/out/ - Outdoors

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I don't want to sound elitist however some people should not be hiking. There were these two young women who I met on a trail to pic related and they literally were afraid of traversing a wet plank-bridge over a sort of chasm. It wasn't really much of a casm, more like a creek that cut into the rock over time.

Anyhow those two women literally asked all the other hikers to go first and I saw this from afar. At least 3 other people were asked to go first. I personally slipped but because I am not a sack of potatoes I managed to hold my balance. What are these people doing there is they do not have the balls to cross a wet bridge?

At least they were not blasting music or trashing up the place, but still... Why even go be in nature if you can not handle a wet man made bridge.
Like if these gals would have to cross a tumultuous river by jumping from stone to strone they'd probably call in a rescue team. I can't even imagine them crossing a river by walking a cross a fallen tree..... They'd straight up resort to sucking their thumbs.

>>3 How is living with aids like op?

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I'm trying to build up my stamina to do ultra long distance rucks like the army guys do, my target being multi-marathon distances through day and night.

My research has found that in early modern armies of the first world war an elite unit was expected to march 40k daily, and a regular was expected to march about 30k. The paratrooper and SF type units do about 70k in a single day and night. Expected distance coverage usually breaks down to still be about 4 km per hour just for close to  18-20 hours

It's surprisingly possible, but pretty hard on the underdeveloped parts of your body . Does anyone do this?

>>7
I mean I hiked 45 km one day with a rucksack on my back but I would not call that rucking per say. My load was probably around 10kg. Very rough, had to climb a bunch of hills it was winter but I did it.

Honestly my gear was suboptimal and after that I staid in bed for like two days. My shoes were old and I slipped constantly on any surface, but I soldiering  though it. I never regretted doing it but let's just say that I never overexerted myself like that again. Mind you I was 20 when I did said hike, so idk. If you have the time to train then you could do it.

Honestly dealing with the ankle and muscle pains is the hardest part. Just stretch constantly and do regular breaks I guess. That's the best advice I can give you.

>>8
*soldiered

>>8
What was your time? Similar experiences. It's a hard skillset to train for because of the time investment being significantly greater than conventional lifting practice

>>10
I honestly do not remember, most likely not great, 9 hours at the minimum, maybe a little longer. It was the middle of winter so I had to wake up while it was still dark and return during darkness too.

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I honestly do not mind them, but I never built one. I find that they pervert nature and nature per definition is supposed to be devoid of human intervention.
If however I see carin fields I'll just go apeshit and put my thick boots to good use. I have no tolerance for normies that decide to take up a whole meadow and fill it with their little gay rock towers.

where? in the u.s., hiking trails are often a place where retards bring their groups of loud toddlers to run around yelling and ruin the quiet for everyone else.

>>13
>where?
Germany obviously, in the south-west

>in the u.s., hiking trails are often a place where retards bring their groups of loud toddlers to run around yelling and ruin the quiet for everyone else.
I have personally not experienced this however, if you go hiking in places that are close to a city you'll see kids going to the woods to drink en masse, blasting music and shit like that. The only filter is a sharp incline so that the trail becomes less accessible.

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>>5
Kek I was reading your thread and thought for sure you must be some amerimutt poster.... Normally when im hiking I pass boomers or fit moms with dogs. Nothing inbetween.
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I can draw here????

>>12
I think youre a little too grumpy anon :DD

Its usually kids who make those

I built a cool one a few years back, can't find the picks rn. 

I like them, it's a very white thing to do and it makes me happy when I see them

I member one time I was out hiking the trails and stopped at a cairn. Sat down. There was my friends smartphone. He'd be biking and dropped it right there. Thank the cairn gods. But we need a more occulted alternative to these things because it they have no deep symbolism. 

>Europoor
>Real woods
don't lie. You've never even been /out/

If it's a popular trail, it's for everyone. Only people who shouldn't hike are the disabled in my opinion. You've got to start somehwere.

My peeve is finding trash in perfectly nice spots innawoods. But that is usually the quad and dirtbike people who are mentally and spiritually obese

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>>15
oh cool we can draw
also yes OP is right, some people need to get some balls before hiking. however sometimes it takes hiking and camping to get balls.

>>18
>don't lie. You've never even been /out/

Nigger in my state nature is super cool and accessible (Baden Württemberg).  Have you heard of the Black Forest? Unspoiled fucking nature. Plus Europe has plenty of unspoiled forests in Romania, Slovakia, Bulagria and shieeet. Come here, convince yourself of that fact.

>>12
Based fellow cairn-kicker. I kick every cairn I see unless it's in the deep backcountry and the only one within visual range of the last one. 
>>21
black forest looks a tiny cute little forest. I want to come see it again when you've dealt with your country's "problems," hopefully by then there'll be more evergreen trees. I think Germany has direct flights to Whitehorse if you want to come kick cairns up north.

<shout out to the based admin for creating /out/

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>>22
>Whitehorse 
Nigga, why leave Chile for that freezing fucking place up north in YK? Like ngl I always wanted to visit it, it looks peak comfy however I guess that the plane tickets are still too expensive. And compared to fucking Chile.... why even leave that outdoorsman's paradise? Chile is peak comfy.

>black forest looks a tiny cute little forest.
I will not deny that it is small, however it is plenty big to be entertaining. if you knwo where you are going you can avoid normieniggers.
And yes we need to fix our "problems". But realistically speaking said problems will never get fixed so..... see you never. Maybe we'll meet in Yukon at some point, shit ain't getting better over here.

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When you are in the back country, dozens of miles away from or concrete they can be very useful to help keep on the trail or find cool side trails. Not every one is an adept tracker and can tell when one type of trail merges/diverges.

Also used as can be signs (but made out of natural materials) compare to the logging/forestey plastic flags that are in all too common use. Which I generally approve of both things.

Now if folk are just leaving them all willy nilly cluttering up the place, that might warrant renaturalization, but on the other hand, some times these things turn into geoglyphs. Digression, so I tend to favor cairns 2/3 of the time.

>>23
>why leave Chile
Because a man's gotta wander and I like the cold. Up in the mountains it's nice, not too hot unlike our summers up north. I'm here to get some hiking in and a cheeky spot of sun, then I'm going back up to the cold where I belong. I'll probably holiday down south again in July. You look at the climate data up there and it doesn't seem too bad, but arctic sunlight is intense it'll feel on par with the summers in Germany and France; sometimes it'll feel cooler because you're not as close to the arctic circle (also your pubs are closer together). Forest fire smoke from elsewhere will cool things a bit by blocking out the sun so it's not so bad, but then it gets hard to breathe. Fortunately our territory's forest management people aren't retarded like in BC so we use fire-resistant species to help stop fires from spreading, therefore Whitehorse is quite safe - from fire at least. The airport might slide down the hill though, erosion is a bitch to deal with.

As for your problems, never say never fren. There is always hope, especially when you still have comfy forests big enough to be entertaining and to misplace certain things in geocaches. Don't let them cut down your trees.

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