The Basics

[avroair]

This was in the main forums, but I am bringing it here for a Northeast perspective. I have a backpack just about ready to go with all my geocaching stuff in. BESIDES the GPSr, here are my 7 essential goecaching items, what are yours?

 

1. DEET 33% - back you fearless little pests!

2. Powerbars and trail mix - humming like a dutch oven!

3. Orange 'Life is Good' T-shirt and backpack - tried bareback, not good

4. Digital Camera - to take pictures of locationless caches on the way

5. 4 32 oz bottles of H2O - dehydration is your worst enemy!

6. cellphone - to use the 'call a friend' lifeline

7. sunglasses - so I can see in the dark

 

Close but not necessary: cache pages & spare batteries

[+Team Rampant Lion]

As a Sussex Co. geocacher, here are mine:

 

1) Bear Mace: fire extinguisher size (for one brute in particular).

 

2) Dog Mace: for geocaching on my mountain bike (used to be my bear mace until I figured my arm would have been eaten before the bear was close enough for it to reach).

 

3) The Extractor: snake venom removal kit. After my trip through the copperhead nest. I thought of what bad shape I would have been in if I had been bit.

 

4) DEET 100%: when you visit Edison in Sparta, you'll know why.

 

5) Digital camera: to try to get a picture of the beasts above

 

6) Camelback Ridge Runner: a nearly endless supply of water + lots of backpack room

 

Oh yeah and my backpack sized stamp!

Edited September 14, 2004 by Team Rampant Lion

[+macatac1961]

My first five would be about the same as yours Avro, sans the Orange 'Life is Good' T-shirt.

6) First aid kit

7) Walking stick

[+HartClimbs]

If I had to list 7 things....

 

6 friends

1 GPS.

Edited September 14, 2004 by HartClimbs

[+edscott]

Seven essential things to geocache??? Maybe I can find that many..

 

Shoes

Shorts

Map

My favorite gel pen

Something to trade

 

Nope, can't come up with 7.

[+DocDiTTo]

I would add a Mirror and a Flashlight. I acutally needed them both for getting my hands on a cache not too long ago.

[shanni-bugbait-wren]

I guess these would be our 6 essentials:

 

1. BUGSPRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (with 33% DEET)

 

2. A pen

 

3. Trade items

 

4. H2O - at least 36 fluid ounces

 

5. granola bars or quick energy fuel

 

6. Spider Stick - eewwwwwww hate the webs in my face YUCK!

[+JMBella]

This was in the main forums, but I am bringing it here for a Northeast perspective. I have a backpack just about ready to go with all my geocaching stuff in. BESIDES the GPSr, here are my 7 essential goecaching items, what are yours?

 

1. DEET 33% - back you fearless little pests!

2. Powerbars and trail mix - humming like a dutch oven!

3. Orange 'Life is Good' T-shirt and backpack - tried bareback, not good

4. Digital Camera - to take pictures of locationless caches on the way

5. 4 32 oz bottles of H2O - dehydration is your worst enemy!

6. cellphone - to use the 'call a friend' lifeline

7. sunglasses - so I can see in the dark

 

Close but not necessary: cache pages & spare batteries

You forgot to mention a GPS. Oh that's right, you don't carry one.

[avroair]

Oh you are so caught! JMbella, I saw you wearing that 'man-bag' it was so dainty and purse-like, you couldn't fit the cache you were carrying in it!!!

 

Want me to pick you up another in Italy?