How did the Lulu get its name?

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Naming knives is hard. This one was supposed to be easy: just name it "Lander Fixed Blade" and move on. But then it turned out not to be a Lander. Wrong lines. Different feeling. Dang it. So I chewed on it for a week as we took our annual trip to Cooke City, Montana. Lakes. Sunrises. Adventures. Misadventures. Road signs with the name “Lulu Pass.” Easy. That pass is beautiful. It’s a gateway to a million adventures: mining, hiking, backpacking, hunting, fishing, motorcycling, horseback riding, peak bagging, mountain lake cold plunging, and the raw essence of America. It’s a place that I love dearly. Athena's grandfather was a miner there in his late teens. Her mother spent every summer there. It's a place where I've watched my family grow up. So, naming this knife "Lulu" felt like borrowing from an old friend. I snagged the name.

Turns out, Lulu is a great name. A “lulu” is something extraordinary or fantastic— a word with origins in the 1880s. Like dope. Sick. Lit. Bussin. Lulu. I also heard rumors that Lulu Pass may have been named after a local…eh… working woman. Cooke City was a hard core mining town, and there’s potential the miners named the Pass after their…er… friend. We tried to track down the official rumor on that one at the Cooke City Chamber of Commerce, but we couldn’t find a definitive answer. The mysterious ambiguity feels right.

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