Oxygen - without that, you are well and truly screwed.

Good companion. With a good friend or a buddy I would walk to hell, around the world in 79 days and to the moon.

Also good spirit, water, fire, food and tools...

When I started as a board member few years back I carried a lot of heavy and useless items. That changed to carring a lot of light and meaningful items. And that slowly changes to carring few items. Well not really I still do carry a lot but that's becasue I can. I made a point to work on my skills in order to substitue my tools with skills and whatever I can find. That meant practicing in my spare time with different method of starting fire, different type of shelters and med kits. It is hard to make something out of nothing but with practice it can be done. Now still no matter where I go, tool I need the most is my knife. This summer I will try to work on making a stone knife or some kind of cutting tool with whatever I can find on the banks of the river or ocean shore. I'm inspired by the movie "the hunted" with tommy lee jones... I will try to make something that he made at the end of the movie.

Tools without skills give you illusion of safety...

Wildcard163:

It is an aluminum cane and would probably bend with any side impact.

I did find an aluminum one on the internet with a short sword in the bottom end. Not too practical when you consider how slow accessing the bottom portion would be.

Bountyhunter

He must have a sense of humor, or a capacity for the absurd as he is putting up with all of us. <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Bountyhunter

My Grandfather was a wood-worker, I've got a couple in cherry, and one in black oak. The ones in cherry have carvings that encorporate the grain of the wood, and are truly works of art... the oak's just a straight stick with a lead weighted brass doorknob for a handle... it's the "working" cane.

Troy