The Gerber river mini
(knife)
In
2010, I was visiting my pimp homie friend Sean “Pog” Kendrigan at
his home in New Hampshire.
Sean
and I worked together at a wilderness program for hard core juvenile
offenders in Utah several years ago. It was one hell of an
experience. Some of those kids you would love to forget but cant. Ol'
“Pog” was also a river raft guide in Maob, Utah for a few
seasons. He reminds me a bit of the character “Seldom seen Smith”
in Edward Abby books.
Anyhoo,
Sean and I were looking over some of his river rafting equipment,
tools, guns, knives etc. - you know, typical wilderness pimp stuff.
Suddenly Sean pulls out a Gerber river mini knife. I had never heard
of or seen one before. “Pog” says ( I paraphrase ) “see this
knife?, I love it. It was in my paawket ( NH speak for pocket ) on
every paddle, every hike and every swim”. I took it from him and
examined it closely. I liked it too, compact, sharp as fuck, easily
concealable, and looks like a hybrid between a Sudan Janjaweed
dagger, and a WW2 OSS lapel knife.
I
was headed for Aroostook County Maine the next day. I decided to
look for one at the kittery trading post in Maine on the way up to
the Jack Mountain Bushcraft School (JMBS) in “the county”. No
luck finding one. I kept the little knife in the back of my mind
until I got back to Arizona and went to see my friend Jon the owner
of Trapper Jon's knife shop in Sierra Vista, Az
(Jon
is also a New Hampshire boy). Of course Jon had one in his shop so I
bought the thing and have been packing it around the world ever
since.
Ive
carried this knife From Arizona to Afghanistan, from the Sudan, to
Thailand, Mongolia, Tajikistan and a lot of 3rd world shit
holes in between annnnd, its even been Snake Blocker approved. I had
this knife with me as one of the 5 or 6 I brought to the DYS casting
call, Snake, looked at it, liked it and even threw it and stuck it in
the ground!
This
knife has – as my friend Sean said - “been in my pocket, on
every paddle, every hike and every swim”.
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