Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods, presented by First

Light, creating proven, versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind. First

light, go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast.

This week on the show, I'm joined by Steve Speck and Mark Helsing from Exo Mountain

Gear to discuss their wild experiences and greatest lessons learned for planning your first

Alaskan adventure.

All right, welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast brought to you by First Light and their

Camel for Conservation Initiative.

And today we've got the finale of our adventure series.

We've talked about whitetail adventures, a handful of really

cool ideas on that front. We last week talked about planning an epic Western hunting adventure,

and today we are going north to Alaska for the ultimate, the peak, the pinnacle of all hunting adventures, Alaska. How to plan your

first Alaskan hunting adventure. It's something that so many of us dream of, so many of us

want to do, but maybe have been intimidated by it or unsure of how to approach it or maybe

thought it was cost prohibitive.

Many different obstacles stand in the way, I think, for those of us in the lower 48 when it comes

to going to Alaska.

But I have been super lucky over the last handful of years to get to go up there twice now.

And what I've discovered is that to a large degree,

it's way more possible than I ever realized. And so today we're going to talk to two people who've

got even more experience than I do when it comes to playing these kinds of trips. And that is

Steve Speck and Mark Helsing from Exo Mountain Gear. And they came to mind for me as the right guys talk about this because they just finished

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