borders of any private land and I haven't seen any cops or rangers for miles. Google reviews of the forest say that the HQ is always closed even during supposed operating hours so I have a good feeling about the place. I tried my hand at whittling an indian's head on a stick, its pretty damn good imo. All thats left to start preparing to live there is for me to draw up all the shortest routes from the spot to various walmarts/gas stations.
>>65896 does /out/ have an archive yet? Its only been 3 threads I think.
Anonymous
So you just decided to live innawoods in texas?
Anonymous
Beaumont here.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>65952 Yep.
>>65954 Huntsville's a great town, great variety of college students up here. They have a bunch of pawn shops where I bought good equipment, and theres bait stores on every corner. Huntsville State park is nice, but too small for my tastes, and its crowded as fuck on the weekends. Definitely not an "innawoods" friendly area, more of a family park. Rayburn is on the other side of the forest I'm in, but I've never been to Toledo Bend, but I should probably check out the border town forests.
Anonymous
>>65966 Any reason why?
Who is watching all your shit?
What did you do before innawoods?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>65970 >any reason why School and work is boring. I don't like my friends or family. Always wanted to go innawoods.
>who is watching all your shit I sold all my useless shit and keep all my important shit in my car. I have a year before its illegal to drive my car, so I'm going to build a storage cache before then.
>What did you do before innawoods? I was a computer science student/web developer. I sat in front of a flickering screen all day and was prescribed 2 antidepressants.
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>>64731 Huntsville state park allows Squirrel hunting twice a year (back to back days early December). The squirrels in that park are easy to hunt. I hunted one of the days last December and my freezer has four packs of squirrel meat. I assure you, they are ok to eat. But if the park rangers catch you with those squirrels, it will be your ass.
There may be some areas in that park where people don't go often. I went off trail quite a bit and there were some bottom areas on the North side (a little past the foot-bridge) that would be hidden from the main trail.
If you are looking around Toledo Bend, the middle of Indian Mounds sees almost no one (well...I go back there). The place is thick with young pines but there are gnarly stands of hardwood and good bottoms back in there with a creek and many springs. The only thing about staying back in there for days (and this goes for any East Texas natl. forest or state park), when it warms up and the conditions are right, the bugs are going to eat your ass.
Anonymous
>>65966 Good luck when summer comes, do you have any plans to hitchhike or ride freight up north?
Anonymous
Do you have a gun on you?
James Rustles
>>65974 Did you go to SHSU?
Are you crazy?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>66209 >did you go to SHSU Nope.
>Are you crazy? Maybe, but I'm much healthier and happier than before.
>>66007 Yep, though it probably won't be any further than Oklahoma or Kansas, maybe even just the panhandle. I'm not too worried though, I've gotten pretty used to being fried alive in my car in the Texas sun.
>>66023 >do you have a gun on you 1939 Mosin Nagant 91/30. 40 rounds. Will probably just save it for target fun or emergency bear removal and save up for a shotgun or low caliber rifle for real hunting.
>what did your friends/parents say? I have no idea, I've cut off all contact with them until the month is over, I don't want to be guilted/harassed back into my old life.
>any previous innawoods experience I used to explore the drainage ditch system and small patches of forest in west Houston as a kid/teen. Also was sent to a bunch of summer camps as a kid and was in boy scouts for a long time.
Anonymous
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You're a fucking inspiration man. Keep on keeping on.
Anonymous
Yo man I'm down on 1960 but I just got a job in Conroe working for a carnival, they travel so i'm gonna go with them to Colorado and Wyoming. You should look into if you need some money but wanna stay /out/side and on the road.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>66895 What kind of work do they need?
Anonymous
>>66895 Also try Sam Houston National park, there's some deep woods in there, but you might run into some trailer folk.
Anonymous
>>66912 He said i'll just be doing everything, working some stands, running the rides, taking the rides down and putting them back up. Just general labor stuff. 8$ an hour, and $400 a week if you decide to travel with them.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>66914 That was the woods I checked out yesterday. Great forest, but the only evidence of small game I saw were birds and a pile of dog/coyote shit that was probably just some hunter's hound.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>66916 Can I get a contact? I would totally be down for that cash. Gasoline is the only thing I need that I can't dig out of the ground.
Anonymous
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>>66918 Yeah. If you head up to the panhandle you'll have luck with deer, hogs and foxes, but you know how that goes with the law. And if you do go up into the panhandle, there's canyons out the wazoo, and should be plenty of critters in them. Palodoro canyon, caprock, etc. etc.
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>>66921 http://houston.craigslist.org/lab/3713534568.html just drop him an email with your number in it and he should call you later today or the next.
he's a nice dude, just met up with him today.
Anonymous
I wouldn't hit him up though unless you're looking to travel with him. I think he's looking for someone that will stick around
James Rustles
>>66912 WHat are you doing about the rain?
Also, how you getting on /out/?
Anonymous
>>68454 >I'll be on this public wifi for maybe 2 more hours, and I should check my email everyday. Anonymous
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>>68464 >http://houston.craigslist.org/lab/3713534568.html andersen stop being a dick. are you dropping out? why not wait till the summer?
Anonymous
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>>68464 also, why did you sign a fking lease. should i find another room mate?
Anonymous
you are living the dream op
Anonymous
>>70005 should i post the news article about him?
Anonymous
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>>70016 There's a news article about OP?
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>70245 well he didnt tell anyone where he was going so all of his family and friends doesnt know if hes dead or if got on a bus to somewhere like north dakota. shit like "you are living the dream op" is why he posts logs to 4chan anyway.
heyo weird texan, have you eaten anything you killed? or are you getting by on what you brought with you? do you think hunting/gathering is sustainable from national parks?
Man, if it was west texas, I'd be down. But El Paso blows, so no one comes down here to travel with
James Rustles
>>70308 Ima email OP, keep in touch. If you read this OP, I may drive up to those parks if you are cool. I'd love to write something about what you are doing. Check your email later, I'll hit you up.
Anonymous
>>66862 Why do you care if its legal to drive your car if youre squatting and poaching to survive anyway?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
DAY #8 UPDATE Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+ Thu 04 Apr 2013 02:06:15 No. 71175 Report Quoted By:
>>68454 starbucks wifi
>>66943 I think I'm just going to apply for local labor/part time jobs, but thanks for the heads up. I have an interview for one tommorrow wish me luck.
>>65985 Boondocking is living without contact in a car/rv in the wilderness. Noob-boondocking is doing that same thing in a parking lot.
>>70308 I fried my first fish yesterday and have been eating some local berries and plants, besides that I've been living on nickel and dime meals. I also set up my first trap today, hoping to catch small game.
>>70345 You should check out the mountains, though I can't remember if they're right on the border areas or not.
>>70349 Cool.
>>70644 >squatting National Parks allow 14 days of residence per campsite, beyond that there is no clear limit on how long you can stay there.
>poaching The squirrel I caught a few days ago was actually right on the end tail of the legal season for hunting them. The fish is a fish. Feral hogs and other small game are also legal year round. I also have various seeds I'm going to plant for a modest garden once the cold front leaves east texas.
Pic storm inbound.
Anonymous
you cool if i post this thread on fb?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>68454 I have a bigass tarp and my car. Big lots had one for $30 that was brown and has the surface area of a school bus.
Sorry for shitty angles/lighting/quality of the pics, I'm still getting used to it. Pic related is my first try at whittling from a few days ago.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>71187 >being on /out/ >having a fecesbook Anonymous
Can I buy that Indian head carving you made?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
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Bones I found in the woods, my guess is a dog/fox/coyote, maybe a small feral hog. Need to find out how to carve/bleach bone properly, I've heard its a fun material to manipulate because its porous like wood and you can scrimshaw with it too.
Anonymous
>>71207 So you dont mind if i show your adventures to everyone you knew before you went off the deep end?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
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Play a practical joke on your friends or break the ice at a drum circle with this leaf. Smaller, dehydrated plants look like cannabis, but its actually from a very young sweetgum tree. You can extract an antiseptic from it or dry clippings to use as an incense.
Anonymous
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Yo Ode, if you make ur way down Florida (for the dope camping and sweet wildlife of coarse) come say hi bru!
