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  1. Wawa

    Photos Gila-Land

    Yeah, when I came out for supplies I googled frog catching and learned that you can catch em with a hook and string! As wary as they seem, I wouldn't have guessed. On the upside, I guess I learned more doing it the hard way!
  2. Wawa

    Photos Gila-Land

    I brought back about three pounds of meat, planning staying in camp the next day to dry it(perfect dry climate with few flies), and go back to the carcass with my sharper knife and get some better cuts.... But after eating most of what I brought back, I was done with it. The meat I started...
  3. Wawa

    Photos Gila-Land

    One more picture, coz I always get a kick out of it when I crawl out of the woods or get real extra train-fresh then find myself in front of a mirror... "So..... Do I wash... Or something?"
  4. Wawa

    Photos Gila-Land

    One last post... FOOD! My goal, if I can be said to have one, was to learn to better provide for myself in the woods. The Gila, even away from the river forks, is pretty lively and green compared to some of the places I spend my time(like death valley....). Still, it was really hard! Small...
  5. Wawa

    Photos Gila-Land

    The lovely hot spring campground behind the Gila Ranch in "town". Pretty much the only private hot spring I ever go to; the owners have kept it simple, peaceful, and cheap. First night back in the wilderness, on the middle fork this time. Didn't make it far back before a storm came, so I...
  6. Wawa

    Photos Gila-Land

    These are from back in the spring, when I spent about a month in the Gila Wilderness in Western New Mexico. I'm having a hard time pulling up a good story - all I did was walk forever and look for food. More interesting to live then talk about, but I do want to share these pictures, so...
  7. Wawa

    Public Cabins near Death Valley

    The Nelson Cabin is on a 4x4 road, at the foot of the Nelson Range in a yucca forest valley. It's a bit mousier then the Boxcar cabin, which gets more traffic and attention. It's got a nice collection of really old magazines, some emergency supplies, a woodstove and bedframe...
  8. Wawa

    Public Cabins near Death Valley

    These great cabins are volunteer maintained and free to all to use! By volunteer, I mean "Go there and mop out some mouseshit, take out the trash". "Boxcar Cabin" is on Saline Valley Rd, graded gravel. It's in great condition but needs a new shithole. It's got two rooms which were...
  9. Wawa

    What's the shitiest place in the US y'all have stayed?

    Sedona. Just the town itself is a dead soulless moneysucking hole selling itself to yuppies looking for quickserve spirituality. If you don't look like you are shopping enough you literally get run out of town.
  10. Wawa

    Share your wilderness camp pics, won't you?

    Yeah, if I had it with me now I'd take breakdown pics.... It turns into a flattish rectangle and a tube, weighs under 1.5 pounds. Company that makes that one is Titanium Goat. Expensive as fuck but definitely most backpackable stove. Not freezing is pretty cool.
  11. Wawa

    Share your wilderness camp pics, won't you?

    It's actually just a $6 piece of soldering insulation from Lowe's. Buying stove specific tents only leaves you with a small handful of bright colored expensive impractical things.
  12. Wawa

    Loneliness

    I remember all the time I've spent feeling trapped and frustrated by people. I'm not doing this to be bitter; I'm being a better judge of rather I really should go spend time with friends, or if I'm just lonely in the moment, but mostly better off alone. Likewise when I'm with people and being...
  13. Wawa

    Share your wilderness camp pics, won't you?

    Fun thread. Here's my gear on the Gila. With woodstove(also beginning of hand drawn camo sharpie scribbles); And horse;
  14. Wawa

    Photos Where my Heart Lives; Dakotas to Death Valley

    It's April 20th, and I'm sitting on the shoulder of dry mountain; the greywhite range forming one of the valley walls. Semi-oblong monoliths ring the slope below me like a necklace of dogteeth. Red cinder cones, black volcanic alluvium lean against the lower flanks of the mountain; they mingle...
  15. Wawa

    Photos Where my Heart Lives; Dakotas to Death Valley

    PART ONE It's April 11th, and I'm walking out of Big Pine. There is a sign in front of me. "Next Services, 126 miles". I take pictures of it and walk on. I don't have much water. I haven't given this much thought. Maybe there will be springs - maybe there will be snow. There will be some...
  16. Wawa

    Featured Mongolia Rainbow Horse Caravan

    Okay, sorry I'm always messing up my posts, but I did it again and waited too long so now I can't edit it, and all the photos are broken...if anyone with modpowz could delete my last post, and remove this explaination, would be appreciated. As of JULY 6TH: A week ago I had a fairly major...
  17. Wawa

