Silliness

[Guest guest]

,

My backback is set up in such a way that if there were an emergency

on the trail, I would have enough provisions to last a few days and

enough supplies (for camping, hiking, fishing, keeping warm, and

emergency) that I could last indefinately.

If there were an emergency where I had to leave town really quick, I

could just take the pack and a rifle, revolver, or pistol, some

ammo, and leave, and have enough supplies to keep me going

indefinately.

I can't think of everything I put in the pack, but it only weighs

about twenty five pounds maximum and it has in addition to those

things I can't remember (and most of this stuff is in baggies so

that it won't get water-logged and so that it will float in water):

1) One change of clothes. (Socks, T-shirt, sweatshirt, underwear,

regular tennis shoes).

2) A really good first aid kit with bandages, guaze, patches, anti-

septics, cortozone, various pain killers, scissors, focepts, etc.

3) Needle, thread.

4) Swiss army knife with scissors, eating implements, nail files,

bottle openers, screw drivers (standard and philips) toothpick and

tweezers, and small saw.

5) A larger knife that can be used to gut fish with.

6) Flint for sharpening knives and starting fires.

7) Compass

8) Binnoculars

9) Detachable hip belt with a second compass, a second pair of

binnoculars, 12 ounce water bottle and pad, pencil, pen, and paper.

10) Pad, pencil, pen and paper in main pack.

11) Twin 16 OZ water bottles that go into slots on either side of

the pack.

12) Water purifyng tablets.

13) Mini-bottles of soap, shampoo, and lotion.

14) Nail clippers

15) Toilet paper

16) Foldable mess quit and tripod (three bowls can be used for

cooking and eating, fit together and you can fold up the tripod to

fit around them for easy storage).

17) Matches (both wooden and packs)

18) A lighter.

19) Deet Insect repllent.

20) 2 " Space age " insulating blankets, each cable of keeping in 98%

of body heat when wrapped around the body.

21) One sleeping bag made of the same material, but surrounded by a

mesh to prevent tearing.

22) Hooks and fishing line.

23) Extra buckles, snaps, and straps for fabricating splints.

24) " Fun sized " twix candy bars for quick calories.

25) Etc.

I always wear durable heavy-duty hiking boots or hunting boots and a

belt, and the backpack has an internal bendable frame that can be

separated and used as a back support if necessary.

Tom

Tom,

I have some survival skills and some manuals that I can refer to if

need be. Right now I have about 2 weeks of canned goods in my

emergency stash and water purifying gear so I could get water from

the creek behind the house if the water is turned off. I'd probably

also dig a hole near the creek and get water from that because the

water would probably be clearer than in the creek itself. I've also

got a .22 and a pellet gun so if I had to I could hunt the squirrels

and raccoons. I want to invest in a few months worth of MRE's or

long duration camping rations but my mom won't hear of it. I might

just do it anyway though.

[Guest guest]

,

My backback is set up in such a way that if there were an emergency

on the trail, I would have enough provisions to last a few days and

enough supplies (for camping, hiking, fishing, keeping warm, and

emergency) that I could last indefinately.

If there were an emergency where I had to leave town really quick, I

could just take the pack and a rifle, revolver, or pistol, some

ammo, and leave, and have enough supplies to keep me going

indefinately.

I can't think of everything I put in the pack, but it only weighs

about twenty five pounds maximum and it has in addition to those

things I can't remember (and most of this stuff is in baggies so

that it won't get water-logged and so that it will float in water):

1) One change of clothes. (Socks, T-shirt, sweatshirt, underwear,

regular tennis shoes).

2) A really good first aid kit with bandages, guaze, patches, anti-

septics, cortozone, various pain killers, scissors, focepts, etc.

3) Needle, thread.

4) Swiss army knife with scissors, eating implements, nail files,

bottle openers, screw drivers (standard and philips) toothpick and

tweezers, and small saw.

5) A larger knife that can be used to gut fish with.

6) Flint for sharpening knives and starting fires.

7) Compass

8) Binnoculars

9) Detachable hip belt with a second compass, a second pair of

binnoculars, 12 ounce water bottle and pad, pencil, pen, and paper.

10) Pad, pencil, pen and paper in main pack.

11) Twin 16 OZ water bottles that go into slots on either side of

the pack.

12) Water purifyng tablets.

13) Mini-bottles of soap, shampoo, and lotion.

14) Nail clippers

15) Toilet paper

16) Foldable mess quit and tripod (three bowls can be used for

cooking and eating, fit together and you can fold up the tripod to

fit around them for easy storage).

17) Matches (both wooden and packs)

18) A lighter.

19) Deet Insect repllent.

20) 2 " Space age " insulating blankets, each cable of keeping in 98%

of body heat when wrapped around the body.

21) One sleeping bag made of the same material, but surrounded by a

mesh to prevent tearing.

22) Hooks and fishing line.

23) Extra buckles, snaps, and straps for fabricating splints.

24) " Fun sized " twix candy bars for quick calories.

25) Etc.

I always wear durable heavy-duty hiking boots or hunting boots and a

belt, and the backpack has an internal bendable frame that can be

separated and used as a back support if necessary.

Tom

Tom,

I have some survival skills and some manuals that I can refer to if

need be. Right now I have about 2 weeks of canned goods in my

emergency stash and water purifying gear so I could get water from

the creek behind the house if the water is turned off. I'd probably

also dig a hole near the creek and get water from that because the

water would probably be clearer than in the creek itself. I've also

got a .22 and a pellet gun so if I had to I could hunt the squirrels

and raccoons. I want to invest in a few months worth of MRE's or

long duration camping rations but my mom won't hear of it. I might

just do it anyway though.

[Guest guest]

> " Unfortunately, what the media does can have unintended consequences. "

I never believe anything the media says.

" South Park did a really good parody of all this. They had a flood

caused

> when the boys broke a damn and a small town was flooded. The reporter

was miles

> outside of town and was reporting looting mass killings and riots.

When the

> anchor asked if the reporter had seen this himself, the reporter said

no, but

> he was reporting it. He also said that 100's of millions of people

died in the

> flooding, and since the town only had a population of 8,000, that

was a

> major tragedy. "

:) I can't handle the vulgarity but I find South Park sans vulgarity

very hilarious. Please, keep posting funny South Park stories with the

vulgarity edited!

[Guest guest]

Seems you are thinking along the exact lines as myself. :-) Delighted to

have met a kindred spirit.

Inger

Re: Silliness

I have a theory that whoever's really ruling the country just uses

the two parties--republicans and democrats as a diversion. People

get so involved in whether they are one or the other that they don't

see what's really going on. Kind of like Eurasia or Eastasia in the

book, 1984. Of course it's just a theory...