Stuck Indoors?

Every man needs a 72-hour bugout bag.  Try to put one together without searching a browser for what to assemble.  See what you can gather from around the house as you imagine what life would be like in a barren wilderness for three days.  Such a bag used to be called “field equipment” or “kit” – a collection of supplies and tools for wilderness adventure back in the day when every man was an outdoorsman, at least for 72 hour outings.  Today you might have to use your kit in a less than enjoyable situation. Like survival.  But a bugout bag is not your ultimate survival solution.  It's for getting to a survival solution.  Along the way, you might be catching a fish, shooting some game, building a fire and protecting your body temperature.  What’s in your bag?  Here's a comment that predates WWI.
 
“Field equipment is a most excellent hobby to amuse one during the shut-in season. I know nothing else that so restores the buoyant optimism of youth as overhauling one’s kit and planning trips for the next vacation. Solomon himself knew the heart of man no better than that fine old sportsman who said to me ‘It isn’t the fellow who’s catching lots of fish and shooting plenty of game that’s having the good time: it’s the chap who’s getting ready to do it.’”   Horace Kephart, The Book of Camping and Woodcraft (1910)

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