Podcasts about Jetboil

Where brilliance meets boiling point: inside the JetBoil phenomenon...In this episode, Ben and Lauren's hour-long episode bubbles over in a hot-to-go interview with JetBoil's Mike Hebert, uncovering the brand's revolutionary journey from concept to camp essential! Our gear gurus crank the heat on JetBoil's evolution, exploring everything from early prototypes to engineering challenges, international standards, and the science behind those lightning-fast boil times. Tune in for a comprehensive look at what sets the authentic product apart from imitators, feature variations across the globe, and intriguing hints about where this innovative cooking system might be heading next.Shortcuts:00:00 - Intro 01:28 - Introducing Mike Hebert from JetBoil03:08 - The Beginnings of JetBoil05:23 - From the PCS to the Flash, and the Protoypes in Between07:18 - JetBoil's Footprint08:37 - Timeline: From Initial Concept to Packaged Product11:37 - Mike's Favourite JetBoil Product13:50 - JetBoil's Range Review14:36 - The Flash: Versions From 2019 to Now14:43 - The Flash 1.0L and Zip 0.8L: Model Updates20:18 - Improvements and Enhancements22:40 - The Pot Support24:09 - The Cook Pot27:11 - 'Light before attaching the pot'?28:28 - Sell Us the Zip!30:11 - Reheating Food31:55 - Regulators35:08 - Gas Mixers37:55 - Engineering Challenges40:28 - The Real Deal Vs Dupes45:15 - International Standards55:17 - One Product, Multiple Countries: How Many Feature Variations?57:28 - Google: 'Robot from Flubber'!58:28 - Products in 2026?Join the conversation over on our Facebook group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/snowysHead to snowys.com.au for all your gear needs:https://www.snowys.com.au

Today on the show Justin Housman has the week off so Colin welcomes Shawnté Salabert as to the co-host chair! Together they run through some of the topics that have come out of the outdoor community over the past week.First up, The North Face has yet another collaboration with a fashion brand that has (almost) sold out! There has probably been too much TNF chatter around here the past few weeks, but this collection is super cool. (05:05)Jetboil has a new version of it's iconic stove out so Colin asks accomplished backpacker Shawnté to power rank the top 5 camp stoves ever! (13:25)The Everest pregame is on! News has started to come out of Everest basecamp including this story about how the famed Everest Ice Doctors will use drones to help map this year's route through the Khumbu icefall. (24:00)It's time for The Parting Shot! Colin is over the moon with his new pair of Norda's while Shawnté finds similarities between her recent experience at SXSW and the old days of Outdoor Retailer (33:46)Check out hundreds of wildly cool products by visiting and shopping at Garage Grown Gear!Thanks for listening! The Rock Fight is a production of Rock Fight, LLC. Sign up for NEWS FROM THE FRONT, Rock Fight's weekly newsletter by heading to www.rockfight.co and clicking Join The Mailing List.Please follow and subscribe to The Rock Fight and give us a 5 star rating and a written review wherever you get your podcasts.Want to pick a fight with The Rock Fight? Send your feedback, questions, and comments to myrockfight@gmail.com.

Click here to send Tim & Ade your Mediocre 5 Star Review and get a shoutoutThis week's LIVE episode features Tim's first camping trip since August 2024.Ade and Tim are out in the field with all their toys, lighting fires, cooking a variety of meals and sinking one or two sherbets. Tim is back in his happy place and the joy is real.The good people from Jetboil join them for a little show and tell with their latest piece of equipment, the Genesis Basecamp System. DISCLAIMER: Casual Camping Podcast accepts no liability and does not officially recommend any products or endorse any techniques discussed in an individual podcast episode or shown on Casual Camping Podcast social media accounts. Individuals should make their own informed decision and risk assessment of any products or advice prior to any purchase or useSupport the showCheck Out Our Etsy Store: Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CasualCampingPodcast Check Out Our Socials:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1333082837320305/?_rdrInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/casualcampingpodcast/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO9F70wD5P16dbKV20rTtwegIcBDtKY8QThreads: https://www.threads.net/@casualcampingpodcast?invite=0

4 réchauds à gaz pour le Bivouac en fin de journée de Rando & Trekking : le rapide Jetboil ; l'ultra light BRS 3000T ; le Réchaud MT900 Forclaz et l'antique bleuet de Camping Gaz. Poids, taille, prix, vitesse de cuisson ? On en parle dans ce Podcast spécial réchaud de rando :) - JetBoil : https://bit.ly/3yUiEn6 -10% avec LYODAVID10 - BRS 3000T : https://bit.ly/3x7IfIM -10% avec LYODAVID10 - MT900 Forclaz : https://bit.ly/4aUXimZ

In this episode we discuss the different methods of making coffee while camping that we have tried.

