>>2792589
got lost in the woods for a couple hours once. you feel the fear, start to panic a little. I'm a retard and thought I could remember the route in my head. wasn't even that far out kek. didn't bring anything to help navigate. now I do.

>>2792665
I got lost in the woods a couple of years ago. Nearly died from dehydration. I really had accepted I was going die, but luckily I found a dirt road with a house on it, and the owner helped me. I never go in the woods without a gps anymore.

>backpacking
>2 days deep
>going up a hill
>fallen log across steep slopes
>put hands on top to climb over
>bring face up level with log
>theres a rattlesnake not two feet from my face

They're polite for snakes what with the warning and all but that one was damn close

>>2792589
eating beef stew about a day drive + a day hike away from the nearest town
beef chunk gets stuck in my throat
begin choking
have to heimlich myself
front fall onto the log i was sitting on
throw up the beef

i also hurt myself pretty bad but i could breath again so the rest didnt matter.
never made beef stew again.

>>2792589
I got a flu-like sickness while backpack hunting and could barely walk the next morning. I stumbled into an agave and one of the tip spines went pretty far into my arm. Could've turned out worse. I only had to walk about 5 miles back to my truck.

Hunting on atv, following someone up a steep rocky path. Hit a rock and went over backwards, atv lands on me, other guy doesn't hear me yell. Took me 10 minutes to work my way out, have twisted ankle and have to get a branch to flip atv back over. Guy came back a few minutes later and asked what took me so long. Since then I hike instead of ride. He had a 650 with 4wd, I was on a borrowed 300cc without 4wd and didn't know the area.

>>2792589
hypothermia on a camping trip when i was young . a buddy had to save my ass apparently sleeping in a t shirt and jeans in 15 degree Fahrenheit weather is a bad idea

>>2792589
there was this one time that i rode my bike to a trail to go on a walk. i had food poisoning and didn't realize. on the way to the trail i pulled over to vomit a bunch. i arrived at the trail and immediately shit my pants. i cleaned it up with paper towels and started walking. when i arrived at the toilets i took a big diarrhea shit. i was feeling much better, so i started walking back to the trail head. when i got there i got back on my bike and rode about 50 meters before my legs stopped responding completely. it wasn't muscle fatigue - my nerves stopped working. i had completely run out of electrolytes. i nearly fell down trying to get off my bike. i could've rested and eaten the food i had in my pockets (sardines) - but instead i called someone to pick me up

>>2792724
and then there was this other time that i walked 30km to sleep in a cabin the day before a group walk. i accidentally hit myself right below the knee with an entrenching shovel trying to cut up wood for a fire and fractured the bone. i also had bloody blisters from BMJA combat boots that i hadn't worn in a year since i didn't have the callouses i used to. the next day i made it 11km into the 36km walk and then turned around and went back because i was crippled and didn't want to slow the group down. that was more of a jackass moment than an imminent death moment.

>>2792589
>flipped a whitewater kayak
>caught in hole
>couldnt roll back up
>tried to eject and swim couldn’t get skirt to release
>panic
>finally release
>live
Not my favorite moment kaykaing

>>2792680
that wouldve been a hell of a way to go

>>2792589
I accidentally stepped off the bow of a gillnetter while catching a tie up line. I caught myself with a forearm, looked at my captain in slowmo while he was jogging the boat, and pressed myself up somehow. The tender would have crushed me or the 8knot current woulda taken me under quick

I've had times when I've caught myself from tripping, but the scariest was when I got stuck in mud while in a stream. I wasn't wearing waders, and I could've swam out. Regardless, I almost always carry a ski pole wading staff. I got stuck a year later while trying to get a fly I lost the day before, and I was in even deeper mud on the bank in a similar spot I got stuck in previously. Just before this, I had diarrhea in a wooded thicket next to the river. I got bit bad by mosquitos and flies in the few seconds I had my pants down. This shitting experience and one other recent one have given me the confidence to shit outside and to go /out/ when questioning my health.

