Find something to pack your gear in. This might be a pack, bag, can, box, or anything lightweight, portable, waterproof, and easy to find.
Add band aids of various sizes. Very often you might get cut when hiking.
Pack your essential medicine. This is medicine you can't survive a day without, such as for hypertension.
Add water purification means. This could be iodine crystals in a special bottle (such as is sold at REI) or a small bottle of household bleach (2 drops in a gallon of water and wait an hour to use).
Pack some spare food! This could be energy bars, brewers yeast tablets, jerky, nuts, or other lightweight but concentrated energy food.
Add scissors or a knife. They may be needed to cut a vine you got stuck in, to cut a bandage, cut off shoes or clothes, or cut food you find.
Bandages, casts, patches, or any other means to stop bleeding, apply pressure, and close up an open wound.
Pack some fruits and vegetables, if you are going a short distance from a base camp, car, or road.
Pack these essentials: matches in waterproof container, a whistle, small mirror, knife, small rope, extra layer of clothes, compass, map, pencil.
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