If you had 3

[HCSchluge]

For me:

RAT RC-4 with Ferro Rod
GI Poncho with Liner
Kleen Kanteen

 

[koyote]

Eating? Dude, this is the VALLEY. you can't walk any damned where without tripping over something edible. any season.

 

[dougo83]

Sure you could survive, but why suffer through it when you could be eating roast BBQ every night

Some of these guys don't need the .22 A snare works just dandy if ya can set it.

 

[Liam Ryan]

For a blade, either a farmer or my GB mini hatchet, depending on how well it handles when it gets here. (and the ferro rod attached of course)
A good quality wool blanket.
The third Item is trickier, I can drink water right from a stream where I live, so boiling is not a concern really, and I have no food to boil up, so my marlin papoose takedown .22 would probably be item #3.

 

[raybadge]

This thread seems to keep coming, and it's interesting. If all I have to do is get through seven days, in October, in New England, I don't think I need much. I don't think I need a knife or axe, I can crack a rock and use the edge to make kindling. I can probably do without a fire for seven days, but if I absolutely had to, I could use mt shoelaces to make a bowdrill. I don't need much to make a debris hut. I won't starve in seven days, but I think I can find bugs (six legs or less) creyfish, inner bark, dandilions, cattails, etc. without much in the way of tools. I won't need cord for that short time. So, assuming I have the proper clothing, what's left?

A canteen. If it comes with a canteen cup, great! After that, a really good lighter (I think I can keep the fire going, but, if longer than seven days, a metal match). Then a Tarp and a knife.

So, I guess I'm saying a canteen (with a canteen cup) a lighter, and a tarp.

I think we're pretty consistent. There's a lot of really good advice here. I hope a lot of scout leaders track these strings.

 

[BarberFobic1992]

They do. Nalgene is now distributing Guyot bottles. Look here.

Awsome!