Hello, everybody. I love the outdoors, being in it, camping, 10 mile hikes, etc. but I know very little about bush craft or survival skills. I don’t know what’s edible and what isn’t, how to start a fire, how to purify water, or make a shelter, etc.
By the way, i am an on campus college student in the Appalachian mountains. I aim to look into camping/hiking clubs, but I would like to hear you’re advice on what I should try to learn first, what books I should read, etc.
I'd start with Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski and continue with Walden by Henry David Thoreau
After reading these you want to read Can Life Prevail by Pentti Linkola and then Impeachment of Man by Savitri Devi.
heeere we go!
give into your statistical destiny troon.
Incase you don't understand what this meme means OP, its because this exact same thread pops up several times a week, on an extremely slow board, and you all never do anything.
i still don't get it
>you hate your current life / situation
>you imagine / daydream about a better life
>because you daydream all day long you never get anything done
>because you never get anything done you remain in your current shitty situation
repeat.
I'm sorry if that's your life
> because you daydream all day long you never get anything done
So you’ve never daydreamed at work? Or you’ve never worked because you’re 14? Anon, you need a job so you can have the money needed to do what you want. You daydream at that job to kill time until you have the money you need. Are you actually moronic?
Ridiculous line of argument - you're basically denying even the possibility of change and self improvement. If OP isn't allowed to imagine a better situation, how exactly is he supposed to develop goals to work towards? Accusations of daydreaming only make sense in the context of scenarios that are totally unattainable. But cultivating survival skills and purchasing/building a little cabin out in the woods is hardly unattainable.
it's just israeli demoralization tactic
what is that picture? I just want to learn outdoors skills
not sure that applies here, he's just wanting to know more about how to do these things, not the
>i'm totally going to run away into the woods and live off the land, but no i'm not a hobo!
OP: this is gonna sound super cliche, but maybe start by watching a few seasons of alone. see how they (ostensibly 'experts') handle common situations.
i forget what season it was, but the one with Roland.. listen to that man.
after that, just go out. learn as you go, learn by doing.
This doesn't fit OPs thread at all
You genuinely missed the mark on this thread because you are now overconfident
Check out the boyscout handbook. It has a lot of these topics covered in a fairly condensed but still very readable format. It's easy to find basically anywhere, and won't set off any red flags if you leave it out in your dorm, unlike the literal unibomber's manifesto, as suggested by another anon.
>I know very little about bush craft
Don't worry about bushcraft, it's not really practical for regular camping, and it's a huge waste of natural resources. Watch some YouTube videos if you think it's neat, but please don't go into your local forest and kill 30 saplings to make a shitty lean-to. The rest of what you're asking for is all pretty practical stuff to know though.
This is getting super overused, maladaptive daydreaming isn't "someone thinks something is cool and decides to learn more about it", it's meant to describe what is essentially delusional escapism. There's nothing irrational about people asking to learn outdoor skills.
It's a redditoid thing. Ignore the trannies.
You're right about the bushcraft thing though. Bushcraft is a great skillset but it's not something you can practice without a resource cost. If it's not your land, don't frick with natural places or owned places. You can always go use deadwoods and litterfall to practice carving and the saw and knife combo should not be neglected. At least learn all the ways to make a fire in adverse conditions. Thru hiking shit is the supply centre consoomer train to end all. Materials science autism for marginal gain, whole ecologies of Outside online tier shilling to get people to buy the next set of goretex, anti hunting mentality and non landed users. All cancer.Stay in your land till you can make your own is always a good idea.
Walden is so shit...
why
homosexual lived off of his mothers gibbs while he wrote it. Basically a vacation.
whoops someone forgot to separate the writer from the work
btw ted took gibs from his mother and brother too at times emotionally blackmailing them
That only matters when you have people who do something extreme. The work is lies and shilling. Not even a good primer. I didn't forget I just hate the shit pretending to be something it's not. Forest Anon is more walden than walden ever was. Hell so was that one pedo who lived in the junk shack for years.
The different is Ted actually did something. You do what you can where you are with what you have. They're still no Linkola though.
Okay I'll bite.
First things first Outdoors where? The tropics are not the frostline the tundra is not the swamp and the city is not for straight people.
Do not buy things. Take a long time to figure out what you need to learn first. You can approach this two ways. Watch youtube cringe, get bad advice here (my favourite) and finally you can try to connect with eople who do stuff outdoors.
Here's what I think is important to cover.
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Get a good pair of boots that fit a nice pair of socks. No matter what you do you will always be able to use them, even if you don't wind up being outdoors oriented. Try on a bunch and make sure they are just a little bit bigger than usual and fit your foot type.
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Next you want a bag. No less than 45 litres, no more than 65. Avoid Osprey cringe and old ass milsurp.(pre 90s unless you want to try a heavy alice pack for fun) Get cheap decathelon or REI's deals on a sale. You want something that you can ft water bottles in the side, that has a good hip belt.
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Sleeping bag.
The more you spend on this the warmer and lighter you can get it. You can try for a normal synthetic fill. Maybe Snugpack would be a cheap option that has plenty of non expensive options in a temperature range that matches your area. Always get the warmest you can.
For shelter get a tarp. It's cheap and cheap aluminium pegs are great. With some cord you can figure out the ins and outs of using a 3x3 tarp to stay sheltered almost anywhere. If you chose to get a hammock you can keep using it for a fly.
Boots, bag, sleeping and shelter covered now you can start on skill specific equipment.
Get a plain flat backed knife. Full tang if you have money for a good one, or a mora if you are cheap and want a beater that works. This will be your learning toolset.
With that decided, you should have considered where you will go, what kind of conditions for weather you will be facing. The temperature. The use of fire.
Next thing is food. Try not to pack cans. They are heavy adn will be annoying. For the first night you can always take fresh food. Don't worry about freeze dried or shelf stable unless you are doing long hikes or a couple of nights. That's on you, decide if you just want to do overnight or just get used to walking with your gear. You should wear boots a while to get them broken in, pack your bag and do some long walks with it packed. Condition yourself. It helps.
The thing to do next is to get a habit of reading. Find some outdoors lit and make a point of digesting it. Every skill that you have will rely on practice, but practice is always enhanced by reading. It will help you get an idea of what is considered normal or conventional knowladge.
For you I would reccomend The DK Survival Guide AKA The Royal Marines Survival Handbook in some nations. It is one of the best composed and illustrated books on all the basics that I've ever seen. Nothing in that book that you should not know. It's all sensible. So try that out.
There is a difference between homesteading, thru hiking (annoying homosexual magnet) and the slow arduous habit of learning how to hunt or do expeditionary trails with no suppourt. Whatever you chose to do, get a group. Make freinds. Find others who will show you how to shoot and go out of your way to learn something every day.
There's a ton of good books out there, maybe too many. For basic hiking and backpacking I can recommend The Canadian Hiker’s & Backpacker’s Handbook by Ben Gadd. Most of it would be applicable to any other temperate/arctic areas.
thanks bros
I would add the Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emry. It's not as much about full out living as much as it is how to homestead. That comes with a lot of the lost art skills a person needs if they are in a plumbing retired shack they just made. Try it out.
Hate to be the one who breaks it to you but you're never going to live in the wilderness off plants and animals. Kaczynski bought most if his food at the grocery store, The Maine hermit broke into vacation homes, McCandlass broke into cabins and still starved to death. The closest you can get to true wilderness dweller is by doing what ForestAnon does:
https://youtube.com/@ForestAnon
Study, garden, forage, do hard labor a few times a year for extra cash. That's it. If you all would just drop the pipe dream and actually take the initiative it would keep this annoying thread off here.