What do you bring to DL?

[SilentFeline]

I take too much. I've been trying to edit it down, but I have not been overly successful.

I am a photographer by hobby. So if I take my DSLR, I also have to take a boatload of other stuff. (Gotta have my lenses and my filters, my extra batteries, and my other miscellaneous stuff, including the camera's instruction book.) Then I also have to have my backup point-and-shoot, just in case. On a multiple-day trip, I generally take the 'big' camera one day. Maybe two. All that stuff gets heavy! I use a standard student backpack to carry it all.

I also take:

Nook, reading light, iPod, headphones (I don't ride many of the *big* rides.)

Snacks, water bottle

hand sanitizer/wipes

poncho (They're magic! We've never had to use them!)

Hoodie

I will also take handwarmers (those prepackaged ones you open when you want to use them) if it's December/January/February. I get cold, and a set of those in my shoes and another in my hoodie pocket save me.

Plus my usual 'purse' stuff: cell phone, chapstick, eyedrops, teeth stuff, wallet, sunglasses, bandaids, kleenex, reading glasses, pen, small pad of paper, OTC medications.

I look like I'm ready to scale Mt. Everest, but I usually have everything I need!

We go, go, go from open to close and almost never go back to the hotel midday. (We live 659 miles away, and we maximize our time there.) So we all wear athletic shoes. I have bad feet (pins and plates and screws, oh my!) so I always wear my New Balance with my orthotics, or I'd never make it.

I envy those who say they don't take a bag, but I'm not brave enough! Your mileage may vary.

Ooohhh, I totally forgot to add kleenex to my list! I don't know how because I need to be fully stocked everywhere I go due to my year-round allergies and constant sniffles.

 

[Brer Cameron]

My friend and I each took one of those drawstring backpack things this last trip, and they were great. They are small enough to not get in the way and fit in the on-ride nets but still big enough to hold important stuff. Usually, I take a sweatshirt for the night, sunglasses, and a pair of sandals to change into when going on splash mountain or grizzly river run.

 

[ssuriano]

Comfortable shoes
Water bottles with cold water
Nike napsack
Snacks
If it's a rainy day Mickey panchos

 

[krispin41]

I take too much. I've been trying to edit it down, but I have not been overly successful.

I am a photographer by hobby. So if I take my DSLR, I also have to take a boatload of other stuff. (Gotta have my lenses and my filters, my extra batteries, and my other miscellaneous stuff, including the camera's instruction book.) Then I also have to have my backup point-and-shoot, just in case. On a multiple-day trip, I generally take the 'big' camera one day. Maybe two. All that stuff gets heavy! I use a standard student backpack to carry it all.

I also take:

Nook, reading light, iPod, headphones (I don't ride many of the *big* rides.)

Snacks, water bottle

hand sanitizer/wipes

poncho (They're magic! We've never had to use them!)

Hoodie

I will also take handwarmers (those prepackaged ones you open when you want to use them) if it's December/January/February. I get cold, and a set of those in my shoes and another in my hoodie pocket save me.

Plus my usual 'purse' stuff: cell phone, chapstick, eyedrops, teeth stuff, wallet, sunglasses, bandaids, kleenex, reading glasses, pen, small pad of paper, OTC medications.

I look like I'm ready to scale Mt. Everest, but I usually have everything I need!

We go, go, go from open to close and almost never go back to the hotel midday. (We live 659 miles away, and we maximize our time there.) So we all wear athletic shoes. I have bad feet (pins and plates and screws, oh my!) so I always wear my New Balance with my orthotics, or I'd never make it.

I envy those who say they don't take a bag, but I'm not brave enough! Your mileage may vary.

I will also be bringing my nook (just got the new smaller one) but it won't be in the park with me. But thanks for reminding me to slip my camera manual in there. I just got my camera in March, so I am still figuring a lot out. I leave tomorrow...packing is still not done. Darn work for getting in the way!

Kristan

 

[ZoZo]

I just got back from a two-day trip to DL/CA (Thursday/Friday of last week). Had a great time!

Be aware that it gets pretty cool in the evenings this time of year! I wore shorts or capris during the day (weather was in the upper 70s), and also carried a cardigan (for attractions/restaurants/stores that were air-conditioned). That was fine during the day, but when it got dark on Friday night, it got quite breezy and I was cold! Even having my cardigan at night, it was too cold to wear shorts. So plan to dress in layers, and be aware that it gets colder at night. You might want to bring warmer clothes for evening (longer pants, sweatshirt) and stash a bag in a locker, if it's too much of a pain to go back and forth to your hotel.

 

[naebear]

What do I pack?

there are 2 lists for us. 1 list is stuff we pack in the stroller, the other is what I will be taking on me in December.

Since we take a stroller with us, we maximize the space provided!! We each have a camel back bottle that hangs from the sides of the stroller on a caribener clip, then underneath we put our backpack with wipes, band-aids, moleskin, autograph books and pens, snacks, sunscreen, and a change of pants, shoes, and jackets in case of foul weather or to fight the evening chill. We also put our camera bag under there. It's a bunch of stuff, but we dislike going back to the hotel to change clothes for the evening. If we had to carry it on us it would be a different story!!

On me I usually hang a golla bag from my beltloop that is just big enough to hold my phone and some cash/credit cards. Lip balm goes in my pocket.

However, I got a smartphone and it doesn't fit in my golla bag anymore. I was able to hunt around and find a small messenger style bag that will hang crossbody. It has 3 pockets and is water repellant. So, I will put my phone, $$, credit cards/ID, small hand sanitizer and tissues inside it. It is just big enough to hold the autograph book I made my daughter (coincidence!!) and a granola bar or 2. Only If I need to, though. If I put much more it would be too bulky.

We are currently discussing whether or not we take the stroller. I am voting only on midnight closing nights, the other 3 members of the family say take it and park it each day, just so we have what we want without carrying it around. I would like to try without for a change. And I say just midnight nights because DD is 7 (yes, 7! ) and crawls into it about 9:30 when she has had enough and goes to sleep. The rest of us keep going! If we have no stroller for her to sleep in, it would really hamper the rest of us closing the park down at midnight!

 

[LizzyS]

Hey, I only wear it in the parks because it's so handy. I just think 'fanny pack' sounds lame.

BUSTED!

 

[NMMickeymom]

People have pretty much covered it but I also bring a very small first aid bag. It fits into a small zipper cosmetic bag. It includes moleskin, bandaids, a few wipes in a ziplock, a small pill bottle with our most common medications (tylenol, bonine, sudafed), nail clippers, safety pins, and about 1 foot of duct tape flattened and rolled on itself.

The more frequently I go to the parks the less I bring. My obsessive overpacking is finally subsiding.