>makes camping and hiking extremely dangerous while walking and or sleeping
Frick snakes
Frick bears
Frick alligators
>makes camping and hiking extremely dangerous while walking and or sleeping
>makes camping and hiking extremely dangerous while walking and or sleeping
Frick snakes
Frick bears
Frick alligators
Frick you
Bears don’t do anything. Just don’t leave food out.
The above poster is a bear.
Unrelated, but does one find jumpers like this? Would love to buy one.
"Fair Isle Sweater"
>t. scalp remover
Mostly true.
Bears are a big problem in early spring when they get out of hibernation and are skinny.
They're prepared to eat anything when they're that hungry, without thought of self preservation.
I remember someone here posted the story a year ago or so of this guy who was mountain biking and there was a bear ON the trail, and he biked right into the bear who promptly killed him. That one has been haunting me.
Got a news article? Interested in this
Think I’ve found it
https://www.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoors/2017/mar/08/mauled-mountain-biker-was-going-fast-grizzly-bear-attack/
>no spray, firearms or cell phones
>friend gets away but can only raise the alarm one hour later
Seems entirely avoidable
>your final moments you see your buddy just walking away not even trying anything
also had a hiker been standing around the corner he would have literally roadkilled him. Are all mountain bikers scum?
>keep out normies and kill mountain bikers
thanks snakes
thanks bears
thanks alligators
Bears, gators and snakes are all far less dangerous than ticks, mosquitos and your hubris. The only thing on that lost I would really worry about is brown bears and even those aren't that dangerous if you follow simple precautions like staying away from bears with cubs and food safety. I live in new england and I've got a couple of places scoped out where I'm hoping to see rattlesnakes and copperheads this summer, they're both endangered up here and I'd love to see them before ignorant Black folk wipe them out.
I remember that, or a thread like that. We were going to the Wikipedia article for bear deaths and picking out our favorites. iirc the guy came around a corner full speed and slammed right into the grizzly who promptly dispatched him. The bear was not killed because it was found that the mountain biker was at fault.
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2007/06/19/bear-drags-utah-boy-11/23935478007/
Frick mosquitos, too
You forgot
>coyotes
>wild pigs
>skin walkers
t. knower
>skin walkers
Ya aliens too
Lol what is a pig gonna do bro
>charge you
>gore you
>rape you
>eat you
The order is random.
>t. City slicker
Imagine 2 Arnold schwarzeneggers charging at you armed with sharp objects. Now triple the weight
>>t. City slicker
The irony. Pigs are almost never aggressive unless they're exhausted/cornered you larper.
So three Rosie o'Donnells? Terrifying
He meant boars. Boars are extremely aggressive regardless of how calm you approach them. They charge on their foes without mercy.
Incorrect
I’d kill a pack of coyotes with my bare hands.
In minecraft.
>coyotes
moron, coward, or bait?
You forgot
>manlet
>wears boots and long pants
Snakes are now a non-issue unless you're somewhere with gaboon vipers or bushmasters
>lives in a city surrounded by literal Black folk, yet scared of a black bear and copperhead
Lel
>tfw live in an area where the only venomous snakes are all rattlers
They'll let you know if you get too close, so I never have to worry about randomly stepping on some homosexual snake. Feels good.
>They'll let you know if you get too close,
This is false, most of the time they're slither about their day when you cross their path so they don't even have time to rattle. You can easily step on one if you aren't paying attention.
Snakes are really oblivious to their surroundings. Ever seen snake charmers? It's not that they charm the snake, it's that they know all the massive blind spots and ways of confusing a snake. And hell, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the snake knows you're there the whole time. But if it doesn't feel threatened, it won't rattle.
I remember a situation on a trail where there was a young snake. It was old enough to rattle though. And it was going down the trail. It was not trying to get into grass. When it felt my friend and I get close, it turned around and then headed towards us with intention to bite. Whatever side we moved to, it was tracking us and coming towards us. It never once rattled it's rattler. It was almost impossible to get around it since it was a mountainside trail.
My friend and I had to nearly jump over it by running against the mountainside for a split second. I knew there was a lady and her kid behind us. I told them to be careful with the rattler. That thing went for them and the dumb b***h lady got frozen. Had it been just the woman, I would have let what needed to happen. But a kid was there so I just pushed the snake off the trail with my hiking stick
>it turned around and then headed towards us with intention to bite
>It never once rattled it's rattler
That’s because it wasn’t intending on biting you. A snake isn’t going to waste precious venom on biting something it can’t eat, much less do something as suicidal as going out of its way to antagonise a predator 1000x its size
>antagonise a predator 1000x its size
Witnessed
So what did it want to do? Be friends? Otherwise why would it keep chasing regardless of the direction moved?
If I had to guess you’re either full of shit or misinterpreting its behaviour. A rattlesnake slowly crawling around without rattling or hissing is not intending on biting anyone. Even snakes which do bluff charge (which rattlesnakes are not one of) don’t do so with the intention to bite, they do so with the intention to scare you off. Like this eastern brown snake, which is a much more aggressive animal than a rattlesnake. Biting is a last resort
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>Okay, so what was I supposed to do? Just let an easily startled wild animal with deadly venom that can strike in fractions of a second get RIGHT next to me or a child?
