Welcome to the Huntback Country podcast presented by Exo Mountain Gear. Our guest in this episode, Ryan, is one of you guys, a listener of the show, and he joins

us to share a story about a black bear hunt that he had in Alaska.

This is a do-it-yourself hunt, a fun adventure that includes, of course, a flight, and then

some pack-rafting dealing with coastal

tides and ultimately Ryan and his buddy finding success and they talk all about the experience

both the planning the logistics the process and of course the hunt itself and along the way

we discuss many other topics. So whether you're

interested in hunting black bears in Alaska or not, there's definitely some things you can take

away from this episode. And being a listener's story, I want to remind you guys that we're always

interested in those. Sometimes we'll do a before and after the hunt, where we will discuss your hunt plans

before the hunt itself and then do a hunt follow-up after.

Or sometimes like this one with Ryan, we just join you after the hunt and hear all about

the adventure.

If you have some hunt plans that you think would be good to share on the podcast,

reach out, send us an email to podcast at exomountgear.com.

Well, this episode is a long one.

It goes quite in depth and I really enjoyed it.

So I'm going to keep this intro short.

Let's get straight to it.

Here is this conversation with Ryan.

Well, let's start with you, an introduction background. Any context you want to share, whether it's

personal or hunting or otherwise just for the audience to get to know you?

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