The first time I went to a local national grassland I thought I could just go 9 entire miles of one of the trails when I was still inexperienced with doing 2. I ended up getting too far into it to make going back the way I came worth it so I ended up going through 2 liters of water in my canteens, wearing out my knees, and the sun going down since I started in the late afternoon. Not a single other person was on the trail the entire time and it was incredibly quiet so I knew I was on my own. I almost fainted once I reached my tent again at night and chugging a few more ounces from another bottle. Definitely dehydrated myself and I’ve learned not to overestimate myself because of it.

>>2792665
>>2792669
Woods really have a way of fucking you up, I'm not surprised we got so many creepy folk stories about shit happening/disappearing in the woods.
One time when looking for a place to solo camp, I was resting and left all my baggage near some rock. There was a good vista some 50 meters ahead in a straight line so I decide to check it out without my stuff. On the way back there were lots of densely placed small trees so I sort of had to zigzag around them and I end up missing my stuff by some 10 meters and got lost. Spent 1 hour walking in circles trying to remember all the rocks and trees until eventually finding my shit again. If I took an hour more it would have gotten dark too. (This was at the beginning of my solo camp attempts, hence the beginner mistakes. The panic really is something else.)

>>2792737
it was the worst and best experience of my life.
on one hand, knowing, and truly believing that you are 1 minute MAX away from death is a pretty insane feeling
and just as insane is having your life saved. taking that first breath, that first sip of water, saying my first word.
no one remembers their first breath, or water they drank or their first word.
but in that moment, isolated, alone, way the fuck out there i experienced all those things.
so i guess the silver lining is that from the brink of dead came some of the most unique experiences a person can have.

these days when i go out i never bring or cook anything that could get stuck in my throat.
the less chewable things the better.
also rice is a no go, you can choke on rice pretty easy.

>>2792589
perfect thread something happened to me yesterday
>bé me with my waifu
>bé a frog living in Taiwan for 2 years
>watch outdoor boys cook on YT
>french waifu and I want to do the same and cook /out/
>buy maybe 300USD of gear (2 bags, tent, lamps gas etc etc) and tons of food for 2 days /out/
>The bag is literally 30Kg[66lb] for me and 20Kg[40lb] for waifu. (we are both 65Kg[145lb] and 45Kg[100lbs])
>Find a local hot spring lost in the rainforest on Google maps
> lessgo.png
> Find an old guy in flip flops with big dick energy at the very entrance of the trail
> The guy insists that the entrance is not there and points to another faded path.
>okletstrusthim.jpg
>1h of walk, very very difficult trail, averaging 60deg, have to use the rope a lot of go down
>See one couple that is going back to the parking lot, telling us they think the trail is way too hard
>sunkencost.exe is loading
>decide to still go down because we're already that far in
>take a huge shit in the forest
>1h later we lose the trail path
>nononowaitwaitwait.gif
>decide to go down to the river and try to see if we can reach the original hot springs from there
>walk 3H more in the rainforest
>the river bed is literally a 90deg wall, impossible to walk down there.
>Down the path we found 0 (zero) places to plant our tent, it was really steep all the way
>we can't sleep, we have to go back to the parking
>it's now 4 in the afternoon, the sun is falling soon
>no data
>that's it, we are lost in the rainforest nobody knows it and nobody will find us
>Starts to panic
>Eat so energy bar
>energy levels 3000
>attempt to reach the car before the dark
>climb climb climb, it's very hard, see picrel
>it's dark now
>smells like shit, strange
>lightbulb.gif
>mfw we found the shit I left previously, we are saved, we found the trail
Never watching outdoor boys ever again anons, I really thought that was it for real this time. We didn't even cook in the forest after all...

>>2792904
I fucked up the picrel I wanted to put this on

>>2792589
Fell about thirty feet when I was new to winter mountaineering. A tree broke my fall.

I triggered a cornace fall and saved my self with my pole in the ground behind me. It would not have killed me but id have been chewed up good by the chunks of cornace.

>>2792724
smart to bring some pocket deenz.

