Patrick Smith

KIFARUCAST

Kifaru International

Wilderness, Education, Sports, Sports:wilderness

4.9 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Patrick Smith In this episode Aron interviews Patrick Smith, the founder and designer of Moutainsmith and Kifaru. Patrick discusses his design philosophy on how he developeda rugged mountaineering pack system for the hunting world. Patrick also discusses how he developed a pack-able stove for truly sustainable hunting in comfort and warmthwhile in the back country.

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0:00.0	Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Kaffarukast. I'm your host, Aaron Snyder, along with my co-host to my left,
0:06.5	who probably won't say much because we don't have all the mics hooked up correctly. But today we've
0:12.2	got Patrick Smith on. People have been bugging us for a long time to get him on the Gritty Bowman
0:18.3	podcast. We never actually did that. So we're going to get him on Kaffaro cast since he's the one footing the bill for the whole thing,
0:25.3	owner of Kaffaro International.
0:27.6	He also started Mountain Smith and on and on.
0:31.0	I won't go into great detail.
0:32.9	But Patrick, welcome aboard.
0:34.4	Thanks for coming on.
0:35.5	Well, good morning.
0:36.5	Thanks for having me.
0:38.5	So you are semi sort of retired, except when I need help, you come in.
0:46.7	How's that going right now for you?
0:48.7	Are you playing?
0:49.1	Life has slowed down.
0:51.3	I'm kind of liking it.
0:53.0	It was a little bit of loose ends when I first started pulling away from the company.
0:58.5	But I've been working since I was 13.
1:03.4	So I put in about 60 years before I started pulling back.
1:08.0	And I don't regret that.
1:11.5	So you originally from East Texas, but you moved to Colorado pretty quickly, correctly, correct?
1:19.4	Yes, moved to Colorado in 1970.
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