Episode 412 ~ January 11, 2024 Podcast Info / Topics Sean tested his new dehydrator as well as the new Jetboil Flash 2.0 he bought After the New Years paddle without Athena, Sean was wondering about drysuits for dogs, and was disappointed The Columbia River Gorge is a spectacular paddle and researchers are figuring out […]

Episode 412 ~ January 11, 2024 Podcast Info / Topics Sean tested his new dehydrator as well as the new Jetboil Flash 2.0 he bought After the New Years paddle without Athena, Sean was wondering about drysuits for dogs, and was disappointed The Columbia River Gorge is a spectacular paddle and researchers are figuring out […]

In this episode, I sit down with Jesse and Carl to discuss whether the Jetboil is over rated, whether you need bear spray in grizzly country, and other backpacking gear hot takes!

Steve & Mark answer your listener questions about camping styles for elk hunting, if they have found a backpacking stove better than Jetboil, how to backpack and adjust your pack if you have a bad back, and more. Resources mentioned in this episode: - "BASE, SPIKE, OR BIVY?" Podcast: https://exomtngear.com/blogs/podcast/217 - MTN Gear Bipods: https://www.mtngear.us/product/bipod - Spartan ARCA Adapter: https://javelinbipod.com/products/classic-arca-adapter Share your question: https://speakpipe.com/huntbackcountry or podcast@exomtngear.com View & Search the Podcast Archive: https://exomtngear.com/podcast K4 PACK SYSTEMS — exomtngear.com/K4

