Re: massacre
With "hard to improvise" I meant trying to include items which are hard to improvise in challenging situations like lights and knives.

Re: Excomantia
Spot on for size! <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Clothing appropriate for the expected conditions, but I would ask myself if the space taken by food could not be better used for harder to improvise gear.

Re: bassnbear
This seems like a good basic setup. I'm just wondering why one of your choices(more space allowing) would be a folding shovel. Is this not something that can be improvised more easily? No criticism, just curious about the motivation.

Regards,

B.