>>2792589
I got soaked in freezing rain on the first night of a winter backpacking trip and couldn't get a fire going because it was pouring. I brought my dad's old sleeping bag and didn't test it before the trip and had no idea what it was rated for. I spent a cold, wet, miserable, sleepless night shivering uncontrollably in below freezing temperatures in a sleeping bag that would be great for a summer trip. I thought I was in serious trouble.

Nothing too bad

Have had a couple close calls climbing across dead trees on the steep areas of the trails where you can't go just go around them, especially in the rain where the barkless ones become like ice and the old ones where the branch nubs break off if you put any weight on them.

Slipped and fell on my ass right past the "x people have died falling from this waterfall" sign lol

One bad water crossing when it rained overnight and it was the only route back to the car. Went from knee high on the way in to waist high and moving a lot faster, dunno if it would have been lethal but it sucked enough even not falling with how cold it was out.

I was a few hours away from an EF3 tornado 160mph winds). Where I was camped was directly in its path; it destroyed 2,500 acres of forest.

>December 2019
>three day weekend, took Monday off because it was my birthday
>casual backpacking trip in central Louisiana (high temps in the 70’s because Louisiana weather lol)
>Wild Azalea Trail, near the spur to Kinkaid campground
>cold front to move through on Monday
>headed out a few hours early Monday morning, as the weather was already getting shitty when I woke up

I’m not sure what time it hit. All of the sources just say “afternoon”. I was at my car before lunch.

I didn’t know until a few weeks later, when I planned to go back but heard the trail was closed due to a tornado. It was 400 yards wide, was on the ground for 50 minutes, and had a 62 mile long path.

>>2792728
are you me
Did the same thing but in a C2 race boat in a grade 3/4 rapid in Finland in a race. After 60 miles (halfway on the first day). I had no business being there in any way, even if I could swim well which I couldn't.
Spraydeck really didn't want to come off, and I vividly remember staring at the outside world through about three feet of water and then that just carrying on and on. Still don't know how I got out, must have gone full retard under death stress.
I did the same thing a year later on the Liffey descent involving a bridge pier (couldn't see through that shit though) and then fucked canoeing off permenantly lol

>>2793069
>waist high
yeah plenty have not come back from that, don't do that without a rope/arm chain kids.

>>2793123
the scariest part was the power of the water holding the kayak in place upside down. There was nothing I could do except eject and when I couldnt do that...yikes.

Also had another less scary but potentially deadly episode
>going canoeing in boundary waters with brother
>choosing campsite for the first night before put in
>We start setting up in one site
>change mind and move over one
>later that evening big storm blows thru knocking over several trees exactly across where we would have put the tent in the first site
>raise a toast to fate

probably the time i hit a car head on riding oncoming. broke my back, my neck, my hit, and a rib.

>>2792676
you know, you're right, rattlesnakes are polite

>on trail
>bush jannies put up big gate over trail
>go off trail to go around gate
>walking over fallen tree, place foot on long grass
>grass gives way entirely
>it's a wombat hole entirely grown over
>its prime snake season
>pull foot out, peek in the hole
>brown snake city and they are waking up
I wear gaiters now and only step on visually confirmed soil.

>>2792589
Went on an overnight hike by myself in Appalachistan when I was 17. It was getting dark and while I was taking a break some guy pounced on me pinned me down and tried raping me. Luckily I was twice his height and weighed more I managed to throw him off, beat him and started kicking him in the ribs for several minutes and then took everything he had on him. I found on him some big ass knife condoms and zip ties

>>2793339
I miss that knife :(

>>2793342
My cousin stole the rape knife when he came over to my house last year

>>2793339
>>2793348
only in ohio

>>2792904
>>2792905
/out/ ladies and gentleman

>>2793354
I am Chechen living in Maine but ok

>>2792589
Falling out of a raft while shooting rapids without a life jacket. Got sucked under and my thigh slammed against a boulder, giving me a charlie horse. I had to swim to the side and crawl out of the river.

