What things (apart from the GPS) do you take with you when geocaching?

[Ka-Ka 0]

Once I tested to bring my palmpilot with information about the caches I'm trying to find otherwise I bring paper copies of cache-information from geocaching.com. I usually bring my small digital camera (GSmart Mini 2).

Edited December 2, 2003 by Tahu Nuva

[+frenne 0]

When i am geocaching i always bring my geo-backpack containing the most necessary things as:

Coffee

Compass

Laptop with Garmin mapsource

Palm Pilot with selected customized cache queries in MobiPocket eBook format

Digital camera

 

Den som letar skall finna - Spunken!

[+Captain Morgan 0]

I have usually also

- spare batteries for my GPSr

- some trading things for caches

- compass

- printed copy of the cache page

- small first aid pack

- binoculars, as i am a birder too

- digicam or regular camera

- pen

- swiss army pocket knife

- my cell phone with internet access

- sometimes a flashlight

- sometimes laptop with map programs

- sometimes something to drink and eat

 

 

[This message was edited by Captain_Morgan&Family on February 28, 2003 at 01:19 AM.]

 

[This message was edited by Captain_Morgan&Family on February 28, 2003 at 02:52 AM.]

[+apersson850 0]

To me, it depends upon if it's a short, just passing by, cache hunt, or if I go out looking for cahces the entire day.

• I usually bring:
• GPS
• Batteries
• Pen (sometimes it doesn't work in the cache)
• Phone
• Often my Palm V, with downloaded descriptions
• A digital camera, if I remember it
• The geosuit, of course

In some instances, additional things may be required, like:

• Flashlight
• Rubber boots
• Food and drink
• Rope
• Wetsuit (mostly to place them...)
• Something to trade, although I don't care too much about that

 

Anders

[+CyberJunkie 0]

Equipment used when caching:

Laptop with swedish Grönakartan that includes LOTS LOTS of maps (but it stays in the car)FlashlightDigital cameratrading thingsOld Silva Compass

 

It seams from teh above posts that some needs a backpack

And cache-information?? nooo... thats not real caching then

 

/CyberJunkie

 

"Only two things are infinite,

the universe and human stupidity,

and I'm not sure about the former...."

[+Divine 0]

• GPS
• spare batteries
• folder with cache printouts
• flashlight
• small knife
• calculator
• pen and pencils
• trinkets and treasures for trading (if I feel like it)
• water, occasionally something to eat too
• occasionally a camera

At this moment my pack contains also:

• a regular size cache waiting for time to be placed
• a micro size cache waiting for time to be placed

Things I should have (or would at least be neat to have):

• PDA
• rubber boots (no, I don't own those at the moment )
• digicam

   

  - All you need is a sick mind and a healthy body. -

[+Tjodleik 0]

Usualy only a GPS.

Then, when i find the cache, i remember that I need tings to trade, and drink, and etc etc....

 

Then i write all the tings down, and forget the note for next time.......

[+epeli 0]

When it is possible (schedules etc) I take the girlfriend :-)

 

[This message was edited by epeli on February 28, 2003 at 10:21 AM.]

[+Nocturnal 0]

quote:

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Originally posted by Ka-Ka:

Once I tested to bring my palmpilot with information about the caches I'm trying to find otherwise I bring paper copies of cache-information from geocaching.com. I usually bring my small digital camera (GSmart Mini 2).

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Always:

GPS

Fisher Spacepen

Digital Camera

Leatherman Wave

Spare batteries for GPS and camera

Mobile phone

Motorola two way radio (PMR)

PocketPC with GPXView

Flashlight

 

Sometimes:

Folding shovel (Wintertime)

Large knife (Wintertime - for breaking frozen rocks free)

Silva compass

More flashlights

Water

[+apersson850 0]

The Fisher space pen is a typical American brute-force engineering example, to solve a problem in the most expensive way.

 

The problem: When there is no gravity, like in a space station, you can't use an ordinary ball-point pen. The ink can fall downwards to the ball, since there is no "down". The solution: A pressurized ink chamber, to force the ink out.

 

The Russians had the same problem, of course, but they didn't have the fund to invent a ball point pen that worked in outer space. Their solution: A pencil. Go figure.

 

Anders

[+Divine 0]

I have a feeling we all are more or less in favor of gizmos and knickknacks since most of us own a GPSr.

 

- All you need is a sick mind and a healthy body. -

[+Nocturnal 0]

quote:

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The Russians had the same problem, of course, but they didn't have the fund to invent a ball point pen that worked in outer space. Their solution: A pencil. Go figure.

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... but speaking as a person who writes in the outdoors: A pencil written note in a damp pocket isn't as legible as a pen written one after a few hours.

 

Space pens rule!

[EnderBoy 0]

I usually bring:

 

* my eTrex

* print of the cache page

* spare batteries

* tradingstuff

* appropriate clothing

 

Things I know I should bring but never do:

 

* The swedish "green map"

* compass

* coffee

 

~*Actl labores jucundi*~

[+ArktiS 0]

Usually when geocaching I bring:

 

- GPS Garmin eTrex Vista with local map,

- Old fashioned, low cost, lead pencil with all weather and deep space capabilities,

- Hardcopy of pages with cache info,

- Hardcopy of local map in typically 1:25000,

- Digital camera,

- Items to leave in the cache.

- Sensible clothing depending on the cache surroundings and weather conditions.

 

In my car I use a Garmin StreetPilot III with local map to get me quickly from my Home to a good parking spot near the cache - and back again.

 

[This message was edited by ArktiS on March 04, 2003 at 05:34 AM.]

[victorjwood 0]

My wife and my car, pen paper clues coat.

 

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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."

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Victor

[+TeamGoonies 0]

• 2 GPS, one in the car and one handheld

• Digicam

• Palm Tungsten-T with pictures from the cache

• Cache-printouts

• Gröna kartan for the area

• Cellphone

• Spare batteries

• Tradingstuff

• Water

[ossmo 0]

I usually go geocaching at night and travel light. I take along

- cache description

- flashlight

- spare batteries

- compass

- map

- pencil (when needeed)

[+Captain Morgan 0]

Nowadays i have also:

- CITO-trashbags, so i can collect trash away from forests

- silica gel bags, that i can place to some cache as a first aid if the cache is damp

 

[+hedberg 0]

Normally:

 

Garmin GPS 12XL

printed info about the cache

biig maglite flashlight

gloves (sometimes you don't want to stick your hands into something unknown)

tradingstuff

pencil

 

Things I want to get:

a compass (!)

a small keyring flashlight (kind of blue lamp with strong light)

rubber boots

 

Thing I have but don't bring with me, but soon will bring with me:

A former photographer-belt with a lot of pockets attached to it. Used to have film and stuff in it, when I was working as a photografer before.

Knife

Waterbottle

PMR-radio (have two of them, and we are two persons (me and my wife))

 

 

mr hedberg

[+Harjus 0]

We have usually with us:

 

-GPSr (Garmin 12)

-flashlight + headlight

-printed cache description

-digicamera

-cellphone

-backbag

-trading items

-spare batteries