Essential Survival Gear by Ayres James Morgan

Author:Ayres, James Morgan.
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781493015283
Publisher: Lyons Press (R&L)

Water splashed over the stones in the stream below, and wind rustled the leaves in the trees. The night passed slowly by the fire as I listened to the forest shifting and moving. I dozed and dreamed, wrapped in a blanket I had borrowed from the pension. At first light I watched a fox come from the brush to water at the stream. After a breakfast of bread and cheese, I wandered deeper into the hills, light of foot and heart.

From experience, and with the gear in my little rucksack, I knew I could, if need be, survive in those hills indefinitely. I could have made a primitive hunting weapon and taken one of the deer that came to water, dried his meat, made broth from his bones boiled in his hide with hot rocks before tanning, then tanned his hide and made tools from his bones. Waste no part of an animal.

Being prepared and ready enables survival. But that’s not really the point of this story. I encountered no enraged wild boar, no werewolves, experienced no desperate survival situation of any kind. But I would be poorer for the lack of that experience, one granted to me by being prepared, by adapting, by being open to what the world might bring. Here’s the point: Integrate your ready bag and survival tools into your life, learn to use them, and enjoy the process. Then, if a survival situation develops, you won’t be one of those who panic, run about, scream and shout. You’ll be a survivor, and able to help others.

For decades, when not working in a business that required me to carry a briefcase, I used some kind of shoulder bag as my ready bag. In addition to the advantages of a shoulder bag previously detailed, it also makes it convenient to add a rucksack for third-layer gear. Simply leave the shoulder bag in place slung across your chest and wear the rucksack over it. This method also keeps the ready bag items easily accessible. If you use a daypack for your ready bag, you should think in advance of how to add third-layer gear to it, and try it out.

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