Wyoming is gorgeous! Lots of mosquitos though. I had a bug net for my head that I wore at camp.. We brought our big backs about 15 miles in...then made camp and brought day packs another 5 miles in to get to Titcomb Basin (which is comprised of the three titcomb lakes: appropriately named lower, middle and upper titcomb lake) So total mileage was about 30 with the packs, and 10 with day packs=total about 40 miles.
with the 1311 weighing in at just over a pound, it is truly a great knife for chopping and splitting wood. we had 9 straight hours of rain and the wood for fire was pretty wet. With the 1311 and my buddy's BWM, we were able to chop larger logs into smaller pieces and then split/baton them to access the drier insides so they would burn much easier. The big choppers are a must for me because most hikers dont travel with them and they cant access larger pieces of wood. Think about it..if you hike to an area without a lot of trees, the area most likely has been scavenged for smaller wood by previous hikers. But the larger pieces are usually left alone because they are just too big to burn in smaller fires. Choppers open up a new world of available wood.
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