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
Pipe/flute? I'm working around with. I'm playing around with the idea of celtic/totem designs for the length of it, but I need to ask /diy/ an easier way to drill holes in pine first. I tried the burnout method like they do with canoes but that only gets it so deep without compromising the surrounding wood. I might just try splitting it along the length, then carving out the pipe cavity that way, and reattaching it with pine sap or wood glue.
>>71231 Why its any of their concern is beyond me. If they come upon browsing /out/ of their uninfluenced volition its fine by me.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
Ok so story time>March 31st >April 1st >April 2nd-3rd
Anonymous
>>71300 we should make chili
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
Store closes at 11 so I'll be on until then. I'm staying the night in town until tomorrow afternoon.
>>71307 wat
>>71219 for 1000000 billion dollars
Anonymous
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>>71314 that pot youre using for washing your balls.
we should make chili
also why did you take the bucket?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
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Store closes at 11 so I'll be on until then. I'm staying the night in town until tomorrow afternoon.
>>71307 wat
>>71219 for 1000000 billion dollars
Anonymous
why do you think so few people chose to take the route youve taken?
Anonymous
How's everything been going with the recent rain?
Anonymous
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do you sleep in your car or do you camp outside? does it get cold in texas? what kind of equipment do you have?
Anonymous
>>71610 Did you call it in?
Anonymous
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>>71638 I didn't. I know this dude and he's totally justified to run away from the shit that is his life
Anonymous
>>71638 >Puckett was reported missing by his parents, who are concerned about his welfare. Anonymous
>>71646 I was asking if he called in his whereabouts, not saying he was missing.
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in any case this 4chan post is already posted on facebook where his roommate posted that he was okay and adults and other big people have already seen it. so. yeah. doesnt really matter if you call it in now i dont think.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>71610 >>71670 >>71649 >OP is 19 >OP is adult >OP can do whatever the fuck he wants Anonymous
Dude, I can relate. Do you have a plan for later? Like, you might accidentally eat some bad squirrel or get a tick with Lyme disease or something. Why not just join Americorps or do Transitions Abroad or something?
Anonymous
So I'm assuming one of the things your running away from is a mountain of student debt
Anonymous
>>71764 ofc he can do whatever he wants, but if anyone were to randomly vanish, the people that care about him/her would be worried.
theres a big difference between doing something in a dignified way and what OP did. real middle finger to everyone he knew.
Anonymous
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If someone calls it in, you'll be worse than that guy on /hc/ who reported the hardware store they filmed a porn in.
Anonymous
>>71854 You and me both know that if OP had informed his parents about this the end result of them not speaking to him would be the same anyway.
They're not gonna get this. What he did was easier in he short term and the same in the long term.
Anonymous
>>71865 you dont know his parents.
his moms actually kind of cool about this.
"they hate me either way so who gives a shit about them" is the exact sort of ASPD that causes problems like this in the first place. Im sure if OP wanted to join the peace corps or even just drop out of school and work a part time job at a guitar shop and go camping a lot, he could have accomplished the same goal without getting the police involved or causing a week of hell for his parents/friends.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>64731 >safe forest wildlife to eat would be great pretty much any mammal is safe to eat if cooked thoroughly
>I'm looking to find somewhere I don't have to be paranoid about security or park rangers Sam Houston National Forest. It's big enough and has low levels of regulations compared to state parks.
Anonymous
re : noob-boondocking
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>>71903 I've heard, not sure how true, that in a National Forest, you have a right to do just about anything within reason. You can hunt and fish with a license because your taxes helped pay for that land, you partly own it. I go out to SH Forest just to drink and shoot guns and trap small animals about 6 times a year. OP is in a good spot.
Anonymous
OP, do you have a license to carry those guns? that might cause you a bit of trouble. at least you'd have a short ride to the prison
Anonymous
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>>71903 >pretty much any mammal is safe to eat if cooked thoroughly If you check the liver and such for signs of disease/parasites and find none. It's better to be hungry temporarily than to contract some sort of parasite. In this situation anyway.
Anonymous
A lot of people live "innawoods" cuz they are batshit crazy. Slit your throat while you sleep sorta crazy. Maybe they want your stuff, maybe they wanna cornhole your corpse, maybe the voices told em to just kill you. Bears are of no concern, it is the other crazies that eventually you will run into you should fear.
Anonymous
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>>65974 Holly shit. Are you me?
Anonymous
>>71927 I completely envy OP. I don't have the balls to do it, but I wish I did.
I don't care if he is batshit crazy, I'm an hour away and wanna drive up there for a day.
Anonymous
>>71960 Almost anyone can find the time to take a week off and go camping/shoot the shit outdoors. Jumping headfirst into it is dumb.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>71973 >implying a part of me hasn't been preparing for this for years >implying I haven't been researching this shit since late high school Gonna job hunt this afternoon then go explore Hunstville forest.
Anonymous
>>71999 >implying reading shit on the internet equates to living outside in poverty. before this, whats the longest outdoor experience youve had?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>71820 Actually nope, and with my current resume I'm probably financially and career-wise better off than most american 30 year olds.
>>71789 I trust the rare parasite in an animal here in east Texas over malaria and all sorts of other nasty shit abroad. I'm just as likely to die of dissentary or whatever doing that. And I have several applications and an upcoming interview for part time jobs that will pay for gas.
>>71564 Because most people are mongo idiots. I wish I was just being edgy.
>>71603 >>71637 Been wimping it out in the car, I spent a night in the light rain two days ago under my bigass tarp. The next few days in SH forest I'm going to survey for a good spot to build a dirt/pine wood shack and a garden.
>>71910 Just gotta stay clean, polite, and stealthy. A few months from now I'll post a definitive boondocking/homeless guide.
>>71921 Texas has overruled even commercial parking lot bans on keeping weapons in your truck. Rednecks walk out of walmarts with anti-tank weapons regularly here. God bless america.
>>71927 >that pic and unrelated text >not Northface viral advertising you guys make shit sweaters
>>72003 Can't remember, probably some weeklong summer camp hike. Doesn't matter, our bodies have evolved to survive worse, and most of the kind of people to browse /out/ are intelligent and driven enough to learn quick enough anyways.
>>71927 I've thought about that, I've read about bums living in the east texas woods, but most of them got driven out because they were swarming around guerilla crystal meth/marijuana operations in the woods that got mostly raided in the early 2000s.
Idk, its a nice balance of security and anarchy here, especially with a bunch of recent defunding of national forest programs, the fucking HQ here is never open on posted dates.
Anonymous
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>>72027 >most of the kind of people to browse /out/ are intelligent and driven enough to learn quick enough anyways. umm
James Rustles
>>72027 You ever gonna email a nigga back?
>>72059 I didn't get it, send it again.
Anonymous
Is there a reward for calling the cops?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>72073 I am no longer "missing", apparently.
Anonymous
James Rustles
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>72086 Just ask them. I'm kind of weirded out that the cops got involved, and they have more productive things to do with their time than to hunt down a college dropout who made it pretty clear to his parents what he was going to do.
Pic is drying the sweetgum.
Anonymous
>>71921 Well there already is a prison in Huntsville. Lol
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>>72100 Actually theres 2 if I'm not mistaken. The guy that helped me with my car troubles actually used to help operate the agro-prison business here, potatoes and cotton. Famous bluesman Leadbelly served time here.
>>72097 [email protected] Anonymous
so if you get a job, you just not going to pay taxes and stuff? what do you do about an address and all?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>72222 Most part time jobs pay check to check or even with cash, the check ones take your social security out before you can even cash it and if you're in a certain demographic you can apply for a tax refund like when I worked before I was 18. At all my jobs in high school I just deposited my checks and applied for my tax refund and that was that.
So far businesses have been cool about my not having an address when I give them applications.
Anonymous
>>72098 dont start a brush fire
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
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>>72232 That fire is near dead and the surrounding foliage is drenched with rainwater, piss, and dirt.
Anonymous
>>72226 right but dont they have to mail your tax refund?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
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>>72239 Guess I'll have to do without the $200 or so dollars that value would be or get a temporary P.O. box.
Anonymous
You're like really serious about this! Think you'll ever go back home, get an apartment or just slowly become one of these homeless guys with shit piling up in their cars?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>72257 None of the above, I plan to build a series of shelters in the woods. Maybe in a few years I'll buy some of my own land with savings, hopefully in the midwest.
Theres a auto shop in the ghetto part of Huntsville that has a sign that says "TIRS FO SALE".
