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reparation and planning arm you with the tools you need
to make it through a crisis alive and well, not to mention that they
 
strengthen your psychological state. And among pre-trip tasks, noneis as crucial as putting together your personal survival kit.
 
Most people take the time before heading into the backcountry to
 
obtain the necessary basic equipment such as proper clothing, a tent, anda stove. But you may not realize that your basic survival kit could be thesingle most important thing you carry with you on any expedition. At vari-ous times, I’ve ventured into the world’s most remote areas with differ-ent sorts of survival gear: fully stocked survival kits, basic “whatever I cancarry” survival kits, and sometimes even no kit at all. Survival items havedangled from my belt or hung around my neck. Sometimes they’ve beenin fanny packs I barely noticed and other times in fanny packs so heavy Iwould have preferred not to carry them at all (but did anyway).How you set up your kit is limited only by your imagination. Why
 
not fill the hollow end of your fishing rod with a lighter and some kind of 
 
ignitable tinder such as cotton balls? Or if you’re a mountain biker, pop off 
 
your handlebar grips and fill your handlebars with a few items, such as firestarter, some cord or rope, or a multi-tool. Once I even had a kit that wasdrilled into the stock of a rifle.
 
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