Is diving, snorkeling, SCUBA etc worth getting into if I don't like near the ocean? Also discuss gear and experiences.
>>2718493quarry diving is fun
>>2718493Depends on what you like.enjoy underwaterlife? Go snorkel or scuba in a lake or river (get a good wet or drysuit).Scuba diving in tropical water is easy so even if you only go once a year you're fine with a basic certification and you can rent your gear.Freediving is also fun but don't be an idiot. Don't go into caves, practice depth training, don't hyperventilate and maybe get a buddy.
>>2718493I'm in the process of getting my Open Water cert, I think it's worth it if you like sealife. Equipment is expensive if you want to buy everything, you can contain the costs by buying the suit ("shoes" and hood included), a mask, fins and rent everything else from a diving center when you want to go underwater.Know that you're not limited to seas/oceans, as other anons said you can go diving in lakes too, even though it's a different experience (especially for the decreased buoyancy).Do you know anyone else with a cert/willing to get one? Diving, especially for amateurs, is way safer if you have a buddy.
can you dive on lakes? i suppose there's much less stuff to see in lake subsurface
>>2718500> im not in a nice tropical location where the water is nice and warm, the oppositeYou could try dry suit diving, cold seas have lots of fauna after all since they're more rich in oxygen>>2721169Yes you can, but as I said in >>2721113 you need to adapt to it, it's kinda different from ocean/sea diving. Also, never go diving in mountain lakes if you've gone diving in the sea/ocean the day before, since there's a chance you get the bends by doing it.
what is the point of these things? literally the worst of both worlds. I'd much rather be in the actual woods in my tent or be in actual suburbia in my comfy home. not an awful mishmash of the two. t. begrudging camper owner due to wife
>>2721267I've been looking at a hard side pop-up, but I'm going to stick with my teardrop. I'm only in it to sleep, so I don't need to stand up. Also, it's still lighter than a tent trailer and I haul it 9000 ft up a mountain to go hunting so I'm not using a tent there either.
Gibme offroad teardrop, plz.
>>2721559Why not just get a truck and put a camper in the bed at this point?
>>2721563Get with the times, old man. You can't rock crawl with a pickup that has its suspension bottomed out by a camper. Though, you can't easily turn around with a trailer of any kind, so i suppose it's a trade off.
>>2721559You can fit a double bed, fridge, storage, tools and all that other shit in the back of a 4wd just fine. People here in Australia do it all the time. In fact, I have never seen one of these stupid boomer contraptions.
Just look at this disgusting motherfucker. I don't care much about ticks, flies, even skeetos I tend to cope okay. But these slimy disgusting little foreskins make me wretch.
>>2720906I did get a couple leeches on me the one time I went wade fishing around of Phoenix. it was in the middle of summer and the water was ice cold. I just assumed it was the water temperature. the water never gets that cold around here during the summer. water was moving about the same.
>>2721022well they are tenacious little fucks. in NH I never got one in the rivers but when you go downstream and find a slow moving little bend in the river with lots of silt and grass, leech city
>>2717130> Bled like a motherfucker and 3 weeks later it's itchy as fuck.he pozzed u
>>2717129B-But /pol/ and /x/ said that vaxxed blood killed leeches!!!1! Is Q wrong?1!!!
>>2721452now now anon, put on your critical thinking cap>leech bites healthy virile vaxxed man>leech invariably dies for its sin>leech bites weak, scurvy sickly unvaxxed boy>leech grows to the size of a walrusmakes sense to me
What are your experiences going /out/ to nature with women?Its honestly the worst, they just want pictures taken.
>>2721104I was with your mom yes
>>2720669the Lakes?
>>2720584I go /out/ with my girlfriend all the time. It's nice to have company and she does do her share of work (e.g. food prep, washing dishes) which allows me to focus on things like gathering fire wood and catching dinner. My one complaint is that she's not too keen on bushwhacking and I do have to slow down a bit for her (she never complains though). But overall, it's been a positive experience.
>>2720584i took my wife out a few weeks ago after she had a massive bender with her girlfriends the night before. I took her on a 4 hour hike while she was hungover to death haha, she hated it. She slept pretty good and was happier the next day.Basically women will do what ever you tell them to and complain, but if you give them 0 juice for their squeeze they will shape up and start acting right, especially when out.
>>2720584They like to cook, so make them cook.
