Aloha, Brethren and Sistren,
I'm back from 34 days afield.
In case anyone is wondering, the most extreme "non-knife-like" use I put a Busse knife to on this trip is as follows: I came back to my bear-resistant food locker after several days. In the meantime, it had snowed a few times, and partially melted and refroze as ice. Meanwhile, some light hail, sleet, and other precipitation had froze onto my locker, too. My locker was encased in an 1"-1.5" thick layer of ice, over the seams, the locking mechanism, etc. I used my Pepper Shaker (my bigger knife was in the box!) to chop, chisel, pound, and pry until the locking mechanism and the seams were clear of ice, and could be opened. The tiny, thin ground Pepper Shaker served well, and took no damage, despite a lot of contact with steel.
The most common use of a Busse knife on this trip: cutting patches of duct tape, for "band-aids".
Other common uses: cutting Spectra line, opening food packages, peeling oranges and bananas and pomegranites, trimming my nails, pulling tent pegs out of frozen ground, extra security against mountain lions and black bears, prying chunks of dried pitch off of dead trees, splitting wood, shaving wood, whittling wood, and... ummm... everything else.
So what did I miss, over the last five weeks?
--Mike
(Oh, by the way, the trip was--at least--a partial success)
I'm back from 34 days afield.
In case anyone is wondering, the most extreme "non-knife-like" use I put a Busse knife to on this trip is as follows: I came back to my bear-resistant food locker after several days. In the meantime, it had snowed a few times, and partially melted and refroze as ice. Meanwhile, some light hail, sleet, and other precipitation had froze onto my locker, too. My locker was encased in an 1"-1.5" thick layer of ice, over the seams, the locking mechanism, etc. I used my Pepper Shaker (my bigger knife was in the box!) to chop, chisel, pound, and pry until the locking mechanism and the seams were clear of ice, and could be opened. The tiny, thin ground Pepper Shaker served well, and took no damage, despite a lot of contact with steel.
The most common use of a Busse knife on this trip: cutting patches of duct tape, for "band-aids".
Other common uses: cutting Spectra line, opening food packages, peeling oranges and bananas and pomegranites, trimming my nails, pulling tent pegs out of frozen ground, extra security against mountain lions and black bears, prying chunks of dried pitch off of dead trees, splitting wood, shaving wood, whittling wood, and... ummm... everything else.
So what did I miss, over the last five weeks?
--Mike
(Oh, by the way, the trip was--at least--a partial success)