Anonymous
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>>72265 Get one, make a tire swing.
Anonymous
i actually live about an hour from Huntsville and had been thinking about taking time off and living inna woods for quite some time. im good at fishing, and not too bad a whittling, maybe we could share a camp site for a day or two?
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>>72865 >hurrr what is the age of majority Anonymous
>>72880 >hurrr the government's arbitrary "can follow orders well enough to die for us" age limit is a valid indicator of developmental independence Anonymous
>>72883 I don't even have the energy to respond to you.
Anonymous
>>72898 >you're not wrong but I still disagree, how can I decline to post while still acting snidely superior? You could have just stopped posting, you know.
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>>72898 Good, we don't want to fill this board with cancer and arguments and such. Anonymous
How much money did you have saved when you began?
Anonymous
Can you explain just what you are doing with the sweetgum, OP. I know that copal incense is made from sweetgum sap, but I have never heard of making it from the leaves.
Anonymous
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>>73328 >Play a practical joke on your friends or break the ice at a drum circle with this leaf. Anonymous
First time on /out/, but do I remember your threads from /b/?
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>>73375 I never went on /b/
>>73328 Pressing the leaves creates a nice, already-textured deoderant and it also has antiseptic properties. Various sources I've read also say that this or the sap can be used to ease bug bites or rashes, though I haven't had to confirm this yet.
>>72333 I would be down for that, hit me up.
>>73224 Most days I don't spend any money, I bought a very large supply of non-perishable foods while preparing for this, and I've been researching edible plants in the area and setting traps to pad my time before I have a regular cash income from a part time job or selling crafted goods or whatnot.
The money I had "saved up" I spent on the mosin rifle before I had even fully decided to follow through on this, and thus most or all of the funds I used for equipment and supplies I acquired with funds from a bunch of pawned shit I own.
>>73375 I have not browsed /b/ since high school and I never posted on that shithole.
>>72883 >>72898 >>72968 >>72880 >>72865 Stfu and go /out/side.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
yesterday in review Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+ Fri 05 Apr 2013 17:09:50 No. 73889 Report Quoted By:
Woke up and started walking to town. There are patches of bluebonnets that recently bloomed everywhere and whole fields changed hues overnight. On my walk down the highway there was a bunch of old houses on the side, and as I came to a sidewalk there was a red-headed dude maybe a little older than me sitting on his porch smoking. He hailed me down and asked where I was heading, and then offered to drive me. His house wasn't dilapidated and didn't spell serial killer and it seemed like a gesture of southern hospitality and its as cold as balls outside so I accepted. He drove me to the area I was headed and after I filled out my applications, he offered me a few minutes at his house for food and conversation. He was an extremely hospitable and open person, we shared each others stories and then we jammed together to bob dylan with his guitars. We did this and got into a bunch of philosophical arguments for a few hours and he had the rhetoric and the passion of a fiery baptist preacher. I might have stayed later but he said his girlfriend was coming over, but he gave me his contact information and his housemate gave me a ride back to my car just before evening. Very enlightening experience.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
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Heading back inna woods for two days, I'll see if theres any public wifi closer to the area but I can't guarantee posting
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Woah, I was just at Huntsville state park geocaching like, a couple days ago. Wonder if I saw you OP
Anonymous
>>65877 What uni were you attending?
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>tfw attending Texas A&M as well and have been wanting to do exactly what OP is doing for 2+ years
Anonymous
think there's maybe something about tamu that drives people into the woods
Anonymous
>>74092 i think theres something about tamu that attracts the type that think going into the woods is an alternative to reality.
Anonymous
You McCandless wannabes are the reason we have so many shitty laws governing going out into nature. Stop making it worse for the rest of us with your illegal activities.
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>>71191 oh you are the /out/ guy posting on /diy/
>>>/diy/430961 Anonymous
Do you have any backup plan in case something goes wrong? Like you break a leg or something, you run out of food and money, etc...I've always wanted to do something like this and will probably try it soon. Just be homeless for a while and live like a neanderthal, fuck it. But I'll have money saved up for a plan B...
Anonymous
>>74223 If you don't exercise a right, you lose it.
Anonymous
>>74382 I dont think theres much of a correlation. Rights are taken away when the benefit is outweighed by the potential consequences. People dying is why they might make it harder to try to "live in nature," not a lack of people doing it. In fact, if more people were to try (and probably fail) to live in the woods, there would be more initiative for outlawing it.
Anonymous
>>74437 >Rights are taken away when the benefit is outweighed by the potential consequences. The benefits and consequences to who, though? That's the people with the power to take the rights away. When there's nobody exercising a right, they see no consequence to taking it away, and often only benefit to themselves since it makes people easier to oppress.
Anonymous
>>74223 >OP is a well supplied sc/out/ thats on the internet a few times a week in east texas. >McCandless was an extremely poorly supplied hippie in Alaska. Also last time I checked suicide wasn't illegal in the US, and so far all of OP's activities are miraculously legal.
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>>74441 The objective of the government isnt to oppress people, its to appease lobbyists. No one takes away a right unless someone makes a profit off of it, or some single issue group throws a shit fit.
Anonymous
>>74462 OP is a mentally unsound teenager that goes on /out/ for moral support.OP is smart so hes not breaking any laws, just skirting grey areas. People abusing grey areas are taunting lawmakers to make laws more strict and police to enforce whatever trivial laws they may have been otherwise ignoring.
OP isn't in any real danger (outside of other ppl in the woods,) but hes a little bit coo-coo. Hes gonna get raped.
Anonymous
are you drinking out of the river? do you boil all of your water? how are you dealing with the threat of parasites?
Anonymous
>>74526 unless some asshole has been ratting out to park rangers or police weird texan is going to have no impact whatsoever on any of that if he keeps it on the DL himself.
>gonna get raped the fucker has a nugget and plenty of rounds
see
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>>74544 and he keeps the nugget in his ass? hes vulnerable when hes asleep, when hes 10 feet from his nugget, when hes "exploring" and doesnt bring his nugget, or to anyone else with a nugget. woods rapists are srs business. ofc op specifically isnt going to influence policy, but if what he was doing became more common, the movement as a whole would, or if they found his corpse it might. point is that crazies give the hobbyist outdoorsman a bad reputation.
Anonymous
>>74556 >not keeping a knife on you at all times when inna woods Do you even /out/? I think you've seen Deliverance too many times.
Anonymous
>>74567 >Do you even /out/? Do you even meth?
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>>74556 >>74526 The government doesn't give a shit about the /out/doors, nat forest services have been slowly defunded to death since the 70s and the federal logging interests have way more lobby power than the death of some kid.
Anonymous
>>74576 every thread on /out/ about finding guerilla drug operations inna woods has mentioned how meth moved from the forests to the highways in the mid 2000s.
speaking of which OP, have you looked into shrooming?
Anonymous
>>74582 >implying meth rapists dont huntsville woods Anonymous
>>74594 At first I read "math rapists". It's more fun to imagine that way.
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>>74594 >>74582 >>74576 >>74597 >tfw you will never fend off rabid naked tweakers in the woods with a mosin Anonymous
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Jesus Christ. Figures this turns into some dumbass rights argument.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5RrGFBbbSY Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+ Sun 07 Apr 2013 16:26:01 No. 76853 Report >>74594 They really don't though, meth stays in the shitty parts of town or on all the cheap private property out here. Google "sam houston forest meth" and you'll find a bunch of hunter's forums talking about how all they run into is pot farms..
>>74540 Lake Conroe is smack in the middle of the area and has a few streams that feed inland. I've read that water quality is good, and on an unrelated note they have a shit ton of alligators and Texas laws on hunting them are nice (pic related). At some point I might look into digging a well, but until then I'll be boiling and filtering water from lake conroe.
>>74582 True that, the forest headquarters here is never open and I've yet to see a forest ranger or police interceptor anywhere in the forest.
I found one cap that was too big and yellow to even look like cubensis yesterday, haven't looked much otherwise.
>>74223 >>74437 McCandless either had a death-wish or was a dumbass, and good luck enforcing that shit with the budget cuts. Also, I can't imagine what sort of legislation they could even pass on whatever imagined danger to society my lifestyle would have.
