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Hurrr, I need a fancy walking stick from REI! No way I could ever just use a stick I found on the ground! Shut up and take my money!  What a bunch of fucktards. If you use a store bought walking stick then your literally trash.
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My dad (PBUH) had a dope rear end walking stick from Arizona that he had laminated and wrapped.
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Dec 20, 2015 14:13
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He found it btw
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Dec 20, 2015 14:13
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People who use store bought hiking mat's make me sick. There is all this perfectly natural, healthy ground for you to sleep on but you're such a consumer whore you need to carry your own special little patch around. Yeah sure, your $300 dollar chinese sweatshop-made petrochemical balloon will make you feel soooo much better than nature's own creation, offering itself up to fulfil your sleeping needs.
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Dec 20, 2015 14:16
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Moon Atari posted:People who use store bought hiking mat's make me sick. There is all this perfectly natural, healthy ground for you to sleep on but you're such a consumer whore you need to carry your own special little patch around. Yeah sure, your $300 dollar chinese sweatshop-made petrochemical balloon will make you feel soooo much better than nature's own creation, offering itself up to fulfil your sleeping needs. I unironically prefer to camp with a sleeping bag and a tarp. Sometimes if there's good trees nearby I'll get fancy and use a rope to hang the tarp up (i have a tiny one to sleep on instead of getting wet).
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Dec 20, 2015 17:10
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You should probably just use your feet for walking.
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Dec 21, 2015 01:40
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i use a swordcane op
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Dec 21, 2015 01:48
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Store bought clothing is pathetic. Just kill a deer and skin it for a loincloth you lazy fucker
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Dec 21, 2015 05:42
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After your hike you can place the stick in view for someone else to use.
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Dec 21, 2015 08:51
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I have a cheap set I switch out the baskets on and use as ski poles. Sometimes they are nice to guy out my tarp. I've used it to help saw tree limbs before and estimate slope angles. I can also tie my knife to the end and shank a fool. I made a nice alder walking stick after stealing it from a beaver. Has the tooth marks on the top and I gave it a copper tip.
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Dec 22, 2015 17:40
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Free Market Mambo posted:I have a cheap set I switch out the baskets on and use as ski poles. Sometimes they are nice to guy out my tarp. I've used it to help saw tree limbs before and estimate slope angles. I can also tie my knife to the end and shank a fool.
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Dec 22, 2015 17:52
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I use mine for backcountry split boarding. They are pretty great.
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Dec 22, 2015 17:52
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Wormskull posted:Wow! Awesome choice of wood. [looks up from glossy photograph of an Atari 2600] Oh my God you cannot be serious? Alder? You might as well have gone to Wal Mart and purchased a store bought walking stick made in Taiwan out of styrofoam and rubberized plastic you loving savage. And copper on the tip. Please. Teh Lulz! Nice epic may may name and avatar and custom title text. This has got to be some GBS 2.0 trolling poo poo. gently caress off. I just want to talk about the outdoors, forum friend.
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Dec 22, 2015 17:58
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Wormskull posted:Wow! Awesome choice of wood. [looks up from glossy photograph of an Atari 2600] Oh my God you cannot be serious? Alder? You might as well have gone to Wal Mart and purchased a store bought walking stick made in Taiwan out of styrofoam and rubberized plastic you loving savage. And copper on the tip. Please. Teh Lulz! Nice epic may may name and avatar and custom title text. This has got to be some GBS 2.0 trolling poo poo. gently caress off.
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Dec 22, 2015 23:47
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Picnic Princess posted:Store bought clothing is pathetic. Just kill a deer and skin it for a loincloth you lazy fucker I want to do this actually.
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Dec 22, 2015 23:48
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I like products by brands most trusted for adventurers, walkers.
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Dec 23, 2015 01:25
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bought one to help with descents due to lovely knee, some guy stepped on it, broke it, it is now G A R B A G E (just like me)
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Dec 23, 2015 20:46
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We are all garbage, embrace your place on the heap.
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Dec 23, 2015 21:21
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Sometimes a natural stick gives me finger blisters :/
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Dec 24, 2015 05:52
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Squalid posted:Sometimes a natural stick gives me finger blisters :/ That's what gloves are for.
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Dec 24, 2015 06:02
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I have an aluminum telescoping pole my dad got me when I was 12. It's lasted over a decade and is way lighter than any stick I've found on the ground.
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Dec 24, 2015 08:09
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i have some carbon fiber folding tentpole style trekking poles. i got them for 20 dollars at an rei garage sale they're pretty sweet.
