<< In a hiking situation I could imagine a river crossing going wrong and your rucsac getting swept downstream. >><br><br>Good example; I agree.<br><br>Some of us curmudgeons (I'm not one, but Hikerdon probably is - JK) probably have many useful things on our persons already. I agree with all of what Hikerdon wrote, as that is much the way I wander around outdoors. Yet... the concept of a back-up in a small PSK is too sensible for me to pass up, so I fiddle a bit with that as well.<br><br>I'm pretty comfortable with what I have with me when I am intentionally outdoors. EDC (every day carry) is an area that I have been giving a bit more attention to lately than in the past. A tailored PSK as a component of my EDC makes a huge amount of sense to me.