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Topic: Ever forgot to pack anything important?

Oswestry Ed

via mobile 25/6/2021 at 5:08pm
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Went backpacking many years ago along the Norfolk coast with a mate, I carried the tent and stove he carried cooking pans,tent poles and food.
At end of first days hike we stopped on a site to pitch the tent the discovered my mate had forgot to pack tent poles. Luckily we hadn't paid at the site so quickly repacked and walked on.
We were fortunate no rain was forecast for the week so we freecamped a nd slept on top of the groundsheet for 4 nights.

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25/6/2021 at 6:01pm
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Sleeping bags, you packed them / no you packed them. Now one only packs the car.

Cheap duvets off the local market solved the problem

Duvet became under sleeping bags blankets

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Some years ago one of the first tents I owned had a bedroom pod with a sewn in groundsheet and a loose groundsheet for the living area.

I unpacked the tent and set it all up and then couldn't find the living room groundsheet at all so was doomed to living on bare grass and totally perplexed and annoyed as to where I could have lost the groundsheet because I am so meticulous about packing everything away after each trip.

After quite some time I walked into the bedroom pod and the groundsheet in there felt strangely thick and uneven. I looked underneath and much to my relief and sanity I found the living room groundsheet had become stuck to the bottom of the bedroom pod. It was quickly retrieved and set out in the living area.

dk168

26/6/2021 at 9:16am
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I have very detailed packing lists for camping, travelling for work and leisure, to minimise the risk of leaving anything important behind.

I still managed to leave all the lights and extension lead behind for one trip when I took the bag containing them out of the trailer and left it on the floor. When I arrived on the site and discovered my error, I quickly went to the nearest B&Q to get replacements, DOH!

Most recently, I managed to leave my head torch at home, discovered when I needed to take the dog out in the middle of the night on the first night of the first trip in the new van. The next day, I went to the nearest GO to get another head torch as the site where I was staying did not have anything suitable. I had to go to GO anyway as I needed to get a fresh water hose as my own was not long enough (I was on a service pitch), and the site's shop did not have anything suitable.

Nothing major that would stop a trip, just inconvenience.

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26/6/2021 at 4:35pm
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As this is the backpacking section the consequences can be quite difficult or inconvenient.

Only thing in recent years that springs to mind is a stove. Fortunately I'd not left it at home but in the car. It was a four or five day trip but the first night I'd only walked about 4 miles in the dark. So another 8 mile round trip to fetch the stove.

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Is this a question for DAVID CAMERON ???
On a lighter note Many ,many moons ago.

I was on may way to a job we did annually in Belgium, we used to catch the overnight ferry from Hull across the pond.
At the check in about six of us guys, handed over our passports. The Lady on reception soon noted and asked which one of us was the pretty one.. Didn't take her long to realise I had my wife's passport, instead of my own...
My lad must have drove like Lewis Hamilton to get me my passport over that day. Made the ferry YES.
Always double check NOW..Especially as old age crept up on us also.

All's well, that ends well.

seanfdh

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Quote: Originally posted by spiritburner on 26/6/2021
As this is the backpacking section the consequences can be quite difficult or inconvenient.

Only thing in recent years that springs to mind is a stove. Fortunately I'd not left it at home but in the car. It was a four or five day trip but the first night I'd only walked about 4 miles in the dark. So another 8 mile round trip to fetch the stove.

Haven't forgotten the stove. Have stopped for lunch and realized I didn't have any way of lighting it.

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I once forgot my gas bottle and another time forgot my kettle. Not bad in over 50 years of camping.

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Once drove from East Yorkshire to about an hour from our destination site in Cornwall. Stopped for a drink and realised we hadn't packed the ZIG for our Cabanon Biscaya tent. Had to head back home then set off again the next day!

Nowadays, we use lists. Still manage to forget something or other but not an essential part of the tent!

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