A quality first aid packs fulfills the following critical roles:
  1. A good first aid kit will protect the contents from damage. You want the items in your first aid kit to be in excellent condition when you need them. 
  2. A good first aid kit will allow you to organize the contents so they can be easily found. A first aid kit that vomits its contents everywhere when you open it or one where you can't find what you need quickly, is essentially useless.
  3. A good first aid kit will clearly identify itself as a first aid kit. When you ask a group member, fellow guide, or bystander to go to ____________ and get the first aid kit, it needs to easily identifiable. Remember to show everyone what the kit looks like and where it is kept before you start the trip.

All our packs are made from Cordura and other top quality materials; UNLESS otherwise specifically noted, contents are sold separately. Our packs have undergone over twenty-five years of design, rigorous testing, and redesign for function and durability. They are made exclusively for us in the USA and are the BEST first aid packs on the market. Their look, construction, and durability are unmatched and with basic care, they will last a lifetime.

Our use of velcro tech-fabric let's you to decide how you want to organize your first aid kit. Our system permits rapid access to what you need when you need it and protects first aid supplies that are not currently in use from damage while other parts of the kit are being used.
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Click on table or images to enlarge and quickly compare the different sizes and features of our three first aid packs.
A few IMPORTANT things about how our packs are designed.

Pills packaged in blister packs take up too much space and create unnecessary micro-trash. Instead, our packs have removable velcro loop strips designed to hold screw-top Nalgene bottles. The medium 4-loop velcro strips hold one- and two-ounce Nalgene bottles and the small 6-loop strips hold 1/2- and 1/4-ounce bottles. The wide mouth Nalgene bottles are great for large tablets, like antacids, and for ointments. (Avoid carrying ointments in metal or plastic tubes, they break or leak). Narrow mouth bottles are great for carrying liquids like oil of clove, povidone-iodine, alcohol, Tincture of Benzoin, etc. Some liquids work well with dropper tops, for example, alcohol used to help prevent ear infections after swimming, oil of clove for tooth or gum pain, or povidone-iodine for your back-up water purification system.

Cotton-tipped applicators (aka: cotton swabs) can be helpful when applying Tincture of Benzoin, povidone-iodine, and ointments to a patient's skin. We recommend carrying them in a 28 ml Nalgene Snap Top Vial to keep them clean. The vial fits into the zippered internal pocket of any pack.

Vertical pockets on the interior spine of the pack are designed to hold auto-injectors, pens, pencils, thermometers, otoscopes, scalpel handles, auto-injectors, etc.

Gloves can be carried in Small Squeeze Top Vials. Two pair — eight gloves — of exam gloves fit into a small vial.

We recommend carrying two-inch gauze rolls instead of individually wrapped gauze pads. (It's pretty easy to cut a gauze pad from a roll but an entirely different matter to create a roll from gauze pads.) An entire gauze roll, or part of one, can be carried in a Small Snap Top Vial to protect it from water and dirt.

Many of the pack photos are shown with first aid supplies in them to illustrate the concepts described above; UNLESS specifically noted otherwise the contents are sold separately. We do not sell Rx or OTC medications.