The foil sounds like a good idea. The coglahans tinder is bassically cotten but it is water proof and packs better than the sparklite tinder i use the coglahans tinder to fill in the little spaces and keep rattiling. Neoto go is little packets of neosporen. The reason i use apen is because it is much more permanant than a pencil. The pencil shavings for tinder may be a good idea but useless if it is to get wet. <br>Tom