Ever Forgotten Something Important?

[Mikey0211]

Have you ever forgotten something important and only relised when your setting up camp????..


On my recent trip to double Island, when setting up the tarp, I couldn't find the pegs..... DOHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

That afternoon, my 5 year old son was playing in the sand next to our half setup camp, when he pulled out a large peg from underneath the dirt....
Within an hour he had found 6 more which was just enough to get the tart up.....

The little ledgend!!!!!


SO WHAT HAVE YOU FORGOTTON???????

[Craig D]

Forgot tent poles once and it rained, and another time I left all the camping meats in the fridge at home - thought the fridge looked a bit empty:(

[revin]

Once I took the BBQ but no BBQ tools or cutalry .

I had a leatherman in my glove box and a bottle openen.

Bottle opener =Spatular for turning meat over

Leatherman= Knife to cut things up small

Fingers= Make you eat like a cave man :D


Another time before we all had girlfriends,my mate forgot to tie his gear on the bacl of his ute.Cruising down cabbage tree road when all of a sudden we see his swag fly about 10 feet above his ute as a truck pass`s.That was funny too

[KRUZIN]

growing up,, mum & dad forgot to pack the cooking gear,

camped for a week using the shovel for a bbq & dads old stainless fishing bucket for the billy.

[Harb]

Left the missus at home once...........best dam weekend I ever had :D

[dieselpower]

Chairs - never left them behind again since, and hopefully never will!

[Mikey0211]

Left the missus at home once...........best dam weekend I ever had :D

Haaaa!!! CLASSIC!!.

But who cooked for you and brang you beers???????

[Harb]

what are mates for..................;)

[101 Ron]

stopped at a servo one time to fuel up and traveled 50 km to the camp site only to realise I left the dog at the servo

[tempestv8]

Pillows....

nuff said!

[Walt]

growing up,, mum & dad forgot to pack the cooking gear,

camped for a week using the shovel for a bbq & dads old stainless fishing bucket for the billy.

It wasnt the same shovel ya's used to go for a squat with was it??

Ive done that before, left the frying pan at home, then my mate said he had one, he went over to his toolbox, doh, he left his at home too. So we used tongs holding the meat over the campsmaster stove.

[Risto]

When still living in the UK I once forgot my tent. Jeez, I was pissed off...

[Crusa]

What the hell did i come here to do??????????????? Damn i forget now...oh well..:crazy:

[Marc 1]

When still living in the UK I once forgot my tent. Jeez, I was pissed off...

Glad I'm not the only one who's done this. Good thing the weather was fine - it wouldn't really have bothered me as I've slept in a sleeping bag in the rain before - gotta love the Infantry, but the ball and chain would not have been amused!

[Trojan]

Pillows, whilst camping on the beach. Made a lump of sand on the ground instead with plastic over it.

All cooking and eating utensils, including plates. Had to use one of my fishing knives and eat straight off the hotplate.

[Bazza_rips]

What the hell did i come here to do??????????????? Damn i forget now...oh well..:crazy:

perhaps you were distracted by your avatar??? i know i was :D

[utedriver]

I hate forgeting my Beanie of a good jacket when camping on a wet winter weekend!!

[Twisty]

Forgot the tent for an Offroad Expo at LCMP bout 3 years ago......missus wasn't impressed.....luckily we were able to squeeze into a mates one for the weekend.

[bravoboy]

Bout 15yrs years back dad packed the tent, but forgot the frame....5 people "sleeping" in a sigma was fudged, luckily me and my bros were little tackers then

[Jeepster]

First trip to DI with the old 3 legged BBQ and new gas bottle, new everything.

Didnt know about the left hand thread thingy with teh connection. High tide and getting late. Beach deserted. fasted drive to Rainbow in the history of teh island and pleaded with camping store to open at 6pm.

We made it back and were able to cook... stormed 5 times in two days and I also then realised my sand pegs were not big or long enough...

you learn from mistakes.

