If you want to catch the Reate fever...and catch it hard...go grab a $170 Hills before they're all gone. The quality of the knife you get at that price point is simply amazing. I don't think the Hills will be around much longer and I believe Reate retires old designs and then brings them back at a higher price
. The Hills is the last knife left from the original Reate offerings like the Horizon A&B and the D9.
The Hills has a bit of a goofy blade profile, but you can't handle one at the current price (I got mine for $150 when they first released) and not concede that Reate is a serious player. Now, as their prices have gone steadily up, they tend to stand out less among the crowd of ~$400 mid-tech knives.