#238725 - 01/05/12 08:02 PM
How does a wilderness kit vs. urban?
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 03/11/05
Posts: 2574
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How does your Urban kit or edc vary fro your camping/ hiking one?
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#238728 - 01/05/12 08:27 PM
Re: How does a wilderness kit vs. urban?
[Re: TeacherRO]
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 11/25/08
Posts: 1918
Loc: Washington, DC
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Urban kit is smaller, and:
-- includes more cash -- includes AM-FM radio -- smaller knife
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#238778 - 01/06/12 01:23 PM
Re: How does a wilderness kit vs. urban?
[Re: TeacherRO]
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Veteran
Registered: 10/14/08
Posts: 1517
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I usually carry the same EDC kit I usually carry, but do carry money in it (separate from places I normally carry money) and a local map (I travel a lot and am frequently in areas I am not that familiar with). My knife may change depending on local laws and how I am traveling.
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#238803 - 01/06/12 09:35 PM
Re: How does a wilderness kit vs. urban?
[Re: gonewiththewind]
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Geezer in Chief
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Registered: 08/26/06
Posts: 7705
Loc: southern Cal
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For me the biggest difference is the cash I carry in the urban environment, usually dispersed in more than one location. I always want to have sturdy walking shoes in either environment, along with a decent FAK. Definitely a cell phone when in town. I find more and more I carry my cell, even when deep in he woods.
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#238901 - 01/08/12 06:52 AM
Re: How does a wilderness kit vs. urban?
[Re: TeacherRO]
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 02/16/08
Posts: 2463
Loc: Central California
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My kits contain keys to tap the respective resource bases, adjusted for legalities.
Urban resources in relatively normal times can be acquired with money; mildly abnormal times call for self-supply of potentially critical items like safe water, medications, particulate filtering air mask, minor wound treatments, etcetera. All geared toward brief shelter-in-place in an indoor environment until I can get to bigger kits.
In contrast the land typically yields its resources to tools and there are not many restrictions on carrying knives and saws. Rural EDC is generally more robust and is also geared to a brief / overnight shelter-in-place strategy but in an outside environment with several fire-starting methods.
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#238907 - 01/08/12 01:23 PM
Re: How does a wilderness kit vs. urban?
[Re: TeacherRO]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 05/05/07
Posts: 3601
Loc: Ontario, Canada
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It's also worth noting that many of us have shelter in place supplies in urban environments, either at home and or at the office. I have both, designed for those times when staying is the wisest alternative. My mobile (travelling) kits are with me when I'm not in either of those environments, perhaps enroute to one from the other, grocery shopping, visiting, camping, hiking, forced evacuation, etc.
My mobile kits are much different than my shelter in place kits. 3 examples: They contain shelter, whereas my SIP supplies included materials to fix or improve shelter. They contain navigation, which isn't a necessary part of my SIP gear. Communication is important for both kits but the more wildress my travels, the less I depend on things like cel phones. Also, the gear I'm going to be carrying on my back (or potentially so, in the case of vehicle kits and BOBs) needs to be lighter, smaller and easily packable. The farther from home I am, the more that's true.
Contrary to some, my emergency plans don't depend on the ability to restock in an urban environment or at gas-service stations along my travels, although that is normally an advantage to EDC in urban vs wilderness. A friend ran out of gas last week none of the three gas stations she walked to sold gas cans. I gave my EDC LED flashlight to my newphew on the weekend when his gifted headlamp broke and I have yet to see one in a gas station. (I've stopped at 6 so 7 so far). If I can't find thing as basis as these on a normal day, I'm not going to count on it in an emergency.
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#238909 - 01/08/12 02:24 PM
Re: How does a wilderness kit vs. urban?
[Re: TeacherRO]
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 07/11/10
Posts: 1680
Loc: New Port Richey, Fla
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Jackie.... good call on the gas can.. a new red 1 gal plastic gas can is relatively inexpensive, and can transport gas or water for the radiator (for those not carrying drinking water) .... I'm more likely to need water for the radiator, as I try to keep the fuel tank at least 1/2 full at all times.
Edited by LesSnyder (01/08/12 02:33 PM)
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