Very cool kit. A few questions?

1. What are the details on the steel cup and where did you get it?

2. Is the expectation with the talkabout radio that you'd be with someone else with the other one, or that you'd be likely to reach someone with them? I have a pair of them also but never considered including them in any of my kits. (Mostly because they recharge from a special charger and the batteries would probably be dead when I needed them.)

3. [This is a general question, and should probably be asked in its own topic...) I noticed you have an AMK med kit and a DR PSP kit inside the Ziploc bags. I also see the emergency poncho inside its OEM sleeve, toilet paper in the Charmin packaging, etc. Where do you fall on the -- keeping things in original packaging vs. taking things out of their packaging and combining them to save weight and bulk -- scale?

4. Where will you put the heatsheet, the GPS and the socks when you get them? (Is there enough spare room in there?)

5. How does it feel to carry it -- does it drag on you or fit relatively well?

6. (This is a general question -- not specific to Paul810) And since most of the kit is for incidental/survival use, is it better to have it packed into a separately carry-able fanny pack, or in a single "drop-in-the-bottom-of the day pack" kit that will rest alongside more water, food, a towel, sunglasses, camera, kids' stuff, bug repellent -- the usual things you need to reach for frequently when hiking/walking...

Thanks for sharing the deets on the kit -- again, very cool.