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Posted by calamity on January 1, 2008 at 4:57:35 pm EST
In reply to Re: What's in Your Survival Kit? posted by f_klock on December 31, 2007 at 6:25:54 pm EST

If you believe the federal government, there are forty million people annually who pursue outdoor recreation in wilderness settings. I forget now the average annual wilderness "search & rescue missions" but its in the lower five-digit range for NPS and NF lands added together.

If SARs can be taken as a rough proxy for the number of situations where one might find a survival kit useful, then hiking is about as safe as sitting on the back porch, and carrying little or no survival gear is not unreasonable.

Somebody gets murdered in my immediate neighborhood a couple of times a year, but that doesn't mean I'm in any realistic danger of being murdered. I'm not minimizing or endorsing murder, or denying its reality in any way by pointing this out.

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