Welcome to episode 26 of the first 40 miles.

If you're new to backpacking, or if you're hopelessly in love with someone who wants you to love backpacking,

then this podcast is for you. We'll talk about the essentials, how to lighten your load,

and how to make the most of your time on the trail. I'm your host Heather Legler.

And I'm Josh Legler. this is the first 40 miles.

Today on the first 40 miles we discover how a simple glitch

submarine a recent Kickstarter campaign that we shared with you.

Then, school graduation is coming up and we have the perfect gear guide for your

backpacking grad. On the Summit Gear Review, we have a simple solution to warmth, comfort, and light.

The backpack hack of the week may save you some extra cash to put toward a new gear purchase and the backpackers

Q&A will make sense of the piles of gear stuffsacks and mayo packets.

All this and that's about it. Today on the first 40 miles.

About a month ago on episode 20 we told first 40 Mylers about an amazing new piece of technology. It's kind of an

all in one gadget called the FOGO. It may end up in the packs of lots of backpackers someday.

It's this combo flashlight, navigation, GPS, communication, device.

So we reviewed that in episode 20 and talked about their Kickstarter campaign.

If you want to learn more about it, go back and listen to that episode and you can hear about all the

amazing features that are just packed in.

So the FOGO campaign ended. We were dumbfounded at the end when they didn't reach

their goal and I talked to one of the brilliant minds behind the FOGO and found out why.

He said there was a PR glitch and that the people who were the most interested, the people

that they talked to at all the shows that they went to and as they

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