>>74373 I start working part-time in Hunstville in a week. I plan to save money for a few years from all the costs of living I'm avoiding and buy some land around here or in the midwest, maybe start a small farm for myself. I acknowledge that if I break my spine or get some strange illness or something I'm pretty much fucked, but something more realistic like a broken leg is a relatively easy, albeit painful fix.
>>74139 I'm all ears for any tragic flaw in my plan beyond the obvious risks.
>>74092 >>74080 tamu is an unfortunate shithole of conservative dogma, vapid individuals and cliques, and repressed sexual frustration.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
BEGINNING OF WEEK 2 Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+ Sun 07 Apr 2013 17:03:05 No. 76896 Report Went to SHF and camped in the same location close to the roads. It has stopped raining but its getting cold as balls at night, so I had to gather a bunch of fuel for the fire and keep feeding it until I dozed off. I made some pine tar but I used little sap tumors off of the trees instead of the pure stuff, so it produced very little useable material. Next time I try I need to cut some slices into the living pine around here a day or two beforehand to collect the real deal.
Anonymous
>>76896 Disconnect battery until you need to drive?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>77099 Sounds like a good idea, but what for?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
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>>77491 >>77099 Oh duh, I just understood why, thanks.
Anonymous
>>76853 >dogma, vapid individuals and cliques, and repressed sexual frustration Sounds like most places of post-secondary education then.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>77579 I'll give you that. But A&M has an ultra-traditionalist campus culture, a smelly male-to-female ratio, and attracts the kind of people who think jesus and beer are valid hobbies.
To be fair though I was educated in ways of russian surplus rifles by an individual at tamu who was pretty cool, which would lead to my purchase of the mosin. And college life at all campuses except schools like MIT and Rice really isn't for people who don't like people.
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>>77588 Damn. Sounds shitty indeed. And I feel you on that whole campus life isn't for people who don't like people.
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>>77588 UH grad here. Go Coogs!
Anonymous
>>77588 Rice is incredibly social. you wouldnt like it there either.
Anonymous
>>77588 Tamu is 48% women. Its a campus if 40,000 people.
Anonymous
OP, did you just suddenly stop paying your car insurance?
Anonymous
Anonymous
"a smelly male-to-female ratio"
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>77764 Not the engineering school my friend. And especially not the Computer Science department.
Also most colleges now have a significantly higher female enrollment than male. Even a 50-50 ratio will cause sexual frustration because men seek relationships and sex (why do you think feelguy exists) far more actively than women at our age. Also, whenever a ratio favours having the men at that college being in a relationship or having sex, the women at that university will see their friends being in relationships, and the shortage of men there will make them more of an attractive commodity.
>>78333 SHSU's ratio is something like 40-60 male-to-female, I've chatted it up with a few girls who didn't seem too dumb either at the starbucks here. One of the employees knows me now and she gave me a weird look and honked at me when she saw me from her car walking along the highway.
>>77797 I start working in a week. I'm not that kind of homeless and I refuse to be a parasite like that when a month ago my parents were paying for my meals.
>>77772 I think I have the end of the year before my inclusion on a family plan expires, I think. When the time comes otherwise I'll probably look into buying minimum level insurance. I'm not inclined to be worried, I'm going to try to use my car as little as possible. Once I have my cabin set up I'll look into buying something more fuel efficient like a motorcycle and just drive like a grandma everywhere. I've already been told by friends and relatives that I drive with the caution of a senior citizen anyway. This really doesn't mean anything but, I've never been in an accident. Again, another risk I'm willing to take, especially since traffic congestion is pretty light or non-existent here in Hunstville, and absolutely non-existent innwoods roads.
>>77752 You're probably right about that.
On an unrelated note, this video pretty much sums up my motives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt9MP70ODNw Anonymous
>>78460 >I start working in a week. I'm not that kind of homeless and I refuse to be a parasite like that when a month ago my parents were paying for my meals. Youre getting free rent from the govt, why not food too?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>78534 No one else is using the Nat. forest. There not a budget I'm directly drawing on that would otherwise go to people who are truly in need of food.
Anonymous
>>78991 If he's paying taxes, he's paying for the forest anyway.
Anonymous
>>79039 If hes paying taxes hes paying for the food stamps...
He could have a cell phone or get to drive around more or something if he didnt spend money on food. If hes at the income level SNAP determines appropriate to receive benefits, why not?
Anonymous
how long is it going to take you to walk to work from the woods? i bet the first time there's a big gullywasher you're going to be like "shit, this was a bad idea"
Anonymous
>>78991 I used to go to Sam Houston when I lived in, well, Houston.
What's your plan for when it gets unbearably hot?
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Ive had squirrel before in northern michigan. Shot it with a pellet gun, my dads friend skinned and cooked it for me, and i ate it
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
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>>79112 >what is carpooling Also if you read the rest of this thread you'd know I have a car myself.
>>79217 Funny you should ask that I'm designing a fire-powered icemaker/refrigerator system as we speak. I'm also going to insulate my cabin with fired dirt and clay.
Also forests tend to stay cooler during the summer because of shade and the water cycle. Trees absorb and release a lot of water, so the forest naturally "sweats" itself cool.
>>79107 Its just a dick move to take money from a pool that would otherwise go to people who are actually in need of food. I'm already saving a shit-ton on living costs by not paying for rent among other things.
Anonymous
>>64731 lucky faggot. stuck up in Alberta, and there's still snow up to my knees
>mfw longest winter ever Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>79919 go watch some red green and SCTV
did the board ever agree that Texas was the most /out/ area in North America?
Anonymous
>>79931 Under what circumstances, because im pretty sure the pacific northwest wins in most terms
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>79960 We get snow too but we also have desert, swamp, plains, hill country, shitty coastline, good coastline, caves, canyons, forests etc. Texas wins because its the most geographically diverse area under one name.
Jy
>>79931 I dont believe so bro.
So what did you get for a job.apologies if I missed it/ you already said
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>79989 Yeah I start next week. I also got a few responses to my tutoring posts on craigslist. First priority is to fix my car so I'm mobile again, then start working on that cabin.
Jy
>>79996 I was asking what kind of work.For your cabin, will you gather what you need from the woods or home depot or ?
Anonymous
>>79985 Texas doesnt have a rain forest or any bro tier mountains does it?
Jy
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>>80013 > rain forest. El oh el
Anonymous
>>79985 I understand having pride in ones state but you are not California.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>80009 I'm not going to disclose that because I don't want people to find me based on any clues, but I can say that its not flipping burgers at McDonald's or whatever. The tutoring I'm giving is for computer science.
There's some waterproofing/gutter stuff I'm going to need to buy but besides that the cabin will be constructed entirely from found material. I'm also going to need to buy some materials for things like the refrigeration/AC system that I'm building (pic related).
>>80013 >rain forest >Texas >rain >forest >Texas >>80020 Cali and Texas get a tie because our wildlife is a lot less regulated than yours and our land is cheaper.
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>>80027 I'm not from California, I was just saying that they are a lot more geographically diverse. In pretty much every way possible.
Jy
>>80027 You might be able to find what you need in scrapyards or landfills.
Anonymous
>>79919 I know you'll probably laugh at me, but I'm from Toronto and I feel your feel, bro.
20cm of snow expected for Thursday. In the middle of fucking April.
Jy
>>80065 I wouldn't anon..its one of the reasons I got the Fuck out of New Hampshire
Anonymous
>>80073 >leaving one of the best states in the nation over a little snow >2013 blah blah Anonymous
>>80057 Pull the wool over your own eyes. Dig through the landfill.
Jy
>>80169 Sorry m8 , not a cold weather person. Grew up in Florida and love the heat.
captcha = meaditi snow
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>>80409 so this is a good or a bad idea to you ?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
Today's find.
Deer skull, two species of shrooms, a bunch of crow/red tail hawk feathers, 2 turtle shells and some turtle shell fragments.
I've been hiking through some of the unfenced/undeveloped commercial land in H-ville. Saw a big jackrabbit run off, a deer, and a turtle, as well as a bunch of hawk droppings/vomit packed full of smaller avian and rodent bones.
Again, apologies for the picture quality, I thought I figured out the focus utility on this thing, apparently not. Pawning my camera was a dumb idea.
>>80057 Good idea even if I didn't need those parts, I know where I'm going tomorrow.
