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Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

#28 | Ultralight Backpacking Gear Talk from Two Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers featuing Baker Bokorney

Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

Kyle Hates Hiking

Wilderness, Sports:wilderness, Sports

4.9678 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

The ever-sarcastic Baker Bokorney is back! Baker thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, Florida Trail, and half of the Arizona Trail in 2018. We dedicate this entire episode to BACKPACKING GEAR, going through each of our packs from top to bottom. Some of the brands we discuss are ULA, ZPacks, and Hammock Gear. Both of us have ultralight setups (although Baker's is lighter than mine) and give some scattered advice on how to keep your pack light.  Like what you hear? Want to talk some smack? You can contact me on Twitter, Instagram, or send me an email: trailtalespod@gmail.com If you're really into Trail Tales and want to receive some bonus content, please consider supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trailtales.  Feel free to leave me a five-star review on iTunes (I read every one at the beginning of the next episode), and subscribe if you like the show! My personal Instagram is @kylehateshiking, so feel free to follow me on there as well.  Subscribe on iTunes, and listen on Google Play and Stitcher!

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0:00.0

What's going on, everybody?

0:11.7

Welcome to episode number 28 of Trail Tales.

0:15.6

I can't believe I'm already at 28.

0:17.7

That's insane.

0:19.1

My name is Kyle O'Grady and this is the show where I, a through hiker and

0:22.8

peak bagger, chat with other through hikers and peak baggers and maybe some ultra runners at some point

0:28.2

if I ever get around to doing that. Just a bunch of hiking nerds like myself and we just have a good

0:34.3

time. And on today's episode, I definitely had a good time. It was one of

0:38.9

my favorites. I chat with Baker Bocorny, who is back all the way from episode nine, I believe,

0:45.3

we discovered at the beginning of our chat here. That was the last time he was on the show.

0:50.0

And for this episode, we focused entirely on gear.

0:55.0

I know everybody's favorite thing to talk about.

0:57.9

I've kind of neglected to do a gear episode for a while now.

1:02.0

And I kind of talk about that at the beginning of the conversation.

1:05.6

But I finally broke and I did it.

1:07.7

Baker is kind of a gear nerd.

1:09.4

So it worked out really well.

1:12.9

And we just, we had a lot of fun.

1:18.3

Baker and I have a very similar sense of humor, so I always have such a blast chatting with him.

1:22.1

I think we're going to do another episode pretty soon here, so get stoked for that.

1:32.1

Baker, when you hear this, thank you so, so much for not only taking the time once, but taking the time again to talk with me and, you know, just kind of do this episode.

1:33.0

I had a blast.

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