Patrick Smith

KIFARUCAST

Kifaru International

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness, Education

4.9 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Patrick Smith, the man who created his own world in which he could thrive in the backcountry, including the outdoor companies Mountain Smith and Kifaru, joins the podcast to share his wealth of knowledge of backpack hunting. Also, the beginning of this episode, Aron and Patrick provide an update on the status of our forums, and how they will be run in the future.

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0:00.0	All right everybody Frank and I just did a podcast with the great Patrick Smith, the founder
0:06.0	and owner of Kaffaroo International and before we kick that podcast off we wanted to talk
0:11.3	a little bit about what's going on with the Kaffaroo forums.
0:15.7	The Kaffaroo forums have been around for a long, long period of time and it's basically
0:22.0	a Bible for back back hunting in a huge resource and Patrick your essays are on there.
0:28.5	A lot of your writings.
0:30.4	The blog happens to be on the forum.
0:35.0	By blog the essays I think exist independently.
0:39.6	The essays were all done.
0:42.0	Boy when I just started up Kaffaroo and it was trying to explain the reasons for backpack
0:48.7	hunting and what I call rambling and things like that.
0:52.3	The forums came independently of the essays.
0:56.9	The essays were on the website then but the forums were an independent thing and there
1:04.2	was a lot of the same kinds of topics got discussed in much more detail on the original
1:10.4	forum.
1:13.6	It's a college course in backpack hunting and rambling and just thriving in the back country.
1:21.0	There's a large amount of info on there and what's happened more or less and this is
1:25.8	my fault too as we've gotten larger at Kaffaroo we've used other outlets to get the word out
1:33.0	as far as our gear and releasing of products, things of that nature and I haven't gotten
1:37.6	on the forums and the traffic on the forums as far as people posting is pretty small.
1:45.8	There's not a lot of traffic there from day to day activity of conversing back and forth
1:52.7	but all of that knowledge is still on there and I didn't do a very good job.
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