>>80409 PRAISE "Bob"
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Also can I get ID on these shrooms? I doubt they're "active" or edible. It rained 4 days ago and its been alternating between sunny and cloudy since, average temp has been around 85 during the day.>Shroom #1 >Shroom #2
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
Also can I get ID on these shrooms? I doubt they're "active" or edible. It rained 4 days ago and its been alternating between sunny and cloudy since, average temp has been around 85 during the day.>Shroom #1 >Shroom #2
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
Also /r/ing ID on this flower, the petals turn from violet to blue when they dry out on the side of the sun so it looks like they're glowing when you walk by them.
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>>80418 That makes sense; like as much as I loved Texas I'd prefer to be in NH.
Anonymous
>>80468 Why don't you take a spore print? I need measuements
Jy
>>80442 > Praise "Bob" I must have missed the bus on this one; Google yields nothing
Anonymous
>>80469 best way to ID flowers is good
>common purple flowers of *area* and maybe throw in "4 petals" or some other defining featutre
!Osakap8rUY
>>64731 You're pretty cool, if you can it would be awesome to video your life.
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>>80469 >>81117 Verbena rigida or "slender vervain", apparently got introduced to Texas from Brazil. This pic gives a good idea of the glowing effect I was talking but seriously some of the flowers look like a UV lamp even in the shade.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>80655 >>80468 shroomery.org says #1 is a Clitocybe (probably poisonous, not active) and #2 is Polyporous Badius (maybe poisonous, not active)
>>81228 I'm terribly shy and I'm afraid if I got over that I would turn into a lazy egomaniac. If I ever did do that the purpose would be to make some educational videos or get in on some of that sweet Youtube partnership cash.
>>81105 see the video link in
>>78460 Anonymous
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The very best thread on /out/. Can't contribute much but good thoughts to you, Weird Texan. Keep this up.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
Today it rained and dropped to 45 F. I made breakfast/lunch and then went hiking on that same property adjacent to the parking lot where my car is. I think I might have found a bunch of wild salvia divinorum plants, it doesn't look like any other mint/sage plant, it smells like its supposed to smell, it looks like its supposed to look, and I've read that its a weed in this region.
What I've been making for cheap and delicious sustinence is what I like to call "hobocakes". Basically its pancakes sans eggs; flour, water, salt, and sugar, all mixed in an old can of beans, fried with vegetable oil in a pan. I also didn't clean the can I mixed it in the first time, and when I made it a second time I thought to keep some of the old dough inside, and just heat the can over a fire for basic sanitation, but keeping some of the bacteria in the leftovers to act as a yeast. It worked great, the second batch is a lot more light and fluffy. I jack some honey packets from Starbucks to use as a dip, spread some peanut butter over the cakes, and the end product is 1000+ delicious calories at a cost of of around <10 cents per batch.
On my hike I went deeper innawoods and heard two guys talking. I saw some fencing earlier so it might have been the owners or their relatives so I panicked and ran in the other direction afap. Got tangled in a bunch of thorny vines and I spent the first few minutes at this McD's performing surgery in the restroom with my leatherman to remove the barbs out of my hands, arms, and neck.
Hunstville is a super close-knit community. Theres an old man at this McDonalds thats been here all but one of the times I visit who talks to the employees in spanish and has conversations with students. Its not rare to see total strangers sit down and have long conversations, and anyone anywhere always recognizes another, if not multiple people at stores, restaurants etc.
>>80057 Can't find any junkyards/landfills on google near here. I might ask around or scout for one.
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>>80020 California is a state with neat geography but horrible people. Texas has mediocre geography but neat people (now if only they'd forget that they were from texas, then they'd be wonderful people).
If you're gonna be proud of a state, you've gotta be from Maine, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Montana, or Idaho.
Anonymous
>>81288 Don't call them shrooms unless you know they are active. They're just toadstools before then.
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>>81720 >so I panicked and ran in the other direction afap >afap Did you run away fapping?
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>>81720 >1000+ delicious calories at a cost of of around <10 cents per batch. You know, I was cringing until I read that. Your posts give me a lot of inspiration, and you're definitely doing what this board should become about in the future. I might be getting evicted halfway through this month. If I do, I'll be here with ya.
Jy
>>81720 Or you could let us / me know what you need. If you're not opposed to a little charity, im not opposed to sending you a part or two.
Yes I know you dont have an address,but we can find a way to get it to you.
Let me know what you think.
James Rustles
>>81720 >>81720 Shit man.
For all the people not living near this fool, here's what's up.
Yesterday it was almost 80F (26.6C).
Overnight a cold front came through. Windy, cold, rain, thunder and lightning.
This morning it's 44F (6.6C).
I'm guessing OP has had a hell of a night.
Jy
>>82425 I would agree. Hope hes ok . That front is supposed to hit us this evening.
Time to get innadoors
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>81751 Duly noted.
>>82355 Don't worry about it, its going to be maybe $5 worth of piping/material. I have an idea for a cheaper alternative to the ammonia+calcium chloride refrigerant solution that is funny but it might be crazy enough to work.
>>82425 >>82429 Morning faggots.
Anonymous
>>82452 omg 44f, imagonnadie!
Good on ya WT. Not my idea of fun, but you are an inspiration to a lot of people on here. I'm a bit surprised you haven't looked for some way to modify your wheels to live in. Take the roof off, insulate it, camperize it. Is it that most of the places you can drive to don't allow camping?
Jy
>>82452 Morning W.T.
Pic related? Haha.
Well hope it works . But like I said, not opposed to helping you. Whats on the agenda today?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>82477 I don't want to fuck with my explorer too much because I might sell it and buy a nice motorcycle to save money on gas and so I'm able to drive to and from my place in the woods. Although, its basically a smallish pickup truck with the bay covered. I'm wondering if there is a way to remove the trunk assembly without making any wounds.
>>82478 Oh my hands and my testicles were the best of friends last night.
Gonna do some research on the public wifi; currently looking into solar powered home appliances, verify if that sage I found is actually divinorum, then make brunch. Today's dish is vienna sausage kolaches. Gonna hike for a few hours and try to find a cow pasture to hunt shrooms following that rain, then practice carving/whittling; gonna try to make a mask.
Jy
>>82489 Mmmm shrooms. Its been a long time for me.
Good luck with the hunt.
By trunk assembly what do you mean?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>82494 The back panels are seperate on the interior and exterior from the middle ones. Before I owned the truck my dad actually stripped the flooring of the bed down to the metal without any mess.
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>>81720 That sounds tasty as fuck.
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>>82499 Dat file name.
Ok now im with ya
Anonymous
>>82489 why not get a bike instead of a motorcycle? You will save a lot of money.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
Yesterday found a bunch of Blackthorn bushes full of the berries that are used to produce sloe gin. They taste like plums mixed with banana peels. The sage that I found the day prior might possibly be divinorum, after chewing the leaf for a few minutes (look up the Quid method) then gagging and spitting the disgusting shit out, I had a mild experience. Blades of grass on the ground around me were popping up before my eyes, and it looked like the trees were dancing. My mind was more quiet and I felt very relaxed for about 45 minutes, but I need to look up proper salvia techniques before I can truly confirm whether or not it was just a hell of a placebo effect.
I'm meeting with the detective that was assigned to find me in a few minutes because I'm apparenlty still "missing".
>>83478 Where I will live in the forest is quite a ways from where I will be working part time. Also if I wish to travel interstate a bike is out of the question.
Anonymous
>>83708 >I'm meeting with the detective that was assigned to find me in a few minutes because I'm apparenlty still "missing". welp, fun's over
you had a good run, OP
also, be careful about the dosage while taking salvia alone. It can be dangerous and even in small doses you may feel anxious and depressed as fuck only because you're alone
Anonymous
>>83708 by the way, what are you going to tell the detective? That you've been living illegally innawoods for the past few days?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>83737 They just had to confirm no one had stolen my identify and actually had kind of benign curiosity towards my lifestyle/activities. Meeting went well.
So I've read, but apparently thats more of a problem with smoking, and using the living, undried leaf is a more "wholesome" experience.
>>83740 Everything I've done (so far) except accidentally trespassing (the land wasn't properly fenced) has been quite legal. And even if I had done so they'd have to find evidence and I doubt they have the incentive to comb thousands of acres of piney woods to find that.
Jy
>>83747 So all is well then. Time to continue on with the master plan.
