+DavidMac Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 Didn't see another thread like this, so... My friends have been complaining lately about the amount of stuff that I have acquired in the backseat and trunk of my car. so I decided to check it out. I was pretty surprised at the amount of stuff that has collected back there, mostly from various caching trips over the last few months. I decide that I may have an unexpected need for something next time I'm out caching, so it stays in the trunk. Am I just a packrat, or does everybody else do the same, too? My inventory: (not all is shown ) tool kit 3 flashlights sunshade ice scraper 10 lb bag of kitty litter (for ice) bottle of Rain-X 80+ feet of non-climbing rope 24 pack of bottled water cammo duct tape plastic grocery bags orange safety vest metal detector 2 pillows camping chair snorkeling gear (fins, mask, snorkel, boots) 2 life jackets Delorme topo atlases for TN and NC Walmart USA Road atlas various maps of local recreational areas large pinecone (picked up near cache in AL) 12 copies of the Geocache-U brochure and of course, 4 cache containers of various sizes. Quote Link to comment
+rusty_tlc Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 I live in Nevada, don't ask. Quote Link to comment
+TeamK-9 Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 On any given day, in the car I probably have, 1-3 maglites, a couple road flares, a couple glow sticks, my traffic cone, a brochure or two about geocaching, rope, (not climbing rope, more of just work rope, but I use it for less technical climbing) and a few other random things... Quote Link to comment
+Amazingracer Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 I have: 2 Mag lites Car emercency kit 2 Tire inflators Rand Macnally(sp) Road Atlas Georgia State Atlas Various cachrgers for all electronics A giant Ammo box tied down in the bag full of cache gear (logbook,pens, pencils, caches, trade goods) 5 copies of Geo Brochure My CamelBak full of other cache gear A Geo Parking info sheet with Name and Contact info (incase of illegal parking) And countless other odds and ends in the storage compartments. Gald to see im not only one where geocaching has invaded their car! Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 I drive a Jeep, I don't have a trunk. Quote Link to comment
+woof n lulu Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 We have an Expedition....it holds lots Quote Link to comment
+MC_Phil Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 Didn't see another thread like this, so... My friends have been complaining lately about the amount of stuff that I have acquired in the backseat and trunk of my car. so I decided to check it out. I was pretty surprised at the amount of stuff that has collected back there, mostly from various caching trips over the last few months. I decide that I may have an unexpected need for something next time I'm out caching, so it stays in the trunk. Am I just a packrat, or does everybody else do the same, too? brochure and of course, 4 cache containers of various sizes. Umm, why do you need scuba flippers and googles? Thats some hard core searching! I got my backpack cache goody bag for trading water bottles (need start using my camel pack) walking stick bear spray mosquitoe spray shovel (1/2 the alaska caches are buried with snow) gaiters snow boots snow pants extra hats and gloves gps walkie talkie cell phone Quote Link to comment
+Lone Duck Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 (edited) I drive a Class B motorhome (van sized) that has all of the normal conveniances that you would find in a larger motorhome. It doesn't really have a trunk in it, but I do haul the kitchen sink wherever I go. As far as storage goes, there's stuff that I've forgotten about in the cabinets, drawers, and other hidey holes all over the vehicle. Edited April 20, 2004 by Lone Duck Quote Link to comment
+programmer64 Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 Thank god I'm not the only one whose vehicle is totally caching equipt! I'll take a pic tommorow and post it. Quote Link to comment
+Desert_Warrior Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 I drive a Jeep, I don't have a trunk. DITTO !!! Except my jeep has the steering wheel on the right side. Hmmm... does that mean yours is on the wrong side? Hmmm... mine was a mail jeep. Does that mean yours is a femail jeep? Quote Link to comment
+Cache Viking Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 I live in Nevada, don't ask. Wooohooo Nevada and the stuff in their trunks. I have a friend in NV. Quote Link to comment
+Imajika Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 An emergency kit One cache ready to go, I just need a plce to put it. I keep it in the trunk in case I find some hiding spot while I am out and about. Quote Link to comment
+JeepCachr Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 I drive a jeep and its loaded with lots of off-road gear. I can go just about anywhere that my winch cable will reach. I've even got compressed CO2 for running air tools and inflating tires. My next addition will hopefully be a on board welder. Quote Link to comment
