that missing item

It seems to be a cosmic rule that whenever I go camping / climbing, I inevitably forget / leave something behind.

For example, I've gone climbing only to find that I forgot my climbing shoes. I've gone sport climbing with some friends, only to spend 10 minutes looking for my climbing rope (we ended up bouldering instead). There was one time where I promised my exhausted and hungry climbing partners a lunch of soba noodles. I think I forgot to bring the noodles in the first place. They were upset. I lived. After some substantial punishment.

Today, I'm trying to get things together for a trip to bishop. To avoid this mishap, I've created a checklist of things to bring, looked over it with Steph and have been meticulously assembling our camping goods.

'Cept I have no clue where my camping stove is. And I think that's the only stove between the 5 of us. Yeah... not good. I still have 7 hours to find it though.

I'm getting desperate. I think I'm going to start looking with some dowsing wands soon. The maddening part is that I've found my bottle of fuel - just no stove!!!! Grrrrrr!