Which brings me to a question ive been meaning to ask you.
Once you get everything built and ate self sufficient , will you be disappearing for good, or will you still post here?
Also did you find and shrooms from the cow field?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>83784 My job is in town, I'll make sure to continue posting my finds, creations, and encounters on here weekly.
No luck with the shrooms, all the species I found were either poisonous, or were LBMs that didn't do shit when I ate them.
Also I found some more shit, will post stuff once I haul my comp back and forth from my campsite to this here wifi.
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Some vertebrae and the spine section before the ribcage of a deer or hog. Will use along with the skull, the crow feathers, and some cloth to make a head-dress. Also saw a bunch of green lizards and a live turtle today. The huge quanity of feathers I am finding was explained by a bunch of hawk I also saw flying overhead. I had some cacti but I ated them and left the husks back at camp.
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Folklore and evolutionary biology have it that prickly pear cacti want nothing more in life than to fuck your comfort to protect the refreshing flesh inside. See those big spines? Thats the cactus being nice to you. At the base of them is a bunch of tiny spines that don't give a shit if you have calluses, don't give a shit if you have gloves, and don't give a shit if you have leather chaps. They will stick in everything you are made of or wear and stay there. Handle them with nothing less than a foot long stick impaled through the broad side.
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>>84087 collect non-poisonous mushrooms, make a stew or some shit
>mushroom stew is the shit Anonymous
So what's the job OP? You don't have to say where you are working, just what are you doing. Also, you mentioned a few times you were reading. What are you reading?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
START OF WEEK 4 Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+ Sun 14 Apr 2013 22:41:37 No. 86087 Report Yesterday I explored the last of the forest next to the lot I'm living in, been using vines to climb trees and all sorts of george of the jungle shit. Feelsgood. I also have been researching and playing with the carving of woodcut blocks, which would be extremely useful for mass-producing art to be part of my crafted goods side projects. The kaolin clay here in east texas also makes high quality pottery, and at some point I would like to get into forging objects from scrap metal.
That plant I found has been confirmed to be salvia. I got a bunch of the large leaves, dried them in a pot over a fire, crushed and compacted the stuff and lit up. I didn't have any immediate visual hallucinations, but I felt extremely tired, like the good kind of tired you feel when you are recovering from sickness with a fever. I felt extremely safe and content and the sky was like a womb. After about 5 minutes I just stared at the ground in oblivious contentment and looked at plants and observing their patterns of growth. After that I had an extreme interest in the vegetation around me and I've been drawing/writing down information for the indetification of plants I don't know the names of. Tomorrow is my first day of work.
>>85877 Its already public knowledge that I live in Hunstville/Sam Nat. If I revealed what kind of work I was doing it wouldn't take much for people I used to know or one of you psychos to find me.
I finished Moby Dick around the start of all this and have been reading the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying and a book about Napoleonic times called "The Age of Napoleon" When I'm stoned sometimes I reread sections of the Silmarillion or this book on minerology.
Anonymous
Yo OP, I skimmed through the thread and I'm probably gonna go camping at sam houston during the week for like 2-3 days. Are you creepy or something? Might be down to smoke or something.
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>>86223 I'm not back in Sam Nat for a week or two because my car is down until I get my first paycheck, and I can't risk hiking ~15 miles back and forth because I need to make sure as hell I'm on time for work this week, but I'm all for ethneogens and shooting the shit when I can.
>Are you creepy or something? Might be down to smoke or something I'm a bit shy at first but I'm not a sperg or a pedo or anything. I'm all out of the bud but I have a bonanza of wild salvia, though thats not really a social high.
Anonymous
>>86087 keep in mind that if you need money that salvia may come to be useful
Anonymous
Does anyone know any good places to go in Texas? I'm new to innawoods. Me and my friends just bought a tent this weekend on a whim, and we loved it. I'm in the Houston area.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>86272 >Houston There's a lot of weird shit in George Bush park left over from stoners, rednecks, and hobos that used to live there before they cracked down on that in the 90s. Theres also a lot of feral hogs and alligator around the bayou for good pickins, but you should still be pretty safe. There's also a firing range on the east side of Westheimer.
>>86263 Not really, the salvia market is really flooded because of how unregulated it is, and most 420 blazeitfaggot type smokers hate the stuff. Everyone else buys the extract or grows it on their own. I know most head shops sell the good concentrated shit for 5 bucks a bag.
Anonymous
>>86286 Yeah, we aren't experienced so we want to stay safe. We might go to Huntsville, or maybe somewhere in West Texas. I just don't want to run into Mexicans or anything.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>86319 >don't want to run into Mexicans I would love to run into a grow op. Would save me a good 20 bucks a month and they're way more afraid of you than you are of them.
Anonymous
>>86328 What if they get so scared of you they shoot you?
Anonymous
>>86653 This was my first thought as well. When I was visiting pot country I was instructed to not wander off into the woods without knowing where I was going because there were grow ops everywhere and they WILL shoot you and dispose of the body in a discrete manner.
Anonymous
>>64731 here is a good website with shit tons of edible plants that grow wild in Texas. Unlike most books on the subject, it has actual color photos instead of shitty black and white sketches. I've spent the last year or so contributing heavily to dinner just by being innawoods and finding good shit to eat.
http://www.foragingtexas.com/ Anonymous
>>86286 OP you can sell on silkroad for nice prices and a great underground job, I assume you know what it is. You could also look into investing maybe on bitcoins.
I'm very interested in this new lifestyle of yours. I'm a south american student going to the university of alabama. Came here as a swimmer not knowing shit about the south but it's history having only been to southern florida. 2 months in I got kicked out and forced into focusing on my studies. little by little I get more surprised about all the bullshit that rules this community. How crazy southern people are, and the ways they manage their hobbies and beliefs. I hate greek life and all the fake shit they stand for with their "classy" and "blessed" bullshit. Still I've managed to find some amazing people smoking weed.
Rant aside I'm a marketing student and I come from a city that has more habitants than Alabama instead and I've never been into the outsides because it was either too dangerous or there was nothing or nobody around to make me think of it. I still crave it big though and I always have. I've made some short hikes here and there usually trying to find some nice sceneries to smoke at.
The fact that you're in Huntsville amazes me because some girl I'm seeing or whatever is from there and the fact that there is something that close creating a relationship between us is crazy considering that this is my first time browsing /out/ and just a few minutes ago I was thinking how the hell did I end up where I am right now.
Anyways I'm not looking for a change like yours, I would simply die a week after leaving because I'm totally uneducated pretty much. But I'm looking to learn a lot more about this and expand my /out/side life.
I'm not looking to partner you but you seem like some guy I'd like to talk to and I think I find you a sweet contact in my life and somebody I could learn a lot from.
Anonymous
>>86688 >You could also look into investing maybe on bitcoins. You ain't been following the news?
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awesome stuff op. I've read this whole thread. keep up the good work
Anonymous
>guy living out inna woods with his nugget
Anonymous
>>86825 Also OP I am curious as to why you don't invest heavily into spring traps or auto fishers. By the sounds of things it's not as if you worry about the ruckus a micro trap line could cause.
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>>65909 pls dont sellout by writing a book called "Live free or stick to a cubicle"
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>86663 Thanks man. I've been visiting this page from my old university for tree ID too that any curious texbros should also check out
http://texastreeid.tamu.edu >>86688 Hunstville the Huntsville in Texas, sorry. But Alabamba has a lot of nice /out/doors and /out/doorsy people.
>>86660 >>86653 Every hunter forum and news report I've seen concerning running into grow ops has ended in something like "suspect ran away upon spotting, bags of cannabis found with instructions written in spanish".
>>86833 I've looked into constructing my own spring traps or even just simple box traps for rabbits and raccoons. Squirrels you can nab with larger mouse traps.
>auto fishers If theres one thing that Texas wildlife rangers will grill your ass for, its that. They will fine you for feeding alligators or for overfishing as soon as they see a line thats unattended for longer than half an hour or so.
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>>86702 give it a few days it'll calm and start coming up hopefully but in the long term short term runs it's a good thing
>>86973 Well that takes part of the excitement out but it doesn't take out the fact that I'd like to communicate with you more often probably through this thread at least at first
all those nice /out/doorsy people must be living /out/doors because all I can find is MURRICAs and bitches who are living under command of their sororities
Or people too lazy to do anything related, claiming that they already spent time innawoods as a child and it's boring now
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>>86973 I would figure trapping to be hard enough even when they're forged.