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Dec 26, 2015 05:30
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Hey there's a pretty good thread for posting about gear purchases. You should check it out! http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3521471 Epitope fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Dec 26, 2015 |
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Dec 26, 2015 05:47
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"What is a knife?" -A retarded guy about to buy some Nordic Walking STicks for 60 dollars
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Dec 26, 2015 17:53
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Counterpoint. It's awesome BTW.
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Dec 29, 2015 09:12
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the Mods, they knew!
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The perfect tool for mugging dopey hikers.
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Dec 29, 2015 09:20
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What if there's no trees
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Jan 2, 2016 21:58
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Retarded_Clown_ posted:Hurrr, I need a fancy walking stick from REI! No way I could ever just use a stick I found on the ground! Shut up and take my money! Agreed, and people who sell walking sticks in stores are G E N I U S if you ask me.
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Jan 3, 2016 00:03
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get hosed op
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Jan 7, 2016 10:11
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I love finding the perfect walking stick along a trail. Last time I hiked around yellowstone, I found a fantastic one with a naturally built-in groove for my hand. I widdled that fucker for 2 weeks around the fire. Finest piece of art I've ever created IMO
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Jan 7, 2016 10:30
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Leave no trace. Don't take sticks 
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Jan 20, 2016 20:56
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This is my stick, and I've had it for about five years! I used to work at an outdoor bbq pit and someone just left it in the ash pit. I started using it to turn the burning logs and act like a wizard. They closed the bbq but I kept the stick, and I still take it on short hikes around my home. Once a girlfriend of mine needed help "rescuing" an intoxicated friend from a park after dark. The park in question was a little dangerous after so I agreed to go with her, but not without my trusty stick. We searched the park and couldn't find her friend, but on the way out cops showed up. Not wanting to get tazed, I dropped the stick before we walked up to them. After admonishing us for being in the park after hours, they let us go and I asked if I could go back for my stick. The cops gave me the okay so I went back and got it. As we walked back out onto the streets one of the cops yelled after us : "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!"
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Jan 29, 2016 23:00
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When I was a kid I lived at a Rangers station during the summers and my sister and I would go out into the woods and find sweet rear end staffs and pretend we were explorers or staff fighters or some thing. We also built forts with long staffs of wood and carpted them with moss which was probably bad for, you know, moss, but whatever.
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buddhanc posted:I love finding the perfect walking stick along a trail. Last time I hiked around yellowstone, I found a fantastic one with a naturally built-in groove for my hand. I widdled that fucker for 2 weeks around the fire. Finest piece of art I've ever created IMO Christ this is the second time I've seen goons misspell "whittled" this way. "Widdled" is what your aunt says when her dog takes a piss.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Christ this is the second time I've seen goons misspell "whittled" this way. Okay. I "whittled" it then. Still a fine rear end stick
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Since this is the hiking sub-forum and the thread about walking sticks, I thought we were gonna talk about how to make them. I just helped clear some trees out back of my family's home, and cut some nice straight pieces that I thought would be perfect for walking sticks. I know nothing about whittling or carving but I plan on at least taking off the bark and sanding/staining/varnishing the suckers. Any special knowledge beyond what I can find with a google search/wiki how? I think they're a bit thicker than what is usually recommended (they're all around 2-3 inches in diameter) but I figured this was all the better for hitting things with which is really a very likely occurrence as I like whiskey. I also have a few old pieces of interesting stones or prisms that would be cool to affix to the top (so I can be Gandalf obviously), what have you found is the best way to be that particular type of dork?
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BRJohnson posted:what have you found is the best way to be that particular type of dork? Whittle the ball in a cage at the top too. Then carve the middle into a snake twisting around it. Then carve a butt at the bottom, haha
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If you treat it, try a tung oil/white spirits blend. Weather resistant and ages nicely. A bit of beeswax is really nice over top. If you want to mount something in the top, an easy way would be to place a threaded insert into the top, and mount whatever you want via that.
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Levitate posted:When I was a kid I lived at a Rangers station during the summers and my sister and I would go out into the woods and find sweet rear end staffs and pretend we were explorers or staff fighters or some thing. We also built forts with long staffs of wood and carpted them with moss which was probably bad for, you know, moss, but whatever. That's awesome i used to do that when i was a kid too   we didn't use moss though, but we did dig trench systems and build earth embankments
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Larry Parrish posted:That's what gloves are for. lol what are you? a baby with baby hands?
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