When trying your cell phone in a remote out of your area place "Do Not give up waiting for service too soon, as it can take up to 15 minuets to authorize" Then mark your map/GPS where you have service.
Tip water jugs upside down each night. It makes for easy pouring in the early AM.
Morning breakfast can be enjoyed sitting over a wallo. We put 3/4 cup of Gorilla milk(dry) in a ziplock bag of cold cereal Then just add water when its time.
A bicycle works great for walking a heavy pack.
I bring cheese cloth to wrap the boned out meat in and it is applied immediately upon cutting it free. Then put into cloth sacks that can be wet down for cooling. Hang the sacks in the shade.
Pepper is great to sprinkle on the meat. It makes it hard to tell where the fly **** is. Seriously early season hunting, you can be hit hard with flies!
A water filter W/pump.
Draw your bath water each evening for a more pleasant bath. I carry
Fels Nappa soap and wash clothes every evening after bath. Bath soap is
Kirks Hardwater castle. Works great in stream/lake water and is also a shampoo!
Do not wash in the stream Keep Soaps away from water source!
Toss a dash of baking soda into the fart sack each night.
Make sure you have extra meds and eye glasses along. don't forget the antacids. I had extremely bad heartburn one time 5 miles from camp and nothing for it. No wintergreen mint plants to be found. after laying out the whole day pack, there it was "tooth past" Mint, and it worked.
Mole skin can make for a hunt saved! If you get a blister, or a sore just cut a small pad of it and stick it to the blister or sore. Its just like magic.
And
Dentemt os is invaluable, loose a filling or break a tooth in the back country can be repaired with this tiny little container of tooth filler putty. I just checked mine and it has been in the day pack for over 4 years and used once and is still good.
I save expired oral glucose gel for the day pack. Its way too sweet to use as a snack but will be handy in an emergency.
Get your maps now and work with them now. Take a gps coordinate off google earth and plot it on a map. I use UTM eastings as they plot out easyer for me. Its just like the military grid coordinate system and there is nothing better. Caution when using this system, most rescue services only use Long/Lat deg. Mn, Mn. That is the default setting on gps units.
Spot messenger is worth the money.
We carry
frs radio's
Mine have weather alerts built in.