Mitch Mitchell

The sharpening stone gives Mitch Mitchell's list away. A Fallkniven DC4 is a maintenance tool, and nobody budgets one of ten precious slots for edge upkeep unless they expect their blades to see weeks of daily work. Pair it with a Jacklore Customs knife, a Gransfors Bruks 24 inch Wilderness axe, and a Bear Archery Montana longbow, and you get the kit of a man who founded a survival school and hand carves his own bows and canoes: nearly everything named, nearly everything chosen for longevity.

His food strategy leaned wetter than his hunting reputation suggests. A 300 yard line with 25 hooks plus a six meter small gauge gill net gave him two parallel fishing systems on a coastal site, with the longbow as the big game option rather than the core plan. The doubled sleep setup, a canvas and down bag under a Gore-Tex bivy, was rare in this cast and matches the same over-insure instinct as the sharpening stone: assume the stay is long, assume the weather wins eventually, and equip for both.