r/uncharted • u/siddharthsingh_7 • 1d ago
Games are not enough how do you scratch your itch of adventure and adrenaline in real life?
If you have any crazy adventure stories i would love to hear
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u/jastka4 1d ago edited 1d ago
I do traveling and things like driving quads on a desert, bungee jumping, paragliding, etc. I’ve decided to do a diving certification next year and sign up for a shooting range again (I used to join some competitions when younger). Stuff like this 🤔
Edit: I forgot I go bouldering twice a week haha
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u/ChaseDFW 1d ago
Went to Big Bend National Park this year. For years, everyone told me it was amazing. Turn out they were didn't lie. It's like walking into a fantasy novel. It's so beautiful and big.
It's enchanting and worth a visit.
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u/legobdr 1d ago
Dress up like Nathan drake and go to a shooting range lmao
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u/the_clash_is_back 1d ago
The games partially inspired me to do stupid shit round the ravines in my city when i was a kid. Lots of crumbly escarpment to clamber up
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u/BigOof2208 1d ago
The best way to have that "kick" imo is to go scuba diving. Just like in the game, where the movement is different, like Nathan sometimes does weird stuff, it's the same in the water. Depending on where.you dive its also a different environment and sometimes hostile (temperature etc). It's also unknown and you see different stuff, especially if it's somewhere like an underwater city.
I really urge anyone to give it a go at least once, the things I saw were maybe the coolest ever and it's not over in like 10 minutes like skydiving is
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u/Michelle689 *jetski flashbacks* 1d ago
Disneyland, Indiana Jones ride, pirates of the carribean ride 🤌
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u/Reuvenisms 1d ago
I thru hiked the Appalachian Trail twice, then bounced around the country living off grid. That really scratched that itch.
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u/RisingBlackHole 1d ago
Travel. I hiked jungle forests, deserts, lochs, beaches, cities, and ancient ruins this year. 3 different continents. Nothing really planned. The opportunities presented themselves. Seize them!
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u/Jldbtter6252 1d ago
Where do I start? I grew up climbing trees and I later learned how to climb on the rooftops of buildings by climbing up pipes and jumping onto maintenance ladders and fire escapes. Whenever I go hiking in the mountains, I look for areas that would be cool to climb and I have scaled a few cliffs and peaks without a rope, gear, or a harness.
Going up is relatively easy. Getting back down is the challenge. I bought a grappling hook a few years ago and that helped me reach previously inaccessible areas but also presented the added problem of getting down and retrieving the hook.
I moved from North Carolina to Montana a few years ago and my surroundings breathed new life into my adventures. I have been stalked by a mountain lion, had close encounters with moose, bears, and coyotes.
But the coup de grâce came in the summer of 2022 when I went camping with some friends up at Glacier national park. My friends wanted to go fishing at an alpine lake and we were hiking about five miles to it when they left me in the dust. Huffing and puffing along the trail, I came up on a picturesque series of waterfalls that spilled into each one. I was wearing cowboy boots at the time because my hiking boots were soaking wet from the previous day and I left them drying back at camp. I stopped briefly to take pictures with my iPhone and I stood right next to the edge of what I assumed was a creek that flowed into the falls.
Finished, I put my phone into my shirt pocket and turned to step back when I lost my footing and got swept into a raging current. I tried to stand up multiple times but I got knocked down and I saw to my horror the precipice of what I later learned was a 25 foot waterfall. I have done enough whitewater rafting to know that in those types of situations, you have to keep your feet and head pointed up and sticking out of the water to avoid smashing into rocks. I crossed my arms over my chest and took a deep breath and time slowed to a crawl. I fell 25 feet and was stuck in the plunge pool - a hole at the bottom of the water that had been carved out over time.
The sheer force of the falls dumped on me and pinned me down while simultaneously tossing me around in a violent spin cycle. It felt like I was there for eternity and all I could think about was that no one knew where I was, no one could help me, and no one would ever find me. My family would never know. My friends would be none the wiser. I would drown right there knowing that I had carelessly, recklessly, and unnecessarily died for no other reason except my own stupidity.
But by some miracle, I managed to pop my head out of the water and I took the longest, sweetest breath of my life and stared wide eyed and then immediately felt horrified because the next waterfall was coming up fast. I looked to my left and saw a fallen tree and I swam for all I was worth and pulled myself out and laid on the ground coughing, shivering, and lucky to be alive.
The temperature was about 40° Fahrenheit that July day and the water was in the 30’s. I knew that hypothermia would set in quickly so I decided to sprint back down the mountain in an effort to get my core body temperature up and I made it back to my truck and changed into a dry set of clothes and waited for my friends to come back.
That little escapade effectively killed my wild, adventurous side. I no longer take unnecessary risks or participate in those sorts of shenanigans. Ironically, the times where I have almost died are exactly the times when I have felt most alive. I don’t have a death wish but I crave adventure and testing my limits and being resourceful, creative, and thinking laterally to get myself into and out of dangerous, difficult, and stressful situations. Any recommendations on how to get back into those sort of things?
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u/siddharthsingh_7 1d ago
You want to get back? I think it’s more of a self harm I haven’t had experiences like you but I would do the same thing on my bike, testing our limits…. Until one day I was having a weird mood and felt like crashing, I had all the time and capabilities to stop and I didn’t. Right after getting up I felt so fucking alive and surprisingly I was in one piece with a few scratches. I realised how fucked up it was but it’s kinda of paradoxical of me to think a man oughta experience this a few times. I think it’s the uncertainty and god like feeling of doing something dangerous and getting away with it. I’m 21 and I consider myself old but everyone else I come across say I’m so young (I think it’ll be subjective to each individual) I’m only mentioning my age because I haven’t traveled anywhere before until I wanted to feel something and this place had been calling me out for a long time; so I solo travelled to this military occupied and crazy border tension place for a week. If you want to get back try something completely or slightly different, I think your soul is just automatically drawn towards it. I wish you safety and happiness.
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u/Jldbtter6252 22h ago
Likewise! I’m thirty and part of the reason I quit doing crazy shit is that I realized it’s not always worth it. I work and live in at a strenuous, monotonous pace so any chance I have to come alive I usually jump at the opportunity. I live in tension - I want to be daring, resourceful, confident in my abilities but I have also learned to look before I leap.
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u/DEFINITELY_NOT_PETE 1d ago
I remember living in Boston when uncharted 3 came out and I would go for jogs from the south end to the common to the Christian Science center and while it isn’t exactly an adventure, weaving through tourists and trying not to get hit by cars in an historic city until you are completely exhausted helped me chill tf out at the end of the day
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u/Cheb1337 1d ago
Travelling is the best way to do this. I like to take strenous hikes everytime I visit an exotic country, feels very much like uncharted