Up next in 10
The LYNX TrailGuard Survival Kit is a self-contained survival system designed for off-roaders, overlanders, backpackers, and outdoor adventurers who demand reliable, high-quality gear without unnecessary bulk. Housed in a durable, USA-made Campcraft Outdoors canvas bag, this comprehensive kit covers the essential pillars of survival—water, fire, shelter, navigation, signaling, and medical preparedness. The compact design allows most components to fit inside the included 32 oz Nalgene water bottle, making it easy to stow in a backpack, vehicle, or bug-out bag.
10% off! Use code : TPWTEN2025
https://bit.ly/42PO2zw
Prepared Wanderer AMAZON STORE:
https://bit.ly/3Jjs1iO
Prepared Wanderer Patches and Stickers:
https://thepreparedwanderer.bigcartel.com
Prepared Wanderer WEBSITE:
https://preparedwanderer.com
Prepared Wanderer FACEBOOK GROUP:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1835005976546722
Prepared Wanderer INSTAGRAM:
prepared_wanderer
Show More Show Less View Video Transcript
0:14
[Music]
0:20
so it's a super windy day today and uh
0:23
really crazy weather because it's like
0:24
78° in April uh the wind is just howling
0:28
so I thought I'd come back to the woods
0:30
at least try to get some uh quiet and
0:33
get away from this wind so if the noise
0:36
in the background is interfering I
0:38
apologize but I really want to go
0:40
through this new kit that Stay Ready
0:42
Outdoors sent me this is the Trail Guard
0:45
and what's interesting about this kit is
0:47
it is a lower price point than the last
0:50
survival kit that I reviewed of theirs
0:52
uh the Lynx uh go bag and you need to
0:54
check that uh that kit out because that
0:56
thing is unbelievable top quality
1:00
components this is no different but it
1:02
is a more scaled down version and it
1:04
addresses a couple of issues that that
1:06
kit did not have in it um but because of
1:10
its size it's lacking a few things but I
1:13
want to show you how this could be
1:15
potentially utilized with kit that you
1:18
already have and maybe this is really
1:20
just a good starting point for someone
1:22
who is getting into bushcraft or camping
1:24
or survival so the first thing you're
1:26
going to notice with this kit is it is
1:28
in a canvas uh bag this is actually made
1:32
by Campcraft Outdoors and I think a lot
1:34
of people are familiar with them they
1:35
make some really phenomenal stuff now
1:37
the reason that this kit is in the um
1:40
canvas bag is not only to hold it but is
1:44
also going to be a pre filter for our
1:47
water bottle well let me show you
1:49
because this is a water bottle survival
1:51
kit first thing we have in top here we
1:55
have the so um bivvie
1:58
bag these are phenomenal it's got a
2:01
whistle attached to
2:05
it then we have some micro cord from
2:09
Atwood this is 125 ft and it is 100 lb
2:15
test so so this is pretty good cordage
2:18
for some light duty stuff you can do a
2:21
lot of things with this but um
2:23
definitely um a good cord to have with
2:29
you then we have my new favorite light
2:32
source Night Core this is the new 21 um
2:37
it's a different headlamp than was
2:39
included with the other survival kit and
2:40
what's interesting about this one is it
2:43
is all bungee cord instead of strap so
2:45
that makes it even more lightweight uh
2:48
more uh easily packable which is pretty
2:53
key with this particular kit on the
2:56
outside here we have one of these um
2:58
afterurner I think that's what they're
3:00
called the afterburner glow tags um from
3:03
uh Maritac or Martac i believe they make
3:06
these these are really cool because they
3:08
they glow unbelievably well they last a
3:11
long
3:12
time then we
3:15
have the Essie all-weather note card set
3:20
and this also comes with the different
3:23
uh map tools and some survival uh
3:27
suggestions and and tips and tricks on
3:29
the cards so this is an excellent item
3:32
to have with you especially if you're
3:34
doing land navigation of any sorts
3:36
you're going to need a notebook and just
3:37
it's a way of leaving notes for other
3:40
people as
3:41
well and then we have a Nene water
3:44
bottle this is an actual Nene so that's
3:47
a 32 oz BPA free water bottle and a lot
3:51
of the kit contents is inside this
3:53
bottle let me show you that here in a
3:54
second we have Kadine Micro Pure um
3:59
MPT water purification tablets uh these
4:03
work pretty well um I've actually tested
4:06
these in the field on a video before and
4:09
um it was pretty dirty brackish water
4:11
did some pre-f filtering with it and
4:13
then applied one of these and it worked
4:16
um I did not get sick so these do work
4:20
these are pretty standard in a lot of
4:22
