What have you forgotten on your trips?

[pianoman9701]

My release a couple times

I've done this. One morning, my hunting partner decided to sleep in (*censored*). I was pissed as I'd already waited half an hour for him to get up. Grabbed my stuff in a huff. Drove up to a gated logging road and hiked in two+ miles. Sat down, took off my pack got all set and no release. If I was pissed before,... I ended up going back to the truck and road hunting for a couple of hours to cool off. We packed up after the morning hunt that day.

[dreamunelk]

Gosh, over the years it seems every thing at least once.  The most memorable are.   My boots, got to elk camp, foot plus of snow and all I had where sneakers.  My hunting license, several times.  My release, a few times.   Food at least once.  All I can say is at least I am not alone in being absent minded.

[yajsab]

I have forgotten some minor items, but one year a member in my group forgot his arrows. 

[Elkrunner]

My release a couple times

I've done this. One morning, my hunting partner decided to sleep in (*censored*). I was pissed as I'd already waited half an hour for him to get up. Grabbed my stuff in a huff. Drove up to a gated logging road and hiked in two+ miles. Sat down, took off my pack got all set and no release. If I was pissed before,... I ended up going back to the truck and road hunting for a couple of hours to cool off. We packed up after the morning hunt that day.

I always have a backup one in my pack...i've done that one as well.

live and learn

[Elkrunner]

Gosh, over the years it seems every thing at least once.  The most memorable are.   My boots, got to elk camp, foot plus of snow and all I had where sneakers.  My hunting license, several times.  My release, a few times.   Food at least once.  All I can say is at least I am not alone in being absent minded.

This year, my dad called me from the mountain.  He just had dropped his branched antler bull.  I said give me 2 hours.  Grabbed my pack and a few items and ran out the door.  I was wearing my crocs.  I got all the way there and realized that I left my boots sitting in the driveway!  That sucked.  I ended up packing out that elk with a pair of rubber boots that were 1.5 sizes too big.

[whacker1]

forgot cots for the wall tent

forgot tp too many times.....many times have come home with a shirt with no sleeves.  This year sleeveless shirt from prior years stayed in the mountains. 

forgot many other items over the year, but getting better at not leaving stuff behind.  but my pack is getting heavier.

[Elkrunner]

Oh yeah...the ole cut the sleeve off the shirt.  Seen that one many of times.  My wife actually asked me what was happening to all the sleaves on my shirt once..she never asked that question again..lol

[Rainier10]

The best one was my actually my buddy.  We were all heading over to camp the day before the season opened, we had already setup the wall tent the weekend before and we just taking the last odds and ends for me and motorhomes for them.  We were all meeting in CleElum for breakfast.  Well one guy that I was driving with got a late start and we showed up to breakfast 20 minutes late.  After bunch of ribbing from our buddy who was on time, he said no worries I am just giving you the business, I forgot my boots at home and have to wait for the wife to get here with them.  We proceed to give him a little guff back about forgetting his boots and then say well the real reason we were late was that we had to fill the water storage tank in the motorhome.  "AH $#^!" from the guy with no boots, he forgot to fill his motorhome.  Then my buddy says I was going to fill the water tank when I got back from buying my license and just forgot, "AH $#^!" again from the guy with no boots.  After giving us the business for being 20 minutes late he heard about it all week that he was "on time" but with no boots, no hunting license and no water.  After breakfast we headed to camp while he waited for his boots to arrive and then he went and got his licensed and filled his motorhome water tank.

[blacktailcody]

Release, all but one arrow, ammo for my rifle. Etc.

[sirmissalot]

A spare sight.

10 miles into the Washakie wilderness and busted the pins off my G5 XR2. Had no backup sight so had to make crosshairs out of bailing twine and drill holes into the cheap magnesium housing to secure it. I've got pics of it somewhere

Found it

[briancorneal]

TP....leaves hurt. 

[GUHunter]

On backpacking trips/hunts, I always forget eating utensils. I've eaten many a Mountain House meal with a makeshift wooden paddle for a spoon.

[Bearmtn]

   done that twice now, had to use my leatherman flat blade and a stick to eat, worked but remembering to grab acouple of plastic spoons at safeway would have been waaaaay better.

[Worldhunter]

My aim a few times

[Simcoe hunter]

My rain poncho during the old late elk muzzy hunt at Trout Lake.

I was hunting alone because my partner hadn't shown up.  Parked my rig and shot a bearing in the direction I intended to hunt in so I could just shoot a back bearing if needed( prior to GPS ).  There was about 4 inches of snow on the ground and leaving easy to retrace tracks so off I went.  Not so groovy.  It started raining hard and wiped out the snow and the brad crumb tracks of mine.  When I got out my compass to shoot a back azimuth the needle just spun to and fro.  Now I'm soaked and starting to lose body heat, and didn't pay close enough to my surroundings.

I obviously made it back and didn't become coyote food.  Come to find out I was standing in an area with a bunch of volcanic sink holes that had a real high iron content causing the compass to malfunction.  When I finally got to my rig I could barely get my keys out of my pocket.  It could be that even more than the poncho I forgot my common sense on that one.