Originally Posted By: xbanker
Nice write-up on your test run. Great exercise that, together with your other thread, has rejuvenated my own planning. Thanks.


Thanks. It was the write-up of others that helped me get going with my own plans and I thought I would return the favor. Pass-it-forward as it were.

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You touch on something — situation awareness — that's an important piece of your "survival toolkit." Since it depends on what you see and what you hear going on around you, wearing headphones would impair your effectiveness. Depending on nature and severity of disaster, time of day, and neighborhood/area you're traveling, could mean increased peril.

Granted, the radio would presumably provide information useful to broader SA, but perhaps best monitored selectively.

Here's brief write-up on situation awareness, some of which you might find applicable.


Situational awareness is something I really need to work on. Like probably much of the population I go through my normal day without truly paying much attention to what's around me. It is easy to become lax when nothing ever happens. (I may have led a relatively charmed life in this respect). With this as my habitual state of awareness, I found it really hard to shift gears into a heightened state of awareness on this hike. It certainly didn't help that everything was actually normal anyway. As I said, something I need to think more about.