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meselfs
Sep 26, 2015

The body may die, but the soul is always rotten
Steal little things frequently:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/books/the-stranger-in-the-woods-for-27-years-maines-north-pond-hermit.html


Go wildernessing with an old IBM laptop computer. When things get cold and wet, shave some magnesium off the case and make a fire.

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meselfs
Sep 26, 2015

The body may die, but the soul is always rotten

Rime posted:

The series really lead me to question whether modern agricultural diets have had long enough to alter humans such that switching back to hunter-gatherer mode is simply no longer possible for our metabolisms, at least in the relative my short timespans portrayed in series's such as Alone.

Refined carbs are a hell of a drug, basically.

I very much enjoyed their standalone experiment on eating Lilly root. That was great.

I don't think we're altered yet, but holy poo poo are we taught to be soft from the beginning.

meselfs
Sep 26, 2015

The body may die, but the soul is always rotten
Not bushcraft, but close to prepping: I wrote an html file which uses Openlayers together with about 20 GB (growing) of tiles downloaded by a Python script for totally offline map browsing. I got NAIP and USFS of the PNW so far, basically everything reachable by two tanks of Diesel. Even with an internet connection I just use this now, because it's extremely fast and directions just annoy me anyway. Good stuff!

meselfs
Sep 26, 2015

The body may die, but the soul is always rotten

bringer posted:

If you're Canadian there's a free app called Topo Maps Canada that lets you download whatever areas you're interested in. Even has trails on it.

Yeah, there are many apps like that, but I A) don't use a smartphone, really B) plan to eventually horde at least 100GB of imagery.

Caltopo is awesome! I love the new MapBuilder layer.

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