What Spyderco is in your pocket today??

[elena86]

O.K, I'll play ...

[SaltyCaribbeanDfly]

O.K, I'll play ...

[SaltyCaribbeanDfly]

I would love to have either one of those

[SaltyCaribbeanDfly]

All SE all the time since…this morning

[miohin]

[prndltech]

[VashHash]

[Makunochimaster]

[TkoK83Spy]

[vivi]

[Cowboyfromhell]

I love the 80s retro vibe, vivi!...

[TkoK83Spy]

And now the Manbug, as always at home.

[Mrj]

I love the 80s retro vibe, vivi!...

90’s

[SpyderGrill]

That dye job is awesome, love it

[SaltyCaribbeanDfly]

That dye job is awesome, love it

Ditto!!!

[SaltyCaribbeanDfly]

Gotta love an all G10 Salt Beast…this is a pot my Grandfather repaired back in the late 50’s I was told and it’s still used today

[Manixguy@1994]

MG2

[Wartstein]

Going light-but-still-extremely-capable today - Salt 2 SE, like so often, my choice for hiking in the mountains.

To explain the pic:

There is a pretty remote mountain hut I work for occasionally and then actually stay there for several days and have a lot of time for roaming around.

The local (professional) hunter / game warden for the hunting ground up there became a good buddy of mine, and since I am out and about all the time and everywhere anyway (actually more then he himself ) I tell him where the chamois (main game up there, kind of a wild mountain goat) are grazing, if there are sick or hurt ones among them, and sometimes - like today - I distribute salt licks / salt stones to several places for him (well, actually for the chamois... )

Cool stuff! The Hunter/flesh eater in me is asking; do you ever shoot and eat these chamois? I’ve had tame goat before from a co-worker and it was funky to the taste.

Very cool Gernot

Very nice ! I have a Salt block in back at edge of timber for deer where they can’t be hunted or disturbed. Nice to help animals , good for you ! Dan

Thanks, guys, and sorry for the late reply! I am a lot in the mountains these days with mostly no internet service - helped a farmer the last two days to put up a fence on a high mountain pasture where the cattle stays during the summer month (have to look through my pics, I am sure there are some of my thin line Endura in use up there).

Anyway:

@ Foehammer: I am not a hunter myself (not easy to become one here on Austria), but I know a thing or two about wildlife in the mountains.
Yes, chamois get shot and eaten. Either as kind of a hard cured sausage, or, especially in fall, as "Gams-Gulasch": "Gams" is Austrian dialect for the German term "Gemse" which again means chamois. And "Gulasch" is kind of a stew I guess.
But as said: "Average" guys rarely get to shoot a chamois (legally..., there are still quite some poachers in the remote mountains, this "tradition" goes back to the early middle ages) - the shooting rights normally belong to some reach guys who actually have to employ a professional hunter to look after the hunting grounds and lead them to the game when it is time to shoot one or more... (my buddy I talked about in the previous post actually is such a professional hunter / game warden, working for a rich business man from Switzerland who has the hunting rights - but actually only comes here for a few days a year...)

@ Dan: Yes, I do kind of "help animals" - they like and need the salt. But, as said above, some of them get shot every year. Actually have to, as far as I know, since there are not many natural predators left who would pose a thread - some eagles to the young chamois (not really to the adult ones), lately occasionally bears are spotted again in Austria but very rarely and not that high up and I don´t think a bear could ever catch a healthy chamois in mountainous terrain.

[Wartstein]

Back in the mountains - Salt 2 with me.

Actually also the thin line Endura, but on this pic it is left back in the hut I am working for and that can - somewhat and blurry - be seen in the background (with a red flag nearby)

[Airlsee]

Since these have started to pop up again, I've realized that mine hasn't seen much pocket time. I've really enjoyed carrying it for the last week or so.