Welcome to the Monday minute of the Hunts Backcountry podcast. These are shorter and more informal

episodes where we answer your listener questions. Steve, how are you today, man?

Doing good. A little bit sore.

I'm kind of officially kicked off death hike training and also boy, he got a ton of snow so I decided to slap

on the old snowshoes and got some miles on this weekend and those were, I had texted to you man these I forgot how hard these things are like it's a it's a legit

a you're just that's a thing to incorporate that in my training, just want to go for hike, strap on some ankle weights,

because I think a big part of that is just lifting the snowshoe up every time, you know?

You're just hitting muscles that you don't hit normally when hiking.

But yeah.

I did that when we had the snowshoo death hike in the Frank Church, obviously,

being in Missouri to have a bunch of snow to train with and we did get on snowshoe some like when we were out for show season and stuff but I definitely did some workouts with ankle weights just because as you said you're picking up a snowshoe it gets obviously packed with some extra weight of some snow at times and it totally changes the dynamics of how you're lifting your leg and working that hip flexor, but it was really effective actually. I think it helped me a ton for that

snowshoe hike in particular nice but snowshoes in the in the Grand

Canyon shouldn't shouldn't be a requirement. I think some micro spikes potentially. The tops could be frozen, but that's about it. Yeah.

It's going to be cool to see that plan come together. Super excited for it like you. I'm just like mapping out training and

logistics and footwear and thinking through but it's gonna come quick that's

for sure. We're looking forward to it. Yeah me too. Well between now in the death hike which is going to be early April. It's kind of show season in January and February. A few things there. One is I just went to the ATA show last week. We can talk about that and then we're leaving later this week to go to Sheep Show and shot show and then later in February

There's the Hunt Expo in the Pacific Northwest Sportsman Show so a lot going on

We'll hit all those at least somewhat briefly but

the ATA show I went to as I mentioned last week it was in St. Louis so just about an hour away from where I'm at and it's like heck it's in town, let's go. Yeah, Archery Trade Association.

Yeah, Archery Trade Association.

So it is a private show you're supposed to be part of that association, a dealer,

manufacturer, etc. It's not a open public show. I went to it for years and years and years in a

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