finder72

After reading all of these answers, I feel like I'm going out naked. When I was in the military, I learned to dislike a backpack with a vengence. Although I still use all issue gear except my boots, heres what I carry: Bdu pants with small pocket knife, spare batteries, Toilet paper, 550 cord, car keys, handkerchief, wallet, change, a pistol belt with 2 canteens, one with water and the other with Gator-Aid, a survival knife (firearms are prohibited in some areas), butt pack with a 2man first aid kit, poncho, spare socks, extra latex gloves, small flashlight, small swag items, zip-lock bags, waterproof matches, energy bars, 2 civilian colored smoke bombs (just in case), sometimes a 2 way radio. All this is held up with load bearing suspenders, (so my pants don't fall down) that carry my cell and a presure bandage. All this is topped off with my walking stick, leather gloves, Garmin map60Cs and a hat. But, I may sneak a Beretta .22 and ammo in an M-14 mag pouch.

As I was going to check my coords,(they were off), when I met a cacher coming down the road. We introduced ourselves. He couldn't find the cache so he walked back with me using his GPS. Sure enough, they were off. He "found" it with a little help, signed the log and was off. We would have had a cup of coffee but the time was not there.