Rattlesnakes are heavy bodied vipers, they’re slow moving and not particularly aggressive. Even if it attempted to chase you, you could literally walk away from one. It’s not a lion
>Sneks kill large animals and feed off the small rodents and birds who visit the carcas
Snakes are not that smart, they can’t plan ahead like that. A North American viper that’s not even that venomous like a copperhead or rattlesnake is not killing a large animal like a bison. I don’t know who told you that but it’s the biggest load of bullshit
At my friend's bison ranch they do it all the time. Sneks kill large animals and feed off the small rodents and birds who visit the carcas.
Alright lol. Let's say you're right. It was just following me for whatever reason, but NOT to bite me lol. Okay, so what was I supposed to do? Just let an easily startled wild animal with deadly venom that can strike in fractions of a second get RIGHT next to me or a child? It being a wild animal, even if it didn't intend to to bite at first, could change it's mind for any reason.
rattlesnakes dont chase people o ly south wester snake that might do that is a coachwhip and their non venoumouse so who cares
>no step on snek
easy
>heh heh, nothing personal kid
You'd be hard pressed to die from a copperhead bite, rattlers on the other hand are not to be trifled with
Its sad we don't have saber tooth tigers, cave bears, lions and dire wolfs around any more. Would keep more of the urbanites in their own habitat.
honestly the outdoors would be much better without all the random bullshit walking around
biodiversity is overrated
The outdoors is nothing without biodiversity, which aslo includes flora. Unless you just want to stare at rock formations or the same tree over and over again like an autist.
Holy frick. Rope yourself pussy ass humanoid. Death to the sons of Adam. The destroyers of worlds and the heralds of abomination. Long live Gaia and her sons and daughters.
Nearly every guy who grew up in an area that has alligators has done a Steve Irwin impersonation while fricking with a wild alligator.
My wife and I went on a tour of the Tobasco plant in Avery Island, LA this weekend. We toured the gardens, and there are plenty of alligators just hanging out, maybe 15ft from onlookers. I wouldn’t get that close to a bear (which have been spotted in the area) but alligators ain’t shit. Just don’t go swimming with them and only pet the friendly ones.
Move to Ireland then if you're so scared of everything. God, your ancestors must be so fricking embarrassed and ashamed to know that their bloodline ends with a limp-wristed homosexual.
I live in Australia, the snake capital of the words I also work an PrepHole job I literally walk around in the Australian bush/outback all day.
And never do I see snakes, they don't want anything to do with you they are literally not a threat unless you are extremely unlucky.
I have seen them crossing roads etc near where I am working but they just do their stuff in peace.
>picrel, the most common/dangerous snake in aus (majority of snake bites are recorded in cities fyi)
PrepHole is safe, although frick bears I couldn't deal with that shit, aus wildlife is safe af compared to most countries
Weird. I live in the American West. I literally only have great basin rattlesnakes but I manage to run into those frickers every summer. Never been bit though, rattlesnakes are chill. Always give me a good little shake before I'm in any danger
They definitely there don't get me wrong, but they want to see you as much as you want to see them. Always taught to carry a snake bite kit whilst working & and on hikes though, its second nature here.
Im close to 30 and have always worked PrepHole jobs and in my whole life I think I have seen 8 snakes. 2 extremely venomous ones within 24hours on the the coastline in Western Australia.
>Snake bite kit
You carry antivenin and a helicopter with you?
Don't forget a fridge for the antivenin
Saw what was either a tiger snake or highland copperhead yesterday on a trail run
From what I hear snakes here are fairly timid and will either wait for you to pass or run away. It's only if you startle them or get way too close that they might get pissed.
But we get taught a lot about watching out for snakes.
>From what I hear snakes here are fairly timid and will either wait for you to pass or run away. It's only if you startle them or get way too close that they might get pissed.
This is pretty much true of every snake that’s not a 20 ft python out looking for a meal
PNW here because frick snakes. Bears, cougars, skinwalkers…fine…doesn’t bother me. Snakes, and fricking lizard shit. No, fricking no
Congratulations, you have snakes. You've never seen them. But they've seen you.
>blocks your path
You're big, weird smelling and all of those creatures instinctively know you're dangerous. Just don't be an oblivious moron and you'll be left alone.
alligator are harmless you pussy
Here's my encounter yesterday. Literally just walk away. They don't go around chasing you down. Heck if you stand there just a few moments the snake will slither away.
Forgot picture
Yeah but what happens if you step on one like
because it blends in perfectly with leaves? Is it gonna bite me? Do I need to wear jeans everywhere?
>damn, wilderness is not the totally safe fantasy haven with wooden elves, glowing flora and dancing nymphs just like in the movies
>what do you mean I have to have balls and actually protect myself from wild life and potential threats that may come along the way
>But, but..., the walking trees...
went on a cheeky bushwalk this weekend with a friend and we got absolutely covered with leeches. evil fricking beasts. I got one on my ankle and although it popped right off, it bled profusely for almost an hour. little pieces of disgusting shit.
the bite site on my ankle
you forgot tigers, if you know you know
>t.FL anon