Skills, as you can always find equipment or an equilivent. Equipment without the skills to use it, is just stuff. I think first aid skills should be pretty high on both lists, no point in having that big shiny trauma kit if you cant use it.
How Highlanders Lit Their Homes- 3 Lighting Methods Used From The Stone Age to 20th Century Scotland Even with lighting I will go for Copper indium gallium selenide solar cell solar panel, Lithium Ion Cells and Phosphor doped Indium Gallium Nitride Light Emitting Diodes, which fit into a backpack, which have only been available for around for the last 25 years.
I would go for good quality lightweight equipment over skills. Skills requires much more Kcal burn to achieve a similar result for being warm, fed and rested. A Dyneema backpack could be 1 Kg Lighter than a military Bergen, A 800-900 FP down sleeping bag could be 1 Kg lighter than a synthetic sleeping bag. 2 Kg weight saving could be 3 days extra Freeze dried food carry. Foraging/hunting for 10,000 Kcal will probably take more Kcal expended. One skill of course that shouldn't be neglected is Navigation using a map and compass.
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Nice one Dave. They do go hand in hand but skills has to take lead. If the equipment isn't availsble then you have to have a good range of skills to keep you in good order.
PRIMITIVE FISHING KIT. Making and Testing. Nettle cordage, Thorn Hooks, Bushcraft Survival Scotland The effort required for cordage making Skills just isn't worth the reward, when a Spider Braid Dyneema 300M 100lb test Fishing Braid could be purchased for less than £10.