>>2792665
happened to me too.

>walked from campsite to the beach with only a towel and bottle of whiskey
>sun was going down and decide it's time to head back
>decide to take a "short cut" through the woods
>walk for about 1 hour in the woods in the direction i thought was right
>getting dark to where i can almost see nothing
>panic and think okay fuck i gotta get back to the beach and take the right way
>walk 1 hour to where i thought i came from
>pitch black at this point and i'm just aimlessly walking in the woods trying to find the beach
>take my shoes off for some reason cuz i was barefoot underneath and i was getting blisters
>now walking barefoot over twigs and rocks
>hear the water on the shore
>just walking in that direction based on sound
>considering drinking the water cuz im so fucking thirsty
>walked up and down the beach about 5 times just to find what path i should take
>took the wrong path and ended up at a road
>probably around 2am at this point
>cop driving down the road
>took my shirt off and waved it around like a maniac running barefoot at this cop
>cop turns around and asks me wtf i was doing
>explain situation and she says "you got about a 2 hour walk ahead of you"
>ask her if she can give me a ride to where i was staying at
>ends up giving me a ride back

lucked out big time and learned my lesson

>>2793386
>take my shoes off
you almost ended up missing 411

>>2793755
>take shoes of because you're compelled to
>drink stagnant water
>transported to fae realm
>raped for eternity
Many such cases. Anon is a very lucky man.

>>2792589
I have never been anywhere close desu. The only time somethings gone wrong for me outdoors was one time I was on an icy trail and my car slipped off of the trail into a ditch, but I was within pretty easy hiking distance of civilization. probably hasn't happen because I've never done anything really serious yet

>>2793755
>>2793801
anon here again. i dug up a picture of my shoes at that time and you can see why it'd be more comfy to just go barefoot. they were broken in to perfection, unfortunately not for walking aimlessly forever.

>missing 411
>transported to fae realm raped for enternity

my sides

>>2793373
Larp. You live in Ohio.

Camping by myself sitting by the fire getting ready to warm up my dinner. A Toyota Camry comes speeding into my campsite in the middle of nowhere. This tall guy swings the door open and just marches over to my campfire with a beer in his hand and sits down. We have a weird but normal(ish) conversation. Keeps talking about how he really wants to show me something crazy in his trunk, curiosity peaked but knew better. The guy was weird and tall, could easily over power me. Eventually got him to leave when I told him I want to be alone.

>>2792589
Nothing particularly serious and I spend alot of time literally wading through wetlands. But ironically the worst thing that ever happened was one time in the evening I was in the yard and I hear a big cracking splitting noise. Around the house is a big area of pastures with oaks and hickories speckled around. Anyways one of the big oaks was splitting in two, so I went to go watch it and decided to hop a fence into the pasture. This is probably a 1/4 mile from the house. So I watched and listened to the noises by it for about 15 minutes then decided to go back. When I'm climbing over the fence, and this was like an old rough cut pine heart post hogwire fence... I'm up swinging my leg over it and the post I'm bracing myself on breaks and I go crashing onto the ground chin-first from probably about six feet up.

Anyways, I may have been out for 2 minutes or maybe 30 idk. I came to and got up (definitely concussed) and staggered back to the house lol and went and sat in the shower for a while. Went out the next morning and there was an old lightered over rock hard board half buried beneath the fence that I hit my chin on. I've stepped on moccasins, been around alligators, etc etc. and it was climbing a fence that fucked me up the worst.

>>2792589
>I can't swim
That's just asking to die, especially if you want to enjoy the outdoors. Go take some swimming lessons, lol.

>>2792904
>>decide to still go down because we're already that far in

I'm sure that one killed plenty of people. When it doubt, remember that sentence, and act by it.

