Mutiple Use Items

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#1

What are some nifty multiple uses you have come up with for items.

For example, hiking poles can be used to prop up your tent and can also be used as weapons if necessary.

Interested in any multiple uses you’ve come up with for items. I’m all for the getting the most and maximum use out of any item I carry with me.

Thanks in advance for responses.

Maintain

#2

i think a pepsi can stove would be great as an air hock puck but i have not tried it. and you will probably only be able to use it once. the surgical tubing from my filter also makes a great whipping tool. just ask yahtzee

wise owl

#3

My Gregory Massif pack, at 7200ci, has been used as a bivy sack. A full Nalgene is good for spe-lunking in ponds. I used my thermarest as a pool floaty in a Maine pond. That was fun.

Bushwhack

#4

I don’t care for Poncho’s, but I’ve seen them used not only for rain gear, but for a pack cover as well.

Nooga

#5

There’s a rule among light backpackers that EVERYTHING you take must have more than one use, some are pretty obvious:

Using your sleeping bag storage bag as pillow when stuffed with extra clothes.

Using socks as gloves in cold weather

Using tent stakes to dig holes to bury waste

Using the Zrest as a pack support in frameless packs

Using hiking poles as tent supports, backpack prop, and for defense

Using tent ground cloth as backpack cover, rest pad, and “hiker to town” hitchhike sign

Using shorts as swim trunks

Using bandana as wash cloth, wipe, strainer, tourniquet, trail guide, sweat band and “head cooler,”

Using longjohns both for bed and emergency cold weather clothing

Using plastic grocery bag as laundry bag, shoe bag, extra food bag, etc

Using Dr Bonners as soap, shampoo, laundry, etc.

Some have rigged their tent as a pack cover while hiking

Using your Visa for just about anything in town and

Using your water bottle to take a piss in at night…Ugh!

Skeemer

#6

using a emergency blanket 2oz as ground cloth or emergency blanket :slight_smile:

using your backpack as a pillow, or like skeemer said a stuff sack with your dirty cloths.

baby wipes for clean up and that last good wipe of your butt. Men need that last wipe :slight_smile:

pouncho as pouncho,tarp,ground cloth or to keep your pack dry if left out over night.

skeemer had great ideas about longjohns you can also use the grocery bags for you garbage

I usually bring a separate wide mouth 24 ouce empty bottle to piss, beats getting out of the shelter of tent in the middle of night.

piano wire has many uses, I carry 5ft or so for emergency repair and snares/traps or to garrot someone

plato

#7

This I don’t get. Are you that lazy you have to pee in a bottle as opposed to walking 100ft? Seems the risk of spillage is too high. Also seems very unsanitary. Is this practiced by many??

Kyle

Kyle & Lisa

#8

when its -50, snowing, sleeting, and hurricaning, you wanna get out of your nice warm sleeping bag?? pee in a bottle. empty in the morning.

Bloody Cactus

#9

But make sure to pee in your own bottle, not the bottle of the guys sleeping next to you. I hear that can be quite problematic.

Km

#10

Posts from the past confirm that the nighttime peeing in a bottle thing is common…but this doesn’t work very well for women for obvious reasons. So I tried the ziplock baggie trick for the night time and early morning pee call…works real well. No leaks no spills. Lite weight. This is an inside the tent thingy. Sometimes ya just don’t wanna go to all the trouble of getting out of the tent…especially if it’s cold. Yea lazy, perhaps. But you decrease the possibility of disturbing others by the noise you make getting out and back in the tent. And sometimes it’s because ya just can’t make it out before it starts to flow. :smiley:

peep