Re: Left or Lost?
Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2010 12:25 pm
Wow, a lot of lost spoons….
I wear prescriptions glasses, both clear and polarized sunglasses. I forgot my clear glasses in the car, setting on the console, when I left for a 3-day trip. Evenings became really dark, really fast.
On just my last trip, I forgot two items, my tent stakes and my hiking stick. I had taken a bigger/heavier dome tent instead of my Sololite…forgot to check for the stakes….my wife had taken the stakes to hold down a pop-up sun shade for a football scrimmage. I placed some fairly large rocks both inside and out at the tent corners. No problems and the wind really howled each day too. I did just fine without the hiking stick and will probably hike without it henceforth.
Day two of a 10-day llama trip I went to look for my water filter and couldn’t find it. It wasn’t left at home because I had just used it the night before. I looked everywhere to no avail. I had my 9 year old son with me and really wanted to filter my water on this trip. I awoke early the second morning and told my son to stay put that I was going to hike back to our first night’s camp where I had last used the filter, thinking I had left it near the stream where I filtered water. Back at our first night’s camp it was nowhere to be found. Two guys were camped in the exact spot where we had been. I woke them up asking if they had seen the filter and their replied “No”. I apologized for the early morning wake up call and headed back, with my head hanging low. While packing up the llamas for the third day’s hike I found the filter, in a pannier, right where it should have been.
Okay, here is my TP story. I was going #2 near the edge of a very steep cliff which dropped several hundred feet. When I finished my business I reached for the TP but instead of grabbing it, I knocked it off the edge. Nearly the entire thing unrolled as it bounced its way down….a long straight line of TP. I made my way down (with pants down around the knees) to where I could grab the end of the unrolled paper and gently pulled. But despite my best efforts, the TP broke off. I repeated this action but no matter how gentle I tugged, it always broke off. Well, I went and retrieved the whole thing and when I returned to camp my partner asked, “Man, that must have been one hell-of-a crap you took?”
I have a check-off list and rarely forget anything.
I wear prescriptions glasses, both clear and polarized sunglasses. I forgot my clear glasses in the car, setting on the console, when I left for a 3-day trip. Evenings became really dark, really fast.
On just my last trip, I forgot two items, my tent stakes and my hiking stick. I had taken a bigger/heavier dome tent instead of my Sololite…forgot to check for the stakes….my wife had taken the stakes to hold down a pop-up sun shade for a football scrimmage. I placed some fairly large rocks both inside and out at the tent corners. No problems and the wind really howled each day too. I did just fine without the hiking stick and will probably hike without it henceforth.
Day two of a 10-day llama trip I went to look for my water filter and couldn’t find it. It wasn’t left at home because I had just used it the night before. I looked everywhere to no avail. I had my 9 year old son with me and really wanted to filter my water on this trip. I awoke early the second morning and told my son to stay put that I was going to hike back to our first night’s camp where I had last used the filter, thinking I had left it near the stream where I filtered water. Back at our first night’s camp it was nowhere to be found. Two guys were camped in the exact spot where we had been. I woke them up asking if they had seen the filter and their replied “No”. I apologized for the early morning wake up call and headed back, with my head hanging low. While packing up the llamas for the third day’s hike I found the filter, in a pannier, right where it should have been.
Okay, here is my TP story. I was going #2 near the edge of a very steep cliff which dropped several hundred feet. When I finished my business I reached for the TP but instead of grabbing it, I knocked it off the edge. Nearly the entire thing unrolled as it bounced its way down….a long straight line of TP. I made my way down (with pants down around the knees) to where I could grab the end of the unrolled paper and gently pulled. But despite my best efforts, the TP broke off. I repeated this action but no matter how gentle I tugged, it always broke off. Well, I went and retrieved the whole thing and when I returned to camp my partner asked, “Man, that must have been one hell-of-a crap you took?”
I have a check-off list and rarely forget anything.