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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/Schreiben_mit_Metall.html
Pacific Tortuga
07-19-2010, 17:00
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. :cool:
mountain squid
07-19-2010, 17:05
A Bic mechanical pencil and an ultra fine point Sharpie.
See you on the trail,
mt squid
Shutterbug
07-19-2010, 17:08
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/Schreiben_mit_Metall.html
The only pen I carry is the one in my Swiss Army knife -- http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00005ML8C/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1279573586&sr=8-1&condition=new
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
trippclark
07-19-2010, 17:21
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/Schreiben_mit_Metall.html
For the past couple of years, I have been carrying a red "stowaway" by Fisher Space Pen
http://www.spacepen.com/bluestowawaypen.aspx
max patch
07-19-2010, 17:36
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/Schreiben_mit_Metall.html
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.
scooterdogma
07-19-2010, 19:37
Bullet fisher pen, compact, light, writes on anything/anywhere.
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/Schreiben_mit_Metall.html
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.
RedneckRye
07-20-2010, 00:57
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.
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.
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.
A pen with blue ink. Ballpoint preferred.
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.
i just use a knife and write in blood.
metal!!!!!
Rocket Jones
07-20-2010, 20:30
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.
Mountain Wildman
07-20-2010, 22:52
Fisher Space Pen Blueberry Bullet and Rite in the Rain Pad.
lustreking
07-21-2010, 13:29
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.
Here's (http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp) some info on the development of the space pen, and why this statement is false.
I use a pencil and I"m glad I did because when I had to swim across some High Sierra rivers my journal was completely soaked. All the writing was just fine because it was in pencil.