Songs from the Saddle with Jackson Holte
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
Zack Williams
4.8 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast, Hal Herring sits down at his home in Augusta, Montana, with singer-songwriter and wilderness mule packer Jackson Holte.
Jackson talks about how long days in the wilderness shape his music, how silence and hard work inform art, and why public lands and access matter so deeply to who we are and how we live. From packing strings in the Bob Marshall to writing songs that carry that landscape forward, this is a conversation about craft, heritage, and the freedom worth sustaining.
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| 0:00.0 | said what i found was this really cool community of people who make a living doing this right um that there's that's the flip side of the coin is you have to come back and catch up with your friends and take care of your neighbors and yeah and be involved in that community yeah really and it's fun it's real ramping alcoholism or no right there's a there's a communion to it community. Yeah. And it's fun. It's real. Ramping alcoholism or no. Right. For sure. There's a communion to it that's really, really, really awesome. This forest looks healthy or these mules don't have sore backs or, you know. That's a very Western thing, too. We fix the roof on this cabin. You know, like we're doing the work that we have to do to sustain |
| 0:38.5 | like we're experiencing this freedom but we're also making sure that it goes on you see i have |
| 0:43.9 | no idea you know whether whether saying prayers before hunting or um making offerings to the to the woods |
| 0:50.9 | makes any difference in my luck as a hunter or in my efficacy as a hunter. |
| 0:57.1 | I just know that I feel like I'm a better person when I live that way. |
| 1:02.0 | Hey, everybody. |
| 1:03.3 | It's Hal Herring, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Podcast and Blast. |
| 1:06.9 | Thanks for being here. |
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