Yep. I kayak, and a kayak is a quite different animal than a bicycle. I only kayak one-night, for one thing.
I tend to have three emergency kits. One is nylon cordura with a carribinger to snap it...
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Yep. I kayak, and a kayak is a quite different animal than a bicycle. I only kayak one-night, for one thing.
I tend to have three emergency kits. One is nylon cordura with a carribinger to snap it...
I saw a post about getting water out of a cactus.
Actually, there is no water in a cactus. If you cut a barrel cactus off (not an easy job because it has fishhook spines which bite into your hand)...
Well, you can imagine the contents, then... Just imagine in your mind all the rest of the stuff. Got it firm in your head now?
Good.
Oops... guess I oughta go read the Forum rules first, huh?
;)
But, I'm getting off-topic. The topic is Survival Kits...
And for those who never heard of the Bikecentennial Route, it's now called the TransAmerica Trail. It passes 4,250 miles.
We crossed it on our second bike trip as we passed through the Red Desert...
By the way, if readers don't know what a 'Anzen Rec-Pac' is, it was a hard canoing pack with a rubber seal. It was absolutely waterproof and would stay absolutely waterproof even after years of use....
Hmmm... I've lost the knowledge of how you subscribe to a forum.
Where's that hiding?
Yeah, on the second bike trip we crossed the "Bikecentennial Route". They brought a big group of people who stood in awe as I cut with a regular knife. Most of them were carrying almost nothing. They...
Hmmm... Hey, Sarge, why did you remove the link to my angelfire site?
It was just a PDF containing hundreds of details about building my Survival Kit. It contains instruction manuals for each of...
About a year ago I saw an advertisement for an orange Rec-Pac on-line. Talked with the lady and she said she had had a vintage 1980 Rec-Pac in brand-new condition. It had never been used and had been...
After finishing the Rec-Pac holder, I painted it with Epoxy Paint which made it perfectly waterproof. It easily went the 5000 miles without a hitch. One time in Texas, around Woodville, I leaned the...
I designed a thing I called "The Rec-Pac Holder". I had made a thin platform which had four oval holes cut out of it to keep the weight down. Then I built-up three sides with 3/4" wood and screwed...
As for water... that completely depends on where I am.
When I went cross-country I would use those collapsible plastic 5-gallon containers. That way you can squeeze out the air and only fill it...
Well, The Tick Key has a thing which would be very hard to duplicate.
First, it's so cheap why would you want to try and make your own; but second, the area where the tick's head is is tapered...
As for toilet paper...
When I pack a survival kit it's usually particular to things.
The things it is particular to in my case are extremely long term cross-country bicycling and the desert.
...
Well, success breeds rip-offs. There seem to currently be a ton of really cheap quality cord being passed-off as 550 paracord that's circling the internet. Some doesn't even have the interior 7...
I've used the kit, in various conditions of completion, for many months.
I find that I take out parts of it and put them into a smaller pouch with a zipper that I put on my beltloop with a...
Here are some of the things I chose when assembling my own Survival Kit.
I'm sure many of these have been talked about many times (Swedish Firesteel); but it's my decision on which is the best to...