what would you do in this situation?

Because if a large predator chases us, I think that Catherine and I could outrun her.
 
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Mosquito repellent (for sanity)
Large knife (for killing savages, shelter-building, & food gathering)
Plastic tarp (for shelter, and cut a piece off to hold water)

Can I have a fourth item, please? My ex-wife, to keep the jaguars busy. :D
 
Nobody said what kind of Jungle...

Rain Forest?

Mesquite?

Saguarro?

Urban?

Hoboe?

If we are talking Rain Forest...triple canopy...Amazon/African Congo...

A machete.....a billy can....and a strike force fire starter....

Shane
 
most important tool in the jungle is a machete, you need this to survive, next is a water purification method, i would suggest boiling your water as many filters will not last with the ammount of vegetable matter and silt that seems to fill the streams, so a fire source is necessary so your basic firesteel or doan tool will help out here.. the third is somethiing to keep the mosquitoes away, as a jungle hammock with built in mosquito netting would work out.

alex
 
Hair said:
1) A fort.
2) surfer (so I could borrow his friend Keira)
3) A camera
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Eww are you sharing? On the other hand you could butcher Surfer and eat him so I guess he does double duty. :D

For me.

Machete
Fire Steel
Hammock.
 
I've done some jungle time and without a doubt my 3 items would be.

Machette
Jungle hammock (the bugs will drive you crazy literally)
Mag flint block (moisture kills lighters and matches)

If permitted 4-5

cooking pot
Strong hydrocortizone cream and oral meds

Everything else can be improvised to some extent.

Skam
 
I´d have with me: 1.machete 2.jungle hammock with mosquito netting,also with one of those mosquito netting hoods on mee during the day so I would look like the Brazilian version ninja 3. cooking kit Tim
 
I’m jumping in kind of late on this one but I’d like to pitch in on two cents.

The #1 item in the jungle is the machete, provided you also have a file to sharpen it. The machete is used to clear trail, clear campsites, build shelters, harvest food like palm hearts etc.

The hammock is far and away the best shelter for the jungle but if you aren’t planning to move you can make a kickin’ shelter with a full day’s work in the jungle. Where I live you can cut down Imbria trees and strip off the inner bark for very strong lashings. The poles are very straight and can be lashed to trees to make a raised bed. The important thing is to get off the jungle floor.

If there are water filled vines or bamboo in the area you can drink this water without treatment. If those types of plants are not available you have to have some way to boil or treat your water. You can boil water in sections of large bamboo but that would be a huge pain to keep yourself hydrated.

Fire is a major problem if you are in the rainy season. Most tropical jungles suffer from high heat, humidity and daily thunderstorms even during their “dry” season. People who make friction fire in such places take special care to keep their materials dry.

My list if limited to three items…

Machete
High quality butane lighter
2-liter pot with lid

The actual basics I wouldn’t want to be without…

Hammock & Tarp w/ supply of light rope and medium cordage
Machete
Small fixed blade knife
Canteen, Cup & water treatment
Fire kit – Lighter, tinder, trioxene, candles
Billy-can or other cooking pot
Compass

Mac
 
A Case of Bourbon
A Roast Beef Hero form a little place I know on Mulberry street
My Wife's Purse, which, as any married man knows, will probably have enough stuff in it at any given time to cover any emergency
 
*Fire kit (tinder, ferro rod, striker)
*2litre of deisel/gas mix
*machete

can find water, can kill food with a spear for all that matters, and can make shelter without too much work if the machete is sharp.
 
A jungle hammock, my canteen w/ cup, and my PSK.

Alternatively, Angelina Jolie, Natalie Imbruglia, and Jessica Alba
 
hmmmm

18" Ontario Machete with a Jerry Hossom edge on it

nice large 2 person jungle hammock with the mesqito netting

Alyson Hannigan
 
1. Carbon steel fixed blade knife
2. Good boots
3. Good clothing

No women to have to coddle and rescue from their imaginations (looks good in the movies but......)
No fifty pound packs of hi-tech garbage to lug around.
No thirty pound fuel cans
No three pound axes or machettes
No fire kit (the fire is in the wood already)
A billy would be a nice extra. As would be premade cordage.

Codger
 
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