the military survival kits so uh I think
4:25
that it's a trusted source for sure k9
4:28
makes some good stuff and I trust these
4:30
100%
4:32
then we have a really nice
4:35
titanium mug with a bail and handles and
4:40
uh Stay Ready Outdoors actually does
4:43
this laser engraving um and they put my
4:46
logo on it which is pretty cool um I
4:48
believe this is probably 750 milliliters
4:51
if I'm not mistaken somewhere in that
4:54
range and it does have a lid
5:01
there's your lid so now we have a source
5:03
for boiling our water um and that is
5:08
really key and that was lacking in the
5:10
last kit that I I showed you guys you
5:13
couldn't boil water there was no
5:14
containers so this actually has a water
5:16
bottle and a titanium
5:19
mug so now we're going to get into the
5:21
contents of the
5:24
now before I get into all this I know
5:27
that there is a lot of people who don't
5:29
like uh water bottle survival kits and I
5:32
understand that and I'm going to explain
5:34
to you the differences of how you can
5:36
use this so you don't have to have the
5:39
contents in the water bottle but we'll
5:41
talk about that here in a second uh next
5:43
up is we have some more Atwood 550 cord
5:47
um can't remember exactly how much this
5:50
is is I'll put the um I'll put a caption
5:53
on this one but I I believe it's
5:55
probably 2530 ft
5:58
um got to have 550 cord so many uses for
6:02
it and we have a fantastic addition to
6:05
this kit that was not in the last kit
6:07
and that is a fire bellows and this one
6:09
I I've never seen this one before but
6:10
this actually has a concentrated tip on
6:14
it so that's going to really concentrate
6:16
that air as you're blowing it into your
6:17
fire and then it has a uh a little mouth
6:21
guard so and it's pretty long as you can
6:24
see not bad so that's a really great
6:28
item to have in your survival kit is a
6:31
fire bellows i talk about those all the
6:33
time i I use them all the time they're
6:36
great uh next item we have is this uh
6:39
little write and rain boltaction pen
6:42
it's It's actually plastic so it doesn't
6:45
weigh very much
6:49
but it's got a little hole in there so
6:50
you can put a lanyard on that and this
6:52
will go with your notebook so now you
6:54
can take notes um while you're trying to
6:56
navigate next item is the windstorm
6:59
whistle this is also included in the
7:02
last kit and as you can tell they've
7:04
added a uh little night ice carabiner on
7:06
there and what's really cool is it comes
7:09
with a very nice little button
7:14
compass and a housing i think this is a
7:17
a Martac item or Maritac item as well
7:19
and um it's a little bit I would say
7:22
it's a well it's a lot better than most
7:24
of the little button compasses that you
7:26
find on the market this actually is
7:29
working
7:31
perfectly get it away from any kind of
7:34
metal and it's good so you got a little
7:36
lanyard to go with that and these
7:39
whistles
7:41
um they're pretty decent put it that
7:44
way and I'm not even blowing super hard
7:46
but that is the
7:49
um that's how it works that's how it
7:52
sounds of the UCO storm matches in a
7:56
water uh proof
8:02
container we have
8:05
uh this little ferro rod which I'm not
8:08
familiar with this one i've never seen
8:09
this one very small but it does have the
8:15
striker and it works it's producing
8:18
sparks small it's going to be hard to
8:21
manipulate with your hands especially if
8:22
your hands are cold but this is better
8:24
than nothing
8:25
right then we have a nice roll of duct
8:29
tape and uh that's quite a bit that's a
8:32
lot of duct
8:36
tape we have a signal mirror and this
8:40
one actually floats and has instructions
8:42
on
8:43
it
8:45
so see the sun
8:49
here some tinder tabs so you'll break
8:52
those apart fluff them up strike them
8:54
with your ferro rod and put those in
8:56
your tinder pile and you'll have a fire
8:58
going and then the last piece that this
9:01
thing comes with is an Essie Azula and
9:05
the
9:06
Azoula I think anybody who's in the
9:08
bushcraft community the survival knife
9:10
community knows this knife it is iconic
9:12
it has been around for a very long time
9:14
it is a trusted knife it is a small
9:17
knife but um there's a lot you can do
9:19
with this and if you wrap that handle
9:20
with some paracord
9:23
um it becomes a very comfortable knife
9:25
and it makes a fantastic neck knife but
9:28
this one does come with the belt clip so
9:31
you can attach this to a pack to your
9:33
belt whatever you want to do so water
9:36
bottle survival kits um I I've heard
9:39
comments before that people don't like
9:40
these because all the contents are in
9:42
the bottle and then how do you use the
