I have not seen the presentation of the 5 Cs and 10 Cs of Survival here on this forum.
While some of you here may be familiar with the concept, many will not be. I want to place this presention in this section as a reference for those wishing to develop/further their woodcraft skills.
The 5 Cs and 10 Cs of Survival were put forth by Dave Cantebury. While Dave freely admits that he didn't "invent" this concept, he was the first to put it in this easily remembered format. He came up with the idea through extensive historical research.
Here is an overview of the 10 Cs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttRFIv ... 67&index=2
Here is a more in depth description:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boQdSwc ... E46F7BA867
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw1gCDu ... E46F7BA867
Here are the 5 Redundancies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPJmN7x_sps
With a just a little tweaking, it can be made ME correct, too. Personally, I'm okay with using an oilskin tarp. I figure that Numenor and later Gondor were sea powers and that they had a lot of sail cloth lying around. If I recall correctly, that is how the Australians came up with the stuff. Tarred Bank line would fit in with that too.
It is my opinion that the 5 Cs should serve as the nucleus of any Ranger's hard kit. The 10 Cs would be better. Incorporating the 5 Redundancies, even more so.