095: GETTING VERSATILE BUG OUT BAG THAT WON'T BREAK

YOUR BACKBy Ken Jensen

72 Hour Kit, Bug Out Bag, Get Home Bag, Get Out of Dodge Bag, or Whatever Else You Want to Call

It

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Bug Out Bags can Give you Everything You Need for a Weekend Camping Trip.

Choose a Backpack or Hiking Pack for Hands-Free Awesomeness. Carefully Choose Your Supplies for a Lightweight Multipurpose Bag. Light Up the Night with the Right Flashlights Keep Warm and Toasty with a Roaring Fire Stay Safe and Secure by Having some Awesome Gear in Your Pack. Fix a Broken Bone, Laceration, or Decapitation with a First Class

First Aid Kit

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How to Keep Your Energy Levels Sky High with the Proper Food and

Water?• Keep foods you normally eat.  I recommend, based on your

needs, a mix of the following:• Granola and Energy Bars• Trail Mix• Dried Soup Packets• Vacuum sealed rice• Water (1 gallon per person per day)• Water purification tablets and/or sawyer straw filters

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Keep the Elements Off with the Right Clothing.

• You will need a full set of clothing, Both short and long sleeve.

• Have several pairs of socks to keep feet dry.. • Get a Poncho, or rain jacket and pants for

adverse weather and a hat to keep the sun off.

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Get Excellent Shelter and Bedding For a Packable Castle that is “Good-

to-Go”

Shelter is a big deal during a bug out. • It can be your separation from weather, insects,

or critters. Bedding performs a couple functions. • Bedding acts as a miniature shelter.• Bedding acts as insulation.

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Keep a variation of the following bedding items for a good night’s sleep:

• Space blankets and wool blankets will keep you warm.– Space blankets take up less space, but

are Mylar, which isn’t very durable.• Bedsheets take very little space but will

make a space blanket more comfortable• Hammock or hammock net.

– Both can be used as a hammock, but the military hammock nets can be used for fishing and trapping.

– I have the Grand Trunk Hybrid Hammock and my children have the Grand Trunk Ultralight Hammock.

– Consider the Skeeter Beater Hammock instead.

Emergency-Mylar-Thermal-Blankets-Pack-of-10-0 Emergency Mylar Thermal Blankets (Pack of 10)

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Keep rain and wind away with a good shelter.

A word of caution here: Shelters will not protect you from Lava or Expelled Toilet water from Jetliners.– Tarp: You can make A-frame shelters

and lean-to shelters with it. Collecting water, waterproofing pack.

– Small hiking or dome tent. I prefer 2 person tents. I actually have the Alps or Alpine Engineering Mystique 2.

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Light Up the Night with the Right Flashlights

You need lighting. It can get dark fast when no lights are around.– LED Flashlights are cheap and effective. I prefer

battery operated lights with hand crank or shake backup.

– Headlamps are great hands-free lighting.

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Keep Warm and Toasty with a Roaring Fire

• Signal Flares provide a rescue beacon as well as a single use fire starter.

• Tea light candles can make a fairly long lasting flame that has much utility.

• You need Lighters (BIC is a favorite of mine) and waterproof matches in your bag for firestarting.

• I would also keep a Ferro rodand a few kindling items as a backup.

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Stay Safe and Secured by Having some Awesome Gear in Your Pack.

There are many different things that you can use to defend yourself. Kick some butt with the following items:– Survival knife: I have the Colt tactical survival knife

(cheap option) or the Gerber LMF II Infantry Knife: The tool that will build almost all of your other tools. Keep one on you and one in your bag.

– Pepper Spray, Sabre is great, so is Kimber.

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A Clean Prepper is a Fresh Prepper. A Fresh Prepper is a

Happy Prepper.

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When we prepare, navigation and knives are an obvious choice. I promise you that three days can make you reek of stink. Keep a few items that will build your comfort.

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For Every List You must, first make the list, then you need to see what you CURRENTLY HAVE that will make due, and THEN… ONLY THEN will you purchase recommended gear.

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