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For your consideration: Digging sticks are relatively inefficient, typically only "good" for digging small, shallow holes. When one has need for digging larger, deeper holes, one is fucked without shovel.
Real niggas can make blades out of rocks!
I think the ultimate "truth" of this OP is that it's a hyperbolic way of stating that digging tools are often underrated.
I, myself, am oriented thusly: Everything I own fits onto a mechanical pack mule (loaded "touring" bicycle). My most critical items are inside my backpack, including a small, folding trowel. If need be, I can take only that backpack and abandon the mule. In the mule packs (4 panniers) I carry luxury items, which includes a larger folding shovel similar to many of the ones in this thread.
