In what will be the first guest post (although not written by the guest) on the blog, I follow up my recent post concerning my EDC with my good friend Mark’s EDC. The two of us are very similar in quite a few ways, and it shows in our EDC’s.
EDC
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you think, “If only I had _blank_.” While in most cases I find myself with the tool I need, there are times every now and again that I think the same thing. I was recently lent a book by my friend @jeremyhoover that addresses that very issue. The book in question, Build the Perfect Survival Kit, goes over many different ways to prepare ahead of time so that when the need arises, you have everything needed to provide for your situations complications. Discussing kits from “mini” to large, the author goes into very deep detail on not only what to place in the kits, but also the reasoning behind why those things are being placed in the kit. Explaining that you need not only something to hold water in, but also something to purify the water in case the water you are able to get is not of the best quality.
I finished the book in only a few days, but plan on going back through it and rereading specific parts of it in order to create a plan for the following kits:
- Mini kit
- Medium kit
- 2 x Vehicle kits
It is possible that I will also create a small kit, to take on small hikes and trips. I plan on attempting to blog through the process as I put the kits together (alongside putting my EDC together, as they are somewhat related) for your reading pleasure. I invite you to follow along and hope that it will encourage you to find yourself in need of a kit. Or, at the very least give you a reason to think about how you would survive in a situation where all you have is what you have on you. As the author of book says, “It can’t save you if you don’t have it with you.”
A while back I came across a site that takes a look into the pockets of the very viewers of the site. The site in which I speak of is everyday-carry.com. Every post is consists of a photo from a reader followed by a description of the items in the photo. The picture consists of a layout or spread, if you will, of the items that the person in question carries on their person essentially every day of their lives. I recently had a conversation with a friend that started by talking about wallets, that ended up talking about this site. What we came to conclude is that is very interesting to read about the things people carry and, more so, why they carry them. We also discussed our own EDC’s, or rather I did, and he just listened. In any case, I thought out what I do carry on a regular basis, and the following is my EDC: