Quoting Doug

"
Reference Materials:
- survival reference book, including info on "survival psychology" and "keeping yourself out of survival situations"
- first aid reference book, or better, a wilderness extended first aid book (guidance that assumes you may be on your own for a number of days)

-- Great idea.

'Pots:
- every kit outside your pockets should have some metal container that you can boil water in
- a well-washed coffee tin is better than nothing, at least to melt snow or boil water, and it's free
- a big, tough, single-wall stainless steel cup is (I think) the minimum in each backpack or large fanny pack'


Teacher here -- agreed on both points -- pack reference books and containers* to boil water in. I've started adding a metal mug or pot to each of the bigger kits.

TRO

(* see BIG MUG post else where