+DavidMac Posted April 20, 2004 Author Share Posted April 20, 2004 (edited) Umm, why do you need scuba flippers and googles? Thats some hard core searching! The goggles were so that I could have an easier time checking up on my hydrocache (a bit hard to see through the surface of that water). Decided to bring along the whole setup and go for a little swim afterward . Edited April 20, 2004 by DavidMac Quote Link to comment
+JeepCachr Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 (edited) double post Edited April 20, 2004 by JeepCachr Quote Link to comment
+Red Clover Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 In the back of my car: 2 cans of fix-a-flat 2 gallons water couple of flashlights small blanket ziplocks, pens, notebooks Car emergency kit Rope, bungie cords baby wipes sunscreen feminine products (now thats an emergecy ) non perishable snacks drinking water GA atlas CB radio crap I got way more stuff back there than I thought I did... Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 I've been out of town for so long that I don't remember all the stuff thats in the back of my Grand Cherokee. As I recall, there is a small pack full of gear, a duffle full of cachables, two blankets, a case of water, a first aid kit, a small duffle containing a change of clothes and a towel, and a box filled with cleaning supplies and an air filter. Also, you will find a tarp, jumper cables, tow rope and small case of tools. Of course, that was about six weeks ago. My wife probably has a box of music in the back now. My rental car has nothing in the trunk. Quote Link to comment
+Pobre Rico Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 My trunk is completely empty... I think. I've never looked in it. Then, again, I've only owned the car for 11 hours. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 (edited) Went out to my CRV and took inventory: 3 safety flares Trail work stuff (pruning saw, loppers, folding bow saw, bag of metal trail blazes in a variety of colors, 2 rolls of orange flagging tape, 2 boxes of 2.5" galvanized roofing nails, a gardening mattock, small shovel and 6 metal signs reading "Entering Bergen County Property, ATV's, Bicycles and Horses Prohibited") Geocaching stuff including a bag of trade items, a .50 cal ammo box, several log books in Ziplocs, 3 Lock 'n Lock containers, 1 Rubbermaid and 2 decon boxes) several lengths of rope a bag of bungee cords A 48 pack of AA batteries Bowling bag w/ 2 balls & shoes 4 Foam blocks for carrying a canoe on the roof 5 Komperdell hiking poles Ice scraper 1 Mountainsmith daypack and 1 Arc'teryx daypack 2 Sigg water bottles work gloves gardening knee pads 2 FRS radios 1 gallon windshield washer fluid travel pack of Handi Wipes Fleece jacket Cotton sweatshirt Can of diet Coke a Cliff bar rain pants Letterboxing stamp and book A bag of 8 soccer balls A bag of other soccer stuff (pinnies, white board, cones, 1st aid kit). Softball glove and 3 bats soccer and softball cleats A case of 24 CDs. 1 snowshoe (so thaaat's where it went) 2 ski carrier/locks cable lock for my bicycle 3 bottles of Poland Spring water 2 baseball type hats (1 blaze orange for hiking during hunting season) a bookcrossing book found in a local park (Cold Mountain) 2 cans Off! insect repellent and 1 can Permanone tick repellent a hammer A rubber mallet small set of socket and box wrenches tool box a bag of litter I picked up while hiking (well I threw that out) 1 container Armor All wipes 1 container Armor All cleanup wipes 1 container Windex wipes 2 milk crates holding a lot of this stuff I really gotta clean that sucker out! Edited April 20, 2004 by briansnat Quote Link to comment
mistaken4sisters Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 We have 2 fishing poles small toolbox shopping bag of swag jumper cables qt. of oil old sneakers (2 pair) softball bat flashlight maps (WV, NJ, NYC) armor all wipes and glass cleaner I recently cleaned out my car (guess that would be our other car) found: 2 vols. of NY Domestic Relations Law ALWD citation manual NYSBA Lawyer's Code of Professional Responsibility Lawyer's Manual on Domestic Violence Representing the Victim a large binder from a DV conference empty coffee cup empty bottle of some sort. Quote Link to comment
+Team DEMP Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 I have golf clubs, a golf shoe bag, some golf balls rolling around, a router pad, a very old neck tie and an ice scraper. I have on my to-do list to create a box for the trunk that will hold some things to clean up the kids and their shoes before they get back in the car. Items like wipes, paper towels, a brush to get mud off their shoes, etc. Quote Link to comment
+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 Backseat? Trunk? Drive a truck, nothing back there but chainsaws, for clearing a path to the cache, beer for rehydrating and at times a deer or two. Quote Link to comment
