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Posted by f_klock on January 2, 2008 at 7:02:59 pm EST
In reply to What's in Your Survival Kit? posted by Alicia on July 2, 2007 at 10:55:02 am EDT

People will always have to be rescued. - The above list includes people who, like it or not, are ALWAYS going to be out there. They will ride, skydive, snowmobile (why do they have to be drunken?), or do whatever they want in the wilderness. As long as there are people out there, there will be accidents. As long as there are accidents, SAR teams will be needed to respond to those accidents.

Carrying a survival kit for personal use is a good idea. Suppose you come across some who is in need of help and they don't have a kit of their own. You get yours out and...what's that? You don't carry one? Now your kit is twice a useless as it was before.

We SAR team members do not volunteer for glory, for fame, or for fun. We volunteer for the victims and the families of the victims. Do we find bodies? Yeah, we do. But that's for the families as well.

When YOU have spent 12+ hours grid searching 100s of acres of underbrush for a 10 year old Cub Scout, only to find him alive because he spent the night in a 50 gallon hefty bag that YOU taught him how to use, then, and only then, can you discuss with me the value of a survival kit and the common sense (of a 10 year old) to carry it.

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• Re: What's in Your Survival Kit? - calamity 19:51:56 01/02/2008

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