I had travel knapsacks on their backs to the rain, snow, lightning, landslide, against the altitude sickness and twenty mile day – all in one weekend in the summer. Wilderness trips can be dangerous, but you can be less, with the ten items in your backpack.
1. Knowledge. What is a compass, if you do not know how is it used? Play with matches if your fire skills are fragile. What to do if you a disservice. Read a little, a little practice – knowledge is most likely your gadgets.
2. Map and compass. You are together because, as you need to use.
3. Matches and lighter. Take the two, or water with a firelighters and Art, the fact that two facilities, a fire is much safer.
4. First-aid kit. Buying a pre-packaged or your own. Make sure he painkillers, plasters, disinfectants, and references to the first aid procedures.
5. Pedicure. Your first aid kit needs moleskin, and possibly a brooch, the treatment of blisters. Your feet will be well supported if you are walking miles in the nearest street.
6. For water treatment. A filter works, but they clog and thus as often as you should have a small bottle of iodine tablets or other water quality backup.
7. Clothing regen. One of the main causes of death in the woods is hypothermia, and it is often when you start to get wet. Try to stay dry.
8. Shelter. That can be a tent, a tarp or bivy bag. You need to insure that you know how it is used.
9. Sleeping bag. Down bags are the warmest for their weight, but make sure you know how to dry, or bring a sack synthesis.
10. Objects travel. For backpacking trips in Michigan in May, put insect. In June of Arizona, a sunscreen. Think about the specific conditions of the time and place for your trip.
Your own list when traveling knapsack on his back. This is not funny when a friend tells us ten miles from the runway, he is allergic to bees and forget their medication. A little planning is less worry and better yields.