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Hello and welcome to another episode of Pop Bear Hikes.

Today's guest is a freelance writer.

He writes about adventure, travel, any environment.

Today's going to talk about a topic that some of you have heard me discuss 70s gear.

Whenever I have somebody on here that's over the age of 50 or 55, we

joke and chuckle about the gear. Well, this gentleman wrote an article about it

for Backpacker Magazine. Nathan Puypenberg, welcome to Pop Bear Hikes.

Thank you. Good to be here. Good to be forward to this.

Nathan, let's start off by just telling us a little bit about yourself.

Sure. So like you mentioned, I have a freelance writer. I try to focus on

travel, adventure. I read a lot about gear and currently I'm doing

a ultra-lit column for Backpacker Magazine that comes up twice a month.

And I got into writing because before that I was

in the backpacking and other ways of getting outside. So

in 2011, I threw out the Appalachian Trail. When I was 19 years old, I kind of

set off this journey to find just to kind of center my life around

talking and writing about the outside.

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