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Title: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: Chris on 02:58:05, 11/04/06
What do you keep at the bottom of your rucksack that you would you never be without?
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: mountaineer1974 on 22:25:39, 21/04/06
I never leave home with out my sit mat  ;D also a small nip of scotch to add to the chocalate pud
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: Chris on 18:46:38, 25/04/06
My mate Martin would always have a bar of Old Jamaica chocolate for 'emergeny use'. But it always seemed to come out at the first snack stop.  :P
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: Dale on 17:40:10, 21/05/06
I can vouch for the old jamacky - although it never travelled far before it was gone! Very nutritious - great for enery and it contains fruit so that could count as one of the fiver per day. What do you think?
Martin
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Post by: Wendy on 20:08:04, 11/06/06
Lippy! Well you never know!! and the excuse is it stops you getting dry lips!
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: titaniumdude on 03:57:46, 31/07/06
At the very bottom, outside of the bin bag liner, is my extremely orange survival bag.  Had the same one for 20 years, only used 3 times, still leak proof.  Never gets eaten by the first stop! ;)
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: Crag Rat on 12:35:09, 31/07/06
I always have the following in my rucksack, never take them out:

Whistle
Tick Tweezers :-\
2 x Karabiner clips
Spare boot laces
Torch
Pen Knife

Can't say that I use any of them regularly except the karabiner clips and also the pen knife on occasion.
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: Chris on 20:50:24, 31/07/06
Tick Tweezers :-\

;D ;D ;D :o
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: Crag Rat on 21:13:17, 31/07/06
Tick Tweezers :-\

;D ;D ;D :o

 :)....I won them in a competition for Trail Magazine.  Thought they might be useful as I was preparing to go to Austria.....they never left the bag the whole time we were there and they have left it since!   ;D
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: titaniumdude on 03:07:53, 10/08/06

Just come back from Scotland.  Took a day uot of hill walking to stroll through Leanachan Forest.  Dog picked up about ten ticks.  Tick tweezers are indespensible if you have a dog (or if you roll around in forest ground).  We did go off the beaten track mind you and wander through the forest proper.  Trouble with normal tweezers is that you can get the tick out, but you end up squashing its body which means you have injected the contents of its guts under yours/hers/his/its skin.  Not good considering Lyme disease is still endemic in this country.  If you're wondering, the symptoms can resemble bells palsey and rheumatoid arthritis.  And the consequence is permanent.  Do't knock tick tweezers you never know when you'll need them ;D ;D
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: Chris on 20:48:06, 14/08/06

Trouble with normal tweezers is that you can get the tick out, but you end up squashing its body which means you have injected the contents of its guts under yours/hers/his/its skin.

Yuk!! I've just had my dinner an' all.
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: Jules on 18:53:32, 15/09/06
Whats in my rucksack?

Hair bands (only bunches will do when I go walking)
Fabulous blister plasters (just in case)
Lippy (ok ok, it's a girl thing)
Fruit Cake (never lasts long, but good for getting me up those hills)

Hmm, what does this say about me I wonder....
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: howardfernlover on 20:41:39, 17/09/06
Re ticks:
I "acquired" one in my inner thigh during a backpacking trip in the Tarrens (N. Wales) in Sept 2004. Thought it was a scratch till I put my specs on. Never seen one before but I knew straight away what it was. So, when I was back in civilisation I strolled into a pharmacy expecting to buy some lotion I could dab on that would kill the tick without killing me. The staff fell about laughing - they thought only dogs got ticks. I was directed to a nearby doctors surgery, who in turn told me to go to Llandudno A&E, where the little blighter was removed surgically, along with a 2nd one that was discovered on my arm. Left in less than an hour, with the advice that I get my wife to give me an intimate examination when I got home. "Yerk! I'm not doing that, " she quealed when I asked her!
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: walkinggirluk on 12:58:30, 25/09/06
Will a brush is essential after a long walk in the wind and you reach that all. Important pub and your hair is all windswept. Well for the ladies that is. never bothered with lippy
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: titaniumdude on 01:19:21, 12/12/06
I periodicall check the contents of my girlfriends backpack after once discovering the total surreality of her rationale whilst questioning why her pack was so stuffed full on a day trip in Wasdale.  It turned out that she was willing to carry three....yes three... full changes of clothes amongst other random krap.  I tried to explain that this takes extra energy and is not a clever idea as she is rarely ever to need three changes of clothing...., but to no avail it now seems.  I do reinforce that it is important to take only what is needed, especially in winter conditions, but on inspecting the contents of said girlfriends pack the night before a long walk in the Peak District....this is winter after all....conditions were bad....driving rain....70mph gusts on the tops...even a bit of sleet.......WAIT for it......

2  full changes of clothes
A tin of mushy peas
a tin of flageolet beans
three.........yes three tins of vegetable soup, one that was severely dented and OUT OF DATE


She's slapping me as I write this, but has no real recourse since it's true.   She hates mushy peas and flageolet beans so I don't even know how they got there. 

If it was my backpack she was finding them in I would've accused her of planting them ;D.

Needless to say her pack is lighter now and I have resolved to by her a smaller one for krimbly!

Having said that since we clean up after our dog on many trips and carry the 'Reward' out with us I think I may check her pack more often! ;)
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: Robbosoul on 22:32:18, 25/03/07
Funny story about rucksac contents. My mum lives in Smokey Mountains Kentucky USA and went over there month after 9/11. Got stopped at airport security with my rucksac because a pair of scissors had been spotted on xray machine. Told security i didnt have any scissors so they called police and the us marines complete with machine guns and asked me again about the scissors. Said i didnt have any so they put rucksac thro xray again and started to get excited and asked me if they could empty my rucksac. No problem i replied at gunpoint so they emptied it and out of a side pocket fell my treckmate firstaid kit and the penny dropped. Inside were the bluntest kids type scissors you get with the kit. This really made their day and i was escorted to the departure gate by the marines and airport police together with my scissors which they returned to me as not being considered dangerous. I didnt help matters when i said they couldn,t be considered scissors either but they were not amused. So its not always what you have in your rucksac but where you go with it sometimes.
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: summitzero on 12:05:21, 02/04/07
"Whats in the bottom of your pack"

I think it is normally me trying to find that bit of kit i need ;D ;D

Or spare food &  first aid kit.
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: False_Summit_Veteran on 20:51:18, 11/04/07
I too always take a torch and pen knife, but at the bottom of my bag, like Titanium says,  is my bright orange survival bag, never had to use it and read the instructions, if you know what I mean, but it has come in useful for toboganing down some steep foothills on the way home from winter walks.

Edibles?
Jaffa Cakes.
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: summitzero on 20:52:43, 12/04/07
Jaffa cakes, the food of the gods ;D
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Post by: muggie on 18:18:22, 22/05/07
what are tick tweezers please??? xxxx
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: Dazza on 20:30:30, 22/05/07
what are tick tweezers please??? xxxx

Specialised tweezers for removing Ticks (i.e. not normal ones). There's a thread about them (well mainly about ticks) on this forum.

More info on ticks and why you wouldn't want one for a pet can be garnered from here:

http://www.bada-uk.org/

They also supply a few things for removing them.
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: titaniumdude on 21:16:49, 22/05/07
I reckon a pair of eyebrow pluckers could be used as an impro tick tweezer ;D.
Title: Re: What's in your rucksack?
Post by: muggie on 12:11:08, 23/05/07
oh!! didnt know what you meant by 'ticks' LOL! ah well, blonde moment over! :D xxxxxxxxx