    Photos Self branding pics

    The oldest 'recent' scars are over a year old and are distinct designs. It helps a lot to do them in stages and avoid intersecting lines healing at the same time. I also have skin that tends to scare easily and visibly.
  18. Wawa

    Featured Mongolia Rainbow Horse Caravan

    As of JULY 6TH: A week ago I had a fairly major falling out with the caravan group. Polvo and I got along fine on our first day of travel with the group. We can deal with eachother. My shoulder hurts a lot, but I can use it. I went to town recently, and I have a personal food stash ready to...
  19. Wawa

    Featured Mongolia Rainbow Horse Caravan

    It's been a while, but I mean to finish this story, and maybe clean it up for a blog post or something.... For most of the next part I'm going back through letters I wrote while in Mongolia and pulling details from em, hence maybe a change in tone.
  20. Wawa

    Photos Self branding pics

    More updates. Watchful rabbit and cornstalk added, more branches on the pine tree.
  21. Wawa

    Any tips for hitching the west coast?

    It's legal to walk on interstates in OR, but not in CA. If you do it anyway, chances are you'll get a ride before highway patrol comes by. It's enforced less on the I-5 then on the expressway sections of 101. Seen people get kicked off near Eureka/Arcata. Ain't got specific places to recommend...
  22. Wawa

    Making lighter gear darker?

    Uck, well the orange might be a bit hard to deal with, but in general I'd say just draw on it. Swirls, crosshatch, whatever - use two different colored paint markers and overlap a bunch of lines and shapes all over it. Enough black and brown crosshatching might tone down orange.... I did it...
  23. Wawa

    Difficulty sleeping outside

    Seriously dude get a sleeping pad. You can have as warm a bag as you will, but it won't do a thing compressed under you. Cold will come straight through from the ground. If you aren't in the cold yet, you will be eventually. Inflatable pads are for camping trips, when you rarely need to throw...
  24. Wawa

    Where to safely leave your pack if needed?

    I prefer to hide mine in tall grass, bushes, ect... But not in maintained parks. Overgrown traffic circles, ditches, woods on the edge of town. Good rule of thumb: if it's overgrown and trashed, but not a bumcamp, probably no one is going to be poking around a lot. If it's a party spot, it's...
  25. Wawa

    Where to safely leave your pack if needed?

    What the fucking shit I am so over spending an hour trying to fix and edit out doubleposts because everything I post is so broken what the fuck is the point I've been trying to DO THIS FOR AN HOUR AND IT WONT WORK
  26. Wawa

    Your First Time On The Road?

    Left six years ago all done up in spandex bullshit on a 'bike tour'..... Never went back, gradually lost the wierdshit clothing, kept the bike for three years then started riding trains...worked out great. I used to stress about how I'd get wherever, where I'd sleep, where the next dollar would...
  27. Wawa

    Photos Self branding pics

    Been working on this again! Cold weather, long sleeves all the time for healing burn scabs under, but fuck it. First pic is some fully healed scars(they've turned lighter then skin color) from the last set of pictures.... Second is about five days fresh, will be an eyeball-tree! While mostly...
  28. Wawa

    Video Berkeley Riot Porn

    This argument assumes that the most important thing is to capture public sympathy. I'm not sure if that is still relevant. Folks are getting pretty polarized - the stuff on TV isn't changing minds. Everyonr just wants facts to justify opinions they already have. Maybe having someone you know or...
  29. Wawa

    Video Berkeley Riot Porn

    He got attention alright. Sent from my SM-G906L using the Squat the Planet mobile app!
  30. Wawa

    Video Berkeley Riot Porn

    Pulled up a section of the transcript from Milo whateverthatfucks last appearence in Cal Poly. Here's what he got to say: "And it just gets better. The student population is 53% male! Let’s hear it for the sausage party. In fact, women were banned from Cal Poly from 1930 until 1956. For that...
  31. Wawa

    2016 Jamboree What you missed at the 2016 Jamboree

    Looks like a great time. Wanted bad to make it, but trim season n' shit. Hope the timing works out better next time around. Sent from my SM-G906L using the Squat the Planet mobile app!
  32. Wawa

    Free Public Transit in US

    It was a dollar last year, I seem to recall? Sent from my SM-G906L using the Squat the Planet mobile app!
  33. Wawa

    Photos Self branding pics

    The oldest in the pics are a year, but I have other scars from shit I did as a teenager that are still pretty vivid. Sent from my SM-G906L using the Squat the Planet mobile app!
  34. Wawa

    Photos Self branding pics

    Almost forgot! About a week in, I'll peel them. By then enough healing has happened so that it'll bleed, sometimes a lot. Feel like... well, peeling a scab :D I don't use irritants until after I've peeled it. Sent from my SM-G906L using the Squat the Planet mobile app!
  35. Wawa