+Boot Group Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 So far, we've been able to contain all of our Geo-caching stuff in one backpack. In it we keep our goodies bag, with a sharpened pencil to sign logs without them, a first aid kit, 2 bottles of water, our digital camera, and all the printed sheets for the caches we are planning to try that day. We just "summerized" our camper on this beautiful Patriots Day weekend so I suppose we should start a second bag to keep in there so we are always ready to go. Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 I drive a Jeep, I don't have a trunk. DITTO !!! Except my jeep has the steering wheel on the right side. Hmmm... does that mean yours is on the wrong side? Hmmm... mine was a mail jeep. Does that mean yours is a femail jeep? HEY!!! I knew a girl in high school that drove a Wagoneer with the wheel on the right side. They had brought it over from Germany, I believe. Quote Link to comment
kc2ixe Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 Varies on time of year - no parka now Let's see - off the top of my head My usual "go bag" (see www.thegallos.com/gobag.htm ) 30 ft 1.5" flat line 4" steel beiner chains hardhat 6 foot sling maps case of water toilet paper plastic bags food (enough for 2+ days) various non climbing ropes stobes copper pipe jpole antenna 50 ft 9913 coax duct tape ammo can with first aid kit and flashlight a few more flashlights spare batteries shovel (full sized) spare vest spare orange hats rain gear 2 5 gallon buckets (one clean, one for use as "the can" if ever needed) fire extingusher spare dual band antenna spare mag mount antenna 2 radios - both GE commercial - VHF and UHF truck mounted "rangr" radios - 100 watts each - programmed for 2m and 440Mhz bands usually 3 HTs - monobanders in 2m and 440Mhz, and a Dualbander APRS tracker box - aka, a 2m Ham radio, 7Ah battery, TNC and GPS in one container truck has "house" and "starter" batteries Oh yeah, sleeping roll, tarps, tent pegs and the like. Reflective tape mounted to magnetic sign material Mess Kit I think I have most of it there - other stuff gets added as needed (masts for antennas, more coax, etc) Quote Link to comment
+rusty_tlc Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 I drive a Jeep, I don't have a trunk. I have a Landcruise, the glove box dosen't even lock. Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 I pemanently store most of my camping gear in my car. Add to that the fact that I am a pack rat and you can imagine what my car looks like. Quote Link to comment
+Latitude 26 Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 Wow! I guess I travel pretty lite in comparison to some of you folks! I have 2 sticks in the back of my Explorer, to get rid of spider webs on cache hunts. I wear a "fanny pack" that has most of what I need on my limited experiences caching. Trash bags, a few swag items to trade, spare batteries, flashlight, pens, paper to make notes on (my memory is sh*t...). Also bring jug of water, GPS (duh) & camera. I live in So. Fla (flat as a pancake), so the climbing and snow gear isn't required!! "Bassmedic" Quote Link to comment
+Amazingracer Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 Dear lord BrianS!!!! How in the world does all that stuff fit in your CRV and you still have room to get in it. If I was space limited in the 2-door Blazer, I most assuredly would have 3x's the about of gear I have in there now! Quote Link to comment
adampierson Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 I keep at all times a 2 flashlights, 2 spare sets of batteries for my GPS, a spare geocache filled with goodies (you never know when you'll stumble on a good spot to plant a cache and it is good hold your trades), walking stick, and spare sweater. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted April 20, 2004 Share Posted April 20, 2004 Dear lord BrianS!!!!How in the world does all that stuff fit in your CRV and you still have room to get in it. That's just in the cargo area. I won't go into what's in the back seat right now. Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 Dear lord BrianS!!!!How in the world does all that stuff fit in your CRV and you still have room to get in it. That's just in the cargo area. I won't go into what's in the back seat right now. Reminds me of a car accident I worked as a paramedic. The guy was a total packrat and hit another car head-on at 70mph. There was stuff scattered for a quarter mile down the highway....a lot of stuff!!! Then, after we pulled him out of his car and got him loaded in the ambulance, he asked if his wife was ok.... Wife? Yeah, she's in the car still. Yup, sure enough, she was in the back seat, buried under tons of trash and junk!!!! There was still so much crap in his car, we couldn't even see her!!! She was unconscious, but basically unhurt...we think she was passed out from drinking, and not really injured from the accident...probably never even knew she'd been in an accident! Quote Link to comment
+SBPhishy Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 I have a lot of crap in my trunk. Trash Dirty Rags gas can school textbooks and notebooks random paintballs. Some squished. The cool things I have in my trunk are: My wonderful Sector 9 skateboard. My 12 inch JLAudio sub and my thumpin' JBL amp. My car's a piece... But it's got a nice stereo system... Quote Link to comment
