{"id":4873,"date":"2011-03-24T04:04:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T11:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=4873"},"modified":"2011-03-24T04:04:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T11:04:56","slug":"bug-out-backpack-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/bug-out-backpack-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bug-out backpack recommendations, vacuum sealers"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the comments section on bug-out bag contents<\/a>, several posters insisted that a backpack — not a suitcase or a rolling cart or a plastic tub — was absolutely essential equipment. While I’m not 1000 percent persuaded that absolutely everybody must have a backpack<\/i> (and I don’t think anybody should allow lack of a backpack to stop them from assembling a kit), I can definitely see the point.<\/p>\n

Commenter Adam Selene posed a question: “For those of you who advocate for backpacks, can you suggest any actual brands and models?”<\/p>\n

I think it’s worth bringing that question up more visibly. And if you have a recommendation I’ll add: WHY would you choose that particular backpack? Price? Features? Capacity? Suitability for particular weather or terrain conditions? Suitability for use by people of different abilities or physiques? Make your best case for the backpack of your choice.<\/p>\n

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In that same comment section, Woody noted, “My first aid kit, clothing, blanket and other items that I\u2019d like to remain dry are vacuum packed in food storage bags, using my kitchen vacuum packer. This keeps them dry and also compresses them to save space.”<\/p>\n

I thought that was a brilliant solution both for dryness and compression. But those vacuum sealers are expensive! I was beginning to wonder whose I might be able to borrow when a local friend who read that comment emailed to say that her husband was so taken with the idea that he was headed out to buy a sealer — and I was welcome to use it. Is that cool, or what?<\/p>\n

My friend and her family plan to use theirs to create “homemade MREs,” also. They live seriously in the local tsunami zone — in a spot considerably more troubling than mine — and like a lot of others after the quake in Japan, they’re taking a renewed and more serious look at their preps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the comments section on bug-out bag contents, several posters insisted that a backpack — not a suitcase or a rolling cart or a plastic tub — was absolutely essential equipment. While I’m not 1000 percent persuaded that absolutely everybody must have a backpack (and I don’t think anybody should allow lack of a backpack to stop them from assembling a kit), I can definitely see the point. Commenter Adam Selene posed a question: “For those of you who advocate for backpacks, can you suggest any actual brands and models?” I think it’s worth bringing that question up more visibly.…<\/p>\n

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