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Backpacker Magazine – August 2010
Our survival expert reviews five of his favorite ultralight lifesavers.

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These units can also be placed together in arrays of literally any size, as needed, to accommodate a desert vegetable farm or remote area water needs, etc.
News Update:
Fukushima deadly hot particles hit U.S., Health right violation (video)
West Coast, Seattle, Boston hot spots: Cancer to dramatically increase yet public kept in dark
On Monday, it was confirmed that the major human right to health is being violated in the United States by the public not being advised that Fukushima hot particles contaminated the United States and that West Coast cancer are due to surge, based on scientific analysis by Scientist Marco Kaltofen of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) of radioactive isotopic releases from Fukushima who presented his findings at the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting in Washington DC as reported by nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen.
"Mr. Kaltofen’s analysis confirms the detection of hot particles in the US and the extensive airborne and ground contamination in northern Japan due to the four nuclear power plant accidents at TEPCO’s Fukushima reactors," according to nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen of Fairwinds.
Go to the survivalist message boards (use Google to find some). Some of those guys are certainly on the fringe, but much of their information is sound and you'll find thread after thread on survival kits for all situations and all pocketbooks.
Why yes, of course we should spend a crap load of money on this "NECESSARY" stuff. And of course we should never go outside without 45 different certifications from this place and that place. Tell me again...how did man get this far? If backpacker.com and all of the search and rescue people had it their way, we'd all be walking around like we're going into combat.
You can pick up an orange floating Silva compass for $20, a swiss army knife on sale for $25, a Doan magnesium fire starter for $10, a half dozen disposable bic lighters for $6, an Adventure emergency bivy for $16, 100 feet of paracord, your own fishing kit for $8, an MRE for $10, your own first aid kit for $10, take a 16 hour Wilderness First aid course for $140 if you want to be better prepared. Don't plan on saving your bacon if you do not have the training-save your money, get survival and first aid training and build your own kits-oh, and don't make the paracord bracelet-it looks cute-but try to get it loose when your fingers are freezing, you are dog tired, and do not have any idea where you are!
Wilderness Search and Rescue Crew 11
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Good gear is acquired over time. It pays for itself in the end as you push yourself to your limits. Quality gear will last many years. I have owned that lighter now for at least 8 years and it has never failed. Quality gear is an investment and mother nature can get a little rough at times
Good gear is acquired over time. It pays for itself in the end as you push yourself to your limits. Quality gear will last many years. I have owned that lighter now for at least 8 years and it has never failed. Quality gear is an investment and mother nature can get a little rough at times
Good gear is acquired over time. It pays for itself in the end as you push yourself to your limits. Quality gear will last many years. I have owned that lighter now for at least 8 years and it has never failed. Quality gear is an investment and mother nature can get a little rough at times
Good gear is acquired over time. It pays for itself in the end as you push yourself to your limits. Quality gear will last many years. I have owned that lighter now for at least 8 years and it has never failed. Quality gear is an investment and mother nature can get a little rough at times
I agree with the previous poster. For the rest of us REAL people who have families to feed and mortgages to pay — but still want to get outdoors — can Backpacker come up with less expensive alternatives for a survival kit?
Wow, whistle, lighter, knife and UL bivy-----and only $350?!?! That should encourage lots of people to just stay home. Are you guys kidding???? Couldn't you find any $800 boots to go with this?
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