My supplemental emergency backwoods kit. Hill People Gear Medium Original Kit Bag

[@enriquediaz7547]

Hands free & quickly-accessible is underrated! I also add a monocular, mosquito repellent, chapstick,

[@Swamp-Fox]

Great way to start off your field activation series. Lots of sage advice in this one that is applicable to more than just radio activations. Thanks for sharing!

[@shadowlab9543]

i picked up my tara/kit bag along time ago when they first came out, solid gear. it was the same color now its got a grey patina from hard use over the years. iv got a bunch of little kits in plastic bags for the front compartment, like signal kit with the usual + a mini road flare. fire kit and nav kit. i have a garmin 301 with strap removed attached to the right guy loop in the front zipper pocket, so you just unzip it a little and you can flop the gps right out of the pocket and up front. works great !!! back pocket i keep a tq and a blaster. the great thing about the kit bag is you can very easily toss the whole unit into a bigger pack. someday ill find a mtr3b and build a tiny qrp kit to put in it !!!

[@SFBayWastewaterOps]

I greatly appreciate you making this video on your emergency backwoods kit! I admire your common sense approach and thank you for sharing the titanium flask you use, great idea. And I plan on adding one to my hiking kit also.

[@EvanK2EJT]

@@SFBayWastewaterOps Thank you and thanks for watching!

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

Yo! I just ordered on of these bags and started getting auto plays when you mentioned “activating” I thought, “is this guy a ham?!” - nice vid!

[@EvanK2EJT]

Thanks Josh! They're awesome bags. And yes, I'm a ham lol

[@dugbohamradio]

Very Informative Evan!!! I am missing a few items that you have in your kit so I will be adding those to mine. Only thing I can think you might consider to add is maybe mole skin for blisters and an extra pair of socks.

[@EvanK2EJT]

There's moleskin in the first aid kit, and I agree, that's definitely something you want. Socks go in my cold weather kit. For my summer kit, I'm generally not wearing socks to begin with, so it's a non issue. Thanks for watching!

[@benthephilosopher]

I wouldn't bother with the flask. Instead, get a 12oz titanium mug that you can dummy cord to the bottom of the kit bag and let dangle. Boiling water 6oz at a time for purification sounds like a terrible time haha.

[@EvanK2EJT]

I want everything to fit in the kit bag. The chances of me needing to boil water are astronomically low. I just want the ability to do so

[@benthephilosopher]

@@EvanK2EJT I figured that was the reason you picked a flat-ish liquid vessel like that. Makes sense.

[@EvanK2EJT]

@@benthephilosopher In my main pack I have multiple metal containers to boil water so this one is just a redundant "just in case" item lol

[@one2tameflame]

If you need charcloth to start a fire, why would you build a fire to make charcloth so you can use it to start a fire? You should already have charcloth in your kit.

[@EvanK2EJT]

I'm not carrying char cloth around. This isn't a bushcraft kit. In a pinch, if fire starting materials are running low, I'd make char cloth for the NEXT fire. If you're relying on char cloth to be your PRIMARY way to start a fire, you've already failed.