Essential Emergency Equipment?

[desmobob]

I carry extra wool socks, hat, AMK Heat Sheet, Grabber Mega warmer and sometimes long underwear in a small Sea to Summit dry bag.

+1 on the dry bag. Zip-Loks are (extremely) handy, but they don't really hold up too well inside a pack full of stuff. Regular rubber-coated nylon dry bags can be heavy.

Those 3-for-ten-bucks polyurethane-coated nylon roll-top stuff sacks in the camping dept. at Wal-Mart are handy for stowing clothes. They're extremely lightweight, very water resistant and fairly durable. I've only trashed one... I had it full of bike tools, bouncing around in the bottom of my bicycle trailer on a week-long bike trip.

If you wanted to pretty much guarantee light, dry, and safe storage of your extra socks, gloves, hat, etc., putting them in a Zip-Lok inside a PU-coated nylon stuff sack would probably be the ticket.

Stay sharp,
desmobob

 

[DavidZ]

I carry a poncho for summer hikes, and an extra hoodie, just in case. In my youth, I have fallen in creeks and rivers in early spring. Then I got a farmer john wetsuit for paddling in the early spring.