Re: Back Pack Load Out?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mm128</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Ok... need some advice...opinions...
If you had to bug out for a couple/few days... and have a backpack... with butt pack... WHAT essentials would you take with you or NEED....
Consider you have weapons covered... and ammo..
Looking for essential... and some comforts..
*and NO... I am not loosing it
Just thinking of doing some scouting....looking on some of the family land for a few days this year..
Thanks,
Matt (LEO SOUTH GA.) </div></div>
South GA is somewhat different than the skills I developed over years guiding, instructing in Alaska but some always apply. I spent most of my time in the alpine or tundra of Alaska.
For all my packs; emergency blanket bivy sack, the foil type and leave it in the plastic wrap. Take about foot long strips of duct tape and tape the bivy to the inside bottom of your pack. This affords some sort of shelter and the duct tape can be used to repair rips and tears among other things. Use back packs that have a slot in the back panel, these days used for hydration. If your pack does not already have one, cut a piece of closed cell foam to fit into this slot. This will afford some shelter in a survival mode with the bivy sack and then removing the foam pad to sit on.
My main backcountry pack I used in Alaska for guiding and personal trips, I had a back pack made with a very long bivy extension up to my neck when laying down. A thin foam pad bent in half long ways would fit into the back panel and fold out long ways from my butt to shoulders. I have trickle charged this way in Alaska, body inside the foil bivy sack and inside my pack and on the foam pad. With the clothes on my back, I have bivy into the high 20s and in inclement weather.
To increase core warmth, pull your arms inside the chest area of your cloths...do not keep arms inside the sleeves.
Large plastic garbage bag, I carried two. One of these line my pack for waterproofness. One time, actually many times, I got caught out in a good blow in the mountains, trash bag over my head, cut small breathing hole and pulled knees up into the bag sitting on my day pack. Was a very long cold night with rain sleet as the low pressure blew. In addition, the black plastic of the trash bag can be used for a solar still.
I always take 50' of p cord.
Fixed blade knife.
I always wear a ball cap even in winter, the bill affords room around the face when inside a bivy sack and lessons the claustrophobia effect.
I recommend a foot long piece of garden hose. This is used to urinate from shelters and sleeping bags in cold. Unzipping will release all the warmth your body just made and can chill the core. My buddy Mango and I skied in 5-6 miles to do a first ascent and we decided to use bivy sacks before I knew better. When I had to relieve myself during the night, my aim was not so good and I missed the zipper opening building a small yellow lake inside my bivy sack. Lady J's have been around for years so I got the idea to use one for male appendage but added a short piece of hose.
One comfort I never left home with out when planning overnights was, Parbat booties. The extra bulk and weight were golden after a long day on the feet. Seen too many charges and outdoor users leave their boots on in camp and be miserable. I have cut wood, chopped pond / creek ice, built latrines, every camp chore wearing Parbat booties.
Good luck
Just thinking of doing some scouting....looking on some of the family land for a few days this year..
