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It is essential that the items you take into the wilderness are useful. Most people think only of taking a small wilderness survival kit when they should instead consider taking proper critical wilderness survival items. 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
Item 1: Proper Clothing, Fire
Item 2: Means to Make Fire, Survival Knife
Item 3: Carbon Steel Survival Knife, Whistle
Item 4: Pealess Plastic Whistle, First Aid Kit
Item 5: Personal First Aid Kit, Signal Mirror
Item 6: Glass Signal Mirror, Compass
Item 7: Liquid Filled
Sighting Compass, and Cord
Item 8: 2m Cord are extremely critical and should be carried on your body at all times. A Pot
Item 9: 2L plus Cooking Pot and Bow Saw
Item 10: 21" Bow Saw or Blade 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
Item 11:
Sleeping Bag and
Protective Cover, Mattress
Item 12: Mattress, and Shelter
Item 13: 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
Item 14:
Backpack or
Waterproof Container that you carry your critical items in. A list of extra items that may come in handy during a many survival situation are listed under item 15, Extra Items
Item 15: Extra Items
including
High Energy Food.
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