The OLD CLOSED Post Your Campsite/gear/knife/hiking/anything Outdoorsy Pic Thread!

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Looking south toward East Vidette from below Bullfrog Lake, Kings Canyon NP
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Chewy1 said:
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I like this picture - The texture of the bark with the leaves out of focus gives it a nice quality, almost like a Monet painting. What species is this?

It brought to mind this one, which I may have already posted on one of the earlier pages in this thread (too lazy to go back and check):
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Marion David Poff said:
Looks to me like one of the old Boker Arbolito Drop Point Hunters.

http://www.heinnie.com/apb8y61040656/Knives/Böker/Boker-Arbolito/p-92-116-3468/

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How old.

Very close but look for even older stock somewhere else. There seems to be several flavors. I got mine for £70odd GBP from Germany via attacc about 15 years ago. It has a nice heavy tooled leather sheath with rivets not one of those cheapo fold-over jobs without. My sheath is marked Spain [Argentina connection?] Blade looks ground a bit different at the ricasso end too. My guess is they run these at a completely different factory now. Worse case scenario is accidentally getting an American market one 'cos a lot of those are 440 A. Ewww. Perhaps there are still the older ones floating about on *bay.

'Tis my favorite FB user. The handle design alone saw off the F1s and convexed out, although a bit less in the edge retention, really out cuts it. The blade is quite delicate compared to that. It has a very pleasing taper and is very similar indeed to my old CS Master Hunter but without the corrosion problems. I've tried to retire it so many times but I keep coming back to it. I've given up trying now. I've hoped for a long time that they'll release these in ATS34 /154CM or VG10 but I think that's extremely unlikely unless they screw with some other part of it.

Yup, wacky shape being as it is so stubby but I'd recommend it. Something else similar but not so stubby are the Linder Super Edges. They are a step up in steel at ATS34 but that wasn't enough to dislodge me from my handle preference for these.
 
It also bears resemblance to the larger Gerber Hersey designed Big Rock, which goes for under $30 on the web.
 
HaroldB said:
It also bears resemblance to the larger Gerber Hersey designed Big Rock, which goes for under $30 on the web.
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Indeed. I think there's a lot to like about that design too. But at £40ish GBP to me I can do better than bucket class 440A. Apart from that great. To me these sorts of knives are the real unsung workhorses. They bring the best of what was good about old school design forward whilst dumping all the crap and frippery. I know they don't get many accolades here but on other forums where the focus is more about getting out and doing stuff rather than bulking up on what looks pretty in the garden these sorts of tools are what are getting the job done in all conditions not just the easy blue sky dry ones.
 
The shaggy looking tree is Shag Hickory, I believe. I am using a sapling of the same species as a very excellent walking stick. Thank you for the compliment.
 
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top of a valley ridge, on top their was piled stones like a wall line with star pickets...guess someone else used camps up their! This is about 1.5 hours outside of Brisbane Australia.
 
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