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ARIES83 -> RE: Would you survive the zombie apocolypse? (11/13/2012 12:30:36 PM)
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I looovvve through hiking and camping, the first
thing I realized first time out was, "ok this backpack
is to heavy..." it was like 35kg and bulky, and while
that weight is doable, it severely detracts from the
enjoyment of hiking when carried for hundreds of
miles, and for me, I felt I was really pushing a back or
knee injury.
And so began my year long effort, to make the perfect
camping backpack, I found a few places that were
invaluable in helping me,
The first is TNP (The Nuttnfancy Project) on youtube,
The guy is a avid camper/ hiker and preparedness type
that has videos ranging from gun/knife/tent reviews to
first aid methodology/ concealed carry philosophy.
He is a great reviewer, heaps of gear covered and I
respect his views on a lot of topics.
In short, he saved me a fuck load of money.
B.O.B. (bug out bag),
A search for this on the net or youtube was also very
handy for assembling my camping gear, the people
who tend to make videos on this are ZomPocalypse,
Survivalist type of people, the idea of a B.O.B is
basicly the same as I what I wanted for my backpack.
A bag thats ready to go should I ever want/need to
just get out of the house and go somewhere, just
throw it in the car and your ready for any situation...
Ebay is your friend,
When you start a project like this, (I call it a project,
because it took a year of buying testing, upgrading,
swaping and searching to actually complete, not to
mention over $3000), you will be buying a lot of stuff
thats just not available locally, places like ebay amazon
and the like are really essential.
You two main enemies are weight and bulk, everything
needs to be as light and compact as possible to fit the
most capability into your pack, not to mention make it
carryable and in the hiking world, you should expect to
pay more to get less. The lighter and smaller you go
will almost always translate into expensive.
I can relate to what AS said about the preparedness
thing being a kind of extention of the hiking hobby,
some aspects anyway...
The ZomPocalypse is just a way of saying your
preparing for when the shit hits the fan and having a
sense of humour at the same time.
I'm not at all prepared for any type of Apocalypse but
I am an experienced hiker, shooter, watche every
episode of man vs wild.[:D]
As a certain thread has shown recently, three quarters
of people wil resort to cannibalism to survive so maybe
preparing to fight off people trying to eat your brains
isn't so farfetched...
-Aries
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