Date:         Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:06:10 -0500
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Subject:      Re: What's in YOUR Git Box/Bug-out Bag
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So what's in YOUR Bug-out Bag?
    An axe .....  That's all I need anywhere to survive.



Pensioner wrote:

>If you had to, could you be gone in 30 minutes and self sufficent for
>several days?  What would you take, knowing that perhaps when you returned,
>nothing would remain.  The Vanagon is a capable emergency shelter if
>outfitted properly.  What would you put in that git-box?  What kind of box
>would it be?  The folks in Florida had a middle of the night visitor that
>flattened their lives, their fortunes but not their honor.  What's in your
>bug-out bag?  Cell phone and Visa card?  Full-on-conditions urban/ex-urban
>survival stuff?  Batteries for the x-box or MRE's?  Canned tuna or doritos.
>Sorels or sandals?
>
>Long ago, my friend Bill skied a last run off the back of Mount Rose Ski
>Area in a fog and wound up below the last chairlift thousands of feet above
>the Carson Valley with just his skis, his ski apparel and a now out of date
>lift ticket.  He walked out to US395 after spending a very cold night in the
>trees.  Later that month, just outside a cozy ski cabin in Squaw Valley, I
>tried Bill's trick and spent the night outside in the snow with just what I
>would have been carrying had I been skiing.  Sobering experience.  Bill was
>lucky, had the clouds gone away the temperature would have dropped
>precipitously and he likely would have died of hypothermia.
>
>So what's in YOUR Bug-out Bag?  Where would you go if you HAD to?  How would
>you adapt, improvise, and overcome?
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