Purchase: $14-$20 Klean Kanteen Classic View in gallery via 210 Denier Oxford fabric, this is made to take abuse and live through it, never creating rips or gaps that let the wetness win, no matter how rough your route is or how much use it sees. Purchase: $4-$55 OUTAD Waterproof Camping Tarpīasic Bivouac: Whether using it as a ground mat, a tent, or an extra layer of warmth, a quality tarp is never unwelcome in a pack. Take a little or take a lot, just never be without it. That’s a Wrap: A nice hunk of paracord can turn any piece of material into a tent, lets you tie yourself to a tree for a night, allows exploration up and down sheer cliffs, can hang out your food to dry, or secure items to your back and pack. Purchase: $20 Paracord Planet Spools of Parachute 550 Cord Type III 7 Strand View in gallery via Able to successfully filter a full 1,000 liters of water without adding any chemicals of its own, it can turn everything but streams near Chernobyl into drinkable cocktails better than most FDA-approved home filters.
Purchase: $12 LifeStraw View in gallery via Ĭleaned Out: LifeStraw is an invention that will remove 99.9999% of water-based bacteria and 99.9% of water parasites so they never reach your lips. It can also act as a satchel to keep small foodstuffs, a bindle for carrying extra gear, and this one has survival tips and tactics so you’re never completely reliant on your own cunning and guile to survive. Instruction Manual: Blaze orange for keeping hunters off your back and letting rescuers know where you are, a good bandana is a way to keep sweat off your brow or cool your body when wetted and wrapped around your neck. Purchase: $7 SMOEM Survival Signaling Bandana Three days without water is all it takes to kill you, and you can’t ever trust what’s upstream from your drinking source. A set of simple iodine tablets will keep you in clean water for as long as you need, even if it might have a slightly metallic taste. In The Drink: When it comes to the juice of life, it’s important to have as many ways of cleaning water on hand as possible. Potable Aqua Water Treatment Tablets View in gallery via Here’s 15 minimalist camping equipment pieces to facilitate your survival. Though there’s no way to predict precisely what will suit your slim pack, there’s a few items that help any lightweight camper, and can help cut weight to the bone while adding utility to your load. Take along a cell phone that doesn’t count against your weight, and never get so far from civilization that you can’t return should the going get too tough. Repeat this dry run process over the course of more days, tweaking your gear each time so that you know what you shouldn’t have left behind, and what you never ended up using. Load up your car with all the bells, whistles, coolers, and solar panels you would use on a regular camping trip, but spend a night or two in the bush with just a tiny day pack. Plan ahead for a minimalist camping trip to a safe location. Our advice is to never try to do it all at once. There’s no hard and fast rule to the process, other than this: Throw a bunch of stuff out of your pack.Įvery environment has different requirements and each camper has different needs, so what you should dump and what you should keep really is up to you and up to the place you plan on going.
Minimalistic camping boils down to how much you know, and how to make the most out of a dozen pounds of gear or less.
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