I've been doing outdoors stuff for a while and now i'm looking at doing a thru-hike for the first time. Is it any good? Or is it riddled with unbearable normies?
>>2721393Those also qualify as through hikes.
>>2721426Yes, exactly. My Pinhoti hike was nothing like my AT section hikes.
>>2721278Not true, I know there's that fatty doing the northern Spain pilgrimage trail
>>2721446>Pinhoti hikehow long did that take?
>>2721278I've done Te Araroa and Pacific Crest Trail. 88 temple pilgrimage too if you want to count that. Keep projecting /in/ fatty.
The purpose of this general is to encourage people to go /out/ and find cool fossils and artifacts. This thread is also a place to share our own collections and things we find when we are /out/ hunting.Rules are as follows,>To just post and discuss fossils and other related geological subjects.>When you post about a fossil in your collection, please label it with what formation it is from, what it is, and where in the world it is from.>If you don't know where it originated or the species that is ok, just label it as soHelpful Links https://paleobiodb.org/navigator/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/https://zoom.earth/Geologic maps of US states (usgs.gov)A Beginner's Guide To Fossil Hunting - Fossil Hunting Trips - The Fossil Forumclasses have finished for the year and work has slowed down so hopefully I can keep this one alive. I've made some amazing fids in the past few months that I have been gone and I hope to see what all you have found since the last thread as well. First fossil of this thread is a Placcticeras sp. about 9.5 to 10 inches in diameter was super stoked when I found it. Upper Britton Formation of the Eagle Ford Group, Denton Co. Texas
>>2721365Kind of hard to see but it's a set of cetacean vertebrae. Miocene.
>>2721368Various cretaceous fossils. Belemnites, wood, bits of bone etc
>>2721369Normally don't care about shell fossils but I found this one and thought it was cool
>>2721371Last pic, a little leaf fossil
>>2703345Is that a steinkern? I love those
Why would you want other people to see you before you see them? That would make me very uncomfortable, like sitting at the very first table in the break room with your back to entrance. I don't own a single piece of clothing or gear that is any color except Earth brown, olive drab green, and stone grey. The whole point of going out in the woods is escaping humanity and becoming invisible and being left the fuck alone.
>>2710223Because contrasting colors make for better pictures on social media.
>>2710341Real.
>>2718928There are higher mountains that are completely forested. Elevation is why this is a barren wasteland, but you can go ahead and pretend like you already knew that.
>>2721005>The easterner copes about bigger mountains than his by pointing out that there are even bigger mountains that also aren't his.
>>2718376Lad. No.
Have you ever visited the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina/Tennessee?
>>2717551No, I don't want to get shot.
>>2717551Only for reunions since relatives own land there. Haven't gone to one since I was a child though.
>>2721003I tried to tell my family that I bet that the big houses we see that look like vacation rentals up on some of the mountains are probably especially for family reunions and they didn't believe me.
>>2718236>>2718239Is this a joke? That haze is caused by trees releasing VOC’s that then react with with humidity. It causes a blue tinge (“Blue Ridge Mountains”) that looks almost like smoke (“Smoky Mountains”). The animated gif I posted was taken on the AT maybe 10 miles from Clingman’s Dome. That’s mist rolling through the woods. What, did you guys think we were joking when we said condensation is a serious problem here?
>>2721009can you tell the trees to stop doing that so I can get a clearer viewplease
What is your favorite color of Azalea? Have you seen any wildflowers of note this Spring so far? I personally love a deep dark purple Azalea but I haven't found one in bloom so far. This is Cinnabar and it caught my eye from 20 feet away.
How green are my valleys?
>>2720047It's NC, with Linville Gorge on the left and the Black Mountains on the right, likely taken from somewhere near Roaring Creek
>>2720534which part is linville gorge? I've been trying to figure out what it looks like in the map but I can't
>>2720535The pointy mountain on the far left is table rock i'm pretty sure. I was just climbing there today and it really is the only thing in the state that has that pointy outcrop shape
>>2719894not very.
>>2719932I like the first pop of green of the season. It makes for really nice photos. It's so hard to catch that time between when its bare and totally green and I'm trying not to miss it this year.
>be bong >go on convoluted trip for meaningless glory >fail >get stuck on an ice pack for almost 2 years >kill scores of animals >ditch your men to try and rescue yourself >by some miracle you survive and are forced to save the crew you deserted. Are anglos stupid? All the stories of men dying for non existent glory seem to come from England.
Had to check which board I was on lmao never change you fucking /out/ists
>>2674309We don't talk about the Antarctic natives. Just stay away from Antarctica, for your own safety, for all of our safety.There's a reason all of the major powers of the world have agreed to leave Antarctica alone, and it's not just because of the cold.
>>2674304that is a lie, they crashed at about an hour walking downhill to some local rancher's place
>>2686233Why would you need rain gear ? It doesn't even get warm enough for it to rain there.
>>2673989For me, it's the car Shackleton took to AntarcticaIf you read up on all those early polar expeditions it was always the Scandinavians who did well and know what they were doing, a lot of their stuff isn't well known or translated though.Guys like Shackleton and Scott were performers, not proper adventurers. They were the ones who managed to convince English donors to fund their adventures where they got up to all kind of retarded high jinks, came back and got good publishing deals from their rich buddies for their accounts.
what's your gaymen/entertainment setup when backpacking, /out/?
>>2716613You think you do, but no you don't>t. /g/
>>2716351What portable can play shit like Prince of Persia 1 and 2? Don't really care about more advanced games my backlog is huge I'll be old when I reach 2020 games
>>2721097Thats pretty niche, there is a version of Prince of Persia 1 on android, PoP2 you will need something that has an MS-DOS emulator. A lot of these new handheld emulators can support a lot of different retro consoles
>>2721050>cable guy"wireless" is a fucking lie; it's all cablespicrel, about 6 hours ago. 150ft.
Sometimes I bring ketamine and a movie on my phone when I am settling in for the night and maximum cozy. Also books.
tell me all your weird, unexplainable, and creepy out stories
Went camping in the Everglades in July once. I don't recommend that. The weather is basically pure hell with a side of mosquitoes. My buddy nearly got killed when he stumbled across an American crocodile guarding her nest.Never had any supernatural experiences, though, despite being stuck with a disabled vehicle in two different national forests. Thank the gods for kindly rednecks.
>>2709295damn you were that close to him? I just watched a video about him literally 2 days ago and there was no mention of him with a van, only that he was at the end of a prison sentence and he had the perk of leaving un supervised during the days.
>>2708236pitbulls are the closest we have to actual monsters
>>2720005>Went camping in the Everglades in July once.what made you think that was a good idea?
Another kayak fishing close call that happened last week. Kayak fishing a bayou right before sundown had caught a couple specks and had them on a stringer attached to my kayak. I navigate the last couple of bends around some grass flats and take a second to cast before I head out. Huge thump at the side of my kayak nearly tips me over, the wake from whatever just hit me is churning the water to my left and right. A fucking family of gators decided to sneak a free meal off my stringer and are taking turns darting at my kayak. I cut my stringer loose and very slowly paddle backwards towards the shoreline. I can see them pretty clearly now tearing up the specks I just jettisoned. I've never seen gators be so aggressive before, maybe mating season or a scarcity of food? No way in hell Im fishing that spot again in kayak, only a retard tests fate twice.
Looking to get some nice fancy outdoor apparel. What's the /out/ recommendations? Any charts?
>>2721472Been looking for some good pants. Probably gonna buy something with some discounts on marmot, their clearance sales. Get something for me and my mom.
how do you deal with disabilities, thing wrong with you out of your control. bad eyes, joints, anything else that can hinder you?
>>2712488Probably 95% of adult women are stronger than me anon. I'd be quite fine with being on the strength level of a woman, it'd be a big improvement than where I am. I meant 40-60% weaker than a sedentary adult, not a fit adult - because remember, my muscles don't really grow. >>2715701Glad to see others have the same observations as me. Most of these boil down to good communication and basic empathy, but it's worth spelling them out to anons who might be younger or lack certain life experiences.
>>2716140Actual "flat earth" tier retardation
>>2717960don't engage with him anons, morons who are judgmental like that are going to KYS the first second they have health problems.your experience mimics mine in how I had to deal with social situations (brain damage anon here) except yours is worse.just fucking nodded off 15 hours in the last 24 hours
>>2717960>it's worth spelling them out to anons who might be younger or lack certain life experiences,,,,KEEP MOVING YOU LITTLE SNOTS!!