[willdive]

2 years ago camping at Inskip Point missus and i had a barney while packing the gear into the car to go. Running late and it was going to be dark when we got there. Setting up camp found that we hadn't checked the areoguard. Such a small thing causes a lot of pain. Areoguard now lives in the car.

[Ezookiel]

Geez, it's something different every trip.
Once you forget something once, you remember IT the next time, and instead leave out some other item.
There are about 3,000 items to take camping, so after 3,000 trips, I suppose I'll never forget anything and have the perfect trip. But the funny thing is, they've ALL been the perfect trip, even when we've forgotten things.

BBQ Tools was one trip, and it's amazing what a Leatherman can be used to do.
Cutlery was another, and ditto the Leatherman and fingers.
Basic items like salt on one trip, cooking oil on another, pillow on another.

I've so far never forgotten major items like tent, warm clothes, firemaking items, food and water. Those are things I'm paranoid about, I treat each trip as though it could turn into a major emergency situation, so ensure that survival items are ALWAYS packed, and packed before anything else in a place they can be reached. I'll then obsessively check those items again before leaving. But I am getting older, I'll probably forget those one day.

I forgot the vehicle once, but then I was hiking that trip.

[Jeeps]

you learn from mistakes.

This statement is sooooo true :)

One of the reasons why i bought my trailor & drifta kitchen so everything stays in there, even in between trips. It's such a drama having to pack everything into a trailor from the shed... you always forget something. I've forgotten the air compressor for the air matress, pillows on another trip, warm clothes on another... etc

All the cooking gear in the Drifta is dedicated for it. I was sick and tired of having to bring things from the kitchen at home and forgetting something (bottle opener, utensils, chopping board etc) so i bought a heap of cheap gear for the drifta to stay there permanantly.

[Tired Triton]

My former boss once went to Moonta Bay for a fishing trip, towing his half cabin crusier over 350km's each way. He was excited about the trip for weeks beforehand, and when he got back I asked how was the trip? He said (this is true, sad, but true) "I forgot the fishing rods"

[skooter]

My former boss once went to Moonta Bay for a fishing trip, towing his half cabin crusier over 350km's each way. He was excited about the trip for weeks beforehand, and when he got back I asked how was the trip? He said (this is true, sad, but true) "I forgot the fishing rods"

I've done exactly the same thing except was only about 20 mins from home when we remembered, but damn what a pain in the ass that was!

[window]

stopped at a servo one time to fuel up and traveled 50 km to the camp site only to realise I left the dog at the servo


i bet the dog was pissed at you! i'd leave my missus behind, but not my dog!

[gordy]

stopped at a servo one time to fuel up and traveled 50 km to the camp site only to realise I left the dog at the servo
You think that was good, my son went for a pee when we stopped outside of Thargamindah and we did the same, travelled 15km before we realised it was too quiet in the back. Mind you his sister wasnt saying a word either!!

[BEU77Y]

Went to the snow one year, took a mate and his 2 kids. We were setting up camp when my mate asked where his clothes bag was?????
I packed everything you brought out of your house......

Shorts and a singy in the snow...... classic.

[Tri_Lon]

first time me and the missus went away i think we ahd more than enough of everything....except pegs. had enough for the tent not for the tarp though.

have forgotten pillows before. had to go without chairs once because there was not enough room, i had to nurse the beer in the passanger seat we were that packed up. I now have 2 stored behind my back seat (chairs that is not beer.....)

[boof]

Last trip to DI forgot the tent poles, rope and pegs, Thankfully Brooksy and I hadnt had enough to drink to call it to hard at that stage :D
Ended up using some ingenuity to get it all sorted

[Bundy]

So far so good the worst thing ive left behind was the sand spear pump, which makes the spear useless without it

[danbbode87]

um pillows, cooking gear, nothing to bad, oh when we went to sundown in the middle of july this year i forgot a sleeping bag in -4 deg weather

[Austblue]

3 mates and I went bush walking and camping for one night in the blue mountains and between us we each thought the other was bringing the food but all forgot. We got there then realised the bottlos were all closed so had to drive back to the northern road then we got beer but forgot ice!

