Cold Weather Gear with John Barklow

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Kifaru International

Wilderness, Education, Sports:wilderness, Sports

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🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 120 minutes

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John Barklow, Product Manager at Sitka Gear joins Aron Snyder to discuss cold weather gear from shelters to boots. Go for a short walk, and you’ll know if your gear fits. You might notice the stretch, the lightness, the breathability, the warmth. But you won’t really know if it can keep you alive. You could take your clothing maker’s word for it. But if you’re a Navy SEAL operating in frigid conditions where leaving early isn’t an option, and holding your position is mission critical, you have to know exactly what your gear can handle. You have to test for yourself how it will perform in the worst possible conditions. And that’s why Sitka Big Game Product Manager John Barklow and his fellow Naval instructors came up with the Rewarming Drill. John was 19 when he enlisted and formally trained as a Navy diver. He built up some experience climbing and mountaineering in his off time, and took stations in the Philippines, the southern U.S., and California. After 9/11 he ended up in Kodiak, Alaska, where he used his experience to teach SEALs how to survive like mountaineers. Sitka Hilleberg Kifaru Leukotape

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0:00.0	Good morning everyone. Welcome back to Kafaru cast. I'm riding solo today. My partner in Cron Frank the tank
0:07.4	Tort life Cougar Hunter Perolta is hanging with
0:11.0	Gladiators unleashed, but I have a guy that I find his opinion
0:15.7	Extremely valuable and important in the industry. He's done great thing in the clothing industry with Sitca gear
0:21.6	And that is John Barclow John. Thanks for hopping on with us
0:25.6	Air man. Thanks for thanks for reaching out this morning right nearly
0:30.1	Yes, yes, I did probably text you I thought may have been too early, but you are already at work. It's a worked out great
0:40.0	So for those of you don't know John Barclow works for Sitca gear. He has a
0:45.9	vast amount of experience in survival, clothing, gear
0:51.6	Work you were in the military for a while doing training up in Alaska
0:55.9	And now you are you basically do all the not all but a lot of the big game backpack
1:02.8	Designing and everything for Sitca is that correct?
1:06.6	Yeah, so technical term is big game product managers so that pretty much incorporates everything in that category. Yeah
1:14.6	Gotcha, and then you train you did cold weather training up in Alaska as well, right?
1:19.5	Yeah, so I was in the Navy for 26 years
1:24.0	20 years of that I taught
1:27.0	In the SEAL teams and how did that 20 years?
1:32.4	15 of that was up in Alaska training guys basically in
1:37.7	Now they used to call it land skills, but it was you know land navigation survival
1:44.7	You know essentially backpacking with a gun in summer guard
1:49.6	We developed clothing systems and gear so that's kind of where I got all my my background and
1:56.4	In that and you know the cool thing with that was you got to you know
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