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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
I guess you'd call it a large day pack, or I've seen it called a 'week-ender' too. Nothing fancy. Doesn't even have the Daisy chains or Snow shovel bungee cords I see on every kid's day pack today. Not a Molle strap to be seen.
Take a look at the goods. The only large item is the boots, and they don't go inside the packs. Everything else is quite small with the largest space taken up by the packages of freeze dried foods, and you know how small and light they are. A dozen of them take up about as much room as a dozen paperback books and weigh half as much. They form the bottom layer of the pack.
Every grouping other than food is in its own small stuff sack. Cooking and fire making, signaling, communications, shelter and first aid. Yo-yo. In fact, we really could use a slightly smaller pack, but this one gives us room to stuff in a sweater, gloves, and wool socks during the winter.
One of the whistles is fastened to the haul loop with a small locking biner for immediate access, and the flashlight is always at the top of the bag. Both whistles and the flashlights have lanyards.
Stitchawl
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Thanks! That was fascinating, AND educational. I do have one more question for you, though. Here in the southern U.S., the most likely emergencies we would be preparing for would be either a tornado (which could be fairly catastrophic) or an ice storm (which is usually just a prolonged power outage.) In either of those cases, though, I would have the opportunity to actually put my hands on my emergency pack so I would be sure to have it with me. (Even though tornados can hit without warning, we usually know if there is bad weather approaching and can take precautions.)
Where and how do you store your kit so that you would be able to access it if an earthquake hit? Since there is usually no warning with earthquakes it seems to me that it would be crucial to be pretty confident that you could find your packs, right?