    Photos Self branding pics

    Okay questions... not saying my way is the only or best, but I've burned myself a lot intentionally and unintentionally and observed carefully... First off, deep burns hurt less. When I'm burning myself, I use a 14g sized blunt end of an awl, red-orange hot and freehand it. If I hover the thing...
  36. Wawa

    Photos Self branding pics

    Been slowly working on what'll eventually be a big sleeve of branded patterns on my arm for about the last year... Pretty stoked about how its looking now. I've avoided tattoos this long because I have mixed feelings about having someone elses art on my body.... but my own drawing ability isnt...
  37. Wawa

    What's your favorite piece of gear?

    Got a new gadget! This thing is a 5200mAh powerbank and handwarmer... once it is heated up, its just about uncomfortably hot on bare skin. Supposedly gives off heat for 12hr off a full charge. Seems about right, I've been falling asleep with it on and it is still going in the morning. Thinking...
  38. Wawa

    2016 Jamboree Thank you had fun

    Hope everyone had a bomb time. Had a real good opportunity pop up and couldn't make it :( Heres to next year.... Sent from my SM-G906L using the Squat the Planet mobile app!
  39. Wawa

    Lone Female Hitchhikers

    Pretty much what others have been saying; go do what you want and dont worry too much. Out of probably hundreds of rides I've had two blowjob requests, three drunks, and one creep who seemed like a definate stalker type, and a lot of bad conversationalists... but no one who actually made me...
  40. Wawa

    Top nasty smells

    Just got over what was either giardia or a mean bacterial gut infection. Shit didn't even smell like shit. It was pretty unique. I'm rotting inside. Sent from my SM-G906L using the Squat the Planet mobile app!
  41. Wawa

    Weirdest thing you carry

    I have one of those "dont attact bears" signs they put on the picnic tables in yellowstone. Five years ago I pried it off because I thought it would be funny to put it somewhere with no bears... but I never got around to it and now it has been with me through four countries, been used mainly as...
  42. Wawa

    What's your favorite piece of gear?

    I was hoping this sort of thread already existed so I could revive it! Quite aside from all the super essential gear, here are the two luxuries I've been loving lately: This is a whopping 1.5 litre super insulated water bottle. I can fill it with hot water strolling past a gas station, then...
  43. Wawa

    Liberation

    Crazy me, I have my eye in a Brompton now. It'll fit in a grainer hole. Bike friday is too awkward, but good enough for hitching.... Glad you're having a blast. The thing about being more solitary is pretty relatable, but when you do meet compatible travelers with bikes, it can be super epic...
  44. Wawa

    Featured Mongolia Rainbow Horse Caravan

    For our long stay in the region, Bat-Ulgii was our supply and entertainment stop. Colorful, ramshackle, with mud-maze streets, full of sleepy cows, mean dogs, and motorbikes. Shops with snacks, snickers, cokes, rice, flour, potatoes behind a counter you wait your turn to point at. Khuushuur and...
  45. Wawa

    Featured Mongolia Rainbow Horse Caravan

    After one hellishly long day, a heat-stroke hospitalization, and a night mostly spent lost and separated from our gear, we settled into a nice patch of forest about 10km from the colorful little town of Bat-Ulgii. Buch and Tamir stuck around for one last night of drunken debauchery, then left us...
  46. Wawa

    Featured Mongolia Rainbow Horse Caravan

    We become a caravan.... With no packhorses. Mongolian feelings on the concept of time run something like "It'll happen when it needs to, but be ready now", so we prepared to leave in the morning, but actually left at 3pm. I rode the jeep with Buch, loaded with our gear and a freshly slaughtered...
  47. Wawa

    Featured Mongolia Rainbow Horse Caravan

    We spent ten days at Buch's. Three days in I got my horse and wrecked my shoulder - I wrote about that in this other thread: https://squattheplanet.com/threads/polvo-the-mongolian-horse.28395/#post-207149. Not quite seed camp.... The last seven days were the hardest of the trip for me. After...
  48. Wawa

    Featured Polvo the Mongolian Horse

    We actually bought all our horses. We got a good connection who arranged the sale at 350USD each... I guess it is fairly similar, though; we could only do so much shopping around. Guys from 50km away or further would show up, leading whatever horses they had to sell. It felt like they were...
  49. Wawa

    Featured Mongolia Rainbow Horse Caravan

    Our life in Buch-Land.... Dragging horses to water... Where the hell is the water again? Moving horses from this grass to that grass... Coaxing saddles onto horses. Sewing. Sewing.... SEWING. Here's the daily goat invasion. Cooking in the dark...