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Pack your survival items that don't fit in your survival tin in a bag or pouch that can be grabbed easily and quickly and contain items that will allow you to stay overnight in the wilderness and enhance your chances of being found. Personal I use a lightweight, durable and waterproof fanny pack with waist belt. It's large enough to also carry my first-aid kit. I keep it always outside of my back-pack so I easily can grab it.
Your emergency survival kit should contain a cooking pot, fuel, food, survival bag and signaling kit. A good advice is to include survival notes, make your own or use one of the recommended wilderness survival books.
Cooking pot
As a cooking pot use an aluminium tin that is light, strong and also suitable as a container for your other survival items.
Fuel
Use a pocket stove with fuel tablets. The pocket stove is ultralight, compact and easy to use. The stove simply unfolds to form an adjustable pot stand and holder for burning fuel. These tablets are a great heat source for cooking, getting warm or starting fires. Add extra waterproof matches, you never have enough.
Food
Food bars are ideally suited for disaster survival kits because of their wide storage temperature range and relative small size and weigh. You need all the extra calories you can get in a survival situation so pick high energy food bars. Salt must be included.Survival bag
Use an emergency survival bag of reflective material that keeps you warm.
Tip: Large plastic garbage bags make excellent ponchos or you can use it to build a waterproof one person emergency shelter.
Signaling kit
Pack a small flashlight that takes up little room. Use long-lasting batteries reversed inside so they won't run down if accidentally switched on.
Small hand-held aerial signal flares are perfect wilderness signaling device. They provide most effective day and night signal for attracting attention as they are loud and cover a large sighting area. These are explosive so pack carefully. Read the instructions supplied with the flares.
Keep it with you
And remember whatever is in your emergency survival kit you have to keep it with you. Never venture into the wilderness without your outdoor survival kits.
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