I have my backpack with all my gear and such for weekend trips and beyond, but I wanted to put together something more for dayhikes/survival practice in areas I am familiar with. So, I went out today and got some gear together. I had to start from scratch since I'm away from home right now (doing the college thing).

First the pictures:











Now the list:

Eddie Bauer Bag
2 Lexan water bottles (came with bag)
Steel Cup
Leatherman Blast
50ft paracord
7 ranger bands
2 Steel quick links

Inside:

Motorola Talkabout T6500
Princeton Tec Quest headlamp with LED bulb
Buck Diamondback Guide Fixed Blade
Three Ziploc Freezer bags (contents of each bag listed below)

Bag 1:
Small metal candy tin filled with cotton/Vaseline balls
Six spare Lithium AA batteries
Two Spare bulbs for headlamp
Rite-in-Rain Pad
Fischer Bullet Space Pen
Doan Flint/Magnesium Bar
Stick style diamond knife sharpener
Industrial formula Sharpie
7 Yellow Zip-ties
DR Pocket survival Pak supplemented with
-2 gaff hooks
-Victorinox Classic SD
-4 eye hooks
-6 Katadyn MP1 Tabs

Bag 2:
Silva Guide Model 426 Compass
Under Armor Gloves
Charmin (Toilet Paper) To-Go Pack
Adventure Medical Kits pocket medic supplemented with:
-Nitrile Gloves
-Benadryl Liqui-gels
-Imodium A-D
-Aspirin tabs
-roll of gauze
-medical tape
-Lip Balm with SPF 15

Bag 3:
Emergency Poncho
2 Garbage Bags (55 gallon size)
2 bright blue bandannas
3 coffee filters
2 Snickers Marathon Bars
PowerBar Gel
Jelly Belly Sport Beans


Items I want to add, but couldn't find today:
Heatsheets Emergency Bivvy
Small GPS (that uses AA batteries)
Spare pair of socks (when hiking)


Keep in mind, this supplements my normal EDC, so I've already got some basics covered (Knife/Fire/Light/Whistle/Bandanna/ect).

Also, interestingly enough, it cost me around $300 to assemble this kit using all store bought items (Though there is a bag of stuff left over from the items that had to be bought in bulk like the gloves, cotton, hooks, other radio, ect.) Amazing how fast stuff adds up. Makes me wonder what my backpack with more (and generally higher quality) gear cost me to assemble. <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

"...Makes me wonder what my backpack with more (and generally higher quality) gear cost me to assemble..."

Trust me, you do not want to know...

Looks like a pretty good kit, but why do you carry 2 spare bulbs for a LED-headlamp?

You are right on that. It down right scared me when I added my EDC, BOB, big kit, and long tearm supplies up.

The headlamp was originally a standard bulb style, but I took the standard bulb out and put an LED bulb in. That left me with two regular bulbs leftover, so I keep them in the kit. They don't really take up any space or weight, and they have a better throw than the LED bulb.

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.

Nicely done. Can I assume you carry a jacket ( warm and/ or waterproof) elsewhere?

I'd add a map of wherever you are, & more water treatment tabs.
Also a signal mirror, 20' of flagging tape and a fleece or wool cap.
No cell phone?

Why did you buy all new? Try ebay or goodwill for nearly new gear. Much cheaper.

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Echo that, OGB. My dad asked me once about my "morbid hobby", and I replied by asking him how much he spends on golf gear every year.

Wow. This really isn't healthy.

nice..but i would say ditch the Snickers bar and take
a lot more real food..you will be hungry and weak a lot
faster than you will need a space pen and TP.

I see a lot of you carrying these...any special reason?

I mean...is it the novelty or true function?

re: the carrying of spare bulbs for LEDs. I do this in a few lights. For instace, while I changed over two of my 3D mag lites to MaxStar5 - 5 Watt Luxeon TLE-6K2 LEDs (from batteryjunction.com), I also have Mag drop in LED replacements as my spares in the cap should something ever happen (probably physically) to the primary bulbs.

But, in other areas I have different LED lights.