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[Still Waters]

If you were limited to only take 5 items of kit into the woods for a weeks stay what would you take?

 

[Shewie]

A classic question ....

1. Tarp
2. Bivvy bag
3. Sleeping bag
4. Knife
5. Pot


Rich

 

[SimonM]

• Knife with firesteel on sheath (cheating? maybe but they do live together on my belt)
• Tarp
• Billy can
• Blanket / Sleeping bag / Reindeer hide (seasonal choice)
• Good book

Simon

 

[Greg]

1: Tarp
2: Firesteel
3: Billycan
4: Knife
5: 35lt bergen full of food!!!

 

[Tripitaka]

1: Mors Kochanski.

Do I need to make up something for 2 - 4?

 

[verloc]

ooh I have a feeling these answers may all end up being the same(ish) but then I guess they should?

1. Tarp
2. Hammock or bivi
3. Sleeping bag
4. Knife
5. Pot

 

[Sniper]

Ray Mears all tooled up
A caravanette
Mobile phone with the number for meals on wheels
Hilda Ogden to keep the campsite clean and tidy during the day
Denise Van Outen to keep me warm at night.

Hell I'll stay for 5 years.

 

[Celt_Ginger]

A never ending bottle of Guinness...........................Heck, that's so good, I'll have 4 more.
Tarp,
first aid kit
sleeping bag
Knife
pot

 

[bushscout1]

1 - Knife
2 - Firesteel
3 - Poncho
4 - Blanket / Poncho Liner
5 - Billy Can (pref. with lid)

I figure that this covers the main points of shelter, warmth, aquiring safe water, and a means to cook whatever food I acquired.

 

[The Cumbrian]

Does a crate of Pot Noodles count as one item?

 

[woodstock]

Water
Pot
knife
survival tin which includes fire lighting equip.+
laplander saw.

 

[Mungo]

1: Mors Kochanski.

Do I need to make up something for 2 - 4?

That was hilarious!!! I met him last year, and all he seems to need is is a carbon steel Mora.

This list presupposes that I would be living in Northern Canada, in the Boreal Forest (and not on a beach in Bermuda)...

For me, my top five would be:

1. Mora carbon steel knife
2. Axe (my trusty Granfors Bruks Small Forest Axe)
3. Tarp
4. Pot (as in steel pot... not the green leafy plant)
5. Paracord

Oh, my wife and Mors Kochanski. In that order. Honestly. Really. Yup.

Mungo

 

[forrestdweller]

depends where i am and what i'm planning to do.

if you count my belt as one item it would be:
-belt (with my beloved puma knife, my also-beloved leatherman supertool(in my opinion the best ever made)-carried in a victorinox multitool-pocket together with bitset and a piece of hacksaw blade, small skinning knife, and a small pouch with bola and sling(i'm still practising!!!)
-water bottle x2(i'm currently in hot dry country!!!)
-cooking vessel
- magnifying glass

"disappointed by the monkeys, god created man. then he renounced to further experiments." mark twain

 

[BOD]

If it is the jungle,

1. duku (Iban jungle knife)
2. Hennessy Hammock
3. a billy
4. firesteel or disposable lighter
5. bag of rice

 

[mace242]

Knife
Possibles Bag with contents (is that really one item?) including first aid basics - fire lighting stuff, paracord, etc.
Saw
Tarp
My Hobo Stove with contents (now I'm really pushing it)

I'll let the judges decide if it's really 5....

 

[firecrest]

You know, if you got everything else sorted, cooking equipment, tent and food, what do people actually need knives for?

 

[Peter_t]

knife firesteel combo
sleeping bag
tarp
billy can
bergan full of food

 

[preacherman]

You know, if you got everything else sorted, cooking equipment, tent and food, what do people actually need knives for?

One of my aims is getting to the stage where I will only have a knife and the clothes I stand up in for a trip out. I'm a long way off this stage but the knife would be vital. Preparing fire, food and shelter would all require a knife of some shape or form IMHO.

Even with all of the equipment listed above I would put a knife as top of the list.

 

[gregorach]

You know, if you got everything else sorted, cooking equipment, tent and food, what do people actually need knives for?

Splitting kindling, making feathersticks, building camp furniture... All the little things that make the difference between getting by and being comfortable.

 

[Wayland]

Poncho.
Blanket.
Knife.
Billycan.
Camera.

Why else would I be in a wood for a week?