What's the one thing apart from.....

[+thehoomer]

your GPS (and pen) you couldn't do without when caching? Bare minimum? Obviously, apart from legs and common sense!

In other words, if you could only take 1 other item on a trip, what would it be?

Edited October 8, 2011 by thehoomer

[+Ean369]

your GPS (and pen) you couldn't do without when caching? Bare minimum? Obviously, apart from legs and common sense!

In other words, if you could only take 1 other item on a trip, what would it be?

 

GLASSES LOL

[+*mouse*]

Phone - in case I need to PAF, use it as a backup GPS, use as a sat nav or access the web for hints

Edited October 8, 2011 by *mouse*

[+Stuey]

My smartphone.

[+keehotee]

Chocolate

[+Gackt]

My Geohound "Roxy". Unless I am travelling by main road on push bike, she is with me. I would feel very lonely without.

[+drsolly]

Madame La Baton

[+Chilli Pipers]

My kids - give a perfect excuse for rummaging around in bushes etc if muggles come along. If you are on your own it always looks REALLY dodgy!

[+Legochugglers]

your GPS (and pen) you couldn't do without when caching? Bare minimum? Obviously, apart from legs and common sense!

In other words, if you could only take 1 other item on a trip, what would it be?

 

Now... I have done without a GPS before and my most recent find was signed with a stick and mud paste (again) so I can do without a pen. Although legs would appear to be a given, I did actually complete a cache in Coventry last month by sliding down a bank on my stomach and then crawling to GZ but I suppose I did need my legs to get to the area in the first place. Common sense???.. I rarely take this.

 

Eyes...I think we often take our ability to see very much for granted.

[+eusty]

Madame La Baton

Are you sure you always take it...

[+Andalusite]

MAGIC......

 

[+Jonovich]

Clothes... especially for Urban caching!

[+Graculus]

Binoculars. Being very keen on wildlife you can guarantee that if you don't have them something will appear in the distance that I'll want a closer look at.

 

Chris

Graculus

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[+drsolly]

Madame La Baton

Are you sure you always take it...

 

Well, she gets left behind when I'm on the bike, since I haven't found a good baton-carrier for a bike. There used to be such; when I was at uni, I'd see all the jocks pedalling around with their hockey sticks in a hockey stick holder, but when I tried to buy one recently I was told that they're no longer made because they're too dangerous. Elf and safety gone mad, I say. Maybe I could use velcro straps.

 

And then there was the time when I did a micro. "Took nothing, left walking pole" but fortunately the next cacher recognised Madame La Baton and we were soon reunited.

 

She's great for helping me stay upright, since the natural tendency of two-legged locomotion is to fall over especially on rough or slippery terrain, she's a Plus Six Stick of Poking, she can get things out of trees instead of me having to climb up and fall out and when I meet an aggressive dog, she puts herself between me and the teeth.

[+The Blorenges]

A notebook (or at least a sheet of paper) to jot down things I might want to mention in the logs, plus tracking numbers of any trackables we retrieve and reminders of where we dropped any others off.

 

mrsB

[+t.a.folk]

your GPS (and pen) you couldn't do without when caching? Bare minimum? Obviously, apart from legs and common sense!

In other words, if you could only take 1 other item on a trip, what would it be?

 

A walking stick /prodding stick .

[+lodgebarn]

Stick is good, also tweezers for those fiddly nano logs.

[+matt_tee]

your GPS (and pen) you couldn't do without when caching? Bare minimum? Obviously, apart from legs and common sense!

In other words, if you could only take 1 other item on a trip, what would it be?

 

Notebook (for working out clues)

[+prot1]

spare batteries for my gps'r because it is garunteed to run out of power just as i am neering gz

[+Simply Paul]

My camera (Fuji HS10) for daylight caching, or a good torch (I have a solly-style headtorch) for night caching. Both can be raided for batteries to run the GPS if those go flat. I make a point of buying equipment which runs on AAs for just this reason.

[+LucretiaUK]

your GPS (and pen) you couldn't do without when caching? Bare minimum? Obviously, apart from legs and common sense!

In other words, if you could only take 1 other item on a trip, what would it be?

 

I'm still a newbie and can't afford a hand held GPS yet so I use my smart phone for the moment. My bag also has a pencil, obviously (and some bits for swapping) but my best companion is my Leki walking stick. Great for clearing nettles and making me look like a slightly disabled rambler, rather than a stalker!

[+Grizzly Pair]

Mrs Grizzly - good for distracting dogs and cattle- they can always recognise the fear, and as a decoy for all sorts of biting insects.

[+Palujia]

my small hairy git - AKA "Flashy" my tireless Border Terrier - Not only keeps me company but brave as a lion and very ambitious when meeting lady dogs !!!

[+drdick&vick]

Try not to forget my Mk1 Missus, comes in very handy for retrieving caches that are under spiky bushes, up in trees, half way down cliff faces, thigh deep water and of course she doubles up as a Sherpa.

[+The Other Stu]

Am I the only person who takes the car?

 

But seriously, like most others, I need a phone. I'm terrible at finding caches so i frequently need a PAF.

[+MartyBartfast]

For me, nothing is absolutely essential. I often grab my Blackberry and pop out from work at lunchtime on a whim (I work in London), and just go in my office wear and fairly often forget to even take a pen. I've also found one or two without even a GPS, so strictly speaking it's just me that's required.

 

Having said all that, when I go on a caching trip then my essentials are some sort of stick, a hat, a couple of pens and any TBs I happen to have to be moved on; nice to haves are a small pocket telescope and a multi tool.

[+LucretiaUK]

Am I the only person who takes the car?

 

Not at all! I'm loving exploring the countryside in my area by car, with a route planned around a few caches.

[+Dr Evil.]

I want to say a pen but when i get to a cache i have always left it behind or lost it on the way, so im going with batteries

[+firestars]

Torch

Edited October 13, 2011 by firestars

[+Forest Ninjas]

I would have to say torch too, I/we do most caching in the evening/at night, but it would be useful in the day too.

[+little-miss-naughty]

geobar

 

lmn

[+HouseOfDragons]

Hmm... iphone or camera. Both good as diversionary tactics for muggles with the phone having the edge as it may just get me out of trouble too! I'll go with the iPhone I think.

[+drsolly]

Hmm... iphone or camera. Both good as diversionary tactics for muggles with the phone having the edge as it may just get me out of trouble too! I'll go with the iPhone I think.

 

I don't need props for my diversionary tactics. I have this dance that I do, guaranteed to make everyone in the vicinity pretend that I'm not there.

[+BlueDeuce]

I live in a rural area so new caches are far and few between. This means most of my caching is done near where I work, over my lunch hour. Plenty of parks and nature trails to get me fairly deep into the woods but once I have found and replaced a cache and before I walk away I always do a pocket check. Gps? Keys? Wallet? Cellphone?

 

Obviously I always carry the last three even when I'm not caching so I would say the one other thing I bring along is a walking stick. Very handy, many uses. Stability, defense, moving aside weeds and cobwebs, pole vaulting over creeks, poking into holes, wrangling hard to reach caches, pointing at various interesting sights.

 

Of course, I have left my stick at a cache. I know, I'll add it to my checklist.

[+squirtchy]

Food..... ngl... when youre doing 80+ caches in a day from 5am-7pm... you need it

[+mellers]

Afterbite. No contest.