![]() ![]() It doesn’t matter if I’m on a day hike or a backpacking trip. Purification Tablets – I ALWAYS try and have purification tablets with me as a backup. Using the Gryle Water Purifier bottle to filter bacteria and water born viruses in Peru. ![]() As the saying goes it’s better to have the 10 Essentials and not need them, than to need them and not have them! Okay, maybe the saying doesn’t go that way. Most of these essentials are lightweight and all are designed to make it so that even if the unexpected happens in the backcountry, you will return to tell the amazing tale. These aren’t so much specific products as they are concepts-an emergency-preparedness checklist that encompasses several functional systems (as opposed to specific items). I try to pack for freedom, but I never neglect the 10 essentials of outdoor adventure. I love to disconnect, but I don’t have a death wish. People have died from exposure within eyesight of downtown Anchorage, Alaska. It might sound scary, and that fear is justified. When you leave the safety net of civilization, you enter the realm of survival of the fittest, the purest environment of consequences. Part of the thrill of outdoor adventure travel is stripping away the noise and getting back to basics-finding yourself alone in the wilderness with nothing man-made in sight, only emerald treetops, snow-capped mountains, and the Milky Way Galaxy overhead unpolluted by city lights.īut Mother Nature demands respect. ![]()
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