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I’ve been using both for years and eventually settled with a Leatherman Charge and a K-Bar. The K-bar has proven to be a faithful heavy duty knife that has never failed. Skinning, gutting and butchering animals. Batoning wood for fire. Shelter construction, precision carving can be done with...

Goretex is not breathable enough to prevent condensation. Especially after a few nights sleeping in the dirt. I’ve used gortex bivy’s for years and they almost always have some amount if condensation in them. It’s usually from my breath, but plain evaporation from your body will do it too. I...

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shovel Bottle jack, fuck those scissor jacks quart of engine oil, antifreeze, brakefluid, maybe gear and tranny oil too. Make sure your tool set has the socket sizes for your lugnuts if you dont have a tire iron. Most sets don’t A repair manual for your make and model. A notebook to keep...

not mine, but good on you for trying to get it too its owner! Most people would either do nothing or ransack it. Sucks to lose your gear, hope nothing terrible happened to the owner. Maybe check with local PD or the hospitals?

Oh and when It came time to replace it I was passing through CO, so I went down to their corporate office in cortez and had them approve the warranty replacement in person. They waited to send the replacement till I had got to the slabs. So I didnt have to bother with the hassle of cleaning and...

I’ve had two my entire travelling career. The first one , a kestrel 58 held up to hiking in every kind of environment, light mountaineering and thousands of miles of train hopping. With creative packing I could jam 2 weeks of food in that thing. After about 4 years, 3+lbs of leather patch work...

You can definetly find the AWD Astros for 5,000, You’ll have to look around though. The problem with off roading with vans though is weight and clearance. A small jeep or subaru type car can get through sugar sand and navigate inclines well because there a good 1000lbs lighter then a van. And...

whats your story really bugs me, do you want a mostly meaningless summary of the last few decades? or a fucking lecture about my life experiences and how thats shaped me psychologically? what’re you trying to accomplish here? “Got pitch?” on a bottle when I just met you 2 minutes ago, and no I...

Are you going to work on a fishing vessel, tender or cannery? For F/V’s, your going to be living in close quaters with 1-5 other people depending on the type of boat. Same thing with tenders. If with the canneries, your gonna be living in dormitories, sharing bathrooms with dozens of people...

this is a total bullshit thread BUT just pointing out shipping a 140lbs+ package overseas is almost certainly more expensive then a cheap plain ticket

thats cool, that last stretch from san bern to slabs has always been a bitch to hitch. Makes getting there alot easier. For the adventerous I suggest bringing a fee days of food and water purification of some sort. Then from north shore find and follow the canal road directly into the slabs...

I’ve been using the OR bivy(pictured above in coywolfs post and a military surplus poncho for years now. The OR bivies have passed my dirty traveler ass kicking challenge many times over. My current one, which I’ve had for two years now is only now just starting to need repairs on the inner seem...

Yes but its for a bed platform 57” wide, so we’d end up with multiple pieces constantly getting shuffled out of place.

So I’ve been looking for an inexpensive bed sized piece of foam to put on the bed in my van. So far every place I have looked wants hundreds of dollars for a dinky 2” thick piece of polyfoam in the size we need. Which is roughly queen sized, though ultimately in two pieces. Theres craigslist...

Hammock and tarp is definetly the way to go. Keeps you off the wet ground and away from snakes. I would concider bringing a light sleeing bag or blanket. I didnt bring one, wouldnt need it I thought. Untill I hit the mountains in guatemala, literally had to go into survival mode to keep warm...

this is an overwhelming ammount of useful information

Do Not open shipping containers on trains. Ever. Unless your life depends on it. The one thing the RR’s really hate is getting their shipments fucked with. This is a top notch way to blow entire lines up, screwing over every rider after you potentially for weeks. Not to mention the prison...

