Keep yer gear together!!!!!

This is a prime example of why I ALWAYS use lanyards, etc. on all my knives and such in the woods and such. I usually put some line of some sort and a clip either to my belt or pack to keep up with all my blades, compass, lighter, and other little gear.

As far as what I have lost:

My BSA knife. Took six hours of hunting in the dark to find it.

My Snap-On Kershaw Ken Onion. It fell out of the cargos in my buddy's Jeep unknown to me. I saw him playing with it and he would not give it back. Said he will when I find the pocket clip, so I fattened his lip for being a thief and said he could keep it. (it has my initials in the scales)

At least 12,000,000,000,000 flashlights.

Various and sundry little cheap-o knives that I am quite certain are locked away in my dad's desk or buried about in my childhood casa.

The finds:

Oakley Thumps with the MP3 player built in on the New Braunfels River.

A case of Shiner...same river.

iPod shuffle in a parking lot.

Fossil watch on a trail.

Case knife stamped 62132 at a truck stop.



PeACE
Dougo
 
Bill Siegle said:
Went camping this past week and while wandering around the river's edge I found a great condition Leatherman Charge and a useable pack of matches sitting on a rock. I can't fathom why someone would leave a perfectly good pack of matches lying around but I am sure they'll be sorry next time they need a fire. Theuy'll probably miss that nice Leatherman tool too :D
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They belonged to the guy sitting on the rock next to them fishing. Maybe if you hadn't snuck up like a damn ninja and stole that stuff while he was wrestling a fish he would have claimed them. Man Bill, you're sneaky.

*Bill singing while running away* "Finders keepers losers weepers!"
 
Bill Siegle said:
Went camping this past week and while wandering around the river's edge I found a great condition Leatherman Charge and a useable pack of matches sitting on a rock. I can't fathom why someone would leave a perfectly good pack of matches lying around but I am sure they'll be sorry next time they need a fire. Theuy'll probably miss that nice Leatherman tool too :D
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No body floating?:rolleyes:
 
There is something to be said for the old Scout procedure of a "sweep" of camp before you trek off. Just since 1990, I am plus three SAK's, a Timex that WILL NOT DIE (15 years), a Gerber multitool (blunt pliers type), skads of tent stakes and cordage, mint Brunton compass, nice fleece vest (my size too :thumbup:), fleece jacket (too small :(), forks and spoons, and pens/pencils. Not one Scagle, however (Funny how that works.)
 
hollowdweller said:
Now anytime I stop on the trail I always say "OK now everybody look around did we leave anything???"
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I refer to this as the "stoner check". I know the pole to my bivy is somewhere in the Never Summer Wilderness.

I need to remember to not just look on the ground. I like to hang stuff from trees and often come back to find it still hanging there.
 
I found an original Leatherman Super Tool on a beach one day. Only a bit of rust that was easily cleaned off. Another time I was boulder hopping along beside a river in the middle of nowhere and found two folded $20 bills in a crack on a rock!! Best find however, has been a mint Case Peanut knife under the floor boards of a boat I was cleaning out:thumbup:
 
hollowdweller said:
...I lost a nice Microtech LUDT once when I loaned it to my friend to cut an apple while backpacking and she sat it on my pack instead of giving it back to me:rolleyes:....
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I bet being a girl/woman you didn't get half as mad as if it was a camping buddy... lol. Sorry for your knife though. It always sucks big time losing tools that way.

Not long ago I had to downclimb about half pitch to recover my dropped Spyderco Rescue. I had it clipped to a shoulder strap but I forgot to clip the lanyard with a carbinner. I was going second on that pitch and my pal tugged the rope too hard... it wipped me on the chest and unclipped the knife. Lucky me it stopped on a ledge!

Mikel
 
The "check one last time" is a good idea for stays in hotels too. I even do it when I'm leaving the office because I leave after the building's outer doors are locked. If I forget something, it sucks to be me if I don't realize it until I'm in the parking lot.

If anyone finds my Buck 110 (with a BG-42 blade), please return it to me. Last seen when I fell asleep one day in my living room. I suspect it's somewhere in the woods in the pacific northwest now.
 
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