Originally Posted By: Blast
Poncho. I like the ability to use it as rain gear or shelter or a blanket depending on what I need. Space blankets are too fragile and can't easily be tied into different shapes/covers.

The AMK heatsheet is a great emergency backup for a poncho, but between the two I'd still go with a poncho.

-Blast

Um, are we talking cheap disposable ponchos? My comments were based on the heavier duty/Mil-Spec type of poncho.


I was thinking of simple basic on both counts, not an AMK heatsheet or a MilSpec poncho. MilSpec pncho with the liner would come before all of the above, and I would prefer the AMK heatsheet. The cheap poncho, one of which I do EDC and a number of which I have scattered in different places, is at the bottom of the list.