Ep. 193: Risk Mitigation, Survival Skills and Dialing Your Backcountry Gear with John Barklow // Sitka Gear

East Meets West Hunt

Beau Martonik

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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On this episode of the East Meets West Hunt podcast, Beau Martonik is joined by John Barklow of Sitka Gear. John has dedicated his life to survival from backcountry hunting to training Navy Special Warfare in Kodiak, AK, and most recently, the Big Game Product Manager for Sitka Gear. We talk about altitude, risk mitigation, navigating terrain, survival skills, backcountry safety, and how to dial your system. Topics: Altitude Knowledge from Storms Risk Mitigation - How to assess risk in the backcountry Key skills that people should learn for survival and safety in the backcountry Learning how to navigate terrain safely Learning the skills and experience before going all in Brief medical kit breakdown Breaking down your key survival gear and how you pack it Dialing Your System Resources: Instagram: @eastmeetswesthunt - https://www.instagram.com/eastmeetswesthunt/ @beau.martonik - https://www.instagram.com/beau.martonik/ @jbarklow - https://www.instagram.com/jbarklow/ Facebook: East Meets West Outdoors - https://www.facebook.com/EastMeetsWestHunt/ https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/ https://knowledgefromstorms.com/ YouTube: Beau Martonik - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJon93sYfu9HUMKpCMps3w Shop new apparel! https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/shop Amazon Influencer Page https://www.amazon.com/shop/beau.martonik Partners: onX Mapping at your finger tips on your phone, computer or GPS that will allow you scout harder, hunt farther and increase your success rates. This is the number 1 tool that I use every single time I'm in the woods or mountains. Use code EMW for 20% off of the Hunt app. https://www.onxmaps.com/ Spartan Forge Forged in combat and tailored for hunters, Spartan Forge stands at the nexus of Machine Learning and White-tailed Deer hunting to deliver truly intuitive and science based products that save the hunter time spent scouting, planning and executing their hunts. Check out the Outfitter for deer movement predictions based on millions of data points for your area! Save 25% with coupon code eastmeetswest www.spartanforge.ai Heather's Choice Healthy, great tasting, dehydrated meals for the backcountry. Use code eastmeetswest to get free shipping on ALL orders. http://lddy.no/7og2 Maven Optics Top quality binoculars, spotting scopes and rifle scopes for your hunts from east to west. Use the code eastmeetswest-gift get a free gift with your next order! https://mavenbuilt.com/ MTN OPS MTN OPS is the leader in providing science based supplements to help you train inside and conquer more outside. Use the code BEAUFREESHIP for free shipping on all orders. https://glnk.io/mw0/beaumartonik TETHRD The Tethrd Team has created the ultimate tree saddle hunting setup. The Phantom Saddle and Predator Platform system is truly the culmination of ideas & input from thousands of dedicated tree saddle hunting fanatics around the world. https://tethrdnation.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you an adventurer looking to take your hunt to the next level?
0:04.6	Then you're in the right place.
0:05.8	Welcome to East Meets West Hunt with your host, Beaumartonic.
0:14.2	Hey, everyone.
0:15.3	Welcome back to another episode of the East Meets West Hunt podcast presented by Onyx.
0:20.3	On today's episode, I am joined by my buddy
0:23.2	John Barklow of Sick of Gear. John has dedicated his life to survival from backcountry hunting
0:29.5	to training Navy Special Warfare in Codiac, Alaska, and most recently, the big game product
0:36.9	manager for Sika Gear.
0:38.7	We talk about altitude, risk mitigation, navigating terrain, survival skills, backcountry safety,
0:46.0	and how to dial your system and know how to use it.
0:49.9	So this episode is brought to you by OnX, which is the premier GPS hunting app that turns your phone into a working GPS.
0:57.5	This time of year, I'm scouring the maps on the desktop version of the app to look for areas of scout and hunt for mountain bucks, as well as potential hunting locations for my annual Western hunt.
1:07.6	The new 3D feature makes it convenient to look for glassing locations and ways of travel.
1:12.8	If you want to check out the Onex hunt app for yourself, head over to onexmaps.com and use the
1:18.0	coupon code EMW to save 20%. Tethered is a company that is founded on the principles of educating
1:26.1	the hunting community on saddle hunting while creating
1:29.4	the most innovative, lightweight, safe products for saddle hunting.
1:33.0	They just recently dropped the new Phantom XL saddle system, which is made for some of you
1:39.2	bigger guys and girls or maybe some of you that have a little more junk in the trunk than others.
1:45.6	And so they have a whole bunch of different items that you can check out and products over
1:49.6	on their website at tethered nation.com.
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