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 phractal
 
Location: freeland, WA
Gender: Male
I think therefore I'll tell you what I think.
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<Reply # 20 on 7/18/2011 10:24 PM >
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I love that you take a mag XL100, a whistle, and gloves grocery shopping. I want to shop with you. having smokes and a lighter in the grocery store is also great. please film your next grocery trip.
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You think grocery shopping is exciting? You should see me when I go to the porn store.
Where'd my oh there it is go?...damn.
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barefootpoetry
Location: PA
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 21 on 7/18/2011 11:28 PM >
| | | | Jeans
Sneakers
Tripod
Camera
Water bottle
Smokes/lighter
Snack
Leather gloves
Headlamp
That's it. Most of the time I never use the last two, but they're good to have.
She who hesitates, sees bulldozers. |
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Relocate
Location: nunyabiz
Gender: Male
| | Re: Bare Minimum Gear
<Reply # 22 on 7/20/2011 12:49 AM >
| | | | jeans
steel-toed boots
hooded sweatshirt
extra socks
knife
2D maglite
tactical flashlight
shitty LED flashlight
2 glowsticks
water
emergency rations
backup water
spare batteries for all
point n shoot camera
doorstop
red lenses for flashlights
binoculars
I don't really have a bare minimum kit, I'd hate to be anywhere without most of these items.
EDIT: definitely smokes and a lighter as well
[last edit 7/20/2011 12:49 AM by Relocate - edited 1 times]
To fail in what you've yet to achieve is more the spirit of exploration than to make no attempt at all.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson |
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Astro
      
Usually naked
Location: The Delta Quadrant
Gender: Male
Resistance is Futile
| | Re: Bare Minimum Gear
<Reply # 23 on 7/20/2011 1:52 PM >
| | | | I stress water. Every time I go out with friends who have also packed stuff, they never have enough of it and I always end up giving a lot of mine to them. My truck tends to be my carry-all, with a console that is never ending. Although I don't carry all this stuff in my pack my truck always has a very extensive first aid kit, my combat knife, lighter (not for smoking), flashlights, napkins, gloves, tool kit, and my camera. These are my "carry around daily" things and they are always coming in handy. I even carry bottle of water in there because even though they won't be cold, they WILL be wet. But when I for to a site I generally leave the majority of it in the truck because someone can always go get it. My knife, napkins, camera, and flashlights are the ones I ALWAYS bring.
Of course, dressing for the occasion is a given.
[02:33:56] <Valkyre> Astro your whole life is ruled by the sentence ' life is better without clothes on'
[22:16:00] <DSomms> it was normal until astro got here
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etchleon
Location: toronto today...
Gender: Male
E Tenebris Lux
| | Re: Bare Minimum Gear
<Reply # 24 on 7/22/2011 7:17 PM >
| | | | absolute minimum? Whatever I'm wearing and what ever is in my pockets. (green dress pants, minty green shirt, a pack of smokes, a lighter, Mp3 player, cell phone a small knife, a tiny flashlight, and my multi-tool as of right now)
If I'm planning on going to a typical abandonment (vs active where blending in matters)
cargo/fatigue/BDU pants.
boots with good support and grip.
1 bright white LED flash + 1 red filtered.
slash resistant gloves.
A hat for the purposes of spiders and other related unpleasant surprises.
Note pad and pen.
A first aid kit that fits into one of the pockets on previously stated pants.
My gerber multi-tool.
A few small pieces of plywood block doors from locking me in.
A snack and some water.
