![]() ![]() Which reminds me, I still need to rotate the fuel stock. More generally for the heat, we keep 2L bottles of water in the freezer, shade fabric we can pin up outside the house, and cooling towels which evaporate water rapidly - they're cheap and work amazingly well.Īlso a kick-ass air conditioner and extra gas for the genny. If they land on our roof, I don't want them to find anything that can burn. Embers from a wildfire can drift for hours before landing somewhere. We keep our modest two acres free of dead grass and wood, and the house's roof uses fiberglass shingles. We also maintain the seals on the house, so it's almost entirely smoke-proof, and have three Winex HEPA air filters with their Plasma Wave feature (which synthesizes OH radicals, good for eating up airborne contaminants). We have two vehicles we keep at least half fuelled, carriers for the pets, go-bags, and two BOLs. So, heat wave preps are also wildfire preps. Neither BLM nor the owners perform adequate brush reduction, so the fires rage hard, fast and hot. Half of California's forestland is federally owned, and the other half is privately owned. Up where we live (Sonoma County, California) heat waves bring wildfires. I carry my Dime everywhere and never want for much more except more screwdrivers or more comfortable handles in the real world, it'd do me fine on a longer backpacking trip. The gerber dime has a small chip in it and I'm a therapist now and not an EMT anymore. It's always in my toolbox and has literally helped me save lives before. I highly recommend them and I have an ancient Leatherman PST-II from when I was in middle school (I'm 30 now) that's hugemongous and I don't bring backpacking. Seriously a solid tool for $18 and 2.2oz. I use it literally every few days at work. I carry a Gerber 2.2oz "dime" and it's amazing. ![]() It's a tool, and the questions of "will I need to pry something I can't pry with my fingernails?" or cut or whatever.Idk it's worth it. They are great and see a ton of daily use on keychains every single workday around the country.a tiny edge is very useful when your fingernails don't cut it.literally. I'd stay skip anything smaller than a mini swiss army knife, other than a mini swiss army knife. I think fixed blades are safer than folders too, but that's an opinion and everyone has opinions and they all.blah blah. My vote for a single blade of any kind is a morakniv, every time, it's easy AF to sharpen, stays sharp, can be stropped in the field, it's just so darn nice in the hand for such a darn cheap knife. ![]()
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