Probably 6 hours of hard hiking each carrying packs, water, beer, rum a bottle of red, a bottle of port, a loaf of bread and stagg tins. The grog numbed our pain that night but walking out was a nightmare.

[discogirl]

went kayaking about three years ago in winter water temp was about 11celsius for a over nigth trip paddle the first 30km alright them my mates kayak hit something and sprung a leak we repaired the leak on the side of river bank and at the same time stop for lunch my mate borrowed my can opener and used his stove,we paddle another 30km to our first camp site once set up i went to cook my dinner
me mate had lost the stove and can opener plus left his tent and sleeping bag back on the bank to dry where we had stopped to do the repairs,:crazy: it was now rain and dark and to top it off he had forgotten batteries for his head lamp it was a cold and dark paddle back to get them now i never leave home without 2 none battery power torches and multitools just incase.and all tin food is rimple lid pull off ,oh well aleast he didnt foreget his paddle and lifevest like the time before!!!!!!!!!!!!!:thumb:

[1TUFFGU]

Bedding for my 18 mth old, bedding for me including no pillow, cutlery and plates all in the one trip. I am slowly learning what I need. Even have the old checklist which works a treat.

[nilla60]

Many things have been forgotten over the years. Best part is the improvisation that results.
Tent pegs - Used the jack handles, oar locks & screw drivers. Another time I wandered around a camp site and found plenty of lost ones to replenish the supply.
Rifle bolt - No fix for that. Just look at the wildlife instead.
Pillow - I usually fill the sleeping bag stuff sack with spare clothes
Mattress - Slept on the ground a few times. Three nights is usually the limit.
Map - Navigate using a map printed in 1969 (poor navigation but a great adventure)
Fuel - Those 10 litre spring water bottles will hold petrol and are only $3, just make sure you park between the bowser and attendant so they can't see (and stop from time to time to make sure the plastic is not dissolving).
BBQ - Variously a stove door from a ruin, an old plough disc and a shovel head a(someone I know never packs a plate and just scrounges something)
Boat drain bung - Lucky someone had a bottle of plonk.
Tent poles - That's why there's a bundle of cord under the seat (to rig up the tent between some trees or to the roof rack)
Fire lighters - that bung in the sediment filter on a diesel is actually a tap for "liquid wood"
Screw driver - washer held in a pair of vice grips

[Tired Triton]

Once forgot the tissues when i had a bad cold.
Uncle once left his prescription 'roid cream at home when he went on a week's cruise down the Murray.
Ran out of hearing aid batteries on a two week camping trip (was bliss for me - the missus was on the trip too)

[Johnnojack]

Yep I've left some of that stuff behind before too. :( Now we always use a list, keep it on the computer, print a copy before packing, tick everything off as it goes in the 4by. Take the list with you to add anything you left behind but needed . Edit the computer file when you get home again, leaving off the useless stuff and adding on what was missing. Next trip print the new list.
Youve all got a computer, get typing. You will be surprised how the list shrinks after a couple of trips. If you don't use something why drag it around the country taking up valuable space. (Exceptions for essential spares and recovery gear).
Johnnojack

[Ezookiel]

...we always use a list, keep it on the computer, print a copy before packing, tick everything off as it goes in the 4by...

I have the same sort of list, but multiple versions.

Camping (just camping type stuff)
4wd camping (above plus recovery gear and other heavier items we might not normally take)
Abseiling/Rock Climbing Trip (now THAT'S a lot of stuff I don't carry on just ANY old trip)

etc etc

Just grab the relevant list.

Even have versions for long versus short trips.

