Oh shit. It worked! It’s a pic of my hiking/camping survival kit. I guess this is not that tough. I guess I should elaborate.
Rubber bands?
They’re handy, and they keep the kit a little bit more compact. I wear it on my belt, and it’s a bit overstuffed. Inside is:
Spyderco Dragonfly (knife)
signal whistle
Photon keychain light
first aid kit
signal mirror
compass
nylon thread
fishing kit
braided nylon twine
550 paracord
2 tea bags
2 packets bullion
HD aluminum foil
water purification tablets
2 large HD trash bags
waterproof/windproof matches
sewing needle
commercial tinder
duct tape
snare wire
2 safety pins
sparker
emergency blanket
That’s a lot of stuff.
I don’t know anything, but aren’t you missing iodine pills for thyroid blocking?
fda.gov/cder/guidance/4825fnl.htm
And I’ve heard that a 9v battery and steel wool is an instant fire, no matter what the conditions. Is the tinder better?
…and clean underwear!!
It’s for hiking, not for the end of the world as we know it.
Yeah, that works. But 9V’s weigh some, are a little bulky, and I don’t use them for anything else. I have some steel wool in my bugout bag, which is for the end of the world as we know it.
Clean underwear won’t fit. But I do have some in my daypack which is in the car, and in the bugout bag. It’s not essential, but it’s nice to have.
Faust: They’re handy, and they keep the kit a little bit more compact. I wear it on my belt, and it’s a bit overstuffed. Inside is:
Spyderco Dragonfly (knife)
signal whistle
Photon keychain light
first aid kit
signal mirror
compass
nylon thread
fishing kit
braided nylon twine
550 paracord
2 tea bags
2 packets bullion
HD aluminum foil
water purification tablets
2 large HD trash bags
waterproof/windproof matches
sewing needle
commercial tinder
duct tape
snare wire
2 safety pins
sparker
emergency blanket
That’s a lot of stuff."
K: ummm, isn’t this a bit of overkill for bringing to the restaurant?
Don’t they wonder why you bring your emergency kit attached to your belt to work?
Just wondering?
Kropotkin
I-t-'-s f-o-r h-i-k-i-n-g.
How often do you hike?
I think I should take it up again, flying is getting old.
Less than I’d like. Maybe once a week. When I lived further north, I was minutes from great hiking in the hills. Here, it’s not so convenient. I just checked out a new place last week, but it sucked. Next week, I’m gonna try a state park that’s probably a half hour away. Hope it’s cool.
I think I’d have a different kit if I could fly.
Are these over-nighters? If so, how many days?
What you have there would be a hilarious flight kit.
You mean in a plane? Have you seen Doug Ritter’s aviation survival kit? It rocks.
Mostly day hikes. For overnighters, I wouldn’t necessarily bring a kit like this, for I would already be prepared to be out all night. I’d bring some like items, like a first aid kit and a fire kit, but probably not this kit.
I think Ritter has ocd, or he’s just well organised.
Okay, last question;
How long, on average, are your hikes?
wow… the center on our team doesn’t need all that stuff…
-Imp
I just visualized the center utilizing that kit during a game and laughed a little.
But not enough tea bags!
If you sacrificed a few items you could probably have more tea bags. I reckon the first aid kit and the emergency blanket would free up a nice amount of space.
sandy - for the day, usually. But the kit isn’t for the hike. It’s for the OCD.
Wait a minute, I thought you said it was for Practise.
I was practising posting pictures. I have a few dozen pictures of my survival kit.
Because I love it.
Seriously, it’s really just a reason to buy all the cool gear. Unless I am lost in the woods overnight. Which I never have been. And probably never will be.
But you never know. I do hike in the winter, and it’s not good to be out in the Maine woods overnight without some extra stuff. The rest of the year, the Maine woods is pretty hospitable, except that even in summer, the temp can drop a lot overnight. I like to hike without a daypack if I can get away with it, which means that I wouldn’t have a sweatshirt or anything else extra to keep warm with at night. And yeah, I usually hike alone.
Still, I know I have too much stuff. I usually have about four or five blades on me. That’s probably more than I need. But they’re cool blades.