I once ended soloing a cliff with no protection because I didn't adhere to it. I was on a hike around a local mountain. Fairly known territory, but that route was new to me. I came to a gradual forested cliff. It wasn't far up to the top, some 20m. Risky, but it should be fine, as long as I found the path further up there. It was up or return, retract, and find the correct path, and since I was already up there... Only at the middle of the climb I realised I was risking too much. Trees would help if I slipped, and it wasn't so steep in my reckoning to hurt me much. The problem was that there was no way back. I had no rope. It was too steep for descent. So, if I didn't find a path, I really was fucked. And there was nothing. Just a small wooded plateau, then naked stone walls all around me. Now, I could call for help, but then I would feel foolish, and since I was already up there... No helmet, hiking shoes, way too heavy backpack, and up I went. It wasn't a particularly hard climb, missing ropes and carabiners offset my backpacks weight, but one loose rock, and I'm dead. Then there was also uncertainty on what I'd find higher up. I succeeded to tell the tale, found the path, then returned by it.

>>2793339
What the fuck are knife condoms? Who who I have thought they required multiple sizes?

>be me
>2020
>American
>travel to Austria to go hiking in the alps alone
>conditioning and strength training served me well despite muh desk job
>get lost up there
>climb what looked like a trail since I kept seeing those little Austrian flags painted on rocks
>get to the top of this trail/peak
>sheer cliff faces all around me
>panic and almost start crying because climbing back down seemed impossible without falling to my death and the cliff faces are dozens of stories high
>look down and over to my right and see an actual flat trail about 5 stories beneath me
>the incline down to the trail is at least 45 degrees
>can’t stand up and walk down otherwise I’d lose my balance and tip over the cliff face next to the trail which was about 3 feet wide
>have to scoot on my butt down this incline in a serpentine manner
>constantly testing the ground I was scooting to since the ground was loose and I didn’t want to slide
>eventually make it down to trail
>3 hours later, my knee was killing me, the sun had set, ran out of water, I was lost again, and the mountains were really dangerous
>cuck out and call for help (great service up there)
>get airlifted off mountains
>hospital finds nothing on X-ray
>MRI machine was down
>I can walk fine for damn reason
Poorly planned trip but it was fun

>>2796390
picrel looks like Tiroler Unterland?

>>2792589
I was on my way to go moose hunting with my cousins and the moose found me. iirc I managed to get 9 rounds on it with the G20 before diving out of the way. Trashed my quad and died, had to call my cousins to come pick me up because I was like 8 miles away and I sure as shit wasn't hoofing a moose that far on foot.

>>2792589
I haven't come very close but my closest instance is when gf probably got the closest to death between either of us when /out/.

She was inexperienced and I had been trying to get her to eat all day but she refused until I think she ended up with a combination of heat stroke/heat exhaustion and sweating out all her electrolytes.

We had managed to get into a state where:
>GF heat stroke no electrolytes
>Me hot and exhausted but otherwise OK but in no state to carry gf.
>Off trail by an unknown amount and for an unknown time.
>Enough water for a day hike + a bit of backup and no way to make more.
>No cell no satphone, just a cached map on a phone with ~75% battery but no way to charge it.
>Heat index like 105
>People knew we were hiking today, and the general wilderness area that we were hiking in, but not the specific trail and nothing other than we will check in when we get back, whenever that is, but it will be today.

Made it back to the car but I was sprinkling water on gfs head from my backup bottle the whole time. We started with ~7 liters between two people at the beginning and I ended up with about half a cup in my camelbak by the end. She drank most of the water. The big thing IMO is that she didn't eat basically anything for breakfast and had zero snacks out on the trail until it was too late. I had a reasonable breakfast and was snacking on high salt high protein snacks while sipping water the whole day and was able to push through a ~2hr unplanned detour.

>>2796532
I don't get why women just refuse to eat things. I practically have to force feed my wife because she'll eat nothing until dinner and be bitchy all day and then bitch when I try to get her to eat a snack.

>>2796533
They joke about "girl dinner" as if someone is forcing them to not eat. Pretty sure we've been out of the general food stigma era for a couple decades now. I'm sure it all comes back to body image stuff. They're their own worst enemies sometimes.

