Travel knives
Often, the passion for knives smacks of fetishism. Tourists buy creepy, spiked, fanged instruments of torture, attach them to their belts and try to convince their colleagues that THIS is a necessary thing on a hike.
I dare say that this is not so. This year I went on 15 hikes and all the time I got by just fine with an ordinary folding Swiss knife. It is small, light, always at hand (in your pocket), and you don’t need a belt to carry it (belts rub your back under your backpack).
And most importantly, the police are not interested in such small knives. A tourist is always a tasty morsel for them. Everyone knows about our habit of carrying huge tourist knives with us. I myself was stopped at the station three times over the summer. After checking the documents, the first question was about the knife. I showed off my penknife and moved on. Any more substantial cutting and stabbing instrument, even with permission, would be the basis for a longer conversation.
In short, fellow tourists, don’t show off - buy small folding knives.