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KIFARUCAST

Backpack Hunting With Kendall Card

KIFARUCAST

Kifaru International

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness, Education

4.92.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Entrepreneur Kendall Card joins the podcast to discuss the rigor and joy of backpack hunting. Kendall runs a multitude of companies including Black Ovus, Camo Fire, and Crispi USA. About Kendall Card I was born in Springville, Utah where I spent my childhood. When I was 12 my family moved to a suburb of Portland, Oregon named Tualatin where I “grew up”. Frequent trips to Mount Hood to ski, a crew of great friends and reggae concerts at the Pine Street Theater in Portland made for solid high school year memories. After traveling solo in Europe for a summer followed by a 2 year mission for my church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I moved back to Utah for school at Brigham Young University where I could go to school spring, summer and fall and then quit school for the winters in order to ski. Fortunately for me I met a girl who thought that was perfectly normal. We were quickly married and have been enjoying life together for 13 years and counting. After graduating from BYU we moved back to Park City where I worked for The Canyons ski resort for 6 years as the Utah Sales Manager before jumping ship to Backcountry.com where I managed grassroots and community marketing for nearly 3 years. I worked for a stint with Base Camp Communications as Director of Social Media With my longtime friend Mark Strickland, we started Camofire.com in late 2008 and I am now working full time in my business, feeling blessed for the success we’ve seen and confident and optimistic for our future. My outdoor passion is backcountry skiing, followed by climbing, road cycling, trail running and ski mountaineering. I’ve recently taken up archery hunting, an extension of my many years as a youth and teen hunting and fishing with my family. What is BlackOvis.com? BlackOvis.com is set up to be your best hunting asset. In its essence, we want it to be a one-stop place for you to find all of the hunting gear you need from all of the top brands you know and trust. With a full catalog of items you can browse through and with posted reviews from our customers and gear experts about brands and products, BlackOvis is ready to get you properly geared up for your next big hunt. About Camofire.com Camofire.com is all about bringing you back to back deals on top quality hunting products at prices well below retail, prices so low it’ll almost feel illegal. We strive to get gear from all the best brands that every hunter wants and offer it at a ridiculously low price. Unlike most hunting websites that offer a full catalog of items, Camofire is unique in that we offer five deeply discounted hunting deals at a time, each with limited quantity and limited time to “Pull the Trigger”. [email protected]@crispius.com

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0:00.0

Welcome to Kaffiru cast everyone. I'm riding solo on the mic. Frank Detank is in Idaho playing with a couple Mormons actually Matt Davis and Jordan Cower. They're on a bear hunt and I actually I have a very, very good friend of mine who

0:20.0

entrepreneur slash mountain climbers slash all kinds of stuff bow hunter. Kindle card from what all do you own black ovates, camouflage, crispy, what all you got your hands involved in?

0:32.0

That that sums it up for now. We might I might have a few other things that might sleep. Can't sit still for too long.

0:40.0

And I've given you the nickname Icabald Crane. I hope you don't mind. I mentioned this on a couple podcasts. Oh, I'm I'm feeling me. I appreciate you coming on though.

0:57.0

Yeah, no, had I heard that Icabald Crane thing? Maybe I wouldn't come on. You never heard that before? No, I've listened to I listened to yours kind of selectively.

1:07.0

Oh, was that because we dropped too many F lawns or that it's part of it. No, I'm like most of it's just time. I bounce around back and forth. But no, I'll do it. I'm cool. I roll basically whatever.

1:20.0

So, oh, gotcha. Yeah. No, somebody else mentioned that to me and then I thought about it. And I'm like, well, he does have a long neck. You are a tall dude. How tall are you?

1:29.0

Six four. But my kids tell me I'm shrinking a little bit. Oh, gotcha. Well, what's I maybe getting old?

1:38.0

Your in scenes got to be that of two men. You look like you can hike up a store. How long is your panting?

1:46.0

I think just 34 or 35. Yeah, I have guys I hike with that are like I have to take every I've take two steps to my one step.

1:55.0

Oh, I'm sure. Well, you kind of came from backpacking background as well though not backpacking but backpacking and climbing skiing. I mean, you were.

2:07.0

I mean, you've always hunted but you have quite a background in all things outdoors really. I mean, give for those who don't don't know. Obviously, you are.

2:18.0

Are you is that the base in charge of crispy in North America or how does that work exactly?

2:24.0

Yeah, so we about three and a half years ago, Mark and my business partner and friend and I took over the distributor ship for crispy here in North America. And so we represent.

2:35.0

And then we purposely focused on hunting crispy that always made hunting boots since what 43 years they've been making boots. So we decided to primarily focus just on the hunting market.

2:49.0

We do have a couple of boot your shoes kind of targeted towards outdoor and a couple of military kind of, you know, police boots but mostly designing to that.

3:00.0

So yeah, we go to the factory every year. Couple times sometimes and then it worked on new boots and what you know, upgrading and fixing stuff that maybe isn't performing.

3:12.0

You know, perfectly or is perfect to do. Can some death of a dude with crispy.

3:16.0

Johnson and then you started with your partner camo fire. So for all of you poor guys out there that can only go hunting with cool stuff because of camo fire. Thank Kindle card cinnamon email.

3:31.0

I was welcome. Hey, not just the poor guys like there's a week one day we were one of our guys was shipping these like is this package for real. This is about two years ago.

3:42.0

And it was Donald Trump Jr. was buying something we're like maybe this is weird billing address was fifth Avenue and shipping address was some fancy place in upstate New York. So rich guys are also shopping on camo fire.

3:57.0

I I used to shop on camo fire. I mean luckily now I don't have to pay for anything. So I don't have to shop much anymore. It just shows up and then you know, I got a garage full of stuff. Amy yelling at me get rid of it. But no camo fires awesome. And then you also on black Ovis, which I've been to your place many times.

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