Tools

[+TeamPoodle]

What do people use when to search around holes and bases of trees etc when they are a bit fearful of bugs and spiders etc ?

[geoawareUSA9]

Usually I just find a little stick.

[+NanCycle]

Gloves

[+Smitherington]

Get someone else to reach in first. 

[+cerberus1]

4 hours ago, Smitherington said:

Get someone else to reach in first. 

 

I'd add make sure they're slower than you also, for checking in possible bear dens too...

[+cerberus1]

11 hours ago, TeamPoodle said:

What do people use when to search around holes and bases of trees etc when they are a bit fearful of bugs and spiders etc ?

 

I usually have a single walking stick.  It's good to get the webs n leaves away too.  But I worry more of things with bigger fangs ...

[+Smitherington]

As I walk through the woods I am waving my walking stick to clear spider webs that would otherwise end up in my face. And they sometimes bring the spiders too. 

[+vw_k]

I take a cheap extendable hiking pole with me. I can use it for poking into dirty, creepy holes, beating foliage out of the way, retrieving dropped/unreachable caches and it helps me feel more secure when climbing/descending slopes etc. You don't need and expensive one, any pole with a bit of a spike/metal tip on the end will do.

[+BAMBOOZLE]

We use hiking sticks and I have a 1/4 inch SS rod about a foot long with a bend on the end for probing in holes.

About 90%+ of micros I find using a 3 " extension mirror........a small  pocket screwdriver with magnet on the end also gets used.