The Budget Savvy Travelers (@thebstravelers)
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Victorinox has been making the Classic SD for over a century. Small blade, scissors, nail file, screwdriver, toothpick, tweezers, key ring. Seven functions in something that weighs less than an ounce and disappears on your keychain. That's not the interesting part today, though. The interesting part is what they put on the outside. ๐๏ธ Victorinox released a National Park series of the Classic SD, and the artwork is genuinely worth stopping for. Each one is inspired by the iconic New Deal Era National Park posters: that bold, graphic style from the 1930s and 40s that made Yosemite, Sequoia, Joshua Tree, Rocky Mountain, Shenandoah, and General Grant look like places worth crossing the country to see. Now if you scratched your head at General Grant, you're not alone. Most people know Ulysses S. Grant as the Civil War general and 18th President. What fewer people know is that there's a grove of giant sequoias in Kings Canyon National Park named after him, and the General Grant Tree itself is the second-largest tree on Earth by volume, over 40 feet wide at its base and nearly 270 feet tall. President Coolidge designated it the Nation's Christmas Tree in 1926. It's been standing for roughly 1,500 years. Worth knowing. Worth visiting. ๐ฒ The knife itself hasn't changed. Same Swiss quality, same 140 years of Victorinox craftsmanship, same tool you'd trust on a keychain, in a bag, or clipped to a pack. What changed is that now it also looks like a piece of American history worth carrying. ๐ Check out this beautiful series here โ https://amzn.to/4gOR6mA #ad For the hiker, the camper, the national park enthusiast, or anyone who appreciates good design on a tool that actually works, this is the kind of thing you buy for yourself and end up giving as a gift because it's too good not to share.