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The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

MM 228 | Bivy Location for Elk, Bears & Food, Gear Theft at the Trailhead

The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

by Exo Mtn Gear

Sports, Health & Fitness, Sports:wilderness, Wilderness

4.92.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Steve and Mark answer your listener questions on this Monday Minute episode. They discuss choosing bivy camp locations while elk hunting, what they do with their food when hunting in bear country (specifically in Alaska), how to prevent vehicle break-ins at the trailhead, and more. SUBSCRIBE VIA EMAIL — https://exomtngear.com/newsletter ASK 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 Huntsback Country podcast. These are shorter and more informal

0:05.8

episodes where we answer your list from our questions, joined as usual by Steve.

0:11.0

How are you man?

0:12.0

Good, really good.

0:14.0

Had a kid-free weekend, it was my wife and I's 12th anniversary,

0:18.0

and last night I grew up before we were just hanging out and I'm like, man I love my kids but it was sure nice to have this break this weekend.

0:26.5

I was able to go bike riding every day, work on my, you know, spend a bunch of time out in the garage messing with all my

0:33.7

hunting gear and yeah if you're that you know kid listening in your late 20s and

0:39.7

you still don't have kids just appreciate it take take every second you got to get all the things

0:44.8

done that you want to do because like it's yeah but then you know obviously picked

0:49.8

up the kids last night for my mom's house and you realize how much you missed the

0:53.1

buggers? For sure it's funny that that I didn't even realize that was happening on

0:57.5

on your end but I was just in Idaho with you last week and as I came home my kids were gone at a camp so my wife and I had a few

1:05.3

days alone including for her birthday so we're both coming off a few kid-free

1:09.7

rejuvenated days it certainly is a whole different Yeah, I was able to get so much stuff done. It was awesome.

1:17.0

When we were out in Idaho when I was out in Idaho for the golf tournament, we talked about that and then we said we were going to go float which we did after last week's Monday minute, but I just wanted to mention that real quick. That was so stinking fun and made me so excited for our

1:33.8

caribou trip man yeah yes we loaded up the alpacas we were trying to

1:38.0

figure out how to add weight to the boats just to simulate and he didn't want to do

1:42.2

with no weight.

1:42.8

And then, as I realized I needed to buy a couple bags of dog food

1:46.6

for my dog, one for the house, one for the office.

1:48.4

And I was like, well, shit, I'll just buy six bags of dog food.

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