+SamLowrey Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 2 Tire inflators What is that? I have a few cans of Fix-a-Flat, but I would rather have something that just has air and not sealant. I could have sworn I saw that once, but now that I am looking for it, I don't see it anywhere. Quote Link to comment
+Stunod Posted April 21, 2004 Share Posted April 21, 2004 ...Dirty Rags gas can... Molotov cocktails?? Quote Link to comment
+travisl Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 (edited) Edit: Also, under my contact info is a goretex jacket, also not yet used. My geopack has swag, pens, pencils, shapeners, a CITO bag, first aid supplies, and 50' of rope. I generally take it on every hunt, even parking lot micros. Edited April 22, 2004 by travisl Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 (edited) Here's the pic. This gives me the incentive to clean it. Maybe I'll post the after photo later today if I get the chance to clean it. Edited April 22, 2004 by briansnat Quote Link to comment
Micqn Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 I don't know but he's starting to smell bad. Quote Link to comment
+geoPirat Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 Hi, I am caching in Germany (where the car is steered from the LEFT side). My usual Pajero Inventory is: 4 AA Batts 3 Flashlights JVC Subnotebook with wireless Internet Access (ever forgot to print out the hint photo? ) gps car holder compass Road Maps 1:200000 for Germany Bag of trade items backpack with new fully equipped cache box Army shovel Plastic bags (small & large) geoCache stickers for logbook geoCache calling cards as sig items of course Pencils small binocl. sun glasses gloves cell phone rope for measuring swiss army knife and sometimes another backback with climbing gear. In spite of that mass of stuff, sometimes there is missing something That does not leave too much space for the two big dogs, 2 children and wife, eh? Some times they complain (not the dogs, the rear part is always completely empty for them) . . . Keep hunting. Quote Link to comment
+Marky Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 Here's a pic that someone took of our cachemobile: The two bins on the left are caches, the two on the right are trade items. There's other random stuff back there as well. --Marky Quote Link to comment
+TeamK-9 Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 Here's a pic that someone took of our cachemobile:(Image removed) The two bins on the left are caches, the two on the right are trade items. There's other random stuff back there as well. --Marky Holy crap, that thing is loaded, AND ORGANIZED.. But I truly have to submit a description of a friend's cachemobile just for fun. Basically, he made a run to the army surplus store and bought all kinds of ammo cans and brought them to our CITO event, his little subaru was absolutely PACKED, with ammo cans... Quote Link to comment
+SnowLeopard Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 I only need one thing in my trunk... Quote Link to comment
GeoFD Posted April 28, 2004 Share Posted April 28, 2004 I HAVE A TRUCK BUT INT THE BED I HAVE A HI-LIFT JACK AND A SHOVEL, IN THE EXTRA CAB I HAVE A TOOL BOX, AN AMMO CAN WITH ALL MY OFF ROAD NEEDS, BINOCULARS, WATER, BACK PACK WITH ALL MY GEOSWAG. Quote Link to comment
+Anne Bonney Posted April 28, 2004 Share Posted April 28, 2004 I'm a Jeeper with no trunk, as well. The back seat is reserved for the 2 dogs and at least one section behind a front seat is for all of their "necessities". Sacred space and all. Behind the back seat is stuff to save my life should I ever find myself having led myself (and the two dogs and others) into danger. Since I got a big duffel bag for these tidbits it's a lot roomier back there. Here's the list: small shovel, tow rope, assorted tools, long metal hollow pipe (to loosen overtightened lugnuts), air compressor/emergency light/radio thingie, blankets, towels, gloves, green gunk for tire fixes (I have tire issues....), insulated bag for emergency picnic supplies and--what ALL of you have missed: a kite. There's jackets and sweats jammed under the backseat and my platypus hydration pack has it's own long list of must haves, too. Why, if I hadn't had my Platypus yesterday, I'd still be stuck somewhere between a cache and home. I managed to pick up a piece of barbed wire in a rear tire. To quote my protogee--"What are the chances that this piece of wire would roll just the right way to go into the tire like that (full length--that of a corkscrew--he measured it!)?" With a last name of Murphy I know I need no explination. We pulled the offending item out with my Leather(wo)man and used most of the tire fixin' items from the duffel. Yes! I was proud of myself and my foresight! No, I'm not pleased that I have to go fight with Sears now over their crappy-a** road hazard policy. (Yes, this has happened before!) I got a cache that's eluded me for 9+ months, though! It's all good. "Anne Bonney"; Evans, CO Quote Link to comment
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