I stand corrected on the knife issue then.

However I have found that most women campers tend to carry scissors, which are two crossed knives with a leverage advantage, and they cut much more precisely.

If we actually left behind everything that we do not use on each trip, we would not have first aid, pliers, warm coat, compass, map, or other emergency stuff because emergencies are rare. These are the things left out to get to ultralight that make UL more dangerous during an emergency, but easyer to carry when you don't need any emergency items. Sure many will argue that not carrying emergency items makes you safer because you will be lighter and therefore less apt to have an accident. I think someone did an awesome job of marketing to get people to want to believe that.

Jim