115: Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2017 Report

The First 40 Miles: Hiking and Backpacking Podcast

Heather Legler

Hobbies, Leisure, Sports, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today on the First 40 Miles, Heather is back from the Outdoor Retailer Show in Salt Lake City with tales of what she saw! Next, today’s SUMMIT Gear Review features a buttery soft, ultrastrong + ultralight hammock. For today’s Backpack Hack of the Week, you knew that a hammock had to do more than just rock you to sleep—and we’ll confirm your suspicion with today’s hack. And we’ll wrap up the show with a little trail wisdom from a guy who has some wise insight about backpacking.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 115 of the first 40 miles.
0:05.0	If you're new to backpacking, or if you're hopelessly in love with someone who wants you to love backpacking,
0:11.0	then this podcast is for you.
0:13.6	We'll talk about the essentials,
0:15.2	how to lighten your load, and how to make the most of your time on the trail.
0:19.5	I'm your host, Heather Legler.
0:21.5	And I'm Josh Legler. And this is the first 40 miles.
0:27.0	Today on the first 40 miles, I'm back from the Outdoor Retailer Show in Salt Lake City with weird and wonderful tails of what I saw.
0:37.6	Next, today's Summit Gear Review features a buttery soft, ultra-, and ultra light hammock.
0:45.0	For today's backpack hack of the week,
0:47.4	you knew that a hammock had to do more
0:49.3	than just rock you to sleep,
0:50.8	and will confirm your suspicion with today's hack.
0:54.4	And we'll wrap up the show with a little trail wisdom from a guy who has some wise insight
1:00.4	about backpacking.
1:02.2	All this, and that's about it. All this, and that's about it.
1:05.0	Today on the first 40 miles.
1:10.0	A couple weeks ago Heather went to the outdoor retailer show.
1:14.0	For those of you who haven't heard of it, it's located in Salt Lake City, happens twice a year,
1:19.0	and it's where all the gear manufacturers for the outdoor industry come together to show off what's in
1:24.2	development their latest things that they're working on and outdoor retailers
1:29.2	come to source those products to buy them you you know, make deals for what they're going to
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