Thread: Ideas please - survival kit XMAS pressies

My 2 cents worth

steel wool – better than a tampon for catching a spark to start a fire
stainless steel mirror with a hole in the centre – when signalling you look through the hole to make sure you're reflecting the sun in the right direction
compass – my preference are the oil dampened plastic ones that allow you to set the magnetic declination
water proof / wind proof matches – also known as flares, though they take some skill to strike
course in navigation and map reading skills – if you know where you are, you're not lost, but how do you work out where you are?
the Australian Geographic (or kathmandu) catalogue used to have a varient of the wood chip stove on this site though I think the solar stove is very geeky