Ok Empty Your Pockets!

[+Mastifflover]

We have had plenty of threads about what's in your caching bag. I want to know if you carry anything in your pockets daily as a result of becoming a geocacher. I used to hate carrying things in my pants pockets, but because of caching I've added a couple of things to my every day carry. I'll start.

 

Keys clipped to belt loop with a carabiner taken from a cache.

Fisher Space Pen in left front pocket/will write on wet logs.

Kershaw Chive knife in right front pocket/not specifically for caching.

Wallet in back right pocket/money and ID of course.

Peak Matterhorn AAA led flashlight in my right front pocket/hate sticking my hands where I can't see.

Samsung cell phone/In case I get lost.

 

So what's in your pants?

[+nfa]

nowadays, I almost always have cigarette butts in my pockets thanks to CITOing while caching

[+Clan Delaney]

nowadays, I almost always have cigarette butts in my pockets thanks to CITOing while caching

Oh yeah, broken glass. (Ow! Ouch! Sonofa....)

 

[nobby.nobbs]

either a canoe or i'm just really pleased to see everyone!

[+wolfmaster]

Lighter, compass, pen, and unregistered TB tags. I always carry a compass even though the GPS has one. If I get under a canopy, I want a working compass.

[+reveritt]

Geocaching is the explanation for what I don't have in my pockets--any spare cash!

[+briansnat]

either a canoe or i'm just really pleased to see everyone!

I thought that was a Bison Cylinder .

[davwil]

I've actually learned to take stuff out of my pockets. ie: why the heck do I need 2.50 in quarters?... or do I really need all those credit cards in the woods?... or why am I carrying all those work related building keys?

 

The thing I have learned is to carry a good small knife and something to light a fire and... oh yeah a lot of common sense... so that I can use it when needed.

[+CYBret]

So what's in your pants?

 

Last night it was sticktites.

 

I carry a watch that has a compass and an LED light. It's hooked on my belt which is near a pocket.

 

Bret

[+jamrasc]

A palm pilot. Never used one until I started caching.

[+Shadow's]

With the cost of gas I seem to have lots of lint in them . $45 to fill up now that was about 20 a year ago it seems

[+GRANPA ALEX]

Just got one of those 'hand-crank' flashlights, charges when the handle is turned - a gift from he spouse cuz she luvs me. Works great, too!

[+Snoogans]

So what's in your pants?

OK. Teensy bit ot.

 

I bought this for cachin':

 

 

AND THEN I went cachin' with the NEFGA Jeep Club.

 

The ON topic part of this post isn't exactly family friendly.

[+Joe Smith]

Keys and change in the right pocket. Also a pocket knife.

 

Paper money, and cell phone in the left pocket.

 

If I bring a wallet (I don't usually need maxed out cards in the woods) it's in the back right.

 

back left has cache printouts, or now the palm.

 

Gps is in my hand or on the belt.

 

 

If I have a pen it's usually in the left pocket, but I keep at least forty in my shirt pocket (if i have one). how do they all get there?

 

 

 

 

that is usually all I bring. i have learned to multitask with my items, so i don't usually need a pack.

Edited August 22, 2005 by Joe Smith

[+WhatsRNutts]

I always carry my kershaw Vapor II in either my back pocket(at work) of my right front pocket. an shortened ink pen in my front left pocket. my wallet in the back right pocket(never know when you need your wallet, might become incopacitated) thats pretty much it. oh yeah...i might carry a granola bar in a cargo pocket if I know I'm gonna be out for a while.

edited...I really need to work on my spelling! lol

Edited August 22, 2005 by wreckelite

[+Sagefox]

Cool colored mini bottle opener in a tiny ziploc bag and two CA wooden nickels.

[Clan Riffster]

Because I'm an old fat guy, I wear a Camelback hydration thingy. It holds 3 litres of water, my ID, assorted trade items, Slim Jims, a little pump bottle of skeeter spray, cell phone, cache page, etc.

 

I wear a fanny pack that holds my Glock.

 

Pockets? About the only thing that goes in my pockets is my Copenhagen and my Spyderco.

[+4leafclover]

I actually carry a couple "trinkets" I've gotten either from caches or other cachers. A little glass tree, to remind me of a friend of mine, and a good luck coin I got from a cache.

[+StarBrand]

....just a couple of other cachers sig business cards - left in my caches and cleaned out....

[+Mystery Ink]

I carry my set of geobeads 1 -8 and 1-5. Small flashlight, pocket knife, geo-wooden coins, small ziplock bag, pen and palm pilot. Some small trading items, and spare batteries. Also started to carry spare paper in case log is full, and of course my Garmin.

[+tirediron]

On a daily basis... nada. I keep all my 'caching stuff in my bag, which is always either in the truck, or near the front door...

[Team WorldPeaceTurtle]

On a daily basis... nada. I keep all my 'caching stuff in my bag, which is always either in the truck, or near the front door...

I'm the same way - my backpack is loaded and waiting in my car! Although it DOES contain a compass that was bought specifically for geocaching, along with some assorted odd swag for trading (turtle socks, anyone?).

~~~

Emily

[+Anonymous']

On a daily basis I carry nothing still, that's only because I don't spontaneously cache, otherwise I might carry a pen or two with me.

[+wandererrob]

So what's in your pants?

OK. Teensy bit ot.

 

I bought this for cachin':

 

 

AND THEN I went cachin' with the NEFGA Jeep Club.

 

The ON topic part of this post isn't exactly family friendly.

Good to see a new X being used properly!

 

I drive a well-loved, sometimes wheeled 2000 XTerra myself.

 

And to answer the OP, my GPS (loaded with local waypoints of interest) though not in my pocket usually is almost always in the truck now with cache pages uploaded into my iPod for quick reference. You never know when you'll have a long lunch or something to spare for caching.

Edited August 26, 2005 by wandererrob

[+Miragee]

The only extra thing in my pocket is a mini L.E.D. flashlight I found in a cache. I put it on my keychain. It came in very handy for seeing the combination on a cable lock on a Travel Bug Hotel we visited after dark the other night.

[+Bahamadiver]

I bought this for cachin':

 

 

you must have VERY large pants! Geez!

 

The only thing in my pants, er uh other than what God gave me, is a really cool small LED keychain light I got out of the Highland cache here in Reno.

 

Were you asking what people carry with them from other caches, or what they routinely carry to caches?

Edited August 26, 2005 by Bahamadiver

[Jake - Team A.I.]

I keep a Swiss Army Card in my wallet. It has a small pen I can use when I find micros that lack a writing implement.

 

I have an LED flashlight on my keychain.

 

As for carrying a compass... here in the arizona desert, I wish I could find a canopy that would block my GPS from a signal... I could really use the shade.

[+Miragee]