I only use it on our yearly backcountry hunting trip. Then it's good for sending messages back home when we have no phone service. This past year, we brought Meshtastic radios and they work great for comms while hunting as long as we're all on the same side of the mountain. If there's a ridge between us, they're useless, and we fall back to using the Garmins.

I'm a knife guy, so favorite gear is whatever knife I'm running.

I need to do an updated list of my carry gear. Until then, here's the setup I had a couple years ago with a different bag. There's been some changes since then, but a lot of things are still the same.

Here's one of my favorites. The Becker/Ka-Bar version of the Kephart.



Amazing story behind this knife. Horace Kephart, outdoor writer, came up with this design over a hundred years ago. A handful were made at the time. Drawings of it, of course, were published in his book, and knife makers have been making "Kephart" knives for decades.

But none of them got it right, because the subtleties of the blade shape didn't translate through a simple drawing. Then the only known original knife in private ownership came up for sale, was purchased by Ethan Becker, and he immediately noticed the nuances of the design (convex profile, tapered tang, etc). And he chose to share it with the world by allowing Ka-Bar to manufacture a production version based on the historic original.

https://youtu.be/tA00VxcamT8

Oh, I will. My plan was to sell one on Nostr.

They're good knives. I have 2 blade blanks sitting on my workbench. I've been planning to make brass and stacked leather handles for them, just haven't gotten to it yet.