I don't see how you can get caught using an auto fisher if you scout the area beforehand, much like animals do when approaching from downwind. But for you if the juice isn't worth the squeeze then why bother.
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First day of work yesterday went well, my superiors aren't ocd/crazy, coworkers keep to themselves. Today I spent all day drawing and practicing carving, and now that I have enough confidence with the knife I'm working on the pipe from
>>71260 I'd like most of my crafts to be based on Celtic/Nordic/Germanic designs but for this piece and for many of the pipes I'll be making I've been studying artwork and patterns from the native american tribes of the pacific northwest (Haida/Tlingit totem poles and animal spirits). This particular piece will have wolf, whale, and human heads. I've finished the first of these, will finish drilling the holes, paint the pipe and put wood finish on the bowl, then attach the bowl to the pipe and fireproof the chamber. I'll also probably sand down some of the paint and hang a crow feather from the bowl for a more traditional look.
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>>87012 >people too lazy to do anything related, claiming that they already spent time innawoods as a child and it's boring now god those people are the worst, I was in the scouts as a kid, climbed trees, built shit in ditches etc and its only getting more fun as I get older, the most disgustingly ignorant response I've gotten from a friend to my choice has been "poverty gets boring real quick"
>>87020 hm, I guess I can set up some stealth fishers on the wooded side of the lake next to my neck of the woods
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>>88572 what are you going to do when this thread dies?
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>>88572 and by that I mean what are you going to do when you don't have anybody to tell stories to?
don't get me wrong though I really encourage your decision
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>>88572 >>88887 >>88889 OP should start something and keep it going. I don't know what formats are out there except blogs and crap, but I check this thread once or twice a day.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
Today I researched the medicinal and practical uses of some of the plants I'm identifying, then carved out the rest of the length of the pipe. Here it is before sanding and painting.
Also I ran out of my water supply a few days ago and I've been boiling/drinking/cooking from a creek in that forest, no dissentary yet and its not stagnant or anything.
>>88887 Make a new one? Also /out/ might have an archive now apparently at
https://archive.thedarkcave.org/out , can't tell if its just a mirror or an actual archive.
>>88889 >don't have aybody to tell stories to What?
>>89112 Someone suggested I make videos, I'm pretty experienced with production, but I feel weird making decisions on whether it would just be informational or comedic and that shit like youtube channels usually grow to be tumorous one-sided soap boxes from their original communities.
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>>89395 And the whole thing.
If anyone is experienced with wood stains let me know in this thread
>>>/diy/438267 Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
I don't know whether to be proud or disgusted at myself but to save money on buying brushes in preparation for painting the pipe I made some using my own hair...
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>>89405 That is fucking boss.
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>>89491 >That is fucking boss. I second that
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>>89498 Gonna go and have to give it a third.
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>>90216 >He thought he was going to eat berries. We tried to tell him, berries don't grow in wintertime. My sides.
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>>90334 berries? berries and what else?
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Just checked this thread for the day and
>>90334 Oh god, thanks for the laugh.
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>>90238 Well, what you are doing there sounds quite intruging - the fun and interesting kind. (And here i thought I would be doing something outta the loop with my 1-year around the world trip... ). Since i already planned to go into the same direction anyway, i guess i'll take you up on your offer. Currently in Houston, got another night already paid - i guess i would get into town sometimes saturday afternoon. Would probably stick around for a few days - that itch for big bend needs to be satisfied somehow ;3. I hit you up with an e-mail for further details.
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Dropped to the 30s last night but it gets easier every time. Not much happening today and the last, been doing some personal accounting for unavoidable costs of living and handling some personal affairs. I stained and primed the pipe, and if the humidity comes down I'll paint the rest today. Next project will probably be a Mjolnir pendant.
>>90817 In other news I might have alcohol and firearms scheduled with the Barvarian Backpacker this weekend. Time to show these yuropoors the meaning of freedom.
>>90216 Either a death wish or natural selection hard at work.
>>90334 >"We don't know if we should be really worried or not." >The teen is a vegetarian, with no desire to kill animals to eat. Holy fuck thats hilarious, that fucker is dead for sure.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
Dropped to the 30s last night but it gets easier every time. Not much happening today and the last, been doing some personal accounting for unavoidable costs of living and handling some personal affairs. I stained and primed the pipe, and if the humidity comes down I'll paint the rest today. Next project will probably be a Mjolnir pendant.
>>90817 In other news I might have alcohol and firearms scheduled with the Barvarian Backpacker this weekend. Time to show these yuropoors the meaning of freedom.
>>90216 Either a death wish or natural selection hard at work.
>>90334 >"We don't know if we should be really worried or not." >The teen is a vegetarian, with no desire to kill animals to eat. Holy fuck thats hilarious, that fucker is dead for sure.
Bavarian Backpacker
>>90334 Oh ye of simple faith. Those-a-berries be "growing" a~ll year round, at least in many parts of europe. pic(/ture name) very much related. Dont know much about their nutrition value thou, never tried them before.
>>91013 Meetup pretty much confirmed. If i don't come back with pics, you know where to look and who it was ;D
Bavarian Backpacker
>>91031 my bad, forgot the picture. There you go.
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>>91031 >>90817 >Bavarian Do you wear shorts and one of those hats when hiking? There's one bavarian in my town and he wears that shit whenever he goes for a walk.
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>>91032 In Oregon he'd have to dig them up out of the snow to get even that.
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>>91161 no sane person wears ''Tracht'' in the alpine regions, except on some holidays or celebrations
only tourists do that shit or people who are so self conscious about their heritage they need constant reaffirmation in clothing form
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>>91165 I mean, I know nobody wears the full green and suspenders or whatever, the fellow I know wears normal shorts (although kinda short for a man) and a normal narrow-brimmed hat. It still makes him look very Bavarian but it's not like he looks like out of a cartoon. I guess that's not actually in style these days in Bavaria though?
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>>91182 Like anon already told you - it is by no means common. There are some traditional movements that advocate wearing "Tracht" at their meetings, but nebst to holidays and church that it even for the enthusiast.
If he wears one-a-those gray-ish felt-hats, those are quite out of stile, thou some people still wear them for practical reasons. But then again those are mostly wide-brimmed then so yeah. Guy seems very much like a show-off.
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>>74078 Major? How'd you like it and why'd you quit?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>92045 Comsci, was pursuing a minor in neuroscience
>How'd you like it and why'd you quit? Didn't like it. Joined or checked out about every club relevant to my interest; film club, the comsci club, the local society for creative anachronism, I snooped around for other non-country musicians; couldn't find a group or individuals I would want to hang out with, but I'll grant that I'm not a people person. My ex broke up with me on the grounds that I was non-religious, and my few friends there were also anti-social but spend most of their time playing video games.
also see
>>77588 I've found that most advanced jobs in STEM fields are only desirable if you REALLY like working in that field. Programming and comsci theory are my hobby, I was bullshitting myself that I really wanted to spend 40+ hours a week working with that, and most of these jobs don't go into my fields of interest in comsci. To give an example of this, I know a russian computer science/EE graduate from a prestigious university in russia that wrote his master's thesis on neural networks and now manages databases for a software company in Austin.
Also I have a pretty good resume and experience in software/web development among other things so there was no point in finishing the 40 or so credits I had left that were mainly classes that have absolutely no real industrial or commercial use that I have and could learn much better on my own time (think quantum computing, higher level cryptography) when I was miserable at that school, and I had no interest in going to grad school even if it were in a campus culture more suitable to my likings.
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>>92045 Comsci, was pursuing a minor in neuroscience
>How'd you like it and why'd you quit? Didn't like it. Joined or checked out about every club relevant to my interest; film club, the comsci club, a robotics competition group, the local society for creative anachronism, I snooped around for other non-country musicians, and I worked for a company that was an industrial affiliate of the school; couldn't find a group or individuals I would want to hang out with, but I'll grant that I'm not a people person. My ex broke up with me on the grounds that I was non-religious, and my few friends there were also anti-social but spend most of their time playing video games.
