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Posted by calamity on January 2, 2008 at 12:36:57 pm EST
In reply to Re: What's in Your Survival Kit? posted by Fred on January 2, 2008 at 10:44:43 am EST

"Recoveries" of bodies are a few percent of SARs. This isn't a proxy for wilderness fatalities, because they attempt to recover all bodies.

If you accept the numbers presented above, dying during wilderness recreation isn't really worth being prepared for. It's like the lottery ticket: the odds aren't even worth calculating, let alone paying for.

Yet I agree it's a very sound idea to take a little bag of odds and ends that might come in handy. A "survival kit" if you like. Mine used to include small pliers and duct tape and a mattress patch kit. Something about re-fighting the last war....I've now surrendered and don't take the little bag.

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