I have two lists, one for the field and one for home (urban). These take that I'd be wearing appropriate clothing and footware as a given.

Field:
  • KaBar “Stealth Short Fighting Knife”
  • Full Camelbak (any will do)
  • Magnesium fire starter
  • Petzl Tactika LED headlamp
  • Suunto GPS Plotter Compass (and area maps of course)
  • Adventure Medical Heatsheet or Thermo-lite Bivy
  • Adventure Medical Ultralight 0.9 FAK
  • Starflash signal mirror
  • 20-30’ or 550 cord
  • Cell Phone (Nokia 5140i with GPS shell)

THese are my next 5 for field
  • Leatherman Wave
  • SIG P220
  • GPS (now a Garmin GPS60CSx with 512mb card loaded with topo & city select data)
  • JetBoil
  • Leki Trekking Poles

Urban/Home
  • Leatherman h503 Knife
  • Surefire L1
  • Cell phone
  • SIG P220
  • Adventure Medical Ultralight 0.5 or 0.7 FAK
  • Full Nalgene 1L bottle
  • Adventure Medical Heatsheet
  • 10-20’ of 550 cord
  • Leatherman Wave w/ bit kit
  • Cigar lighter
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