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The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

MM 224 | Ultralight vs Comfort & Other Deep Gear Thoughts

The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

by Exo Mtn Gear

Sports, Health & Fitness, Sports:wilderness, Wilderness

4.92.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Steve & Mark answer your listener-submitted questions on this Monday Minute episode. They discuss choosing ultralight vs choosing comfort, the best (and worst) ways to save pack weight, how to spend money on gear upgrades, selecting a quilt, and some deeper or more philosophical thoughts on the debatable importance of gear in general. NEWSLETTER — https://exomtngear.com/newsletter EMAIL YOUR QUESTION — podcast@exomtngear.com LEAVE A MESSAGE — https://speakpipe.com/huntbackcountry View & Search the Podcast Archive: https://exomtngear.com/podcast

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0:00.0

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

0:06.6

episodes where we answer your listener questions. Today happens to be Memorial Day. So hopefully you all are enjoying a good day with

0:17.5

family and friends and remembering the reason for this holiday. Steve, we are pre-recording it on Friday

0:24.5

so that we can do everything I just said.

0:27.8

Yeah, hopefully I'm out on a lake right now

0:30.2

fishing with my kids and wife. That'd be, that'd be a good day.

0:34.0

So, it is, you know, in our experience, like you get into Memorial Day and especially just June kicking off here very shortly is I don't know the

0:45.7

unofficial start of the preseason it feels like for hunting kids are getting out of

0:50.1

school summers hitting weather's, guys are realizing how quickly things are coming, ourselves included. So it's a fun time for sure.

1:02.0

Is there anything going on I mean there's a ton going on so I should

1:07.9

rephrase that question. Is there anything going on that you want to share behind

1:12.2

the scenes XOY's stuff coming soon

1:14.5

anything like that for we dive into listener questions.

1:17.7

Mm-hmm. I mean things are cranking doing things are going great behind the scenes at XO right now.

1:25.3

We got a lot of projects going on.

1:28.6

The big one will be moving this summer.

1:31.6

Still, I think I've got the building we're moving to located

1:36.0

We're gonna sign on the lease right now but it's not done yet but it's it has happens has to happen between now and October the Lisa on the building where

1:44.1

is up and so that's certainly been a big focus of mind is finding where that's

1:48.8

going on man trying to think most recently working on the golf tournament.

1:54.0

Jake has been doing most of the grunt work on that so far, but we're getting real close to

1:59.2

getting registration up and live for that.

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