Left pocket - Survival/ comfort/ First aid kit**
Right pocket - Heatsheet, knife, snacks

Water on hip or pack, jacket as necessary


** Combo kit with ten basics.

i'll just say that the one pair of cargo pants i have drive me nuts,i have to dig thru four or five pockets to find my car keys!

The key is to put certain items in the same pocket each time. Left, right, thigh, rear, whatever/wherever -- always in the same place.

Left thigh cargo pocket: Modified Doug Ritter PSK and leatherman juice multitool.

Right thigh: Cell phone in water proof/water resistant vinyl pouch and a knife (Mora 840. I sewed on a leather patch so the holster snaps on above the pocket. The major part of the holster is actually inside the cargo pocket, with only the handle and about 1" of the holster sticking out above the pocket. I also made a hole in the flap over that cargo pocket.).

Left pocket: Handkerchief, keys (including key chain light).

Right pocket: Vallet (as small as possible).

The location of each item has been very carefully evaluated: It should NOT in any way impeede motion. It can't be too bulky. And I must be able to take a fall without hurting myself on hard objects, so any hard stuff must be somewhere that I usually don't land on. I'm 100% satisfied on all accounts.

I'm also trying to integrate a plastic tarp, poncho or garbage bag, but so far I can't make it work without being too bulky. A work in progress...

If I feel like tumbling about a lot (such as when skiing, or lying flat on the ground enjoying my lunch) I'll move the stuff in my "normal" pocket to a more secure pocket, such as the small pockets on my anorack.

Oh, and the anorack has a whistle easily accessible. Usually I'll have a mini first aid kit in one of the small pockets as well.

What's the context? Where are you going, etc.?

Left front pocket - knife (clipped in place), foam hearing protectors (for the Colorado Avalanche hockey games - loud!), small half-sized writing pen, car keys

Right front pocket - firearm in holster (unless carried in belt holster)

Belt, left side - cell phone in clip-on case, Quark AA flashlight in holster

Belt, right side - firearm in holster (unless pocket carrying)

Right rear pocket - wallet

Left rear pocket - never found anything to put in there except a checkbook occassionally (used only once a year, if that)

one of my "kits":

flashlight (120 lumen millermods), knife (WH T09CF) and spare mags in left, and Seecamp 32 in right

Gorgeous!

snappy looking gear and a magazine cover quality photo--but--i'm sure glad i live someplace where i don't feel the need to pack heat.even solo canoeing in bear country i just have a pepper spray.
i don't get out of Minnesota much,if at all,but i guess in some parts of the country you have to do what you have to do---

canonedogs:

as an ex-criminal investigator having worked in extremely rural eastern oregon, i've learned there are some very nasty folks walking our streets and even our most remote back county. in fact, way more of them than i ever first imagined.

i wish i saw the world through rose colored glasses, but i don't.

everyone has to decide for themselves how they wish to live, then go for it!

and thnx for the very kind gear/photo comments.