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This article is for someone who is not adept in camping or the outdoors and easily describes what type of items to put in a personalized outdoor survial kit.

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You"re going into the "Great Wide Outdoors" and you"re the smart person who wants to be prepared. Good for you. Even the most tenured of outdoorsmen can find themselves in life or death situations- but they know the one thing that can prevent the situation from ending badly: being prepared.

Building your own pack with materials you"re familiar with and that correspond to the venture and terrain you"ll be in will be more useful than a store-bought, prepackaged type kit. Understand that it"s not the items but their function that determine what"s necessary for your personalized pack. These will be based on:

-Light, fire
-Food and water
-Shelter/protection
-Tools
-Medical/first aid
-Signaling/navigation
-Miscellaneous items

Experienced outdoorsmen have been known to make complete survival kits in the smallest of containers. You, as a novice, will no doubt be better off starting out with a fanny pack or a small knapsack depending on the items you choose to put in your kit. It should be small and light; something you can easily keep with you- because a survival kit is useless when it"s left behind. Whatever you decide on, make sure the fanny pack or knapsack is waterproof in case of rain or an accidental dunking in a river or stream.

When choosing items, it is a good idea to pack the things that will serve more than one purpose. Aluminum foil can be used for cooking but is also reflective and can be used for signaling. Magnetized sewing needles can be used to sew or to fashion a makeshift compass; when floated on the surface of water, the needle will point north.

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