Do you go out with anyone? If so, where did you meet? I see videos pop up on Youtube, Instagram, etc. of people hanging out with friends, hiking with friends, camping with friends, hunting with friends, riding ATVs and dirt bikes with friends, etc. and I want that for myself but I don't have any friends. How do I make /out/ friends? How do I meet a /out/ girl?
No, I'm forever alone. I go into the woods hoping that someday I won't come back.
>>2880822I go out alone and together.Alone mostly fishing. Either just day trips or over a weekend. I also like to just kinda roam my local forests. When I was a kid I lived near the coast and I'd constantly just go into the forests and adjacent dunes to exist there. Sometimes foraging a bit for blackberries, rosehips and juniper mostly. My mom would dry the juniper berries and use them in stews. The rosehips made good jelly if you sieved all the itch powder hairs out. Blackberries are nice just as they are but also sometimes we'd go into the forest as a family with grandma, grandpa, uncles, aunts and cousins and we would pick many pounds of blackberries that my grandma would make into jam for everyone.Also german bunkers, remnants of the Atlantikwall. Good place to wait out some rain. Together I now go with my wife mostly. Campervan vacations were our thing. When we had our daughter our outdoorslife took a hit, though we didn't miss it too much. Next spring our daughter turns 8 and we are gonna go camping together for the first time. Excited as fuck, though age and being more sedentary might have taken a toll on the body a bit.
>>2880822I mostly go out with my gf, sometimes with friends or just by myself. I used to ride and compete on horseback a lot. Through those events, I met many chill people who shared my interest in horses. They also spent a lot of time outdoors hiking and exploring the mountains. So that gave us plenty to talk about.I met my gf at our riding club. She was always nice to me and wanted to do everything together, I knew she liked me so I brought her home, and we've been living together ever since. She loves camping and going on trips too. Since we moved into a new place, we haven't gotten to see the horses much anymore, but we’ve slowly gotten into rock climbing because there are crags nearby.I have a few friends who love the outdoors from work, and I've met others at my favorite campsite you can't reach by car. It's basically a 3 hectare meadow on a mountaintop surrounded by woods and rock formations. It's not so popular, during a season I've seen there like 8 tents max in one evening. People go there to camp. They just pitch a tent wherever they like. In the evening, they sit by the fire, drink whiskey, and sing along to a guitar. It’s a great way to meet like-minded people.My advice I can give is - stop watching YouTube and Instagram, and go out and meet people instead. It works much better if you don't want to be alone.
>>2880822people will just naturally hover around you when you have and spend moneythats the trick
>>2880873>horse girlOh lawd
>>2880822I almost exclusively go /out/ with my daughters now, they don't like the idea of me going camping by myself, so it's hard to find time to go /out/ solo like I used to.
>>2880839I am that way but want to change>>2880842Where did you meet your wife? Also being sedentary is only a problem if you let it continue, not too late to turn it around and improve your health >>2880899How did you meet your wife? Camping with your kids is kino>>2880889Throwing money away just isn't my style, I make decent money and have it saved up but those are just fake relationships (and apart from drinks at a bar what else would you throw money at?)>>2880873I wish it was that simple to go out and meet people, not quite sure how to find groups or people to go outside in my area (WNY) as there isn't a ton to do without driving. Also I don't know how to ask someone to do things without sounding gay and don't know how to ask a woman out. I suppose in your situation I wouldn't want to torpedo my relationship with the rest of the riding club either. Having horses would be really cool though, when I was younger I volunteered at a stable feeding and grooming horses so I picked up some farrier skills. Because of this the owner let me ride his horses but I don't think he's alive and I guess its not the same when its not your horse and your riding a different one every week, not fully bonding with them. I would like to have some land some day for chickens, sheep, horses, etc. but land around here is expensive, and I would like to leave NYS ASAP but have no destination or place I would move determined yet although I am taking suggestions as well.
>>2880904Met her on Tinder almost 13 years ago now. I had given up on the concept of being loved, so I decided to just shape my life how I want it and chase sex on the side. She was the second date I went on through the app and we just connected almost like magic. My plan had been to take her to my place after 2 drinks or so. We ended up getting booted from the bar after 6 hours of just talking, laughing, connecting and fairly drinking more than our fill. We kissed and she took a cab home. I stumbled home through the streets lit up like a yule log. Next morning she texted me asking when she could see me again. Et cetera. We still sometimes just talk for hours. She really is my best friend.
I can only recommend trying a thru hike on a long trail like the Appalachian trail and Pacific Crest trail. I made friends effortlessly out there, and you have tons of exposure to single women. I met a few myself but it didn't go anywhere
>>2880910Good for you anon, that's pretty cool. I've heard dating apps have fallen off in recent years but at least it worked out for you
>>2880927Unfortunately I won't be able to take a vacation like that until next summer unless I quit my job and then I'll have no income
>>2880934You never know anon, maybe you'll get fired!
>>2880939Don't talk like that, I have no other opportunities lined up
>>2880822I used to go out a lot with my ex. She said she'd never done much of that sort of thing before ("the closest I got to camping was sleeping in my car after my parents kicked me out") but she took to it in a big way once I started taking her out with me. Mostly hiking and camping. Never bitched or complained, she even enjoyed the shitty moments like when I dragged us down the wrong trail into knee deep mud full of leeches.I've been hiking a few times with my current gf but she's a bit more princess so I'll have to ease her into camping and serious outings.I've also got a few friends I go out with. The ones who are proper keen are my mates from highschool but enough of us have moved away that it's hard to get the grioup together regularly. We did do the Alta Via 4 in Italy last year which was great (two of the group even got engaged midway through the trip) but god knows when we'll be able to schedule leave and get organised for something like that again.
I live in north jersey, i'll hike with any lonely anon, I don't have friends either, well i do have a baby which I often take on hikes up to 5 miles
>>2881322I wanna do allamuchy state park, do you have a throwaway email? I don't live in jersey, but I visit sometimesI don't care if you bring a baby as long as it doesn't make noise the whole time
>>2880999you are very lucky to have friends that will get together for long distance trips like that even if far apart, my friends might get together i I come back to the hometown for a beer, thats it. fucking sad and we were thick as thieves til about age 25
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>>2880999>>2881326And you guys are lucky to have friends at all
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