Auxiliary Crisis Pack
© 1987 E. Michael Smith

See also the author's Advanced Crisis Pack.

Packing it:

• Daypack or small duffel with small stuff bags inside.

Directions

• Air Force Survival Manual or Outdoor Survival Skills by Larry Dean Olsen

Water

• Stored
  • 1 or 2 quart jug or canteen
• Purified
  • Filter straw
  • Coffee filters
  • Iodine tablets
  • Baggies

Food

• Stored
  • 4 MRE's, 4 LRP's
  • Soup & Cocoa Packets
  • Coffee Packets
  • Food bars
  • Vitamin pills
  • Salt & pepper
• Gathered
  • Medium fish kit
  • Snare/trap wire and twine
• Preparing
  • Sierra cup
  • Tea ball
  • Pot lifter

Environmental Protection

• Space blanket type survival suit or space blanket bag or second space blanket.
• Poncho
• Medium and large garbage bags
• Hammock
• Tube tent or lean-to tarp

Signaling

• Orange cloth (or tube tent)
• Smoke bombs
• Flares - highway and signal
• (see also: fire making and light, below)

Navigation

• A real good compass
• Altimeter
• Star chart and contour map

Fire Making

• Fire sticks (Swedish match)
• Bic lighter
• Sterno stove
• Metal match (magnesium)
• Hexamine tablets
• Magnifying glass - min. 3 in.

Light

• Spare flashlight batteries
• Second flashlight
• Candle lamp and/or candles
• Calume stick

Health and First Aid

• Sport Kit (see attached list)
• Triangle bandage
• Snake bite kit (see attached list)
• Jungle juice
• Allerest, Bufferin, Senocot, Dramamine, Kaopectate

General Tools

• Hunting knife
• Sharpening stone
• String - 162' 150lb break twine
• Cord - 100' 1/8" parachute cord.
• Wire
• Fish netting
• Mosquito netting
• small pulleys
• Screwdriver, multi bit
• Aluminum foil 10 ft/sq
• Combo saw - wood, metal
• Nails
• Crow bar
• File +/or rasp
• Leather work gloves
• Super glue, epoxy, silicone, +/or wood glue
• Duct tape
• Windshield ice scraper
• "Funny" wrench
• Watch
• Thermometer
• Monocular
• Vice grip pliers
• Vaseline
• Wire ties
• Clothes pins

Social Survival

• Folding scissors
• Cork screw
• Soap
• Shampoo
• Disposable razor
• Door lock
• Sunglasses

Entertainment

• AM/FM radio
• Playing cards

Carry Also

• Clothes, lots of them
• Money
• Water
• Food
• CB radio +/or ELT
• Flares +/or strobe
• Tent
• Sleeping bag and pad
• Vehicle tool kit (see attached)
• Small firearm and ammunition

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