EDC
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Yorkshire Andy
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Re: EDC
Keep your eyes out for a leather belt with decorative eyeletts on / along both edges and thread it through the holes in a criss cross pattern like a shoe lace?
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong 
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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butterbean
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Re: EDC
Good idea that, hadn't thought of a belt like that, would make it a lot easier
success leads to complacency, complacency leads to failure. Only the Paranoid survive!!
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featherstick
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Re: EDC
My EDC on daily commute to London, 45 miles by train.
SAK, lighter, cheap torch in a small pouch
Head torch
Small FAK
Painkillers
Bottle of water
Jumper in summer, coat in winter
Keyring with another torch and British Army clasp knife (I know, crazy heavy but v. v. useful)
Bag of nuts or similar
Newspaper - good for insulation, lighting fires, mulching gardens, or, in desperate circumstances, reading.
Wallet with a spare GBP50 in the zipped pocket
Railcard is always in my pocket, the rest is in a rucksack under my desk. If THSHTF when I'm away from my desk....well, I'll have to survive.
At my desk I have some emergency rations (tins of sardines, packets of couscous), change of clothes, towel, larger bottle of water, various other lighters, painkillers, and so on. I have a locker at work and intend to put a lightweight sleeping bag, some extra food and full change of clothes in there one day. I ought to get a decent folding umbrella too.
If things go pear-shaped I'd try to get as far out of London as 50 quid would take me, and then walk the rest of the way. I know the route, cycled it a couple of times, but have a big river to cross which might be a problem if there is a curfew or disturbances. But I'll worry about that on the day. Mostly my EDC is about getting stuck on a broken-down train and being able to be comfortable and to help others if necessary.
Not as full on as many people but it's what I'm comfortable carrying, and I've mapped out potential resources in the building if there were a sudden ASE - I know which kitchen has the big knife, where the First Aid room is, and I always have change for the vending machine, and so on so could assemble a bit of extra kit pretty quickly.
SAK, lighter, cheap torch in a small pouch
Head torch
Small FAK
Painkillers
Bottle of water
Jumper in summer, coat in winter
Keyring with another torch and British Army clasp knife (I know, crazy heavy but v. v. useful)
Bag of nuts or similar
Newspaper - good for insulation, lighting fires, mulching gardens, or, in desperate circumstances, reading.
Wallet with a spare GBP50 in the zipped pocket
Railcard is always in my pocket, the rest is in a rucksack under my desk. If THSHTF when I'm away from my desk....well, I'll have to survive.
At my desk I have some emergency rations (tins of sardines, packets of couscous), change of clothes, towel, larger bottle of water, various other lighters, painkillers, and so on. I have a locker at work and intend to put a lightweight sleeping bag, some extra food and full change of clothes in there one day. I ought to get a decent folding umbrella too.
If things go pear-shaped I'd try to get as far out of London as 50 quid would take me, and then walk the rest of the way. I know the route, cycled it a couple of times, but have a big river to cross which might be a problem if there is a curfew or disturbances. But I'll worry about that on the day. Mostly my EDC is about getting stuck on a broken-down train and being able to be comfortable and to help others if necessary.
Not as full on as many people but it's what I'm comfortable carrying, and I've mapped out potential resources in the building if there were a sudden ASE - I know which kitchen has the big knife, where the First Aid room is, and I always have change for the vending machine, and so on so could assemble a bit of extra kit pretty quickly.