What do you take caching?

[+Terrier Team]

I mean yah, you take the GPSer,, some swag, a pencil/pen, camera, and ziplocks. But what more should you bring or what do YOU bring that's diffrent or you think is essential?

[dementedtribe]

A cell phone and a first aid kit.

[+power69]

I mean yah, you take the GPSer,, some swag, a pencil/pen, camera, and ziplocks. But what more should you bring or what do YOU bring that's diffrent or you think is essential?

fishing line with hook, string with magnets attached, tweezers, if its a hiker, hiking stick. old TV antenna with neo magnet, plastic grocery bag[for cito should area need it] spare batteries for gps.

[+Jake340]

Most of the time I will also bring some prepared geocaches incase I come across an area that needs a cache. Extra paper and a note book sometimes also comes in handy.

[+Team Black-Cat]

One of the most useful things that I have found to bring to a cache site is another person who is better at finding caches than I am.

[+TheLoneWanderer]

If it's a park and grab, or a very short walk to the cache, all I take with me is a notepad (To write which geocache I've found) and pen, but in my geocaching bag, I have a first-aid kit (From Dollar Tree), neosporin, anti-itch cream, After-Bite, extra logbooks, pens, pencils, geocaching pamphlets (For those interested), my swag, a Gopher Grabber tool, rope, a Leatherman multi-tool, a knife, compass, fold-up shovel, and hat

[+Proud Soccer Mom]

Towel

At least one caching companion (human or canine)

GPS

Notebook with cache info

Pen

Cell phone

Camera

Pepper spray

Travel Bugs / Swag

Baggies (kept in car)

Calculator paper (kept in car)

First Aid Kit (always in car)

 

What doesn't stay in the car, travels easily in my camera bag. My GPS is on a lanyard and I keep my keys, phone and pepper spray in my pockets.

[+Cptnodegard]

Towel

 

(if this doesn't mean what I think it does, ignore this message)

 

I bring various things... flashlight, leatherman, pencils, sharpener, tape, magnets, spare logs, prepared caches, spare batteries for GPS, external battery for iPhone, camera, band-aid (especially those special ones for heel blisters, learned that the hard way), water, Viliv S5 UMPC with Windows 7 (for GSAK etc)

[+Proud Soccer Mom]

Towel

 

(if this doesn't mean what I think it does, ignore this message)

 

It means the only thing it could mean:

 

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

- Chapter 3, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

 

And a gentle reminder that Towel Day is May 25th.

[+wenestvedt]

Proud Soccer Mom is a really cool frood.

[+Cptnodegard]

Towel

 

(if this doesn't mean what I think it does, ignore this message)

 

It means the only thing it could mean:

 

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

- Chapter 3, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

 

And a gentle reminder that Towel Day is May 25th.

 

That's what I thought it meant

[DannyCaffeine]

GPSr (well, duh)

Phone

Writing stick

Knife (1000 tools in one)

Sometimes swag/coins/tb's

[GeoFamily57]

It is always a good idea to bring geocaching brochures so you don't have to spend a long time explaining to muggles or cops. they are sold here:

http://shop.Groundspeak.com/productDetail....p;ProductID=315

[+Team Cotati]

It is always a good idea to bring geocaching brochures so you don't have to spend a long time explaining to muggles or cops. they are sold here:

http://shop.Groundspeak.com/productDetail....p;ProductID=315

 

We don't spend a long time explaining geocaching to anyone, including the cops, so we don't need any.

Thanks anyway.

[+TJdamon]

Usually my XD40 subcompact.

[+ohmerfam]

Got some great ideas here.

 

Going buy a towel, now.

[GOF and Bacall]

what do YOU bring that's diffrent or you think is essential?

 

Tequila and beer.

[+Machuco]

what do YOU bring that's diffrent or you think is essential?

 

Tequila and beer.

 

AMEN!!!

[+TJdamon]

what do YOU bring that's diffrent or you think is essential?

 

Tequila and beer.

 

AMEN!!!

 

I second that....

[+Mosaic55]

A pair of gardening gloves for handling really yucky stuff and tweezers. In the larger bag, I also have needlenose pliers.

[GOF and Bacall]

what do YOU bring that's diffrent or you think is essential?

 

Tequila and beer.

 

AMEN!!!

 

I second that....

 

Keep in mind,folks, that I am not all that fussy about the order of that list.

[+helix149]

Usually my XD40 subcompact.

 

Thats funny I bring my Sig p239 40 with me anytime I cache along with the rest of the usual.

[+3doxies]

....you think is essential?

 

Good friends. Makes any caching trip, whether there's bukoos of finds or aggravating DNFs, an enjoyable caching trip. Been there, got the memories.

[+Chokecherry]

I now bring toilet paper and something to wedge under out house doors to hold them shut should they not latch.

[+WV JuggaCachers]

What I usually take with me:

 

Friends (Our group runs anywhere from 3-6 depending on who's free)

GPSr

Knife

Camera

Pen

Trinkets

50' of 550 Para Cord

Cell Phone

5-10 extra logs

Drinks of some sort, either pop, water or kool-aid

Walking stick

Towel

Sandwich stuff (picnic!)

 

Things I'm getting arranged to take with me:

 

Brochures of some sort

A couple of caches, prepped and ready to be placed

More friends (new geocachers are always good)

[+ventura_kids]

I may fill the entire back of the cache-mobile with supplies and stuff.....but the most important thing to remember to bring is...... someone to find the geocaches for me!

[+Auberdine]

• Car GPSr
  
• Hand held GPSr
  
• iPod Touch
  
• Bug Spray
  
• Extra logs
  
• Extra micro containers
  
• Needle nose Pliers
  
• Hand Sanitizer
  
• Mechanical grab stick (pull trigger and it grips the item)
  
• Pad of paper (just in case)
  
• Mini first aid kit
  
• Swag
  
• TB / Geocoins
  
• A pre-made cache if we find a great spot
  
• Knife
  
• Cell phone
  

With the Car GPSr, Hand held GPSr and iPod Touch, we do paperless caching