Good news! Hiking Lady and Coast Portland have partnered up on the latest giveaway. One lucky Hiking Lady reader will win a Coast Portland Rapid Response folding knife!
This knife has a 3 inch blade, weighs just 3.7 ounces (so is great for hikers looking to keep pack weight low), and is made of high-carbon stainless steel. It uses S.A.T.™ Smooth Assist Technology, which means it is opens quickly and easily, and it also lock securely when it is in the closed position.
Want to know more about the knife? Check out Coast Portland’s website for more details on the Rapid Response knife.
How to enter:
Please leave a comment below, and one winner will be chosen by Coast Portland on March 14, 2012. What to say? Anything goes 
Keep it short and sweet…such as where you’d use the Rapid Response knife if you won, what you’d use it for on your next hiking trip, or why you love Hiking Lady! hahaa
Good luck, and happy trails!
Update: Winner Announced! drum roll please…And the winner is Tom, who will be adding his new Coast Rapid Response folding knife to his tackle box. Thank you to everyone that entered. Please check back for more gear giveaways!
As a new hiker, it’s great to find sites like this one with so much valuable information! I’m still collecting a set of gear and I don’t yet have a good knife! My friend and I are working up to being able to do the Wonderland Trail at Mt. Rainier this summer…. so if I win, the knife will get to go on a spectacular and cool hike with me!
This Coast knife looks like a good item for hikers to have for their many tasks on the trail!
Thanks for the contest and Thank You for the website!
Happy Trails to you!
This knife will be perfect as a my daily go to knife.
I still need to add a knife to my hiking essentials, this would be great.
I need the knife to be a ninja on the trails of southern Utah.
I am elated to find you site and help me gain the information and confidence I need to start backpacking!
Nice looking knife, there’s always a good use to it!
Love to read your site!
I have been looking at these ever sense they have came out looks like a good quality product. I have also got a hp7 and a hp21 coast flashlight which are amazing if you are looking for a great flashlight I recommend the hp21 it is extremely bright and can light up a a lot of area around you. It also has the focusing so you have the spot or flood which no other high powered led light has.
The wife and I are new to backpacking. We are trying to learn what we need and which gear is appropriate. We are also looking for fun places to backpack to near So Cal.
Your site is very informative and a good source for us the beginners.
Thanks.
I’ve actually owned this knife before, but it took a walk a couple of summers ago at the end of what ended in a very disastrous trip in Montana.
I was making due with my multi-tool last year. Although the multi was an ok stand in, it doesn’t fill the hole left by this particular knife for me. The Rapid Response Knife was my “go to all purpose” knife. I’m an avid outdoors woman. I paddle, hike, backpack, camp and fly fish, putting in 300 days a year in those pursuits. In the canoe, kayak, float tube or pontoon boat, it was my rescue knife. I took it wading with me. It cut me out of messes when I got hung up on a wayward back-cast. I could wear it on my life jacket, grab it quickly and have the blade out with just a quick flick of my thumb. The serrated portion of the blade cut through nylon ropes and webbing like butter. I also wore it on my backpack or my belt when hiking and or camping. It was my all purpose utility knife. I used it for cooking and eating, too. It also cleaned a few fish, marked a trail or two and made kindling. It was light weight, small and easily fit on my belt, in my pocket or on the webbing of my backpack or life vest. We were like old friends. I missed that knife last season. I hope I can win this one. If not, I’ll still go out and buy another one this year.
D’uh!! TOO LATE!
Need a reliable knife to throw in my bike’s seat pack! Could’ve used it yesterday to fashion a shim to keep my seat post from slipping so I could get home and not have my knees in my ears!
I could so use this knife! I need one that isn’t a cheapy dull one like I have now.
I’ve been steadily gathering my own backpacking supplies and tools for quite some years but have yet to find a decent knife to add to my group of hiking essentials!
I plan on visiting the west coast trail for a two week hike this summer and will defiantly need a trusty blade for essential use’s, it look’s to me from many a positive review that the rapid response knife would be ideal for the situation.
Not only will it come in handy on the Pacific coast but also in the Canadian back woods and rocky mountains on my regular hiking, camping and backwoods exploring expeditions!
Good weather and happy trails!
This is such a great site for amateur and expert alike. Just getting to do this one thing that I have been itching to do for years (backpack out for several days) and this is a great source of info. Thanks, new friend!
Happy trails, Mary Anne
My wife is being very ambitious for a new hiker. She has decided to hike Mt Whitney in a day with friends who are also a new hikers. The knife would be used for opening food & things on the hike and all of us would use it at camp for cooking, slicing, cutting rope and twine. It’s a good knife to share with people at the camp site.