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The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

MM 60 | Listener Q&A

The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

by Exo Mtn Gear

Sports, Sports:wilderness, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.42.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Answering listener Q&A on sleep system gear, training for older hunters, updates on the death hike, and more. Have a question you want to hear addressed on a future show? Let us know: [email protected]

Transcript

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0:00.0

Steve, happy Monday. How's it going man?

0:02.8

Fantastic man just had a fun weekend up in McCall with my family went up there

0:07.5

Got the got a few little hikes with the snowshoes on kind of prepping for the death hike. I was playing with

0:13.8

some different shoes

0:15.8

Seeing what worked best actual little boots before the snowshoes

0:19.2

Yeah

0:20.2

And then I was also doing a bit on a quest to find like a super light

0:25.5

Down jacket for hunting like basically balancing as warm as possible and as light as possible

0:31.1

And there's some cool. I ordered like a few of them and did some tests this weekend and

0:36.8

One thing I was blowing away but with by on all of them was how far

0:43.1

Are really how good the water repellent down is?

0:47.3

I didn't you see that and I didn't I've honestly never really tested it

0:51.2

But I put two jackets literally out for an hour and a really really wet snow

0:58.5

Really really wet snow just laid them on a table picked them up after an hour bottom

1:03.2

Inside there's a guide to the door shook off all the snow and water and they were like completely dry

1:09.6

I was blown away by it

1:11.6

So much of that is the the shell fabric how much of that's the high-pick of the down. It's the shell

1:18.1

The shell is probably doing most of the work there

1:21.1

Just because it wasn't even getting through the shell into the down. Yeah

1:25.3

But yeah, but the down's also treated in those instances. The down was treated and between the two

1:30.3

I was very very impressed. Yeah

1:33.1

Random ran up your geeky stuff. Yeah, I like it. I was

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