They were the first hikers we’d seen all day, and they were loaded up. The pair—a father and son, they told us—were heading up into the hills above Curecanti National Recreation Area in Colorado for a weekend. I would have believed they were equipped for a week: Each of them hefted what must have been 80-liter packs, fully swollen with gear, with a tent strapped between the toplid and body of the dad’s pack. And dangling from their belts, each carried a four-inch long Buck knife in a sheath.
People seem to forget that the Bugout was actually invented as an ultralight backpacking knife. “If you take care of the ounces, the pounds will take care of themselves. That said, give me a small fixed blade. Just in case.
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https://www.backpacker.com/survival/no-you-dont-need-a-giant-knife-to-go-backpacking/
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