As I was taking gear pictures, I thought I’d also take a picture of my solution to losing my pencils while backpacking.
This was brought on by losing one of my mechanical pencils on the trail at Piney Creek back in February. I did some online searching and came up with these handy dandy pen loops on Amazon, which, so far, are working very well.
I added one to each of my four leather journal binders1, and after a month or so, they all seem to be holding in place.
Updates
- April 2025. The pen loops are still working well, with no signs of the loop losing its elasticity or the adhesive losing its grip.
Footnotes
1Four journals:
- Backpacking — lightweight field notes journal.
- Personal — my angst and ‘agony aunt’ journal.
- Work and notes — just the day-to-day general stuff. It’s much bigger (A6), thicker, and heavier.
- Pocket notebook — for notes on the fly.
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