[marvic]

I wish I could leave something behind, the missus brings that much we could supply any camp area with gear and food

[kiwi-63]

We had the stove, stand & gas bottle, just no hose to make the stove hot!!! Bugger. Now hose lives in bottom of stove.

[ChallengeLee]

I forgot the water supply apart from what was in the day esky (1 water bottle each)...and even worse cups to drink out of for the juice that was offered to us once we found out we had no water to drink.

I also have a kitchen box and an extras box that are always packed with basics. This is kept ready so l just need to add the extras needed before l go, that way l know l'll have gas mantles, firestarters etc already.

I too, do the camping list and have both the weekend away list and the week long list....just need to remember to check everything off when l do pack.

[chikoroll]

First trip to DI with the old 3 legged BBQ and new gas bottle, new everything.

Didnt know about the left hand thread thingy with teh connection. High tide and getting late. Beach deserted. fasted drive to Rainbow in the history of teh island and pleaded with camping store to open at 6pm.

We made it back and were able to cook... stormed 5 times in two days and I also then realised my sand pegs were not big or long enough...

you learn from mistakes.

lol get the bigger pegs and the next weak link will come undone- the tentpoles.... had mine snap when the winds were blowing...pierced the roof of the tent in a storm....

[bj42turbo]

Not to important but went on a fishing weekend a few weeks ago and brought the rods but forgot all the other bits and pieces like a reel, hooks, sinkers, bait......



BJ

[rocky Damo]

Big family camping trip to fraser island every thing was packed until it was time to fuel up dad forgot his wallet one item that will stop you dead in your tracks.

[Walt]

Not to important but went on a fishing weekend a few weeks ago and brought the rods but forgot all the other bits and pieces like a reel, hooks, sinkers, bait......



BJ

Left the bait behind before, at home outside of the freezer. You guess the smell i was greeted with when i got back home. But as for the fishing, used a few chunks of steak, caught a mullet, used mullet fillets to catch eadible fish, so not a total loss.

[HeathGQ]

sleeping bags!!!!!!!! luckily was not far from home.

[stets]

i went out bush from meeka once, and forgot to get fuel, i ran out about 200 k's from nothing, lucky i was prepared with food and water, 3 days later the first car to pass was a fuel tanker taking petrol to a aboriginal community, i bought some fuel off him direct, after a satelite phone call and was on my way, extended holiday!!!!!!!!1

[Yonk]

Driving across South Australia to Perth once (in the '70's), I was always passing this Kombi all painted up in flowers...a 'hippy mobile'. I'd pull of in the scrub before dusk and make camp.
Next day somewhere along the way I'd pass them again. This went on for days.
I had this outrageously expensive pair of sunglasses that I loved.
I stopped for fuel at a little place in the desert and as I came out of the toilets I noticed the Kombi , empty, at the bowser next to us.
I got in our vehicle and we drove on.
Hours later I realised that I had taken off the sunnies at the washbasin and left them there. I was gutted.
Camped that night and the next day as we ritually passed the Kombi they honked and arms were out of every window flagging us down.
We pulled over and you guessed it, they had found the glasses and were sure they were mine. They wouldn't take anything and were just pleased to have helped.
I love hippies.

[hilift]

Big time, today I forgot my gearbox somewhere on the highway!!!!!!!

[DesertCruiser]

I forgot the bolt for my High power rifle, It sucked, 1213km from home, out to do a bit of Camel Hunting in the great victoria desert( THATS NOT IN VICTORIA BY THE WAY, IT'S IN W.A.), No Bolt, no works!!! Had to borrow one of my mates spare rifles. Still turned aut a great trip, I have a shack out in the Middle of nowhere, 5hrs drive to nearest town/building. Great isolation, Great exploring to.