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>>77588 I've found that most advanced jobs in STEM fields are only desirable if you REALLY like working in that field. Programming and comsci theory are my hobby, I was bullshitting myself that I really wanted to spend 40+ hours a week working with that, and most of these jobs don't go into my fields of interest in comsci. To give an example of this, I know a russian computer science/EE graduate from a prestigious university in russia that wrote his master's thesis on neural networks and now manages databases for a software company in Austin.
Also I have a pretty good resume and experience in software/web development among other things so there was no point in finishing the 40 or so credits I had left that were mainly classes that have absolutely no real industrial or commercial use that I have and could learn much better on my own time (think quantum computing, higher level cryptography) when I was miserable at that school, and I had no interest in going to grad school even if it were in a campus culture more suitable to my likings.
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>>92063 Damn, I was gonna go there but it looks like I'll just run into the same problems as you... too bad.
Anyway, I'm here in DFW if you wanna do something. I guess I'll email you.
>>92078 If you have a history of social isolation or don't enjoy being around people for the sake of being around people, don't go to TAMU.
>>91868 >>91182 >>91165 >>91161 Don't they wear those during procreation? Or is that the mormons, I get confused.
>>92078 Hit me up.
Tommorrow will be the completion of my first month of innawoods homelessness. Gonna meet with the Bavarian Backpacker in an hour, just realized I'll be committing the atrocity of spending Hitler's birthday and 4/20 drinking beer with a German...
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>>91868 He wears a similar sort of hat that's in style here, actually, although not really as in style for guys his age.
I think it also makes sense though, as the only bavarian around, that he'd be more concerned about preserving his heritage than most.
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>>92087 Did OP dies? Or get raped?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>92620 >implying I'm mortal >implying I have sexual organs to violate Here's our campsite from 420 with Bavarian Backpacker. I slept on the cloth and the bavarian got a tent from walmart.
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>93671 Made him two Texas specialties, chili the day before yesterday and strawberry kolaches yesterday. Apparently germans aren't used to spicy food so the texas chili almost killed him but he manned up and ate his portions and snacked on it.
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>>93671 >dat walmart tent So how long have you been /out/ there now OP?
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>>93672 He was interested when I told him about Shiner, which is our Texas-Bavarian state brew, so we bought the big specialty, and he said that the czech and the black lager ones were one of the most authentic non-german national beers he's drank. Last night we mixed southern comfort with coke to fight the low temperature and socialism. I'm proud that he found Arizona sweet tea by his own accord and has apparently been drinking it as a substitute for water since. We shot the empty cans and bottles out of suspicion for being Castro co-conspirators.
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>>93674 Implying the implications - boy scouts tent, just enough to fit me and my 2 meters in diagonally. No fear of rain, fire-ants, dew and nocturnal onlookers.
But yeah, spicy food is not the forte of Bavarian Culture - and neither mine, by that accord. Else, i guess i will just cut into Texan's story if necessary.
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Another angle of the campsite, bavarian has a nicer camera and more pics. Yesterday we hiked a good 20 miles to the bridge over lake conroe to make the kolaches and grab some water, and then hitchhiked back.
>>93674 Saturday was my monthlong mark for living innawoods.
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Heres some pics of a solo trip i took to north padre island you can see the fire pit and wood i gathered on the right
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fire. i stopped taking pictures and drank some beer then made food then i slept in the bed of my truck.
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I had a lot of other cool camping pics i had from other but my hard drive failed and i lost them.
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>>71191 You're the shit OP, you're inspiring me to do this. Go to harbor freight. They have excellent affordable solar stuff, even a fold up 5 watt one that will fit in a backpack, and it's only like $40. Stay safe.
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>>93682 No man I was just thinking the walmart tent was hilarious, but great.
>>93683 Damn a month? Not bad.
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>>93682 I have that same tent. It's a fuckin gem:
Twenty bucks
actually durable since its designed for kids and if it wasnt theyd have lawsuits on their hands
lots of room
enjoy
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Can't believe op of this thread was the texas bomber
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>>95513 Gonna need a source.
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Day 34 Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+ Thu 25 Apr 2013 01:01:58 No. 96328 Report Well, pretty much blew the last of my flexible resources on my meetup with Bavarian Backpacker. I'm especially immobile now until my next paycheck and I've explored most of the forest around where I'm stuck so don't expect much until otherwise. I might do some urban-ex these next few days and continue working on my crafting stuff. I've also been playing around with the idea of using my freetime to develop a smarter meetup/geocache map for /out/ instead of that communitywalk clusterfuck; coincidentally the company I worked for was making a geolocational phone app and I gained a bunch of experience with map APIs and other jazz.
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>>96328 How much longer do you think you'll be there in the park? Summer will kinda be a bitch, but I might be working in college station and may wanna check out the park, and I'd like to chill with someone who knows their way around
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>>96358 I'm hoping to get my AC system built before then, but the forest tends to stay cooler during the summer than elsewhere. I'm also looking into insulating my cabin, but if in the worst case it becomes unbearable I'll have to look into other accomodations.
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>>96362 Sounds righteous. Got any new pics for us?
Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
>>96364 Nah I need to get something better than this potato. I'm always running into hare and live tortoise in the forest and I can't lug my laptop with my webcam everywhere, and the totem pipe isn't quite done yet, though it nears completion.
Bavarian might have a few pics from the meetup though I don't know when he can upload them.
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>>96367 Just some random thoughts? About how many hours do you sleep a night? How are making money? What's your main source of entertainment? You should get an instrument like a harmonica or acoustic and a small book on how to play.
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What kind of stuff are you eating, you mentioned the pancakes and chilli that one night with bavarian, but otherwise how do you go about keeping youself fed.
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>>96362 That's completely opposite of the way it was in Louisiana where I used to live.
During the summer it was so much hotter in the swamps because of the humidity
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>>96390 it's answered in thread
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OP are you at least semi /fit/? I respect what you're doing and your know how, but if youre just some skinny faggot tripping about becoming homeless all on a whim then I'll just be on my way out this thread. Post your legs or core.
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You should read the last american man
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>>96390 >hours of sleep When it is cold my sleep schedule is something like 2:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Otherwise I go to sleep at midnight and wake up at 7.
>making money Part time job and odd gigs. I got some replies back to postings for guitar lessons and computer repair the last few days.
>main source of entertainment Probably reading, though this in itself has been very fun.
>should get an instrument I have a fender strat that I built in high school in the back of my car that I play when I can't sleep. Here's my soundcloud with some tracks that I recorded before all this.
https://soundcloud.com/weirdtexan >>96606 Every average summer temperature comparison I've made across various websites has had it lower in the forest than in the city during the summer.
>>96638 I lost a lot of weight during the first few weeks of this so I'm not going to look impressive, though my legs got a lot bigger from all the standing and squatting all the time.
>Post your legs or your core. >>>/fit/ >>>/hm/ >>96490 Again, that flour and water goes a long way, you can make the mixture thick for biscuits or thin for pancakes. Also a bunch of blackberries have been ripening recently so I've been gathering those and eating them with sugar. I fill in whatever fat, protein, and nutritional gaps with peanut butter and a multivitamin. Once I'm mobile I'd like to start fishing again.
>>96999 Conway seems like an interesting bro, though I'm seeing hes having issues with land rights, surely he could have figured out adverse possession by now.
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Pipe almost done, though the bowl won't seem to stay glued, I'll try digging holes in the joint surfaces and inserting braces in them when I re-glue it. I really like how the wood stain turned out on the bowl and the bit, really brought out the grain.
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Mjolnir pendant work in progress. Gonna smooth the edges, maybe string it with some teeth from than canine jaw or a feather.
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Muh battlescars for the day. I broke the golden rule of carving safety this morning while carving the mjolnir and pulled the blade towards me instead of away and it slipped; had the tip of my knife a good centimer or two in my left palm.
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>>97427 How much are you masturbating in the forest? You just covering the little animals in your spooge?
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>>89396 >wood stains I don't know shit about this, but I do know that you can make a pretty intense stain by collecting walnuts in the late summer, mixing a bit of water and letting it sit for a few days. Maybe dip the pieces in it and let the walnut-juice soak in for a while. You can also crack the walnuts open and eat the insides, but it's very messy. If you're cracking them open expect your hands to be stained yellow/brown for at least a few weeks.
Note: might not be the best idea to smoke out of, or something, I don't know.
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>>97821 >don't shit where you eat Weird Texan !!vZHDi0mGEw+