Oh man way to inadvertantly rat the guy out lol, hope they just leave him be

If your in -50 degree temps theres probably snow and ice everwhere. The best(and sometimes only) thing you can do is build a snowcave. Mountaineers do it regularly, snow is suprising well insulative. Internal temps can be anywhere from 32ish- 50ish. Google turns up plenty of good resources on...

What are these insulated/lined with? Because canvas is not going to keep the wet out..

oh man the nostalgia, I first saw the aurora in lofoten too. Great corner of the world

there is no fucking way that caravan is walking from ciudad hidalgo to the U.S border in one week. It’s ~3000 miles depending on the route they take, they wont be here for months. Most if not all of them will immediatly apply for asylum once they enter. Which they will be processed for, though...

Do you have cattails in the area? You can use the seeds as a down substitute. Get two long sleeve shirts for example, and sew the bottoms and cuffs together. Stuff it with as much fluff as you want/it will take and sew the collars together. You can do the same with pants, probably hats or...

i meant coos in northern europe being better, Germany, denmark, norway, sweden, netherlands ect... Other parts are different, I remember the cops in italy being total assholes for example

Go to the dentist now. It may get better on its own. It may not. My friend had a similar issue a couple years back. The dentist said if she waited another week it would of been life threatening. She needed reconsturctive surgary to replace bone because the infection had gotten into her skull...

goggles are also a good thing to have if you can get them. Sand storms are a thing out there.

Also, has anyone else noticed that the cops, atleast in west and northern, are alot better then over here?

I echo alot of what people have said so far. One thing that stood out too me was the subculture elements are alot stronger and more robust in europe. Alot more slab-esque places, bastions for the misfits weirdo’s or altminders. And they fight alot harder for their right to exist. Here if a squat...

@BalancingBear This is true unfortunerly... there is almost no wilderness left in europe. There is some in the east, and some parts of the alps, if you ignore the huts everywhere. We were very lucky in the U.S. that western civilization started to rediscover a respect for wild nature just as we...

Yeah, it would be nice if the CA.gov penal code section didnt suck balls. Basically no length limit outside of public or federal buildings. No concealed carry. No switch blades longer than 2 inches. No double edged knifes like daggers or bayonets. No disguised knives like belt knives or cane...

Reviving a dead thread here but maybe someone will find it useful. For canada you absolutley have to have your shit in order. Their generally cunts on the border. Theres a 0% chance of crossing legally without a passport. If you have a passport, get ready for more bullshit. The border cops...

take this and get some cutting implement and make it into something like this It’s a kitchen utensile holder from Ikea. Costs maybe 6$? Stick some peices of metal through the holes at the top to hold your pot and your done.

So I’ve travelled both with and without a stove for extended periods, my take is; if you to cook shit, bring a small lightweight wood stove. It’s not nescesary, but its far, far more effecient. To use, simply collect a bundle of twigs and sticks, which you can find literally anywhere except...

Also a useful adendum to the above post (which is very imformative) When calling 9/11 do not mention drug overdose as a possible cause. Unfortunetly the drug war has instilled a very nasty prejudice against drug users. When I was doing harm reduction I LITERALLY SAW this difference sometimes...

I just want to say that your understanding of how nalaxone is inaccurate. Nalaxone works by knocking the synthetic opiates off your opiate receptors and preventing them from rebinding for ~90 minutes. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Opiates will stay in your body for longer the 90 minutes. It’s possible to...

man could someone take notes of this and post them? I probably wont be in the slabs till december but this interests me.

For extreme cold: Use plant for insulation. Dead leaves, piles of accumulated pine needles, cattail seeds, moss, cut live plants. Just about anything but wet dirt will do. Make a large pile and burrow into them, or stuff them in your bivy sack or sleeping bag. Make an a frame shelter with sticks...

I was very impressed by inner mesquite bark. Last year I was stripping it from trees that got killed in camp burn outs over the summer. A note on agaves and yuccas: They dont occur naturally on the floor of the valley anymore, but there are some big blue agaves in brawley you can go grab. Its...