Remember your dad’s old emergency blankets? The aluminum foil-like sheet that folded as small as a deck of cards and tore like toilet paper? Important, maybe even essential, but hardly durable. Once used, they were done. Adventure Medical Kits – the maker of top-tier emergency gear – has upgraded the emergency blanket with an emergency bivvy sack. Made from a reusable polyethylene that can be easily repaired with duct tape, the $33 Thermo-Lite 2 Bivvy weighs only 6.5 ounces and doubles as a warm-weather sleeping bag. The sack – a revised version of Adventure Medical’s best-selling survival item – retains 80 percent of body heat and opens at the top, bottom and side to regulate moisture and excessive heat buildup. If $33 is too rich for your just-in-case budget, try AMK’s $4 emergency blanket, a bright orange, one-person shelter.
Get it — Order online at www.adventuremedicalkits.com.
