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!
nice nife i would that but my son would love it more so i am in.
The knife will go to my 11 year old daughter. She amazes me every day. There is nothing she can not do.
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.
Happy trails, Mary Anne 🙂
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!
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!
I could so use this knife! I need one that isn’t a cheapy dull one like I have now.
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!
D’uh!! TOO LATE!
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.
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 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.
Nice looking knife, there’s always a good use to it!
Love to read your site!
I am elated to find you site and help me gain the information and confidence I need to start backpacking!
I need the knife to be a ninja on the trails of southern Utah.
I still need to add a knife to my hiking essentials, this would be great.
This knife will be perfect as a my daily go to knife.
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!
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!
WOW!!! Please enter me in the contest, this appears to be an excellent example of an every day carry knife, also my favorite type of blade: straight edge and serrated-both on the one blade for many tasks.
I Love the black blade and the handle has a lock for safer and more effective uses! The handle also has grip that should be a good choice for hikers and others that depend on a good grip.
Thanks again!
TW
Coast is the best product there is period. Just look at the flashlights. BTW the HP17 & HP14 are out of this world!!!!!!!
Now that’s a knife! My husband and I are going on backpacking trip to southern utah at the end of this month–would be a great time to break it in!! 😉
I grew up backpacking with my father. Now its my turn to share my love of the wild with my children ages 7 and 9. I could use this knife for creating shelter, cutting up snacks and whittling wood. Now that I don’t have my father to take care of all the necessities, I have to start gathering my own equipment! =)
Nice looking knife – I need one – hope I win it! 🙂
Sweet Knife!
As an avid outdoors-woman, I have a small multi-tool pocket knife but not a nice knife for bigger tasks. If I won, it would be great for my canoe camping and backpacking trips.
I’d use a Rapid Response Folding Knife in every Manchester I visit this year – all 52 of them. Lakes, mountains, jungle villages and even gold mines, all called Manchester. I’ll be needing a dependable knife like that!
The teach in Spain and can boast of a large knife.
I’ve never actually owned a decent knife, let alone one for my rescue kit(unable to afford it).
It would be a honour to me as a volunteer Rescue Officer to carry a Coast Rapid Response folding knife either in my kit or upon my belt when in the field.
If I win, I would see this as a heartfelt thank-you for my selfless act of giving to the community and hope it inspires others to join me in making our communities a better place by volunteering too 🙂
my husband would love me forever if i won him this 🙂 he is a big fan. thank you
I would use this knife while hiking /backpacking, it’s one of the essentials I don’t have.
My husband would love for me to have one of these – that way I won’t be borrowing his!
I’d love this knife for my hiking expeditions, especially solo ones, to my NH 4000 footer summits. I’d use it to de-pit fruit, ward off bears and moose, and cut bandages for gigantic splinter.
Life is filled with ups and downs; I need agood knife to keep my feeton the ground when my head gets stuck in the clouds….
I would give this to my nephew who has recently been introduced to hiking. He would love it. He fishes too and this would come in handy !
I would love to win a Rapid Response Knife because I need a good quality knife to take with me when I go mountain biking in the backwoods of nowhere, just in case. I have 3 Coast Flashlights that I take with me everywhere, HP17TAC, A25, A15 and once in a while my LED Lenser T7. I really need a knife, college tuition cleared me out and my tax return, well, it went to more books and required tools.
Yah for a light weight smaller knife! I can only imangine all the places this would come in handy. Thanks for the chance Hiking Lady!
I could use this knife on my June camping trip to Inks Lake State Park in Texas.
Thanks for allowing me the opportunity to participate!
I have been hiking for 6 months now and have thoroughly enjoyed this website. I have enjoyed some beautiful areas in Arizona and look forward to backpacking soon. This wonderful knife would be a great addition to my pack. I purchased a cheap, multipurpose tool and it did not cut the mustard lol. Needless to say it was returned.
Looks like a great Mother’s Day Contest.
sure would love to have that knife it is our 39 wedding aniversary and i would love to give it to my husband he loves knifes and is always looking for new and kdifferent ones he woould love this and show it to everyone he knows
I would use the Rapid Response knife on my camping trip to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan.
I would give it to my Wonderful Wife Laurie .Who needs a Fine blade like this one I am also a Lover of their Great flashlights.
I need to get a good knife. I’m a practical guy that uses my knife every day and could surely put this to use!
I definitely need to get a new knife as I lost my old one while hiking in the mountains. And I love Coast Portland! I have several of their flashlights, and would love to try one of their knives. Here’s hoping I win!
Thanks
Hammerman
I would love to have this knife for work.
A new Coast knife! If it is as good as their lights (which I am sure that it is), it will be a home run! I can’t wait to try it out on all my outdoor activities.
Search & Rescue volunteer here… This knife would REALLY help!!
Don’t need it, just want it…
Sweet knife! I could make good use of that!
Wow…that’s just awesome! I am never without a knife, and this little gem looks like something I will be checking out to add to my collection!
Love hiking lady! Hiking Lady jacket is the best!!! The knife would be a great!
would love to use this while fishing would be a great addition to my tackle box
I love Hiking Lady! I have found so many useful tips on this website. Thanks!
Great for camping too! Lightweight gear is of great importance to me–double bonus when it’s high quality.
Definitely looks easier to use than my current Swiss Army knife (which albeit ery practical, always feels a bit bulky in the hand), so count me in! 😉
My son just started hiking and camping with cub scouts and this would be nice to teach him the right way to handle and respect knives.
I would absolutely love this! My husband and I are avid hunters and hikers and are always looking for new and better equipment. This knife looks amazing and would be put to good use with us! 🙂
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I live along the Warner Springs, CA portion of the PCT trail, am an avid lady hiker and love The Hiking Lady. I would love to include this “must have knife” as a part of my daily hiking gear.
I would leave it in the pickup that we use a lot for summer activities such as bike, hike and kayak. Good to take camping too
I’m an athlete with a non-profit called Team X-T.R.E.M.E. (www.team-x-treme.org). Our mission is to honor, empower, and motivate wounded warriors from OIF and OEF by running endurance events in gas masks as a symbol of overcoming adversity. Our first event of 2012 is the Bataan Memorial Death March (26.2 miles) in NM. We’ll be hiking the event with 35-40lb packs, boots, and gas masks and will have a Warrior Athlete (double amputee) competing with us. We’ve been doing some serious hikes the last several weeks and your boot lacing trick saved my heels! Thanks!
Great piece of essential gear. I could see myself using this awesome knife for many tasks on my summer trip to Glacier National Park!
A person can’t have too many knives and I’d love to add this one to my stable.
I do a lot of back country travel here in Canada, doing nature photography, and weight is a major issue with my heavy photo gear, but a good knife you can depend on is a must have.
Thanks hiking lady!
I would love to win this knife and in fact March 16 is MY B-Day…..so what a great present it would be. I would be more than happy to take a few pictures with this knife on my upcoming journey on the 2650 mile PCT. I leave in 26 days Good luck to everyone. DIP
I Need a new knife!
🙂
Looks like a nice knife, would even be a good every day carry item but I’d use it most on the trailing for cutting up food for snacks or lunches.
This knife would be a great addition to anyones hiking gear. Safe and light weight.
Just started hiking and while getting some thoughts for new hikers I found your site. Being a women I loved the idea of a hiking lady. This knife would make a wonderful addition to my hiking supplies beings I don’t have a good knife yet. Thanks for all the great info, keep it up.