The question is a good one of course.
The most important question behind is:
How do we carry that bottle around?
If we put it in a bottle carrying bag with shoulder strap, we also can put for example the Mora Garberg in it or another full sized survival knife.
But we don't really need it for usual situations. Such a small knife is absolutely OK if it's constructed strong enough.
Most of us would surely survive even with a sharp pocket knife instead of it. I know enough of old boy scout leaders who just use since many years an Opinel No7 Carbone.
But I want to pack together the best possible equipment: Quality instead of quantity.
Less is more!
I think here more about situations where people get stranded with a usual little rucksack with other daily life stuff, where the bottle was always carried in.
Let's say a bus breaks down somewhere.
The bottle keeps the survival kit securly together in daily life.
And as we see, we already get the essentials in it. If it's possible to fit also the Defcon 5 poncho in it I simply have to try out in the end.
The astonishing point is, that nowadays some high quality equipment became so small, that we perhaps really get in the end a well working survival equipment into a 1 litre bottle. And this point interests me simply theoretically, because the stuff I listed above is all you need to hike out of a dangerous situation if you are skillfull enough.
If we add a basic fishing equipment and a few wire snares doesn't really change the volume. But I wouldn't waste my time with it and walk out as fast as possible in most situations I can imagine. With such a light equipment it's easily possible to walk 150 km in 3 days in usual weather conditions. Where wouldn't I find a village or a street if marching such a long way? One just needs to keep a direction with the compass until one finds a road to follow or a stream, the stream floats to a house for sure, the street connects them anyway.
Should we get such a complete equipment into the bottle, we could create the international survival bottle challenge, 100 km in 3 days through the wildest parts of England, Germany or central France with just a bottle and it's content.
That would be a strong argument against the increasing current gear hysteria.
The equipment above enables experienced bushcrafters to do it. Decades ago I already tried out a similar short packing list, but the stuff was bigger of course.
I had the stuff in a rucksack, not in a bottle!
So my question isn't how to carry a survival equipment, my question is what fits into a 1 litre stainless steel bottle.
I suppose then the question becomes, do you end up walking 150k all around in circles and fuddled up. Is there a little Etrex or similar kind of small GPS you can squeeze in there?
