When you get to time and place where you need to pull out your gear and start dealing with survival, you will have just two basic things - the gear (toys) and your mind (knowledge and attitude). Of the two, the mind is incomarably more important. This is the problem with the gear abandoning hikers that Mac Muz describes (I have seen this often, myself). They panic.. and lose it all.<br><br>In other words, just buying the gear won't really ge the job done. The Zen of the PSK is such that the best way to go is to assemble it yourself, making the decisions about what to include and what to leave out and why .. this gets you thinking about how these gadgets will be employed should you ever need them. It is this mental exercise that is the most important itemyou place into the kit.<br><br>Still, for $100 I will cheerfully assemble you a kit, doing my very best to get you good things within. I'll bet that Chris will also if you really press him (Caution: we are both archeologists, so you will probably find a hand axe in your kit.) Which of these kits will be the right one for you - probably neither. Some dark and stormy night, you will open the kit, look at the hand axe, shrug your shoulders, and throw it away, while Chris or I could undoubtedly survive with only that implement for months and months.