Default loadout, always ready to go

Paper, mostly for hrmf you know, temporary hygiene.

Multitool (Victorinox Swisstool) Awesome MT, It's weighs quite a bit, but it is a full size MT and I cant say anything bad about it.

Compass, it's good to have when traveling deep in, all you need is general direction right ;).

Hand warmers there are two of these bad boys, they are mostly for backup in case it gets cold, late and I need some leverage without necessarily making a camp fire and potentially reveal my location.
Spare Cordage varying lengths.

See through garbage bags three of them, they are good to have in what ever case there would be, they are handy for so many things.

Canteen kit, consists of canteen stove, canteen cup both in high gauge stainless steel and a nalgene plastic bottle in BPA free plastic 1Qt.

Pouch to contain the stove stand, canteen cup and the bottle.

My Trangia alkohol stove (the little one with the brown lid on top and twist off cap).

Vaseline (waterfree) non toxic, good for protecting my steel tools (carbon steel).

1 Light my fire (swedish fire steel standard version)
1 Light my fire (swedish fire steel v2.0 Army version, with rescue flute (really loud one I may add))

Paracord 550 with the 7 inner strands about 30 feet worth of it (I should add more, as it's so valuable)

Fatwood sticks that I have collected, good way to get fire in very short time if required, dried out like these sticks are, they hardly weight anything.

Birch tinder (hard to see) but also a good way to easily get up to temperature very swiftly, and can be a good supplement to the fat wood, for ignition by the swedish fire steels (ferrocerium rods).

Hellsport Fjellduken (The green pouch) This is a combination item, that is very multipurpose as well, it's a tarp, it's an emergency blanket, it's a emergency storm protection shelter, it's a sleeping bag cover, it's camouflage, a poncho in case of bad weather conditions. I'll cover this in a later article.

Bow saw, the Egyptians had them, no reason why I should not, such a common man priced and valuable item. How to produce large amounts of wood for the fire, for a shelter or for making a new civilisation (egyptian style).. This is it. The bow saw is to lightweight, to cheap to practical to be ignored, it's simply the ultimate tool that I will say anything about today.

Oh and the Knife, in this case I have just a simple Mora Clipper, puny little stainless knife with a good shaving edge on it, not much more to be said about it.

Im not done yet:

Axe, this is a classic scandinavian forest axe, it's a old model and that probably shows, I have given it a lot of tender and care, and holds a hair popping sharp edge, this along with the bow saw, no knife is really needed, that's why I simply have a small mora clipper for redundancy purposes only. I am thinking of replacing the Mora Clipper with a newer version (Mora Bushcraft Black) but that will come later.

You also see the pouch that I have most of my fire kit in, rope, sharpening tools and ferrocerium rods in. And my main flashlight the Led Lenser T7 a very good flashlight run by 3xAAA batteries and I have not changed batteries since I bought it, a year ago or such.

This wraps up most of my default load-out, this is the minimum that I bring on trips regardless, I am used to carry this as my load-out and it helps being used to this, because when I add everything, it up's the weight quite a bit. I'll cover the other items later on.