The purpose of a survival kit in such a situation is to keep alive and help you attract the attention of rescuers.
With these goals in mind, suggested kit has options for money on proprietary devices and options for home-made equipment that is as effective, but in these credit crunch days, cheaper or free. I will describe a general survival kit for all seasons, of course, common sense if you plan to go somewhere 'extreme', whichSahara and the Arctic require different approaches to a North American wilderness camp, or a charity walk along the Freedom Trail in the Pyrenees
First look at Kit trying to attract attention.
1. It is worth considering an emergency battery charger for your phone. Remember, if you can grab to do to update it every time you upgrade your phone. You can not (unless they are electronics), but there are many cheap generic drugsModels, but the standardization of the charger plug sockets, which is due for 2011
2. A signal mirror is worth more, it will "lead" over several miles, even in low light conditions. Do not get a glass mirror, they break too easily. Get a steel one, when the option of a home-made metal plate (or the inside cover of the survival kit, if you use a can) to use. accessible from Ventilschleifens paint restorer or a mirror Rubpolish.
3. Hi-Viz band is very good for the creation of words (HELP or SOS) or the marker for the direction of production. It 'available in DIY stores and builders' merchants.
4. Bizarre though perhaps forming a colored dragon, a parachute as a modern, sound is also a good way to gain attention in rural areas. Most toy stores and dragon 'bag' gadget stores sell for a few dollars to squish very small and therefore ideal for a survival kit.
5. Smoking is also a goodAttractor of attention, so you have to be fire-fighting equipment and a knowledge of what powers do good smoke, damp straw and wet leaves make good smoke, as well as many plastics. It does not matter if the smoke white or black, it must be made often enough to be seen.
OK, now look at the things that are worth so that you are alive for that you need heat, water and first aid
6. Focus will help you keep warm, and may help to eat, clean water andto attract attention. You need something to fire and the easiest way, is a pack disposable lighter! Yes, it's a bit 'non-purists, but if you try to survive, you can delete your principles allow. If you have more "authentic", then you can go to the bad weather games, do their time by means of non-matches and the immersion of the head and upper quarter of an inch of candle wax. You can also go to a "stone and steel" of almost all the camping store, if you really wantthe cave man approach to survival. One of them is a disposable lighter for several years so if you're going to end firmly on a desert island, it's a good bet! Get a spark is only half the battle, you have something that starts to burn fast and hot, just the learning of all birch bark shaved and can dust the best and easiest lighter fluid. Sometimes you can buy little rubber sheets' of lighter fluid can be sprayed on the main fuel for aFire started quickly in the absence of such a pack a small spray of lighter fluid. A cotton swab is compressed, which can be used as bait if provoked.
7. Need to raise the situation and bring the water, and you need to clean the situation there to drink. A few balls are standard bearers of excellent water, especially if you also pack a couple of these six clips to freezer bags, bind with (a knot on top of a ball seal is OK, but knot in balloonRubber are almost impossible to solve) expect some people condoms are better, but have two major disadvantages;! First, they are more expensive and, secondly, they tend to spermicide or lubricants, which are more likely to Mars taste of drinking water. purification tablets may, with most camping stores, or bought a clean straw, even if they are still quite expensive. You can also cook a pot of water in your survival kit to sterilize. A sheet of thin polyethyleneabout two square meters, it is possible rainwater or a "survival yet '; emergency stimulate the type often installed on the roof of the hotel guest pack is just the ticket.
8. With regard to the emergency room I recommend a short course now to buy a DVD if only lasts for a couple of dollars and time to see him, you never know when you want your spouse to save the life of the partner or children at home, not to mention the boonies! In your survival kit PackNeedle and thread (this is a first aid required, and a repair is necessary for clothing), add a small collection of plaster and a small layer of disinfectant, let's face could do without it if you can hear you scream, as DAB cuts and abrasions of the bladder. A small pair of tweezers for removing thorns and dirt in the wounds is worth adding. The relief referred to in paragraph 6 above may be wrapped like filling up a small injury, or used in the event of a flat tire caninserted to satisfy all the blood loss. Some sugar cubes or bags and bags of salt every business take-away is essential for your body to replace the losses, when to get diarrhea.
9. There are a few different things that can serve as well as with.
a) a guide for small things as a Morse code, first aid, survival of a building or the construction of a building. Do one of them reduced to the minimum type and print on the thinnest paper.
b) a magnifying glass.This may be one of the assets, credit card style plastic ones, are small and lightweight, they can use to read the instructions in the use of one) to mix to focus the sun's rays in a fire or reveal the presence of spikes, barbs, and serious injuries. Once these effects are often given away to libraries and optical, alternatively, a shot from a toy store is readily available.
c) a knife, I'm not talking about a World War III Rambo / type of Crocodile Dundee knife, but something that fits into strongthe kit. It wants to cut the kind of thing you can with string or shaving the bark of light rather than something to cut down a tree. A single razor wire or a short paring knife with the handle cut is perfect.
d) a wire saw for cutting firewood and protective supports, splints and stretchers.
e) 20 meters of nylon thread very thin. You are not reefs in the shins down with him make a single new animal shelter, a railroad, a trap or shoes.
f)This tiny keychain flashlight about the size of a coin, especially one with a red LED, you can usually get them at gas stations for a few dollars
You will notice that it is not a compass .... the best thing to do in a situation like this survival is to stay where you are and draw attention to themselves. A compass is of little value unless you have a map or do not know where you are on the map. If you are thinking, look at the map before you go and you know, for example, that whereverYou can reach to the south and a main road, is to use a compass.
Finally ... Do not pack this in your backpack, bike bag or stow in Canoe Cove ... put it in his pocket, preferably one pocket, so if you have anything you still lose your survival kit, and let's face it, if you lost everything that you need.
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