9:45
water bottle doesn't make sense i
9:47
understand that and I'm right with you
9:49
on that but there are there's different
9:51
applications for this type of kit so you
9:54
can use this kit two ways one you can
9:56
keep it all packed up like I had to
9:58
begin with and that can go inside of a
10:01
backpack that goes in your vehicle or
10:03
maybe if you're a bush pilot that can go
10:05
in a backpack with some rations and that
10:07
can go in the back of your plane and
10:09
that way you when you're ready to use it
10:11
you pull everything out and start
10:13
utilizing it uh but that way it protects
10:15
the contents in travel and keeps
10:18
everything together in a neat package
10:20
and it also helps to kind of consolidate
10:22
everything um so things aren't roaming
10:25
around your bag end up missing uh that
10:28
happens a lot with my gear because I use
10:29
my gear all the time so I'll find stuff
10:31
you know I'll lose stuff all the time
10:33
it's like where did I put it did I put
10:34
it in this bag whatever it keeps it
10:37
together now if you don't want to do it
10:39
that way this is my suggestion you buy
10:42
this kit um it's I believe $269
10:48
$65 something like that right now you
10:50
buy this kit and it is uh your starter
10:54
kit and then what you do is you add this
10:58
to the bag of your choice and in this
11:02
case I'm going to add it to my Hersack
11:04
so this
11:06
Hersac is just a British issue um gas
11:12
mass bag and it makes a fantastic
11:14
hersack it's big enough to hold this kit
11:18
plus extra stuff i can add a stove i can
11:20
add a tarp cuz that's one thing we don't
11:23
have is we don't have a cover in this
11:25
kit so I'm going to add a a small tarp
11:28
or maybe some uh drum liner bags to it
12:12
okay there's our water source it's um I
12:16
don't know it's probably 6 ft down there
12:17
at
12:18
least so I'm not going to crawl down
12:21
there obviously but I'm going to try to
12:24
scoop up some
12:27
water with my
12:30
kit and um use the paracord that was
12:33
included
12:35
i think what I'm going to do is I'm
12:36
going to use that little carabiner that
12:38
came on the
12:41
whistle just so I can clip
12:52
in quickly and easily
13:02
so we'll do is we're just going to clip
13:03
this
13:04
in i shouldn't have to cut any of this
13:08
there's no reason
13:09
to so I'm just going to make a um a loop
13:14
on one
13:18
end nothing fancy
13:29
there's that and then we're going to
13:31
open this up as much as
13:33
possible and what I'm going to do is I'm
13:35
going to lower this down into the water
13:37
and fill it up and then pull it up
14:11
now you can see it's holding water and
14:13
it's just leaking out a little bit out
14:15
of that seam so what you would do is you
14:18
put this over your water bottle and let
14:20
that drip into your water bottle that's
14:22
going to filter out all that dirty get
14:26
all that debris that silt and crap out
14:29
it's not going to go in your water
14:30
bottle so when you treat it with your
14:32
water tabs you're not drinking all that
14:35
garbage i mean it's holding it pretty
14:38
good so I think the only thing I would
14:39
do differently and I was looking for it
14:40
I needed a stone to put in the bottom of
14:42
the bag to give it some weight but
14:43
there's no stones up around here so that
14:47
would have helped it go into the
14:50
water a little bit
15:04
better i can see that that water is it's
15:08
clear that got rid of all the silt and
15:12
garbage that was floating around in that
15:13
water so now I can treat that with my
15:17
tab and I've got clean
15:20
water if you guys like this video do me
15:22
a favor and check out the affiliate
15:24
links down below make sure you check out
15:25
Stay Ready Outdoors they have a
15:28
phenomenal web store with tons of very
15:30
cool survival bushcraft items as well as
15:34
a lot of overland gear too because they
15:36
are overlanders and uh they have some
15:39
very cool stuff on their store and
15:40
they're great people to work with very
15:42
responsive great customer service also
15:45
check out uh my affiliate links for
15:48
Amazon check out the Facebook group
15:50
Instagram if you're interested in
15:52
purchasing patches and stickers prepared
15:54
wanderers gear i have a link down below
15:57
for that and if you like this stuff
16:00
subscribe because I try to do a video
16:02
every week and always trying to produce
16:04
new content for you guys so thanks so
16:07
much for watching and we'll see you next
16:08
time on the Prepared Wanderer
#Outdoors
#Hiking & Camping
#Other
#Outdoor Toys & Play Equipment
#Backpacks & Utility Bags
#Luggage & Travel Accessories