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Even in lowland england, my motehr used to carry sleepig bag, camping bed and food and stove because she often got trapepd at work if it snowed, as couldnt leave the valley... Part of it is i woudlnt want to buy a bottle of water, pills or even plasters from a shop if ive already got them at...

some of it depends if you are carrying PSK for yourself, or for possibility of otehr people... i used the mylar from PSK once when cycling in a city because an old lady collapsed on pavement just in front of me.... was the PSK neccesary, no, but helpfull..... just saw a video on youtube about...

yes, 40 years ago EDC type stuff wasnt mentioned... but then back then you didnt have any decent tiny flashlights, a SAK was about it edc type items, pocket prybars, decent tiny torches, have made having a few usefull everyday items easier to carry...

classic case of diffent things for different people, i have a belt kit and the repair items are used all the time when im working, often away from car, head torch, elatehrman, poncho, ducttape, gluesticks etc.. so very heavy on repair items, .and because carrying sharps always FAK on belt ...

Hoestly that sounds a good selection to me...first aid kit and repair items are missing, but then when i made a kit when I was 10 i remember it being heavy on fishing wire and snares, and a later kit was heavy on ciiking, but only a tiny blanket for shelter, naivity of youth, lol.... Lots...

Thats classic EDC, probably more than a lot of muggles but part of the great EDC/PSK/BOB acronym venn diagramm....

Ive got teabags in mine, and biscoff bisuits to go with the tea.... and it has to be said, emergency biscoff could be my most used/restocked thing, even having emrgency sweetner for having a sudden cup of tea somewhere is very usefull....

Its the factory one ive got, i got it when I was 7 but over 40 years later i still use it.... have been tempted by the stirling engines, and even the model working petrol engines..

mines about the same, ive got a stationary engine...

I think ill be using up the rest of my hexamine in my mamod, u just wont take it out of my house...

thats absolutely no point buying new natural fibre to replace plastic fibre, unless its replacing dead/worn out, i always buy 2nd hand, or make from otehr materials, except underwear, but if you are buying new, thats the thing

any plastic based clothing....ployester, ploycotton etc, that goes in a washing machine creates plastic...Lots of people say cotton kills, only have manmade fabrics for outdoor pursuits etc, but y wife wont have most plastic clothing in the house, not bought anyway. even merino wool can have a...

i slept on a debis bed and calico tarp shelter doing viking reenactment, by the time i woke uop everybody had stolen my bedding to use as kindling for their nreakfast fireplaces.... a lot of people used sheepskins and wolfskins as mattresses...

Ive posted quite heavily on this thread over the months and looking at some above posts i realised how bad my dyslexia is.....So thank you to all those that have managed to translate my gibberish....

you should post photos of the setups , they are more unusual afterall

Dave canterbury has just done a load of 1930s era camping, and is usinga lot of canvas/wool/vintage kit....

It tends to be muggles that make sarcastic comments about carrying kit... ive had several clients ask me why im carrying mountain climbing kit...and that was just because i had a carabiner keychain... “It’s very silly but it makes me happy.” That sounds like an aspect of ASD, dopamine...

ive used quote a few things from my belt that have made things helfull, everyone needs to be responsible for themselves, the idea of doing anuything outdoors and just relying on a cellphone ecause if anuthing happens you can just call for help seems ridiculous, i hate it when people...

i used to carry a molle response pack instead of th belt, but i tended to overload, and it still had too much of the miltary look....so the indi jones style knapsack has the stealth look going for it...

Yep, done that too with wire from my PSK, and people knock having wire and fishing kit in PSK