Very basic survival gear include matches, water and compass. The matches should be waterproof (easy to do - buy a box of wooden strike anywhere matches and paint them with fingernail polish). In a pinch, the green ink in US currency has chlorophyll in it and paper matches will light if you zip the matches across the money just right. (In my survival training course the instructor called it legal tinder...). You can survive a long time if you have water and warmth.
My days of having money to burn are long behind me... but fire would be handy. Why not use a zip-lock bag instead of the nail polish?
The other thing you should always do when going out in the woods is to tell someone where you're going and when you'll be back. They'll know when you're actually missing and where they should start to look for you.
Good point... I should of quizzed my wife to see if she paid any attention when I told her where I was going (probably not...)
- MCC
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Kalamazoo, MI
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