If your outdoor treks include state parks, roadside campgrounds or summer weeks camping at a beach a standard camping knife such as any of the listed above is suitable. But, if you like to explore the best outdoors and more often visit remote places known only to dears and antelope you know weather can change instantly and nice day can immediately turn to a survival situation in just an hour. For these kinds of situations, outdoor explorer always brings more than one knife with them in the deep woods. Because they will face situations where standard camping knife will be too small and also situations where survival knife will be too long.