[pct-l] safety on the pct

[Patrick Beggan]

Knives are a lot harder to use against an aware opponent -- They  
usually won't even scare off most criminals. An unskilled person with  
a knife is next to useless. I've had plenty of training on the subject  
and even I don't consider a knife to be a reasonable self-defense item  
for me, especially not for an untrained woman (no offense, it's a  
question of brute strength).

Whoever it was that said the pepper spray was really on to something.  
If pepper spray doesn't stop them your knife isn't going to, either,  
so you might as well carry the pepper spray. The pepper spray has a  
much better chance of scaring a rapist/mugger/murderer off than a  
knife, to be honest.


On Jan 12, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Marta Clark wrote:

>
> --- Tortoise <Tortoise73 at charter.net> wrote:
>
>> from Switchback's Super secrets of Backpacking:
>> "Neck cord = I carry a
>> whistle, chap-stick, small knife, etc. This is very
>> convenient."
>>
>> Switchback has a good idea here about carrying your
>> whistle on a neck
>> cord (necklace). I will add a compass. These are
>> items that should
>> always go with you.
>
>
> One of my New Year's Resolutions is to have a whistle,
> compass, and small knife clipped to each of my packs,
> so I won't leave home without them.  My most recent
> use of a compass was on a group dayhike with a leader
> (not me).
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