FWIW - my personal BOB has a Eureka Mountainpass Tent. It is a free standing tent that I've used for winter camping. I also have a 25 degree marmot sawtooth sleeping bag.

When hiking in the woods w/ a day pack I have a 5x8 sil-nylon poncho.

Adam

I don't have a dedicated BOB right now. But for my car or my pack for long day hikes, I have an Army Gortex bivy sack with the two sleeping bags. It was expensive, but on Ebay, about a third of what it could have been. But that's for Wyoming, and I'll hump the extra weight so I don't wake up with frost bite(not that I would, I doubt I could fall asleep). I also have a Drizabone riding coat I just got for an early Christmas present. That's my EDC shelter, sure beats a trashbag. I also have a couple blaze orange hunting vests. Better then surveyor's tape as a signal, plus if its hunting season it might mean someone'll think twice before sending lead down range.

that is a tough bivy medical sack. I will get it for sure.

I have a 10 X 8 tarp and rain poncho in my BOB. Been looking at switching over to a small tent, if I can find one for not a lot of $$$ and lightweight I'll do it.

In my small wilderness PSK (belt pouch), I carry an extra-large orange garbage bag. In my daypack, I carry a bigger heavy-duty tarp with a reflective side, it has grommets and allows me to tie it down to trees with cord.

MY backpack kit, which is mostly kept packed for S & R, I have a simple military poncho. Easy to set up, rain proof, & has yet to let me down. In my jeep, I have a large tupperware container, with all kinds of stuff thrown in, depending on the season. I have a 10X8 silnylon tarp, that has survived as an emergency bivy a few times, while on exposed peaks in New England. Its nice having tie downs pre sewn onto points on the tarp. Beats having to deplete my cordage.

In my Belt Survival Pouch I keep a 55 gallon drum liner and a space blanket. In my daypack I keep a heavy duty Stearns poncho with grommets that can easily be improvised along with another 55 gallon drum liner. In my BOB I keep an orange tube tent with two more 55 gallon drum liners and a space blanket. I am ditching the space blankets for some Survival Emergency Blankets by Adventure Medical Kits in the near future.

The same rule of real estate applies to survival shelter- location, location, location. Murphy's law dicates that a heavier tarp will in all likelyhood just get ripped by an equally bigger piece of debri. Any shelter, from heavy duty trashbag to dedicated tent provide us TIME to THINK and IMPROVE our situation.

What kind of emergency blanket is that?

http://www.equipped.org/blog/?p=20 - Doug's take on emergency blankets

I use what I call "layers of preparation system"
Belt PSK
- large plastic bag
- heat sheet
- cordage

SHTF bag
- backpacker poncho (longer)
- large plastic bag
- even larger plastic bag (one of those 85" by something)

BOB
- Silshelter http://www.backpackgeartest.org/reviews/...elter%20Review/
(I will highly recommend this line of superlight shelters. They make tarps too. This shelter uses one pole, staff, limb, whatever. I've used it many nights and they are deceptively tough. It's sort of a triangular affair, no floor, but kindofa door - shelters two people and weighs LESS THAN ONE POUND!!)
- MORE cordage!
- six screw-in plastic stakes
- yet one more plastic bag!

Vehicle Kit
- two plastic tarps (10'X12')
- more rope