I'm not going to leave you if you gain a pound or two, which you fucking won't because we're burning 4K calories and taking in like 1200 in snacks, but if you did, it's not the end of the world. There is a very specific reason I'm stressing this shit. It wasn't so much she was being bitchy just kept saying no until I backed off every time I tried.

I explained the importance of electrolytes early that day and I begged her to please eat some salty stuff, and I am sure it went in one ear and out the other, until mother nature made her listen by shutting off her video feed for a few seconds. She listens a bit better since that day.

why would you delete the thumbnail?

>>2796484
No I was in the western part of the country around Schladming

>>2792589
I got lost in the white mountains of NH with a buddy of mine for around 16 hours once, all afternoon then overnight. Decided to trust a trail map we saw and went off-trail to get to a road, ended up being extremely inaccurate. Waded through rivers and climbed up cliffs and even screamed for help a few times before cinematically finding the road we were looking for just after I decided that we needed to stop and get some rest. We probably would've found our way back to civilization eventually but it's the longest I've ever been completely trapped in the wild.
Probably the closest I've come to dying FROM outside.
The closest I've come to dying actually outside was when I took like five ounces of quality shrooms as a scrawny teenager then kicked out of my buddy's house and had to walk 5 miles uphill to my house with no water in the blazing sun. It only really set in while I walked. If some friendly farmer's family didn't give me some water I might've just collapsed and passed away on the side of the road somewhere.

I've been in a few situations that were pretty dangerous or stupid, nothing I would consider truly life threatening.

First was when I was a kid, broke my ankle sledging down a big hill near where I lived, was stuck on the side of that hill for hours in the cold, came close to hypothermia, was rescued by a groundskeeper who lived miles away, because he saw me sledging through his binoculars, and noticed hours later I had not moved from the same spot on the hillside, so he drove up in his land rover and took me home. XD

Second time was in my teens, went exploring some abandoned mines with a friend, we became increasingly bold while down there, and one day we went down a few tunnels that we thought connected to a previously explored area. THEY DIDN'T, we back tracked and found the tunnels we had already mapped, but it was a stark reminder of how easy it was to get lost down there. We also clambered over freshly fallen rocks a few times and knew that at any moment the roof could fall on us and that would be a nasty way to go.

>>2792676
That's terrifying.

>>2792721
Yep, this can happen at times of the year here when you think the weather is nice; and then night hits and you go from a sunny day wearing shorts and t-shirt to needing thermals...

>>2792728
That's like the number one fear I have of kayaking, it's sailing and canoeing for me!

>>2792743
I don't step on the boat until my life jacket is on and it doesn't come off until I step back on dry land ;)

>>2793285
nope nope nope nope

>>2792589
In fairness this happened after I got out of the woods:
>be me 18 just graduated highschool
>go to party with friends in woods
>eat chicken (important)
>feel off, go hiking with buddies a day later
> be cold, like really cold but sweating bullets that night when camping
>shit myself not even joking
>hop into my 1999 Buick LeSaber and drive 40 minutes back to my house
>freezing in the middle of June weather is warm too.
>make it home in so much pain wake up mother, she thinks it’s a common bug
>three days pass still shitting constantly just dry heaving out my asshole at this point. Gut is swollen and I’m slurring speech, haven’t eaten in days
>mother takes me to hospital, lost an alarming amount of weight (20lbs) was so delirious that I didn’t know what day it was and had no sense of time. Literally waking up to shit and puke. Passed out on floor of bathroom
>turns out I got severe food poisoning (campylobacter or some shit like that from the chicken) doctor told me that if I waited any longer I could have died of dehydration.
>stay for a day or two, feel fine after antibiotics and fluids.

Lesson learned about eating poultry cooked by a drunk/stoned teenager at a graduation party.

>>2796534
It took me many years of casual weekend hiking to be ok with eating while doing it, would nearly puke up the granola bar every time. Now I actually enjoy food while exercising, but I still don't get hungry, have to set a timer to remember.

