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 makman
   
Location: Rochester, NY
Gender: Male
I live alone with a criminal
 |  | Re: what you can bring. and what do you usually bring?
<Reply # 40 on 10/3/2009 7:26 AM >
|  | | | Posted by DevilC
Finding a drinkable beer in a can is NOT an easy task.
James Page and TJ's Simpler Times Lager are both good choices.
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What's wrong with a bottle?
I've been planning to bring a good hefeweizen (with proper glass) to the next roof I visit. 
Be careful, not safe.
"Urbex- so much fun that it should be illegal." |
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IIVQ
    
Location: La Sud-Est du cité majeur du North-Holland (Bijlmer), .NL
Gender: Male
Back in Urbex!
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<Reply # 41 on 10/3/2009 1:03 PM >
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I always take a copy of Windows Server 2003 Unleashed (The R2 Edition) and if you don't your not just NOT an explorer, but a fool.
http://www.ebookpd...3/149548263852.jpg
Chris...
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Tssss... Why bring a book.
I usually take these:
 . Manuals can be read online, that's why I usually also bring a POTS-PBX and a cellular connector for it. Modems can usually be found on-site (though at a variety of baud speeds).
Though I once was stuck with this, as the location only could live with magnetic tape (12" reels) and floppies...
Posted by TheVicariousVadder
checklist of what to bring ... what NOT to bring ...
VITAL EXPLORER EQUIPMENT:
fubar wrecking bar
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I want one!
But in all seriousness, I have a full checklist, which contains 3 main parts:
PACK- Contact lens stuff (portable) + glasses
- Cleaning towels
- Overall (I used to bring this often but don't do this lately)
- Buff (I bring this because my headlamp will slide off of my head without it. No, tightening won't help)
- backpack
- Tripod
- Camera + batteries + cards
- 4.5L water / day (that's 3 1.5L bottles)
- Coke (usually I bring either 2 .5L bottles or 3 cans)
- Cookies (the fruity ones)
- Bread (that means: 8 slices of prepared bread, usually with cheese)
- Head lamp
- Batteries AAA (for head lamp)
- Passport
- Documentation (maps etc)
- Tomtom
- Binoculars
- Radio
- Portophones
- Cash (50 euro min)
- Toilet Paper
- Crayons / Wasco
- Coat
When in cold:- Camera Sock (funny story, my IXUS' battery life DRAMATICALLY decreased in the cold - so I brought a sock to keep it mildly warm between shots). Haven't tested my EOS 450D for cold)
- Gloves
- Tuque
- Shawl
Multi-day trips:- Toothbrush + paste
- Contact lens stuff
- Deodorant
- Sleeping bag / mattrass / extra blanket
- Pillow
- Clean clothes
- Towel
- phone charger
- camera charger
DO- Charge camera batteries
- Charge portos
- charge 6 AAA bateries (put 3 in headlamp)
- charge phone
- charge toothbrush
- music on SD-card (for car radio)
- CF-card empty
- CF-card in camera
- make bread
- empty car
- empty coat pockets
- write down locations / in tomtom
- write down phone numbers
GET- Cash money
- Cookies
- Krentenbollen (a dutch treeat)
- Coke (bottle (for in the car))
- Coke (cans)
About 2 days before going on a trip, I start ticking off this list and charging/buying things, ticking off items I have and that I don't need (for e.g. - no portos when we're going with only 1 car). Usually people laugh at the amount of stuff I have with me (including, in the car, another 6 litres of water, a first-aid set, another set of toothbrush and deodorant and car-lighter-chargers for most phones) but usually, in the end of the day, allways someone has had to rely on one of my items.
Tijmen
Posted by MapMan | 18/9/2005 19:25 | Hedy Lamarr made porn?
Posted by turbozutek | 20/9/2005 2:29 | Dude, educate us! |
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splumer
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Gender: Male
| | Re: what you can bring. and what do you usually bring?
<Reply # 42 on 10/3/2009 2:41 PM >
| | | | Posted by macman5151
What's wrong with a bottle?
I've been planning to bring a good hefeweizen (with proper glass) to the next roof I visit.
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Bottles can break. But why bring beer at all? Don't they get all shook up in your pack? I try to go as minimal as possible, and take NOTHING at which the gendarmes would look askance.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
-Madeline Albright |
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makman
Location: Rochester, NY
Gender: Male
I live alone with a criminal
| | Re: what you can bring. and what do you usually bring?
<Reply # 43 on 10/3/2009 4:09 PM >
| | | | Posted by splumer
Bottles can break. But why bring beer at all? Don't they get all shook up in your pack? I try to go as minimal as possible, and take NOTHING at which the gendarmes would look askance.
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Why, for celebration, of course. Nothing like a good bock or wheat beer to celebrate a good entrance. I'll admit, I haven't done this yet, mainly because I haven't had a good location for it. I think I'll bring it next time I try a certain tall psych ward, as it'd make an awesome picnic at the top.
