Show your hiking/camping combo!

I own several folding and fixed blade knives, but I have never needed are wanted to carry more than a small (2-3") folding knife for camping or backpacking. I day hike 2-5 days per week, but don't carry a knife unless I expect to be preparing food on the trail. Lately, for no good reason, I have been accumulating a lot knives, but this little Buck folder has met all my hiking and camping needs for many, many years.

http://www.buckknives.com/index.cfm?event=product.detail&productID=2916

It's proven to be adequate for cleaning fish from trout to marlin and field dressing game from rabbit to deer, and it weighs next to nothing and takes up little room in my pocket.
 
1975 Ka Bar Marine Corps knife in my own spruce root-laced sheath.
GB small hatchet
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A little different approach -- my backcountry essentials, as shown on my 3000 mile CDT thru-hike:

1. Murray Carter necker, Silva, maps:
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2. Mrs. Tradja and ice axe:
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With these, I am good. :p:thumbup:
 
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