When I head out, and in no particular order:
1) Recovery points front and rear.
2) Ax and shovel (not needed everywhere, but really nice to have around here)
3) Recovery gear. Snatch strap, tree strap, chain, appropriate sized shackles.
4) 550 cord (50' - 100' or so in a fun color)
5) Water (everyone has at least a liter bottle of their own along)
6) Leatherman Wave multitool with the set of attachments.
7) 48" Jackall, base and attachments (lifting, pulling, clamping) This is a pretty controversial tool to bring along, but I like, and use mine a lot for various things)
8) Air pump, sized for your tires. Mine's a Viair 880P.
9) Quality mechanical dial air gauge that reads down to 5# pressure
10) TP in a plastic bag
11) Couple of large garbage bags
12) Couple of zip lock freezer bags in quart and gallon sizes
13) Tools in a tool bag
14) Overnight bag.
15) GPS with high resolution mapping chip installed
16) Sidearm and spare ammunition
17) Coat and liner
18) Moccasins (I wear jump boots all the time so something light is nice to have along)
19) Wool shirt and spare wool socks
20) Lunch and munchies
21) Flashlight
22) Spare batteries
23) 2.5# ABC fire extinguisher
The overnight bag contains:
1) Internal frame pack, Osprey Manta 36 AG
2) Buck 119 fixed blade knife and two sided diamond hone
3) Buck 140M fixed blade knife
4) Additional liter bottle
5) Engineer's compass
6) First aid kit ( cloth band aids, sunblock, bandages, analgesics, tweezers, small EMT shears, sanitary napkin or two, misc first aid crap)
7) Stainless steel cooking eating set (fry pan, pot, plate, bowel, cup, fork, spoon salt, pepper, mini bottle of Tabasco sauce etc.)
8) MSR Dragonfly multi fuel stove and fuel bottle (burns the same thing the TJ does, plus just about any other liquid fuel you can get your hands on)
9) MSR water filter
10) Tea bags, hot chocolate, bullion cubes, a couple of MRE's or Mountain House meals
11) Gun cleaning tools and supplies (pull through style)
12) More 550 cord in green or black
13) Spool of trip wire
14) Heavy safari style shorts
15) Heavy short sleeved shirt
16) Sock liners and more wool socks
17) Wool "finger" gloves (the ones without the finger ends)
18) Small bible
19) Magnesium fire starter with flint and steel built in
20) Strike anywhere matches in a waterproof container
21) Flashlight & headlamp
22) Spare rechargeable batteries
23) Goal Zero solar recharger
24) Write in the rain notebook and pen
25) Deck of playing cards
26) Pair of small ten power binoculars
27) Good quality space blanket
29) 12' x 16' sheet of plastic
30) Miniature folding camp stool
31) Couple of bandanas
32) Wool watch cap
33) Balaclava
34) Candle lantern and extra candle
35) Fire starter sticks
36) Wood saw, the one that looks like a chain saw chain.
37) Gorilla tape (works on everything including torn soft tops and cloths)
Should have my TJ this weekend.
