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Maverick
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Cool backpacking and Survival Techniques?
#6509837 - 01/29/07 08:03 PM (17 years, 2 days ago) |
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Well 3 more months until my excursion into the westcoast. I'm gonna probably be broke on the trip, so if there are any survival suggestions, trapping foods and such, please share!
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5150
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Re: Cool backpacking and Survival Techniques? [Re: Maverick]
#6510457 - 01/29/07 10:35 PM (17 years, 2 days ago) |
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-------------------- "the way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death" Miyamoto Musashi
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Brewmaster
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Re: Cool backpacking and Survival Techniques? [Re: 5150]
#6515732 - 01/31/07 10:15 AM (17 years, 1 day ago) |
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Slingshots and blowguns make nice, light weight implements of death if you're planning on having to hunt for food. Great for bagging yourself a cute little squirrel or bunny. I also have a nice collapsible fishing rod that breaks down to the size of a tennis ball and weighs something like 8 oz. I once lived off of fish, blackberries and dandelion greens for a week in Wyoming thanks to that rod and an abundant supply of earth worms. Great fucking investment.
-------------------- On storing pedro tea... Brewmaster: Well, the mescaline will still be in there, but I'd be afraid of it conjealing and trying to escape after it grew in size from eating all the other shit in my fridge, and possibly my dogs if it got out. Pithlit: sentient drugs, now that is an idea ... OneMoreRobot: Idea? It's a fuckin' reality. You know Salvia? Nigga stole my TV.
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Re: Cool backpacking and Survival Techniques? [Re: Brewmaster]
#6561090 - 02/12/07 11:27 PM (16 years, 11 months ago) |
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Brewmaster. Whats the name of that pole, and do you have a link where i could get one?
-------------------- "To do right is to know what you want. Now when you are dissatisfied with yourself it's because you are after something you don't really want. What objects are you proposing to yourself? Are they the objects you really value? If they are not, you are cheating yourself. I don't meant that if you chose to pursue the objects you most value, you will attain them; of course not. Your experience will tell you that. But success in getting after much labor what you really don't care for is the bitterest and most ridiculous failure." -George Santayana
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Maverick
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Re: Cool backpacking and Survival Techniques? [Re: Nephlyte]
#6582462 - 02/18/07 06:06 PM (16 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeah, that'd be good. I'm no good at fishing though, I need practice.
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Brewmaster
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Re: Cool backpacking and Survival Techniques? [Re: Maverick]
#6589240 - 02/20/07 12:09 PM (16 years, 11 months ago) |
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Huh? wuh?... people still use this forum?
Nephlyte, I honestly can't remember the name of the place where I got that rod; it was one of the times I came off the AT and sauntered into town for supplies. The name of the thing is "The Slingshot", there was actually a video playing on a little t.v. in the store on how to use it; the idea is to grab the hook/bait, pull back using the very flexible rod and let go; sort of firing it like a slingshot. It's great for casting side-arm underneath branches and piers and whatnot. It was one of things that I couldn't pass up.
DRT: I'm no fisherman either. Not at all.
I've got me another cool little gizmo and that's a reel and line that I can hook up to my hunting bow. The line's attatched to an arrow so that you can stand on a rock or something and shoot down at fish. Not something you'd be carrying around while backpacking but fun none-the-less. Someone told me that this counts as spear fishing which is illegal in some states including here in VA. I don't know the validity of that statement but I'd like to find out.
-------------------- On storing pedro tea... Brewmaster: Well, the mescaline will still be in there, but I'd be afraid of it conjealing and trying to escape after it grew in size from eating all the other shit in my fridge, and possibly my dogs if it got out. Pithlit: sentient drugs, now that is an idea ... OneMoreRobot: Idea? It's a fuckin' reality. You know Salvia? Nigga stole my TV.
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Re: Cool backpacking and Survival Techniques? [Re: Maverick]
#6728421 - 03/30/07 02:27 PM (16 years, 9 months ago) |
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Re: Cool backpacking and Survival Techniques? [Re: Maverick]
#6933503 - 05/18/07 07:06 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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if you run out of water remember you can squeeze the juice from elephant turds
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