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Critical Survival ItemsSurvival Kits vs. Critical Survival Items |
It is essential that the items you take into the wilderness are useful. Fishing or sewing kit will help you survive, but will not save your life. They will only allow you to fish or sew. It will be proper clothing, matches, a survival knife, a whistle and a First Aid Kit that will save your life not the contents of a fishing kit!
Decide what critical survival items you need and always carry them, not a small PLACEBO KIT filled with trinkets and toys. What you take into the wilderness is critical to your survival, although your most precious possession is the mitigative learning and experience in your brain. Carry the critical survival items you need to help ensure your Survival and leave the toy survival kits on the shelves of the stores that sell them.
The 15 Critical Survival Items is a generic list of items that can help you to survive in the Canadian Wilderness. The more you carry the easier time you will have surviving. Not all items are needed in each time you travel into the wilderness. In harsh and barren environments you may need more items and large amounts of food and fuel to survive over the long term.
The 15 Critical Survival Items are ranked in order of priority. The first eight items: Clothing, Fire, Survival Knife, Whistle, Personal First Aid Kit, Signal Mirror, Compass, and Cord are extremely critical and should be carried on your body at all times. A Pot and Bow Saw are items 9 and 10. These items are very critical because you cannot create them in the wilderness and your life will be much harder without them, especially over the long term.
Items 11 to 13: Sleeping Bag and Protective Cover, Mattress, and Shelter will save your life in critical situations where you or a companion is sick, injured or unable to light a large fire. Item 14 is your Backpack or Waterproof Container that you carry your critical items in. A list of extra items that may come in handy during a survival situation is listed under item 15, Extra Items.
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