Add a bag to your ATV with a knife and survival gear, and improve your EDC to have a decent knife with you.

Whilst in Kenya back in 1981 myself and another guy was on a routine drive from our bush camp back to our base when we lost a wheel on our Land Rover in the middle of the bush. It was only then we realised we had no kit with us and only one water bottle. Although we were miles from anywhere it is amazing how many people appeared from out of the bush over the next hour and within a couple of hours the Kenyan Army had turned up to recover us back to one of their camps. We were very lucky it could have been a very different story.

We had broke the rules and that experience galvanised me to never go anywhere without survival equipment, spear water and personal kit.

It is when you are going about routine activities when things like this happen so it is a good idea to be prepared.

A friend puts a very compact PSK into the hollow handle of his ATV. I don't remember what al it had but I'm pretty sure it include:

1- small knife
2- space blankets
1- candle stub

I find myself agreeing with Benjamin about the distributed EDC.
I also agree with the dedicated kit when walking into the bush or going in a vehicle. Especially on a vehicle because it is so easy to get too far away to get back if it breaks down.
The point about each vehicle having an emergency repair and survival kit with it (or else it does not go) is excellent.

...And yes, I have left home without them a few times.

Oh, you bet your sweet bippy I have!

Didn't like it much and scared the willies out of me.

Glad you came out of it with only a case of the heebie-jeebies.

Well after all is said and done, pretty much I have beaten myself up over it. With that said, I got to contempating everything that was said or implied on this thread and came up with a few conclusions.

1) I have a vast amount of knowledge in survival comparitively. Am I an expert - no. However, knowledge is something that is hard to take away or loose. That is my best EDC.

2) Every ATV will have a minimum amount of necessary "stuff" (ie; granola bars, fire making, knife, water purifing straw. etc...)

3) never doubt the wife - enough said.

4) Quit talking the talk and just walk the walk