Bushcraft/Camping charms or companions?

[Clark]

Wasn't sure how to word this thread. I was watching castaway on TV the other night and after seeing tom hanks with his wilson volleyball and also his pocketwatch it got me thinking on whether there was any objects that other people always make a point of taking with them for company or good luck etc.. or maybe just something they take out of habit. I used to take a pocket watch aswel that i got from my grandad from ww2l but after finding out it was worth a bit of money and historical significance i decided to keep it inside where it couldn't get damaged. Now i don't really have anything i make a point of taking with me.
So has anyone out there got something personal or anything like that they carry with them? Just curious.
Oh and heres a picture of me and wilson from a trip a couple years back.
Really just a football i found washed up and put some mud on it as wilson from castaway probably has his own beachouse in LA now.

 

[Toddy]

A silver chain with three charms on it, one is a silver rowan leaf set with marquise cut peridots.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[andy_e]

LOL! Brilliant!

I don't take a special friend with me when I go off solo, I do tend to talk to the trees when I'm alone though, but then ...

 

[Clark]

Andy, you don't by anychance happen to smoke these trees leaves aswell do you before starting your conversations with them?

 

[andy_e]

Andy, you don't by anychance happen to smoke these trees leaves aswell do you before starting your conversations with them?

LOL! Scarily enough, no! Thankfully they tend not to talk back

 

[climberslacker]

I take a monkey's fist that I tied, I strap it around my rucksak

 

[John Fenna]

Dylan the Dragon is my constant companion on expeds....no I wont show a photo, he's shy....

 

[SimonM]

My constant outdoor companion is a Sigg oval "water" bottle filled with whichever single malt I am sampling that week!

Simon

 

[andy_e]

My constant outdoor companion is a Sigg oval "water" bottle filled with whichever single malt I am sampling that week!

Simon

I really liked the look of those Sigg flasks when I saw them at Middlewood, will have to keep my eye out for one. When the Financial Pixies sort out my post-Xmas deficit

 

[Jembly/Sloth]

Haha, superb. Personally I always take Arnold the Owl and Nigel the Squirrel both brought on an Ecology workshop thingy last year. They keep everyone else vaguely amused and remind them that I'm mad, hence the whole - 'Don't argue wth him, he's a bit, well, you know' :togo:

 

[Arth]

I always keep my Taranis wheel around my neck for good luck.

 

[PaleoHunterGatherer]

Arth, what is a Taranis wheel? Just curious.
Alex

 

[PaleoHunterGatherer]

Myself, I carry a Odin The Wanderer pendant, Since I'm pretty much a wanderer myself, it's a good match. And who knows maybe he watches out for an old fool like me.
Cheers
Alex

 

[British Red]

I always carry friends with me

It varies who but Weaver is always with me and topknot, stu, Bushwacker Bob and Singteck are usually around. Ogri and Firebreather have joined me lately and are working out well. Actaully there are rather a lot more than that - too many to list in fact. John Fenna carries my brew kit now

Red

 

[UKHaiku]

I always carry friends with me

It varies who but Weaver is always with me and topknot, stu, Bushwacker Bob and Singteck are usually around. Ogri and Firebreather have joined me lately and are working out well. Actaully there are rather a lot more than that - too many to list in fact. John Fenna carries my brew kit now

Red

That's really poetic..

I tend to wear a silver chain with my Grandad's wedding ring on it a lot of the time..

 

[suburban bushwacker]

i cant be the only person with a lucky hat.
SBW

 

[spamel]

The only item that I think I make a point of taking with me is my UCO candle lantern. Since my wife gave me it before Middlewood, it will now be my kuksa. Both coffee and stags breath taste great out of it!

 

[Greg]

I take my pocket chain watch which was a wedding gift from my Wife. It has a wolf design on the silver outer cover and the clock face is a painting of a wolf pack howling at the moon, it comes in its leather pouch which also has a wolf motif.

I love wolves!

 

[Greg]

Here's the watch:

 

[Grumpy Monkey]

That's really poetic..I tend to wear a silver chain with my Grandad's wedding ring on it a lot of the time..

Although I have my gt.grandmother's wedding ring I actually wear a conker! Many years ago my soon to be wife and I were in Arundel having a mooch about the castle on our first holiday together.
She gave me a little conker which I kept in my pocket for about 5 years, it became my good-luck charm. Then I met a chap who did a slot on our local BBC radio station talking about making jewellery (I was doing my slot about medal valuations) and I got him to mount it in silver bands and suspend it from a silver chain.
I wear it 90% of the time, and will be doing so this Wednesday for a very important job interview.