Easy solution is to buy some gatorade powder or mix your own for your tard

>>2792589
Two times in the same situation.
>no rain
>no thunder
>the only lightning that day
>very dark and low clouds(one was at night and there were no city lights to make the clouds visible)
>instantly everything turns white and a loud roar with no delay
The second one was the worst. I felt like shit and was ashamed of myself because I shouldn't be outside and stubbornly did it. It was a dozen times stronger than the first one.

>>2797456
This stuff is pretty good and is sugar free for those who care.

>>2797491
>eat the horse slop, goy
Yeah no thanks. I'll stick to normal /out/ meals.

>>2797492
It's finally time to accept it anon, you are a horse.

In Hawaii before I was even much of an outdoors person I decided to do a short-ish hike along a ridgeline. It was not a well maintained trail and would have been slippery and muddy at the best of times but off and on rain certainly didn't help. Being as unprepared as I was I should have turned back when I hit the first rope that I needed to pull myself up along the narrow ridge, but of course I did not. Some 20 or 30 roped sections later I got to the "end" of the trail, yay. While descending on one of the longer rope sections I slipped and kind of swung off the ridge a bit and was basically dangling off the ridge with a few hundred foot drop below me, only some shitty, worn rope holding me up.It wasn't a sheer cliff and there's a chance the vegetation would have stopped me before I died, but I don't think so. I managed to use the vegetation to drag myself back onto the ridge and all was fine and somehow after that I was hooked on hiking and climbing.
since then I've had a couple of really close calls while driving to /out/ activities, not sure if those count.

The other week. Chainsawing a limb in a tree above my tent in a sheer cliff. Foot slipped and fell but luckily lower branch stopped my fall from onto the ground which then k would have rolled down the cliff.


Dirtbiking…there is a trail that goes from pavement to dirt road, dirt road has small hill at the entrance. Try to power up it bike cucks out and lifts up and backwards i fall off it and try ti brace my fall which causes me to stumble back into the paved road i just came from, head with helmet lands in road just inches from car that drives by at same time.

>>2792589
I sunk up to my waste into a hidden crevasse while solo on a glacier.

>>2792589
aw mate, one time i'd been drinking in a cabin with some guys, but the place i was staying was about quarter of a mile north along an unclear track through the mountains.
but it was foggy af outside, i'm talking 6 feet of visibility.
turn on your torch and it only light up the fog and blinds you more.
so I'm walking along this track and long story short, i take the wrong side of a fork in the track that i didn't even know was there because it is so faint and unclear even in normal conditions.
and i'm walking, and i come upon a cabin ... but it's not mine. i realise it's one i've seen from afar, i try to retrace my steps but i can't even find the way back to where i was, i nearly get totally lost in the fog again but find the new cabin again ... i panic a little bit now because it is night time, i am getting colder and wetter and i only have a light jacket on and a bottle of water. i am fucked if i have to stay out all night, i'm shivvering so it's hypothermia if i stay out, consider kicking in the new cabin but my drunk brain thinks
>"i have to atleast try and find my cabin!"
and so i set off in roughly the direction i think it is ... this was a fucking stupid idea.
i am not barreling off into the fog, blind with no compass (btw i ordered a new compass for this trip because mine was fucked ... it arrived 1 hour after i left for this trip)
so now i realise how stupid i have been, but i have to keep going, i am in unfamiliar ground with only a vague idea of where i am going then ... I SEE A FUCKING LIGHT IN THE DISTANCE!!!!! i walk towards it and signal to it by moving my hand infront of my light and they signal back and i am so fucking relieved, i shout out to them to keep the light on, they do. i ask who it is and they say "two fellers and your friend!" (my friend was also staying at the cabin) i approach and it is two stoners who were also staying at my cabin who came outside to have a spliff and cook their food. they saved my life.

>>2797659
i am NOW barreling off*
ran out of characters, but i'd never have made such stupid decisions if i wasn't a bit drunk. second i realised it was so foggy i would have headed back to cabin #1 and borrowed a compass from someone or something.
That is an area i know like the back of my hand and yet fog changed everything. i was 20 feet from a major landmark when i went the wrong way. couldn't see it in the fog.

