There are a few ways to do this. One way is to make your own anchor and leave some gear. Some locations do not allow this. The second way is using a rock or a tree and use the equivocation or macrame hitch.
The best way to train for carrying your heavy pack is to do this at least 3 times a week. It will be strange, and some neighbors may start calling the police if you are toting a backpack with guns, axe, and knife attached on a regular basis. Here is how to get started without looking like that weird prepper creeping in the neighborhood.
The most interesting configuration whether you are doing SOTA (Summit On The Air) or POTA (Parks On The Air), or setting up a base camp communication station, is using a Solar Powered Battery Bank with your ham radio gear.
Get one long stick (at least 3 feet/1 meter long), one medium length stick (2 to 3 feet/1 meter long), and 3 short sticks (1 feet or 30cm). Then, all you need is a bit of time. This doesn’t work well around noon, but any time after or before it should work. This works in the northern hemisphere.
GMRS is a great way to communicate at distance for basecamp or survival situations. With the right radio, you should be able to communicate in the right terrain for about a 10 mile distance. With access to a repeater, that can be extended further. With linked repeaters, that can go across state lines and in some cases, multiple states. If you have made the decision to own a GMRS radio, whether it is an HT (handheld transceiver) or a mobile unit, there are some fundamental things you need to know.
You can do this with any watch, analog or digital, if it has hour and minute hands. You can recreate hour and minute hands with twigs or stones, but the watch is very helpful. The method described here only works in the northern hemisphere. You will also need a watch that is set correctly (doesn’t have to be exact but should be accurate within a couple of minutes).
Absolutely! GPS can fail, or if you take a bad fall it can break. Same with a compass, but I have my compass in a padded pouch as well as a map in a waterproof map holder.
People hate my answer, but the best survival pack is the one that carries all your items you need to survive while making it relatively comfortable to carry for an extended period. Most people shop for a pack, then all the items, and find out that the pack is not sized appropriately (usually too small) for what you need to carry.
There are a lot of acronyms for everything these days, and it would be nice to have a place to go to find ones specific to a category, in this case, communications.
This is my go-to water bottles for adventuring and have bottles for my various survival packs. I carry two of these, one is plastic, and one is stainless steel.
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