The Ten Most principal Survival Items You Should Never Leave Camp Without

There are ten items that are practically indispensable for survival for more than a few hours. Even if you’re only taking a short walk from base camp, you should bring these items along with you. None of these can be improvised from materials you may find on the forest floor, which is what makes them essential.

Whether you use the Boy Scouts, The Mountaineers, or the Sierra Club as the basis, they all have the same basic items on their “essentials” lists. You can customize your own survival kit based on their lists and your own needs, but this should be carefully a beginning point. The first three are for seeing your way, the next three are for protecting you, and the final four are for emergency usage.

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1. A map. Either you’re canoeing, camping, or hiking, you will need a map that can help you find both natural (hills, streams, and rivers) and man-made (power lines, unimproved roads, and trails) landmarks. A Usgs topographical map has sufficient detail. You can find more data about Usgs maps at http://www.usgs.gov/.

2. A compass. A map without a compass is practically useless. Silva and Suunto compasses are my personal preference, as they have a straight edge that is great for plotting bearings. With a map and a compass, it’s quite easy to line up where you are on the map and plot a course to get where you need to go.

3. A flashlight. It is critically foremost that your flashlight not be no ifs ands or buts turned on accidentally. When you need your flashlight, you’ll truly need it. A Mini Mag-Lite will fit in just about any essentials kit, though you may find a headlamp more useful, depending upon what you’ll be doing.

4. Sunglasses. When you’re hiking to the top of a 12,000 foot peak, they’re essential. I was in the American Southwest once hiking when a windstorm came through. My hiking companion was stuck seeing straight through his balled fists while I reached into my emergency kit and pulled out a pair of sunglasses.

5. Extra food and water. Don’t fall into the water rationing trap. When your body needs water, it needs it now, not two hours from now. Let the length of your trip, the temperature, and what the physical demands on your body will be conclude how much water to bring. If other water sources, such as a river or snow are available, you may be able to make use of purification tablets. While general trail foods, such as granola, nuts, and dried fruits, may suffice, some population put sardines or tuna in their emergency gear, knowing they’d only eat them if it was a true emergency!

6. Extra clothing. While this will be dependent upon what the conditions are where you’ll be, at the very least, you should have a poncho and a mylar blanket. With these two items, you can fashion a lean-to out of the poncho with trees, and you can use the blanket to keep warm.

7. Matches or a lighter. You don’t need to buy expensive “waterproof” matches. You can keep quarterly matches in a waterproof container, such as a 35mm film canister. Disposable lighters may also be a good option for your emergency kit.

8. Firestarters. Either you use a paraffin candle (be sure to store it in a plastic bag so it doesn’t melt and make a mess!), sterno, firestarter tablets, or hexamine tablets, firestarters are indispensable to getting a fire going in less-than ideal conditions. Whenever possible, be sure to practice lighting a fire. Most population use far too miniature kindling and tinder when beginning their fires, foremost to discontentment when a four inch log won’t light!

9. A pocket knife. This will be your most foremost indispensable item. It will help you in fire building, food preparation, first aid, and many other things.

10. A first aid kit. You can buy one or improvise one, but you will need one! Along with the bandaids and gauze pads, I also keep aspirin, surgical scrub, insect repellent, Spf lip balm, Benadryl, Actifed, calamine lotion, and a concentrate of razor blades in mine.

There are, of course, other items you can carry. A signal flare can come in very handy, as can a leatherman tool, signaling mirror, and fluorescent plastic tape for trail marking.

The last item cannot fit in a survival kit. It’s base sense, and is every bit as foremost in the outdoors as it is back home in the city. If it’s getting dark, get back to camp. If it looks too high, don’t climb it. If it looks like it will rain soon, don’t go. If something unexpected does come up, these ten items will help you get out of many situations you may encounter.

The Ten Most principal Survival Items You Should Never Leave Camp Without

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