This document discusses individual versus group decision making when preparing for a trip to the Boundary Waters. It lists experts' rankings of essential survival items, with duct tape, personal flotation devices, a map, sleeping bags, matches, and food deemed the most important items to bring. Lower ranked items include a yellow frisbee for recreation and whiskey, which is noted to make people colder and cause dehydration.

1. Boundary Waters
Individual vs. Group Decision Making

2. Boundary Waters

3. Individual Ranking

4. Group Discussion
• No voting
• No “horse trade”

5. Experts Say…..
1. Duct Tape – Fix Canoe, repair fishing poles, help make splint, makeshift
pan
2. Personal Floating Devices – keep body warm
3. Map – Navigation and umbrella
4. Sleeping Bags – Stay warm
5. Matches – Fire to dry clothes, cooking, warmth
6. Food
7. Clothes – When dry for warmth
8. Fishing Poles – To catch fish
9. Parachute cord - Line to dry clothes, fix canoe
10. Insect repellant – Protection of mosquitos, black flies, ticks
11. Water Purification tablets
12. Yellow Frisbee - Recreation to reduce tension, boil, fan fire
13. Magnetic compass - We have a map!
14. Whiskey – Will make you colder, cause dehydration