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John Quincy Dobbs
Location: Birmingham, AL
Gender: Male
It is what it is.
| | Re: Bare Minimum Gear
<Reply # 25 on 7/23/2011 4:47 PM >
| | | | My bare minimum is basically the stuff I always have in my pockets and on my person:
Steel toed boots
tobacco, papers, lighter
cell phone (counts as camera too 5.1mpx sad, I know)
utility knife
I keep my keys on a chain so I don't lose them, the chain has held a few doors open. It's handy.
flashlight (the same one phractal showed in his photo. good choice! =p)
If it is hot, I'm wearing shorts. I don't mind fleas/chiggers. Comes with the territory in my opinion. I live in Alabama. Some days the heat would be more danger than bugs or scrapes. When it's 97 degrees out and 90% humidity, I'd rather have to pull a few ticks off me than be wearing jeans inside an abandonment with no ventilation.
I'm a bit of a minimalist. It's my exploring partner that insists on bringing a bag full of odds and ends, bottles of water, etc. His stuff will probably save my life one day, knowing how my luck goes haha
Oh yeah, and I spray myself down with deep woods off before I go out on any exploration. And I keep my head shaved, mainly because it feels good, but it sure does help make sure that you don't have any ticks stowed away up there.
[last edit 7/23/2011 4:50 PM by John Quincy Dobbs - edited 1 times]
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urbanxhoui
Location: memphis
Gender: Male
| | Re: Bare Minimum Gear
<Reply # 26 on 7/23/2011 11:40 PM >
| | | | steel toe steel shank leather boots
benchmade griptillian 551 knife
water
park multi tool
4D mag light
basic first aid kit
iphone
water
carhartt dungaree pants
water
carried in a camelback HAWG
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Eschaton
Location: Western NC
Gender: Male
Entry: Eschaton (es-kuh-tawn) noun | end of time, climax of history | Etymology: Greek for 'last'
| | | Re: Bare Minimum Gear
<Reply # 27 on 7/24/2011 5:41 AM >
| | | | After this weekend, I decided I am never going exploring again without gloves. I tried to hop a fence with an old rusty barbed wire, hardly clipped the side of my right hand, and bled profusely.
How profusely? Came back a week later and my blood was still there, where I had dripped all over the ground. Never going to forget those again.
Ars Gratia Adventuris |
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barefootpoetry
Location: PA
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Bare Minimum Gear
<Reply # 28 on 7/24/2011 5:47 AM >
| | | | Posted by Eschaton
After this weekend, I decided I am never going exploring again without gloves. I tried to hop a fence with an old rusty barbed wire, hardly clipped the side of my right hand, and bled profusely.
How profusely? Came back a week later and my blood was still there, where I had dripped all over the ground. Never going to forget those again.
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I bought leather gloves specifically for barbed wire fences. Came in really handy the day after I bought them. Scaled a fence easily while my exploring partner (who was wearing shorts and flip flops!) swore and fumbled and cried. On the way back over I got tangled up in said fence and hung upside down by my ankle for a few minutes trying to look casual while cars went by...but thanks to my gloves, jeans, and sneakers, I was unscathed! Will never explore without them.
She who hesitates, sees bulldozers. |
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Eschaton
Location: Western NC
Gender: Male
Entry: Eschaton (es-kuh-tawn) noun | end of time, climax of history | Etymology: Greek for 'last'
| | | Re: Bare Minimum Gear
<Reply # 29 on 7/24/2011 5:50 AM >
| | | | Posted by barefootpoetry
I bought leather gloves specifically for barbed wire fences. Came in really handy the day after I bought them. Scaled a fence easily while my exploring partner (who was wearing shorts and flip flops!) swore and fumbled and cried. On the way back over I got tangled up in said fence and hung upside down by my ankle for a few minutes trying to look casual while cars went by...but thanks to my gloves, jeans, and sneakers, I was unscathed! Will never explore without them.
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Indeed. I realized I forgot my gloves on the drive over, but panned the thought and decided I was going to be fine. Lesson learned.
Be prepared, kids.
Ars Gratia Adventuris |
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hydrotherapy
  
Clever Girl
Location: Circle of Least Confusion
RPS is inside all of us
| | | Re: Bare Minimum Gear
<Reply # 30 on 7/24/2011 2:17 PM >
| | | | I hate these threads.
