Meplat 1,036 Posted January 11, 2019 Report Share Posted January 11, 2019 It's Gore Tex so "kind of". I'm more concerned with it being windproof. Also, I'll mainly be car-camping, my packing days are long dead, so weight is not so much of an issue. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 988 Posted January 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2019 3 hours ago, Meplat said: It's Gore Tex so "kind of". I'm more concerned with it being windproof. Also, I'll mainly be car-camping, my packing days are long dead, so weight is not so much of an issue. It'll probably be just fine then. Is it a mummy bag? I can't lie, I have an issue with those. I need more feet room. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Meplat 1,036 Posted January 11, 2019 Report Share Posted January 11, 2019 19 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said: It'll probably be just fine then. Is it a mummy bag? I can't lie, I have an issue with those. I need more feet room. Not as much as my old one was. It's got a larger foot-box. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 988 Posted January 13, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2019 We got some snow today. Meplat 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Meplat 1,036 Posted January 13, 2019 Report Share Posted January 13, 2019 22 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said: We got some snow today. We had a trace of it here in Kentucky. Some visiting relatives in the upstairs apartment were freaking out. I said "It will be rainy and 40F by morning". (I was off a bit, but the snow did fuck right off). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LoooSeR 6,831 Posted January 24, 2019 Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 From last week. Spoiler Today: Spoiler Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Meplat 1,036 Posted January 24, 2019 Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 5 hours ago, LoooSeR said: From last week. Reveal hidden contents Today: Hide contents The first and sixth photo remind me of my childhood in Michigan. In fact, a lot of Russia looks like much of Michigan. (or something like that). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 988 Posted January 26, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2019 Meplat, Zyklon and Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LoooSeR 6,831 Posted February 1, 2019 Report Share Posted February 1, 2019 Few more photos of forest. Spoiler Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 988 Posted February 5, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2019 https://www.adventure-journal.com/2018/07/opinion-just-say-no-camping-guns/?fbclid=IwAR31VVFmhl4pfcwD0Alg5FqvsanRl83MpD4SjlLmrOwsRqCG4GXN_8Gfb_U I'm going to go ahead and file this under "things that never happened". Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Meplat 1,036 Posted February 5, 2019 Report Share Posted February 5, 2019 10 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said: https://www.adventure-journal.com/2018/07/opinion-just-say-no-camping-guns/?fbclid=IwAR31VVFmhl4pfcwD0Alg5FqvsanRl83MpD4SjlLmrOwsRqCG4GXN_8Gfb_U I'm going to go ahead and file this under "things that never happened". Sounds like a load of bullshit to me as well, lest this snowflake decided to camp at an organized shoot. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect 988 Posted March 20, 2019 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2019 https://www.outdoorresearch.com/blog/article/opinion-knives-are-overrated-for-hiking?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=FBC+|+March+|+Knives+are+overrated+for+hiking&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2DHRHfvCOrJj9GgpDT_ctdm9S_EGb8KeAkl4qohX-SEVAjJ37b5DTMGlQ OPINION: KNIVES ARE OVERRATED FOR HIKING Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Meplat 1,036 Posted March 20, 2019 Report Share Posted March 20, 2019 2 hours ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said: https://www.outdoorresearch.com/blog/article/opinion-knives-are-overrated-for-hiking?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=FBC+|+March+|+Knives+are+overrated+for+hiking&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2DHRHfvCOrJj9GgpDT_ctdm9S_EGb8KeAkl4qohX-SEVAjJ37b5DTMGlQ OPINION: KNIVES ARE OVERRATED FOR HIKING People actually use shit like that article to decide what they take camping? FFS. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LoooSeR 6,831 Posted April 21, 2019 Report Share Posted April 21, 2019 Not exactly camping, but we were away from city. Spoiler Collimatrix 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Meplat 1,036 Posted April 22, 2019 Report Share Posted April 22, 2019 On 4/21/2019 at 1:56 PM, LoooSeR said: Not exactly camping, but we were away from city. Hide contents Looks like Lake Michigan. Probably isin't. Russians I've met "visit" Michigan , and then leave. Poles seem to love it (and Czechs). I admit I miss parts of my birthland, but Arizona had far better ranges, and Kentucky has absurdly better fishing and hunting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LoooSeR 6,831 Posted May 12, 2019 Report Share Posted May 12, 2019 14 km of walking in St.Petersburg with my friend through 3 islands. When we were getting to the end (subway station) we discovered that today local footbal team was playing. Thank god that sea of humans was exiting subway station instead of getting in. Gazprom's scyscraper - Lakhta-center. Spoiler Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LoooSeR 6,831 Posted June 11, 2019 Report Share Posted June 11, 2019 Continue to walk around in our city, with friend. One of many emitters of Russian Propaganda. Spoiler Main source of Russian Propaganda Mind Control towers in St.Petersburg. Can't get up there without gravity gun, though. No idea what happened to this building. Either this is secret bunker entrance, or Subway station entrance tonnel to Viborgskaya, not sure on which one. What i'm sure about is that this tonnel walls were covered in condensate. Same for ceiling. This place is so empty that underground pass have only 1 pigeon inside of it. Well, 3 pigeons in total. Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect and Scolopax 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LoooSeR 6,831 Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 Walking today with friend around old familiar places accidently found abandoned "Palace of culture" called Nevskiy. Spoiler Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beer 182 Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 My appology for not proper camping but here's some photos from my hiking trips around Czechia (and a bit of Poland). Maybe an inspiration for someone. Czechia is probably the easiest country in the world for hiking. There is very dense, more than hundred years old, network of hiking paths which are well signed and also available on online maps. Since the country has pretty high population density you also can not hike too long without getting into some village or town and there are (nearly) no bears or wolfs to go after you. All in all no real advanture but a nice experience anyway. I do around 300 km of hiking per year depending on my free time and still have thousands left to do. All photos are from my phone, so the quality is corresponding. Here is just few of the photos. I don't want to flood this thread but if you are interested I can post a lot more or make a special thread. Sunrise on the Raná hill near Louny (some 60 km west of Prague) View from Sedlo mountain, north-western Bohemia near German border One of many ponds in southern Bohemia Potštejn castle, eastern Bohemia View from Srebrna Góra fortress towards the Czech border, Poland. What You can see is one of the forts of this absolutely massive fortress built by Frederick the Great after the war with Austria so that Laudon could never ever take Klodzko principality again. The fortress had around 220 guns and 4000 soldiers of the permanent crew and even Napolen didn't manage take it. Some say it's the biggest mountain fortress in Europe. GMerlon, LoooSeR and Scolopax 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beer 182 Posted November 22, 2019 Report Share Posted November 22, 2019 Since nobody complained I will add a few more photos. This time some mysterious places One of the underground halls of the unfinished German project Riese with the original wooden formwork. There are seven underground complexes known. They are located in today's Poland in the mountains on the border with Czechia near the city of Walbrzych. This area was part of Germany till 1950 when it was given to Poland. Nobody knows what was the purpose of the project Riese because all documents are destroyed. The only known thing is number of deceased prisoners from Auschwitz which were building it (around 5000) and the amount of concrete spent (actually twice higher than what is known today). One of the undeground complexes is located under the castle Ksiaz and accessible with a lift. It's like something from Return to Castle Wolfenstein Remains of Jan Žižka's fortres Kalich in the north-western Bohemia. This fortress was built in 1421 during Hussite wars as one of the very first purpose built artillery fortresses. It was abandoned in 16th century and nearly nothing is left of it. It's still a beautiful place. Kalich from distance (the hill on the right) Entrance to some of the auxiliary buildings of the unfinished German undeground factory Richard at the edge of Litoměřice town in north-western Bohemia. This factory was being built by prisoners from the nearby concentration camp Terezín. Remains of a vila which was used as the HQ of Litoměřice Gestapo just few hundred meters away. It was abandoned after the war and it looks like something from a horror movie today. Devastated castle Český Rudolec, south Bohemia. This castle is slowly being rebuilt by a private initiative (so far the tower and the roofs are rebuilt). This castle was devastated at the end of WW2 when it was used a hospital for a POW camp before their transport to Siberia. After that it was given to local collective farm and used for God knows what. A church left of destroyed monastery in the south Bohemian village Klášter (Klášter = Monastery). The monastery was used as a factory in 1950' before it was razed to the ground. The beautifully reconstructed church in a tiny mountain village Neratov in the eastern Bohemia (exactly on the Polish border). The church was a well known pilgrimage site before the WW2 but it was burned down when it was hit by Soviet artillery. Now there is a community of disabled people living in that village led by a priest who managed to realize the reconstruction of the church, building of a brewery etc. Scolopax and Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beer 182 Posted January 11 Report Share Posted January 11 Few photos from last weekend taken by my phone. It was all taken around the Orlík dam, which is the biggest in Czechia (by volume, the lake is rather narrow but 64 km long). Currently the water level is kept lowered by some ten meters or so. The castle has the same name Orlík. The road bridge called Žďákovský was finished in 1967 and in that time it had the longest arc of all the bridges of this type in the world. Now not anymore of course. The bridge became infamous in 90' when a gang of murders was throwing bodies of their victims sealed in barrels from the bridge. Anyway strange January... LoooSeR and N-L-M 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beer 182 Posted March 30 Report Share Posted March 30 My way of social distancing applied today (waking up at 4 a.m. was hard though). North-western Bohemia, near the motorway Prague - Dresden. I didn't meet a single person... LoooSeR, Sturgeon, heretic88 and 2 others 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beer 182 Posted April 5 Report Share Posted April 5 Social distancing vol.2. Same area, just on the other bank of the Labe (Elbe) river roughly 10 km to the east. Sturgeon and LoooSeR 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sturgeon 3,950 Posted April 6 Report Share Posted April 6 Gorgeous photos. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beer 182 Posted April 12 Report Share Posted April 12 Social distancing vol.3, this time Orlické mountains, north-east Bohemia on the Polish border, view towards Krkonoše mountains (barely visible white snowy peaks). Sometimes you find something you don't expect to be there - like this. The memorial is located directly at the border on the top of a mountain ridge and there is exactly nothing but forest now (the other names on the memorial are Franz-Joseph I. and Fryderyk Chopin). They say that there used to be a German tourist restaurant there but it was burned in 1945 (before 1950 the neigbouring state in this area was Germany). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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