PACK
* Contact lens stuff (portable) + glasses
* Cleaning towels
* Overall (I used to bring this often but don't do this lately)
* Buff (I bring this because my headlamp will slide off of my head without it. No, tightening won't help)
* backpack
* Tripod
* Camera + batteries + cards
* 4.5L water / day (that's 3 1.5L bottles)
* Coke (usually I bring either 2 .5L bottles or 3 cans)
* Cookies (the fruity ones)
* Bread (that means: 8 slices of prepared bread, usually with cheese)
* Head lamp
* Batteries AAA (for head lamp)
* Passport
* Documentation (maps etc)
* Tomtom
* Binoculars
* Radio
* Portophones
* Cash (50 euro min)
* Toilet Paper
* Crayons / Wasco
* Coat |
Wait, you bring all that on a single day trip? A lot of it makes sense, but some of those (coke, passport, contact lens stuff, etc) seem like carrying a lot for a short trip. I suppose it's just a matter of choice, but I really like being able to just grab my pack and go exploring on about 5 minutes notice.
I suppose my pre-trip checklist for a normal local run is:
prepExplore(){
car += gas;
battryCharge++;
getMap();
grab("tripod","camera","water","flashlight")
if(have("granola bar")){
grab("granola bar");
}
go();
}
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Be careful, not safe.
"Urbex- so much fun that it should be illegal." |
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IIVQ
Location: La Sud-Est du cité majeur du North-Holland (Bijlmer), .NL
Gender: Male
Back in Urbex!
| | | | | Re: what you can bring. and what do you usually bring?
<Reply # 44 on 10/3/2009 4:16 PM >
| | | | Posted by macman5151
Wait, you bring all that on a single day trip?
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Well, that was when I had a car, I wouldn't bring all that now that I'm reliant on others for transport. I'd ditch the tomtom and the radio off course, and the portophones can go too.
However, yes, I bring all the other stuff. It's not too much though - it all (sans tripod) fits in one backpack, if I leave one bottle of water in the car for drinking there.
Tijmen
P.S. I have a backpack that doesn't feel right until it has at least 4 or 5 kg of stuff in it.
Posted by MapMan | 18/9/2005 19:25 | Hedy Lamarr made porn?
Posted by turbozutek | 20/9/2005 2:29 | Dude, educate us! |
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gr8fzy1
Location: Waterbury, CT
Gender: Male
Fewer and Fewer...
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<Reply # 46 on 11/13/2009 6:36 AM >
| | | | Posted by urbexkeith
here is all the stuff i bring now1.
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What's the lock for, do you ride a bike?
Softly creeping through
Empty hallways decades old,
glimpsing history. |
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Komiyan
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Gender: Male
| | Re: what you can bring. and what do you usually bring?
<Reply # 47 on 11/13/2009 1:48 PM >
| | | | Posted by urbexkeith
WAAY too much stuff.
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WOAH! That much stuff would bog you down.
I don't think all that is necessary, only bring what's necessary for your expedition, and what you can carry.
I definitely wouldn't bring a bike, because a bunch of bikes outside a drain/building might look sus, and they could get nicked.
I guess you could use a scooter/skateboard if you don't mind carrying it around.
But water, batteries, food, first-aid, and a few backup supplies are always a must. In my case i might even bring my gas-powered soldering iron if my custom floodlight goes out.
Maybe fill a small backpack with stuff, don't let it exceed 7kg [~15lb] or it'll be cumbersome and annoying.
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urbexkeith
Gender: Male
S & W B
| | | Re: what you can bring. and what do you usually bring?
<Reply # 48 on 11/13/2009 3:25 PM >
| | | | Posted by gr8fzy1
What's the lock for, do you ride a bike?
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yeah bike
With the bashy bashy
http://www.flickr....elics_photography/ |
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urbexkeith
Gender: Male
S & W B
| | | Re: what you can bring. and what do you usually bring?
<Reply # 49 on 11/13/2009 3:26 PM >
| | | | Posted by Komiyan
WOAH! That much stuff would bog you down.
I don't think all that is necessary, only bring what's necessary for your expedition, and what you can carry.
I definitely wouldn't bring a bike, because a bunch of bikes outside a drain/building might look sus, and they could get nicked.
I guess you could use a scooter/skateboard if you don't mind carrying it around.
But water, batteries, food, first-aid, and a few backup supplies are always a must. In my case i might even bring my gas-powered soldering iron if my custom floodlight goes out.
Maybe fill a small backpack with stuff, don't let it exceed 7kg [~15lb] or it'll be cumbersome and annoying.
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i usually just bring tripod and cam this is for the really serious shit
With the bashy bashy
http://www.flickr....elics_photography/ |
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don_corleyone
Location: F/RoX
Gender: Male
I have abandonment issues
| | Re: what you can bring. and what do you usually bring?
<Reply # 50 on 11/13/2009 3:38 PM >
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leave the gun. take the cannoli.
