I would no more depend on the company I worked for to keep me alive than I would go into the desert stark naked in 120-degree heat. Depend on someone else's (lack of) common sense? Not me. How many times have you been in a campground near a group who brought canned goods but no can opener?

And if you can't take some of your own stuff to depend on without standing out, your survival instincts are probably sub-par, anyway.

The bottom line: if he's too dumb to take some gear that he keeps on/near him, and he dies, well..... he dies. Send flowers to the widow. Too bad, so sad.

Sue