I think the first question should be 'what do you plan on surviving?' Somebody who sails the oceans will tell you a 440 series stainless knife is mandatory ( how DID al those sailors manage before?)A Pilot perhaps the Reeves Aviator and a Mors Kochanski student the Mora.

I am all three, own all three. I figure those knives can be switched around with no great angst on my part.

What do Alabama sportsmen carry? I doubt it will something with a peer pressure parameter of $300 a 1/4" thick and 10" blade.
that's 3 F1 Fallknivens or @ 2 dozen Moras!

It's also a good sleeping bag and enough food to keep you fed and well rested in between all this inordinate amount of environmental modification everybody invisions.

I was at a garage sale this morning. I picked up the latest addition to my knife menagerie. It's a slipjoint folder with celluloid handle image of a NWMP and his trusty Husky from a 50s t.v. show.
I can't wait to clean it up and go hiking. I have visions of building a birchbark canoe, butchering a moose and repairing my Winchester with it. Finallly I'll gift it to the indian chief in exchange for the captive missionary daughter with red hair.

You will find what we need, and what knife makers and popular folklore would tell us we need isn't much different than that old series.