" What you are wearing and the gear stuffed in your pockets
is your survival gear. What you left in the back of the
plane is your camping gear."

The Alaska version of this saying was developed by the
search teams that arrived at numerous crash sites where
there wasn't much useful left after impact in power planes
If you have to bail out of a glider in the western US, its
probably just as true.

http://www.silverparachutes.com/wst_page12.html

I have a medium SMAK from Silver Parachutes on my chute. I
threw out the strobe and stuffed in a space blanket, a
mosquito head net (mighty nice up here, you might want to
substitute a power bar), and extra matches.


Pete
Anchorage

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/akmtnsoaring/