Folks, some of our most popular episodes of all time have been the Q&A

sessions where we just take a bunch of listeners questions and answer them here

on the podcast and that's what we're doing for this episode and we have quite a few of them.

Most are submitted through Patreon.com slash backcountry, our little membership site, where you can get access

to all our bonus content and I prioritize

all those messages right it's just a time thing quite a few of them are via email

which traditionally is Joseph at backcountry podcast.com.

We even have a few from Instagram. And interestingly enough, our recent episode on emergency gear and survival gear that you should always

have in your base camp generated a lot of great feedback and some really

compelling responses from people who know their stuff and had

some recommended additions to the items that I had listed.

So we're going to kind of start with those ones. I've got my computer here. I'm going to be referring to it to read from and talk about these various messages.

First though, just in case you're wondering,

for those of you viewing the video here,

which will be on YouTube soon.

In fact, I should pause right here. Folks we're going to YouTube. We're

pretty embryonic at this stage. William, my son, our very own backcountry

apprentice is the one that's going to be editing

videos and publishing them there.

So we're keeping things pretty simple, but I have a very serious request for you folks.

If you'd be so kind, go to YouTube, look up the backcountry hunting podcast and subscribe

and listen to a few episodes there just to help the show become visible, validate it, right? It is

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