We’ve all been there- you’re 50 miles from home, and you forgot to bring your contact lens solution with you.  Worse yet, you may have needed something like medication for a heart condition.  Wherever you’ve been, and had a medical emergency, you’ve wished that you had the right medical supplies for that emergency.  It’s this exact reason that experts recommend packing a first aid kit in your vehicle, when you take long trips.  When you hike into a wilderness area, or other remote area, and are miles from civilization, there is even more of a need for basic first aid supplies.  Often times, you’re days away from civilization.  You don’t have the convenience of being able to walk into a store and buying supplies, when you’re in the wilderness.  It’s for this reason that having a backpacking first aid kit is crucial.  Once you’ve come to the realization that you need a first aid kit for backpacking, you have to determine what contents that kit will contain.  When I build a first aid kit, I like to first examine what unique specialty items to include in the kit.

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