Get Home Bag
The bag that gets you home when the day comes apart.
Most emergencies do not find you at home. They find you at work, on the road, across town, on an ordinary day that stops being ordinary. The Get Home Bag is the small, deliberate answer to that: a compact kit built to carry one person the distance home, on foot if it comes to that, through the first twenty-four hours when the usual ways of getting there have failed.
It is meant to be stashed and forgotten until it matters. Under a car seat, in a desk drawer, in a locker. Light enough to move fast with, complete enough that you are not improvising when you need it.
Gear you can name
Most get-home kits are a bag of anonymous parts. A headlamp. A compass. A multi-tool. You do not know what you are carrying until you need it, and by then it is too late to wish it were better. The Get Home Bag is built the other way. Every piece is a name you can look up and trust: a Streamlight light, a Suunto compass, a Gerber multi-tool, a Princeton Tec headlamp, a Fox River wool layer. You know exactly what is in the bag, because we chose each piece the way we would choose it for ourselves.
Set for the person carrying it
The kit is complete as it ships, set at an Essential tier that stands on its own. Where a capability matters more to you, the light, the multi-tool, the first-aid kit, you step that slot up to Advanced or Ultimate and pay only the difference. The piece you step past leaves the bag. Nothing is duplicated, and nothing is padded.
What the Get Home Bag holds
Carry: FHIOR 20L tactical pack, MOLLE, hydration-ready
Water: RapidPure purifier bottle, purification tablets
Food: Datrex 2400 emergency ration, energy bars
Light: Streamlight flashlight, Princeton Tec headlamp
Fire: Light My Fire ferro rod, tinder, backup lighter
Tools: Gerber multi-tool, window-breaker pen
First aid: AMK Adventure First Aid kit
Power and comms: solar hand-crank NOAA radio, Nitecore power bank
Navigation: Suunto compass, signal mirror, whistle, paracord, waterproof notebook
Shelter and warmth: emergency bivvy, rain poncho, wool cap, wool socks, repair tape
Protection: N95 respirators, work gloves, bandana
Guidance: Sagamore Get-Home field manual
One person. First 24 hours. 30 items, every one name-brand. Over $660 in gear, from $499 shipped. Assembled and checked by hand