Family bug out bag(s)

[LaOutbackTrail]

So, in preparation for an upcoming trip, I am trying to put together two or three bug out bags for myself, wife and daughter. My daughter will be 5 (almost 6) for this trip down to the Gautemalan, Mexican and Belizian jungles.

So how would you go about dividing the packs up in an efficient manner for three people?
Obviously, the packs would include a poncho for each, a first aid kit, X amount of water, X amount of food rations, change of clothes, etc.
Would you put all the clothes in smallest pack? Heaviest stuff in mine, and the food/first aid/etc in wifes?

What would you do in this circumstance?

 

[ThomD]

When we put together out Go Bags, we found that there was very little that was a "only one" item. Most things are his/hers (clothes, water, food, toothbrush, sleeping bags, etc). Other things are easily dividable - money, most first aid items, etc. For the "only one" items - stove, saw, tarp, etc, we just bit the bullet and divided by space/weight. I took the flash light and GPS because I'm more likely to use them.

 

[mesha]

we divide our packs up according to what each person can actually use. We all have the essentials, but my son (4) doesnt carry a very big first aid because he can't use it. He has a couple bandaids is all. He doesn't have a big fixed blade knife, just a little pocket knife. He doesnt carry a tent, water filter, etc. My wife and I both carry everything. We pare down the load for short hikes or whatever, but have a fully loaded bug out if we need to. remmeber 2 is one and 1 is none, redundancy is the key.

 

[LaOutbackTrail]

Are you guys talking about hiking bags or bug out bags, in the case of something happening to your vehicle and you must hike out?

Bug out bag

 

[ThomD]

Are you guys talking about hiking bags or bug out bags, in the case of something happening to your vehicle and you must hike out?

Bug out bag

These are our Bug Out bags. They go in the car any time we travel more than about 20 miles from the house. They sit in the house in a readily accessable place and are the first things we would grab if we had to bug out of the house. Contents are based on information from this forum, Equipped to Survive, etc.

The contents of the bags are not used in regular life. We do a semi annual content review so that we keep the food current, etc.

 

[BIGdaddy]

Are you guys talking about hiking bags or bug out bags, in the case of something happening to your vehicle and you must hike out?

Bug out bag

Hey dude, our bug-out bag is in a Maxpedition Condor II pack. It's all the essentials for me, my wife, and my three girls, for basic needs for about 3-4 days...

(With the understanding that after that we'd have to find an alternate source of water and food.)

It goes with us on trips, and stays in our main hall closet with the rest of our earthquake kit normally.

Only thing I'd like to add to it, is a way to filter water, though it has a pretty ok supply of water purification tablets, and we could always boil water, I guess.

EDIT: If we were using the bag, I'd also be carrying Mr. 9mm and 5 spare mags in a separate bag. Not really enough room left in the Max pack so I've been mulling over how I'd like to carry it. (I have a GunVault Nano-safe that is Cali-legal for transport, just nothing soft to carry that in)

Once I got to our temporary campsite, shelter, hotel - castle laws take over and I'm able to CCW it just like I do at home.