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gr8fzy1
Location: Waterbury, CT
Gender: Male
Fewer and Fewer...
| | | | Re: what you can bring. and what do you usually bring?
<Reply # 51 on 11/13/2009 8:20 PM >
| | | | Posted by urbexkeith
yeah bike
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*Hi fives!*
Softly creeping through
Empty hallways decades old,
glimpsing history. |
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35mmVAman
Location: Charlottesville and Richmond VA.
Gender: Male
They call me Iron Isoceles
| | | Re: what you can bring. and what do you usually bring?
<Reply # 52 on 11/13/2009 9:03 PM >
| | | | Posted by hydrotherapy
Thermometer?
...what?
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Yes..of the ANAL kind.
The fleet to date: "Betty" 72 Pentax (Miss her everyday), "Sneaky Pete" 85 Pentax, "Thor" 76 Konica TC
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amy atomic
Location: Baltimore
Gender: Female
top banana of the baltimore bunch.
| | | Re: what you can bring. and what do you usually bring?
<Reply # 53 on 11/13/2009 10:34 PM >
| | | | - Maglite.
- Camera/tripod combo.
- Doc Martens.
- A hoodie.
- A bandana.
- Cigarettes and a lighter.
Aaaand...yeah, that's pretty much it. Sometimes I'll bring in my messenger bag if I feel like having a place to store stuff, but that's only if I feel it's a location that warrants more than the basic equipment or if I don't mind having something strapped around me throughout my exploration. If that's the case, then I usually toss some Bandaids in my bag since I'm really hapless and usually end up hurting myself. Mostly, though, I like to keep things simple. You really don't need much for a basic exploration.
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Yield
Location: Look behind you
Gender: Male
I'd do you for a klondike bar
| | Re: what you can bring. and what do you usually bring?
<Reply # 54 on 11/24/2009 6:50 AM >
| | | | Posted by WEKurtz
Something I never see on peoples list: An emergency whistle. You know, a "rape" whistle or whatever. If I'm disabled and in an out of the way place I can only yell for so long and the whistle (I have a killer one) can be heard far and wide. MHO.
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oh em gee. I can't believe I've never even considered this before. Usually I think so much about how not to make noise this would never have crossed my mind.
Thank you!
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bouncewiggle
Location: Johnson City, TN
Gender: Female
| | | | Re: what you can bring. and what do you usually bring?
<Reply # 55 on 11/30/2009 5:52 PM >
| | | | Posted by DevilC
Finding a drinkable beer in a can is NOT an easy task.
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Beer is a liquid, therefore it is drinkable. ;)
As for stuff I bring...
If I'm thinking ahead more than "I want to go take photos somewhere" then I'll have my backpack with a few lights (usually two headlamps), my camera, my tripod, maybe an extra layer if it's cold, and my tripod. Sometimes I bring gloves. Usually I forget water but it's good to have. I try to always have my ID on me, and I usually have my phone. Typically my backpack always has a lighter and a knife in it, but lately the knife has gone missing. =\
I don't like carrying a ton of crap with me, and backpacks are unwieldy for climbing. Minimal is better. Having a first aid kit and other emergency stuff would be swell, but that's just unneeded weight/bulk in all likelihood. Besides, you can MacGuyver stuff in a pinch if it becomes necessary.
[last edit 11/30/2009 5:54 PM by bouncewiggle - edited 1 times]
"bouncewiggle, now more entertaining than Jell-O" |
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hydrotherapy
 
Clever Girl
Location: Circle of Least Confusion
RPS is inside all of us
| | | Re: what you can bring. and what do you usually bring?
<Reply # 56 on 11/30/2009 6:13 PM >
| | | | Posted by 35mmVAman
Yes..of the ANAL kind.
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I thought there was a private board for that sort of exploration.
Get down, girl, go 'head, get down. |
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kts
Location: Laurel, MD
Gender: Male
LOL WAT?
| | | | Re: what you can bring. and what do you usually bring?
<Reply # 57 on 11/30/2009 6:54 PM >
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i build a pinhole camera out of the rubber band and paper clip to take my photos with.
SERIOUS BUSINESS - proud member of the 2nd legitimate Baltimore urbex crew that exists. |
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Blue Taco
Location: The Burnie
Gender: Male
| | | Re: what you can bring. and what do you usually bring?
<Reply # 58 on 12/1/2009 2:26 AM >
| | | | Posted by DevilC
Finding a drinkable beer in a can is NOT an easy task.
James Page and TJ's Simpler Times Lager are both good choices.
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Yuppie.
"I am the stone that the builder refused"
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shadowedsmile
Location: Northwestern Ontario
Gender: Female
mines always on the mind
| | Re: what you can bring. and what do you usually bring?
<Reply # 59 on 12/1/2009 2:58 AM >
| | | | camera
tripod
water and crystal light
sometimes some granola bars
ID
car keys.
that's it.
"Adventure is the respectful pursuit of trouble." - Expedition Overland |
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