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The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

MM 114 | How To Get Under A Heavy Pack, How Heavy Is Too Heavy?, and More...

The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

by Exo Mtn Gear

Sports, Health & Fitness, Sports:wilderness, Wilderness

4.92.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Steve and Mark answer your listener questions on how to best use and load your pack for upcoming hunts. We talk about techniques to get under a heavy pack and get on your feet, the importance of how you load and organize your pack with gear, and how heavy is too heavy for a multi-day hunt. Resources mentioned in this show: - https://exomtngear.com/blogs/article/how-to-load-your-hunting-pack - https://exomtngear.com/blogs/article/free-hunting-gear-list-spreadsheet Share your question for the show: podcast@exomtngear.com View & Search the Podcast Archive: https://exomtngear.com/podcast

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0:00.0

Steve happy Monday, how are you man? I am fantastic

0:04.6

Counting like least definitely nine or ten days until I'm out there solo sheep hunting in the middle of the Frank Church wilderness

0:11.6

And yeah, I'm basically worth worthless here at work. I can attest to that

0:20.2

Can't stop thinking about it. Yeah

0:22.2

Yeah, have you done because you've done flying hunts, you know, Alaska, we've flown in for the Frank, but

0:32.2

I don't think you've done anything fly in solo, right? So there's gonna be this moment where

0:37.2

Your dropped off and the whole the Frank Church by yourself and the plane goes away and you're on your own

0:43.0

Which you know, as we've talked about you've so little hunted plenty, but I think that's gonna be like a cool moment

0:47.6

You know, yeah, yeah, for sure

0:49.6

You know, I mean it's what's so cool about the Frank is it's as close to us. Alaska is you can get right?

0:54.8

I mean, there's you truly have to plan and prepare like you're in Alaska with that

1:00.2

You know the only help is pressing the end reach button, right?

1:04.8

When you're out there, there's no like oh, I'm just gonna hike down the hill three miles back to my truck

1:09.2

That doesn't exist

1:10.6

Yeah, you got the this past weekend you guys kind of did some

1:14.2

Scouting and kind of just checking different areas that you've been east scouting wanted to see it from the air

1:19.4

So was that like to just kind of fly over and see things and I know you're dealing with smoke, right?

1:24.0

Yeah, it was it was there's yeah, there's fires all around up there unfortunately, so

1:28.9

It's gonna affect the hunting and the glass scene

1:31.7

There's there's one pretty stinking close to where I'll be at

1:37.4

But yeah, but it was really cool. Got a good friend

1:40.1

That's a pilot and is flown in the Frank church a lot so we went in there and just flew around and just really wanted to get a good

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