Welcome to the born and raised audio experience presented by Onyx

The times are you ever changing we gotta go. presented by onyx welcome guys to the born-raised audio experience today we have some special guests here they actually flew here for the podcast just for our podcast alone, right? Yes. That's it.

We're also doing other content, but we got the guys from Exo Mountain Packs, XO Mountain Gear, EXO, whatever you want to call that, right?

Because people kind of references it as kisses and hugs. Hugs and kisses, yeah. And also the host of their own podcast, Hunt Backcountry.

Yes.

So we've got the two expert backpack guys in the house.

We've got Mark and we've got Steve Speck from Exo.

So we wanted to kind of jump on here real quick and maybe do like an entry level backpacking.

Cody, does that kind of explain it a little bit like

what people need to it's yeah I think Elkunning one is an intimidating facet then you throw the backpacking

and that's a whole other intimidation factor so for our listeners, bound, never been to the Rockies, never been

El Cunning before, and they're going on their first backpack hunting trip.

Where does a guy start?

I mean, the access to information nowadays is awesome, right?

So literally Google elk hunting backpack lists

uh mark just for us did uh if you just go to xomotoguer dot com where's what's the word slash

gear list forward slash gear list there you go like full on detail gear list just that's how i pack

for every single hunt i got my gear list and i just like, all right, start at the top, tent.

Just go check off tent, sleeping bag, pad.

So you got to get your list of all the things you're going to need.

We talk about all the time.

We had Andrew Skirka as like this kind of long distance backpacker and he had a great quote that people,

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