In this video I walk through my new elk hunting pack, The Exo Mountain Gear 3500, and talk about the overall layout, features, and design of the pack. To show you how much the gear the 3500 can handle (and why that number is somewhat deceiving), I have the pack loaded with almost everything that I … [Read more…]
In just a few short weeks I’ll be headed West, toward the Colorado backcountry. This “style” of this year’s will hunt will be much like I planned last year – we are going to backpack into the wilderness with a week’s worth of gear, and have no intentions of leaving the backcountry unless we are … [Read more…]
Gear can make or break a hunt. Especially when you’re traveling miles away from the nearest road and spending a week in the wilderness. In today’s post I want to debrief on last year’s elk hunts and analyze my gear list with the distinct advantage of hindsight. What items worked as expected? (Almost everything.) What … [Read more…]
About a year ago, I found out that my buddy, Steve Speck, was starting a company to introduce a new line of hunting backpacks to the market. My first thought was… “He really is crazy.” We already have Badlands, Tenzing, Eberlestock, Blacks Creek, Kifaru, Mystery Ranch, Stone Glacier, KUIU, Sitka, and probably a dozen others. … [Read more…]