#21 | Nathan "Puma" Bauman on His 18-Month Adventure, Photography Tips, & The Best Trail Magic Items
Backpacker Radio
Zach Davis
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2018
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
What does it take to turn a thru-hike turns into an 18-month adventure? That's the central theme of today's show, as the Cinnamon Connection is joined by Nathan "Puma" Bauman- who, after hiking the Appalachian Trail, next hiked on the Continental Divide Trail, Long Trail, and Pacific Crest Trail within a year and a half span. We talk about the differences between the three triple crown trails, what it's like to quit on a thru-hike, why the Long Trail is the most difficult trail Puma's encountered, and some tips for aspiring trail-photographers. We chat briefly about the 2018 AT Hiker Survey, AT completion and PCT completion photos. The show wraps up with the second edition of The Triple Crown Of, where we share our favorite trail magic items.
Subjects discussed in today's show include:
- Sawyer Micro Squeeze Filter
- Intro to Puma
- His SOBO CDT hike
- How he finances hiking all the time
- Frugality on trail vs off trail
- Ultralight base weight
- Current Big 3
- Appalachian Trail Big 3
- NeoAir Xlite
- Gossamer Gear The One
- Photography gear and why it's different to bring a real camera over an iPhone
- Sony A7ii
- 85mm 1.8f
- 28mm f2
- Rhode mic
- Editing photos on Trail - lightning sd to phone port - editing RAW photos on iPhones using that converter / Adobe Lightroom mobile & editing presets (filters) to make the process easier
- Twerk Instagram
- Click Instagram
- His failed PCT hike
- 2018 Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker Survey
- Send Completion photos to editors@thetrek.co
- Anonymous hiker poop stories
- Top Trail magic
- Guy proposes in The Whites video
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| 0:00.0 | In today's episode of Back Packer Radio, we chat with Nathan Puma Bauman and have a very fun conversation about his time on the Triple Crown Trails, why the Long Trail is the hardest trail he's ever tracked, and get some tips on how to improve our |
| 0:14.0 | photography game. We've got some trek propaganda and another round of our new |
| 0:18.4 | segment the Triple Crown of. But first I want to give a shout out to today's sponsor Sawyer products. |
| 0:24.3 | Sawyer's latest offering is something that Thruheckers will definitely be interested in and that's their new micro squeeze filter. |
| 0:31.1 | It's both smaller and lighter than the Sawyer Squeeze filter. It's both smaller and lighter than the Sawyer |
| 0:34.2 | Squeeze, the filter that dominates the through hiking circuit. It features |
| 0:38.3 | Sawyer's hollow fiber membrane technology, which are 75% stronger than other fibers on the market. |
| 0:44.0 | It has an improved one-leader pouch design. It's both quieter and lighter. |
| 0:48.0 | I've played around with it a little bit myself and it certainly is less stabby than the |
| 0:51.7 | previous bag. |
| 0:53.0 | But probably more importantly to Thruhikers |
| 0:55.2 | is that it can be attached to the standard 28 millimeter |
| 0:57.7 | bottle. |
| 0:58.4 | Yes, that means your smart water bottles |
| 0:59.8 | and the included Sawyer 1 liter design squeeze pouch |
| 1:02.4 | that I just talked about. It has a |
| 1:04.4 | higher flow rate than other small filters due to its large diameter and superior |
| 1:08.7 | design. It filters up to a hundred thousand gallons of water and includes a spare gasket. |
| 1:14.1 | You can check out the new Sawyer micro squeeze filter at soyer.com, your local |
| 1:18.9 | outfitter or through the shownuts. Okay, to the show. I've been out walking slow, man in my Welcome to Backpack Radio. |
| 1:46.7 | This is episode number 21. |
| 1:49.0 | Backpack radio presented by the track. |
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