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Ten items, each mapped to the failure it prevents, with a typical weight you can check against your own pack.
The Ten Essentials list covers navigation, headlamp, sun protection, first aid, knife and repair kit, fire, emergency shelter, extra food, extra water and extra clothes. It is a checklist of failure modes rather than a shopping list: navigation covers an unplanned route change, the headlamp covers finishing after dark.
Weights are planning figures. A headlamp with fresh batteries weighs under 100 g; sun protection and fire sit well under 50 g each; the emergency shelter is the lightest item that addresses the three-hour threshold in Cody Lundin's Rule of 3s.
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Extra food, extra water and extra clothes are the three entries that scale with the day rather than with the list. The water line follows the 0.5 litres per hour planning figure, and the spare clothes follow the three-layer system: base worn, mid and shell packed.
Check the list against your pack before you leave rather than on the trail. The most common gap on a first hike is the headlamp, because finishing after dark is the emergency nobody plans for.
Tom Brown's order of survival — shelter including clothing, water, fire, food — gives the same ten items a priority ranking: the shell and the shelter go in first and come out first.
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