At the risk of sounding repetitive, how is it again that torn clothes in a chaparral environment constitute a survival situation? I grew up in the chaparral and coastal sage scrub of SC myself, and I know about how hard it is to bushwack through it. But even if my clothes were dirtied and stressed, never did they get torn, and even if they did I can't see how their getting torn could put me in any kind of survival situation. Maybe in the artic, but not in the chaparral.