[beast 1]

forgot the cooking tools once now i have a list of everything i need and tick of as i pack the car

[alwaysonthefly]

This is not a camping story, but a fishing expodision gone alittle stray. Mate from work had a small tinny and pleasently asked if I would like to go fishing up at EPPOLOCK one sunday morning. So we hitched up the boat trailer in the wee hours, ahead of a 2&1/2 hr drive up to the lake, got down to the boat ramp on sunrise and proceeded to go about our spasific tasks to get the days fishing under ways. When my mate starts surching franticly for an item and starting to panic and swear a bit louder, lifting up the boat cover, then over to the boot of his car and back seat, then back to under the cover. He wouldn't answer my calls and I'd figured by now it was a large item we where missing, for lack of rumaging under spear tyres and the sort. He stands bolt upright and screems, I forgot the f#*king engine. Well at least we had an owr and after I'd finished beating him with it, we backed in the boat and I made him row and honerable beer bitch for the day. Didn't catch a thing either

[GQANDGU]

Trip to the Cape from Victoria, stayed in Motels until leaving Cairns, and then stopped for first camp night about 4.30 pm. Mate had forgotten the centre pole of his new Pyramid tend (He had put it up before leaving home to check it all out and make sure everything was in order and put the centre pole on the roof of garage while he packed it all up ready to go !) Improvised by using an Occy Strap hooked up to huge tree branch to hold up the tent. Next morning entire tent - inside and outside - was covered in small ants, which he did not get rid of for another few days.

[jakethepeg]

freezing cold winter morning the kind that makes perfect surf look uninviting cuz of ow cold it is,i have forgotten my wetsuit.

[MUDRATGQ]

Left to go hunting once an forgot the knives an Ammo lol

[Sea-Dog]

I am with the others who have forgotten pretty much everything over the years but the worst was when I went over to Moreton Island on my brothers boat.. all our clothes and sleeping stuff got wet in big seas and the missus and i were dripping wet when we got there... after trying for 45 minutes to put the tent up (it was my bothers dome tent that we had not put up before) we realised that we didn't have the tent and only had the fly.. so we spent the night wet and tired with a tent fly that finished a foot from the ground letting a nice breeze through to keep us cool..

while this technically wasn't my fault I suffered the consequence and make doubly sure we have everything before we leave now..

PS. Still had a top weekend and caught some nice fish and some spanner crabs so the tent didn't matter.

[scarecrow2]

When I was in the army, we got back to Enoggera from Shoal Water Bay Training Area. We'd been back about an hour or two cleaning rifles and kit as you do after an ex. When it came time to hand in our weapons, some toss-pot double-choc (ready reserve digger) realised that his rifle was missing. Long story short, they closed the barracks down for three days, no-one in, no-one out, until the rifle was found and returned.....

He'd left it leaning up against a tree back at SWBTA. What a c**k! An Infantry soldier leaving his rifle behind is like an astronaught leaving his air-suite behind! :crazy:
and no it wasn't me, I was ARA. :thumb:

[jakethepeg]

tarp poles and frypan,i once used the lid off my toolbox to cook sausages

[scarecrow2]

tarp poles and frypan,i once used the lid off my toolbox to cook sausages

ya canna hand a man a granda snagger.;)

[Yonk]

ya canna hand a man a granda snagger.;)

LMAO scarecrow2

[Bushie]

Left double airbed at home and missus only packed single, she slept on the ground for the first night, bought a new one in Broken Hill.

Left meat at home one trip - still in freezer

Left first (pre cooked) meal at home one trip, had to get parents to go and get it (didn't fancy it sitting on the kitchen bench in the unit for 5 weeks)

Shovel and other sundry bits at various times.

NEVER put a damper on any trip though.


Bushie

[D-Fender]

Left double airbed at home and missus only packed single, she slept on the ground for the first night, bought a new one in Broken Hill.


Oh nice one Bushie. hehehe :D:D:thumb:

[earthman]

Once forgot to lock the hubs..... You can probably imagine the rest of that tale.....