Get down, girl, go 'head, get down. |
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Breach
Location: Louisville, KY
Gender: Male
| | Re: Bare Minimum Gear
<Reply # 31 on 7/24/2011 3:19 PM >
| | | | Slingpack
camera
extra film
batteries
Maglight
headlight
MILSPEC right-angle flashlight
water
P100 respo
cargo pants
boots
gloves
smart-ass personality
"I set the bar high, it makes it easier to sneak under." -J.D. Jenkins |
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barefootpoetry
Location: PA
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Bare Minimum Gear
<Reply # 32 on 7/24/2011 3:30 PM >
| | | | Oh, I forgot one more item: bug spray. Being a girl, I get chomped by bugs everywhere I go. Spray isn't always necessary, but I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it. Nothing makes me rush through a shoot faster than hungry mosquitoes following me around. A travel size bug spray fits nicely in a camera bag.
She who hesitates, sees bulldozers. |
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MrSivalls
This member has been banned. See the banlist for more information.
I'll be a-surfin' in yer blood on Saturday night
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<Reply # 33 on 7/24/2011 4:04 PM >
| | | | Water. Knife.
Your security measures were inadequate.
How unfortunate for you. |
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.sarge.
Location: Born in Virginia, Hearts in Washington, live in North Dakota.
Gender: Male
Dammit why didnt I bring my camera
| | Re: Bare Minimum Gear
<Reply # 34 on 7/24/2011 6:59 PM >
| | | | My short list for local places is generally:
flashlight/headlight
camera
tripod (if at night)
jeans/dickies
satchel (Indiana Jones has one) 
knife
cell phone
Additional items that I'll bring depending on location
water
meal replacement bar
gloves
multitool
handgun
waterproof boots
zippo
rope
respirator
walkies
small prybar
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hydrotherapy
Clever Girl
Location: Circle of Least Confusion
RPS is inside all of us
| | | Re: Bare Minimum Gear
<Reply # 35 on 7/24/2011 7:08 PM >
| | | | Posted by barefootpoetry
Being a girl, I get chomped by bugs everywhere I go.
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...what?
Get down, girl, go 'head, get down. |
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.sarge.
Location: Born in Virginia, Hearts in Washington, live in North Dakota.
Gender: Male
Dammit why didnt I bring my camera
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<Reply # 36 on 7/24/2011 7:14 PM >
| | | | Posted by hydrotherapy
...what?
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Om nom nom. 
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Breach
Location: Louisville, KY
Gender: Male
| | Re: Bare Minimum Gear
<Reply # 37 on 7/24/2011 7:50 PM >
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water
meal replacement bar
gloves
multitool
handgun
waterproof boots
zippo
rope
respirator
walkies
small prybar
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Why the fuck would you be carrying these! Get caught and you got bigger worries than being cited for trespass. Even the zippo i wouldn't carry, lest they think you're a firebug.
"I set the bar high, it makes it easier to sneak under." -J.D. Jenkins |
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phractal
Location: freeland, WA
Gender: Male
I think therefore I'll tell you what I think.
| | Re: Bare Minimum Gear
<Reply # 38 on 7/24/2011 8:41 PM >
| | | | Posted by barefootpoetry
Oh, I forgot one more item: bug spray. |
Seconded. I was fencing in my old horse arena the other day to make a dog run for my new dog and I got eaten alive. I went to fetch my deet but apparently the booger eater decided to take it to camp without telling me. I need to remember to keep an extra bottle in my truck.
Where'd my oh there it is go?...damn.
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barefootpoetry
Location: PA
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Bare Minimum Gear
<Reply # 39 on 7/24/2011 11:20 PM >
| | | | Posted by hydrotherapy
...what?
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The general consensus among the males I know is that I get bitten by bugs more often than they do because I'm a girl and therefore taste better. :shrug:
She who hesitates, sees bulldozers. |
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