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The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

MM 274 | Knife Sharpening, Backpacking Light, Removing Reviews, and More...

The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

by Exo Mtn Gear

Sports, Sports:wilderness, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Steve & Mark answer your listener-submitted questions about how we sharpen our hunting knives, Mark's lessons from his mountain bike race, why S&S Archery removed their spotting scope comparison video from YouTube, where we carry our water bladders in a K4 Pack, what to avoid when storing a weighted pack for summer training, and more... LINKS & RESOURCES American-Made Gear Giveaway: https://swee.ps/KkZMPBCSH Backpacking Light Course: https://backpackinglight.com/backcountry-hunting-ultralight-gear-strategies/ Our Podcast with Ryan from Backpacking Light: https://exomtngear.com/blogs/podcast/462 Knife Sharpening: https://exomtngear.com/blogs/article/backpack-hunting-basics-how-we-sharpen-knives Experience Project HUNT Films: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxCisjM16JQUuY7xWQLdExN_rAHTxEsvv Our Water Filtration & Carry System: https://exomtngear.com/blogs/article/backpack-hunting-basics-how-we-filter-carry-water Load Your Pack for a Day Hunt: https://youtu.be/xEwuuQSMiBo Load Your Pack for a Backpack Hunt: https://exomtngear.com/blogs/article/how-to-load-your-pack-for-a-multi-day-backpack-hunt The Hunt Backcountry Podcast is brought to you by Exo Mtn Gear: https://exomtngear.com/ EXO INSIDER NEWSLETTER — https://exomtngear.com/newsletter ASK YOUR QUESTION — [email protected] 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 Huntback Country podcast. These are shorter and more informal episodes where we answer your listener questions. And believe it or not, Steve, we're mid-July. It's pretty much halfway through summer, which is insane. Yeah, it's going quick. We had back in, I'll say May or June, sat down with the kids and made a like their summer wish list and

0:22.1

all sudden I was like we've done a pretty good job checking things off and all of a sudden

0:26.3

realized holy crap we only have like three and a half four weeks left before they're back to school

0:30.9

yeah before they're back to school we better keep clicking these things off so actually I made a

0:36.6

plan like all right they wanted to go to Roaring Springs twice.

0:39.6

We haven't made it yet.

0:40.4

So it's like, okay, can't do it this week.

0:42.2

I know we can go next week.

0:44.3

Roaring Springs is a water park if someone doesn't know, Boise, I guess.

0:48.5

But then, yeah, checked off.

0:50.4

I actually got to add some of my things to their list. One of them for my son was to take a mountain biking, like true mountain biking.

0:57.8

Just riding around on the neighborhood roads.

1:00.0

And Santa got my son on a mountain bike for Christmas.

1:03.7

And he's been too nervous to ride it because it was just a little bit too big for him.

1:08.0

Or big, not too big for him, but bigger than his other bike he'd been riding.

1:12.0

Finally, he's been building up confidence.

1:13.7

And I took him yesterday morning, which was pretty freaking rad.

1:16.8

He was like, at the end of it, he's like, dad, is that the most fun you've ever had mountain biking?

1:22.4

I'm like, yes, it absolutely was.

1:26.8

That is funny. That's cool. I think he has a, you know,. That is funny.

1:28.4

That's cool.

1:30.1

You know, obviously I go biking all the time.

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