>>2792905
>>2792904
unknown routes and places are the worst, scout everywhere if you plan to camp.
I've never been on a random wild camp that was truly good. only times i;ve had good camps is when me or somebody else has scouted the location well in advance.

>>2793339
>beat him and started kicking him in the ribs for several minutes and then took everything he had on him
the correct response holy shit.

Reading through this thread it seems like the most common issues are
>getting lost
>hypothermia
>getting hurt
>no food/water
roughly in that order.

>be with new GF
>i'm pretty /fit/ but not really outdoorsy, she is neither of these but wants to go on a hike
>it's the middle of summer in texas
>the nearest hiking spot is basically a series of dry creek beds with maintained trails between them
>rocks, dirt, almost no vegetation or shade
>see this on google maps and drink a ton of water the day before and that morning before we leave, advise her to do the same
>bring five bottles of water in a cooler bag and some trailmix
>after about 45 minutes comment that it is going to be a very hot day and ask if she feels up to it
>"sure anon, i put on sun screen and brought a hat"
>30 minutes later she has consumed two of the bottled waters
>remind her that we have to walk back as far as we walked unless we are going finish the trail and spend the next two hours in 100+ weather with 38oz of water to split between us
>visible panic
>immediately start heading back
>trail was mostly downhill on the way out with the sun to our back and we're climbing hot rocks with sun glare
>she drinks another bottle of water before we're halfway
>drink one myself but do it slowly and let the water sit in my mouth until it's reached body temperature
>she starts wanting to take breaks when there's no shade, have to insist that we keep moving and carry her the last leg of it
>when we get to her car she pukes a few seconds after sitting down in the AC
>end up leaving her car there and driving her back to my place
>spends the next 24 hours with the AC cranked down and the curtains pulled in my bedroom after a cold shower
We're still dating after three years and she insists she would have died out there. Assuming most everything was the same except without me there I think it's pretty likely, especially if she was carrying the water herself or worse yet brought less than we had because it was heavy. I at least knew enough that standing still in the bare sun when you are overheating is basically the same death sentence as in the cold

Dehydration/heat exhaustion walking across sand dunes. Saved by aunt, uncle and dad and the pacific ocean. Didn't drink enough water.

>>2797970
The new girlfriend:

>>2797966
Yup, and other than getting hurt, they're all pretty easily avoided.
Don't need to hike with a full thruhiking loadout every time you go out on a dayhike, but a map+compass+water filter+rain jacket+lighter weighs a pound and solves 80% of bad times in temperate climates.
A SOS beacon solves the other 19% where you aren't eaten by a bear or bitten by a venomous snake or other lighting-strike tier "fuck you"s from the heavens.

Also you forgot a big one;
>Being drunk/high

>be me
>middle of nowhere new hampshire
>ford a river to get to a fire road that's like another 10k from a gravel road
>bushwacking to get to the gravel road
>come across a literal circle wall of pitbulls with some mobile homes in the middle
>dogs have fans, some have umbrellas if their spot gets sun. All have their own water bowls.
>keep walking and get to the gravel road
>half an hour to an hour later a shiny escalade or similar fancy suv comes speeding down this dirt path, totally of place
>the second the driver sees me they stop and get on their phone, they turn and leave before I can get close enough to see their face or license plate
>another 30 minutes to 1 hour go by
>pickup truck comes down the same diet path
>when they see me they pull over to the side, get out and stand on the road, backs against the side of the truck
>they watch me walk, only a few feet away, by as I do my best mr bean impression and try to look totally clueless
honestly the foreign flag on my backpack probably saved my life.

lightning hit a tree my tent was tied to. Could feel the electricity flow through me and the tie down rope glowed bright enough to be visible through the tent wall. The tent and ropes also melted.

learn to swim, faggots. it's not hard. literally infants can swim

>>2799203
What if you don't live in a place with water

>>2799204
pool

>>2799568
OK but why tho