What type of pen do you use?
A friend of mine got the following pen. Looks pretty sweet and I may get one too. Anybody else ever seen this pen in use?
http://axelweinbrecht.de/en/Produkte...it_Metall.html
Does look cool, I just use the pensil's I grap from the pro-shops, for free.
Unless you count my loop on the course and adult libation's.
A Bic mechanical pencil and an ultra fine point Sharpie.
See you on the trail,
mt squid
Swiss Army knife
The only pen I carry is the one in my Swiss Army knife -- http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...&condition=newOriginally Posted by redseal
Shutterbug
I had good luck with a pen very similar to this one : http://www.riteintherain.com/ItemForm.aspx?item=97
basically a pressurized ink cartridge ball point pen - black ink
For the past couple of years, I have been carrying a red "stowaway" by Fisher Space Pen
http://www.spacepen.com/bluestowawaypen.aspx
How legible is the "writing?"
I have visions of trying to read a shelter register entry written using one of these pens at nite using a headlamp...
Space Pen - compact, light wt., writes in rain and upside down
When writing on WP paper in a trail journal make sure the ink is also WP. I had a trail journal almost completely filled when it rained on my journal. The pages were WP but the ink was not so smeared into an indistiguishable ink blot.
Bullet fisher pen, compact, light, writes on anything/anywhere.
I hate to think what this might cost. Looks interesting though.
I am sure that a pencil is much lighter.
As others have said, you need to carry something that writes waterproof. I have been testing the pens that are eraser proof for check writing. They seem to work pretty well.
Pencils are fairly good even if the paper later gets wet. Think about having to leave a note for someone at a fork in the trail. I guess you could put it in a baggie if you had one. My first aid kit has a small pencil and a few sheets of waterproof paper.
I like to use a real pen for the journal and like the Pilot Razor Point. This is also good for writing on food bags. I also use a mechanical pencil that holds spare leads inside it.
Pencil stub, if anything at all.
As I live, declares the Lord God, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn back from his way and live. Ezekiel 33:11
This is probably an anecdote, but.....
NASA spent $1,000,000 to build a pen that would work in zero gravity.
The Russian Space Agency used pencils.
That being said, the pen from the hotel room has always worked for me.
What? Me worry??
It's a myth. NASA used pencils until the pen in question was developed. The reason why they switched to a pen was because little pieces of lead might snap off and get into instrumentation. IIRC the Russkis use those pens as well, for the same reasons.
"You know your camping trip really isn't going well when you find yourself hoping to stave off sepsis with a six-pack of Icehouse. "
"Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin."
pencil for me
" It's what people know about themselves inside that makes 'em afraid." ~Clint Eastwood, High Plains Drifter
A pen with blue ink. Ballpoint preferred.
When night falls she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness, A chill rises from the soil and contaminates the air, suddenly....life has new meaning.
I've had the same pen for about ten years and it still works. Use it for work not so much hiking though.
I bring a gel roller ball pen an a short pencil.
Panzer
I just use a knife and write in blood.
metal!!!!!
When night falls she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness, A chill rises from the soil and contaminates the air, suddenly....life has new meaning.
I tried the Pilot G-2 and then ran it under water. No smearing to speak of, stayed legible.
As an aside, my kids had some of the mini G-2's. They weigh almost the same as the bigger ones, which makes sense because you still have all the pen mechanism there, it's just a shorter tube and a bit less ink.
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