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0:14 Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. I was just talking about terminal stuff and SSH in another podcast just a little bit ago. And I guess what I was gonna say is, how much about the channel? Do you know? Do you know any terminal tips? I was gonna try one out today, talking about it, it might be kind of tough. I'm sure that's what you're interested in listening to on your Alexa right now. Wait, I mean echo sorry. I was gonna mention the commands if you go to your Mac, or you go to a Unix system, as it were you open up a terminal. A couple of things you can run, it's probably going to run bash, I figure like I'm some expert, but I think that's the Bourne again, shall I think it's kind of one of the more modern, sort of basic default shells that seems to run. If you run Linux, I don't know got up. Yeah. And you probably know a lot more about it than I do already. So you know, you're on your terminal tip for the moment, especially if you're on a Macintosh, I guess it doesn't work on a Windows machine, because that runs DOS, right? It's not a Unix-based system shoot. But if you're on a Mac, and you want to get into your terminal, and you want to move around just a little bit to sort of seeing what it's like, I guess two commands that would get you started would be the ls command in the Bourne shell. So the bash shell. the ls command is like the list command. So when you type in LS, and then return, what you're going to have to happen is it's going to list the contents of the directory that you're currently in, in text and command line. Oh, man, it's pretty exciting. You're gonna be excited when you see it for the first time. If you want to see some other things, I guess what you try, this is a bonus one, this is a big one, too, is CD, this current directory command. So if you want to, I guess move directories from what directory you're at now, your root directory, let's say and you want to move up to your pictures directory that you see when you type in LS, you're going to type in cd space, pictures, and then you're going to hit return and that's going to move you to the directory of pictures. Then when you type in LS, you're going to get a list of the contents of the directory in pictures. Wow, pretty amazing. You moved a directory in Unix and you found out on this flash briefing. 2:30 You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo calm, you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think if you look at Billy Newman under the author's section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping, and cool stuff over there. I think Yeah like I said, I like the October period, you know, it's kind of a cool outdoor month for stuff and that's kind of what I'm going to talk about too is kind of layering up stuff for October I've been trying to kind of build up the layers of clothes and the layers of like shelter stuff that I have for some of the outdoor travel stuff that I go out and do and I do it on a budget and I don't have much stuff and like other people have a lot more experience of like just getting to try all these different pieces and see like the benefits or the kind of weigh out the pluses and minuses of different pieces. And so I'm sure it's probably the case that like the best gear is always the best gear. It's kind of interesting to sort of go through those checklists or you know, like kind of in your mind like seeing like what like how's this work or what's better for me for this thing or not. So I've been pretty happy to always have or for the last couple of years to have like a vortex range outlay and for a lot of outdoor stuff that I do in Oregon, later into the year that's been like a real lifesaver for having just like a hard waterproof shell that I can like the trust that as like a good hood on it that I can keep me dry for most of the day. That along with I guess kind of like working inward like the puffy jacket makes a huge difference. And so I use a puffy jacket all the time. There are a few differences like sizes though and you sort of have to like look at the down fill layer to see what's going to be best for you and like the climate that you're going out to that it's kind of weird it goes back and forth through me a little bit. So like out here in Oregon, where I am like west of the Cascades it's sort of a mild climate a lot of the year and so I'm able to I think you're kind of dealing with like above freezing temperatures. Most hours and on most days through the year I think like you know there's some sections of the year where you get some heavy freezes but outside of those storm times it's like pretty mild weather a lot of the time and if I'm going camping or doing something outdoors in the winter. Well, there are a couple of different types I definitely use it but really for a lot of like the three-season work I do. I use a light puffy jacket either because of North Face Thermal, or thermo ball, I think it's like a like polyester-based one. It's not a downfield, puffy jacket. But I've used that for maybe six years now. And I appreciate having that I think it's great. That's probably one of my most used insulating layers when I'm going out and I mean works great, really all four seasons with the kind of compared in these mild weather circumstances like I am here in Oregon like that paired with that shell, it has been enough for me to go out. And in almost every kind of weather circumstances I've been in when I've gone out and been working or like when I was working outside a lot in the rain and trying to be outside like most days through the fall and winter, it was really fine to do that with a strong or like a good GoreTex shell that keeps you dry all the way and puffy, thermo insulating layer that keeps you warm. So it's pretty cool, but kind of comparing that and I have like this Patagonia jacket that I think has a heavier down fill rating and that has a lot of insulation to it, which is cool, warm jackets are great. And I take that out kind of deeper into the winter. But what I noticed though, is that for a lot of circumstances, like I said three season work. And while you're working or kind of like physically kind of exerting yourself I've noticed like if it's not below freezing that is too warm of a jacket to wear. And so you kind of get to pick a little bit of like where your environmental thresholds are like what kind of environment you spend a lot of time in and is it going to be above freezing temperatures below freezing temperatures, or is it going to be hot weather temperatures like where you're working, you know, your coldest temperatures might be 50, but you're going up towards like the 80s and 90s pretty regularly. And that's kind of a different environment to work into. So I've been kind of trying to keep an eye on that. But as we're kind of dropping into October the outfitting stuff that I'm doing is sort of away from the heat gear stuff that I would have been using where I'm in like lighter synthetic shorts and 6:59 trying to use lighter layers and stuff like in the winter you kind of get to layer up and stuff we just got to kind of fun sweater weather right so what I picked up last year I'm kind of excited to put some more use into it was a wool baselayer so I got a great wool t-shirt and I kind of appreciate trying to cut out some of the cotton material that I'm using when I'm going out and doing some more outdoor stuff and I guess it's because back in the day cotton was a great revolution right you know it was a more breathable fabric and it would dry faster than other fabrics that they had available to them I guess is part of what was cool about it. But as I sort of understand now it's one of the riskier types of fabric that you can wear as a base layer when you're out in the woods for a couple of days or when you're out camping or you know the talking TV shows about when you're in a survival situation. And not only that but yeah when you're out camping or if you were going to go hunting or you're going to go on a couple of day photo trip in the woods and you're just going to be living out of your truck and stuff. It kind of is it ends up being a little difficult to use a lot of cotton pieces especially if you're going to get wet or if it's cold and you don't want to get wet but you do get wet and that's a bummer because the cotton stuff just kind of stays wet and it gets cold when it gets wet. And a couple of those things just sort of lead to it being a little bit frustrating and I guess that's where some of the survival complications have happened with people who are out in okay conditions they get hit with cold rain or wet snow and they're in like an outer let you know their insulating layers but they're like a cotton coating. Or like I guess tough, warm-insulated Carhartt jackets on hunting in that they got into some wet snow on the second morning. The Carhart wet pants got or the pants that were insulated. got wet from the tall grass and brush that they walked through and then the person became hypothermic because of their exposure to the cold that soaked through their pants that got them very cold I think they had to like ditch the band's get into their sleeping bag it was synthetic and then they tried to like to warm them up with a hot water bottle in a sleeping bag or something like that out of the Jetboil but like it ended the trip I think they like they can't continue that sort of stuff so it's kinda interesting I like that kind of thing can go and I know people have probably heard anecdotes like that similarly in the past I'd hear like someone else talking about like a warm weather thing where I think they were going out on like a 42-day canoe trip Can you imagine that like going through some big river system and Labrador up in Canada. Wow, fun times popping out in Hudson Bay or something. Who knows. But they would go up there and they would talk about like all like the specific limitations on the type of fabrics that they would select to use because like if they got wet in the river or I think it was like cold weather or Who knows what kind of weather you're going to get sort of circumstances where you go between hot and cold and Canada kayaking or canoeing down 1100 miles or something like that just big long trips like that and they would kind of be really specific about how like they won't even have cotton boxers or cotton underwear because it'll be the thing that ends up being a problem other people or another person, I think kind of there's a lot of great ways to sort of work through this next problem, but I think someone argued that they did have cotton on them so that they could use it as a fire starter. If they needed a fire starter I suggest just bringing a fire starter or some other material like that, I think it would probably get you by a little better than, your cotton underwear. The best fire starter that I've used and heard about was 10:55 Well, I mean, yeah, like a stove or whatever. But if you're trying to light a fire in the winter, having a plastic bag with Vaseline-dipped cotton swabs was like a pretty inert material. Just like having a backpack that doesn't smell like kerosene or something. And it has multiple uses, you can use it cosmetically for everything's our goodness if your lips chapp I hate it when it gets dry and cold and you go oh man, my pores can't handle it. They were in a different environment. 5000 feet a difference in elevation a day ago, too much change and too much seasonal change. Now you get like, I don't know just rough spots or dry spots or you use a Vaseline you get the cotton swabs for all sorts of different things, but they're fantastic. If you light that up. It's a great little flame ball and you can use that with a stack of your other dry materials to get a fire going. Even in pretty wet conditions especially if you're kind of keeping your Firestarter material protected in some little party backpack, keep it dry and stuff that works out pretty well. And I think it works better than your underwear on a rafting trip. So but yeah, I've heard of that. Yeah, people, people try to not use that people try to like drop their leather belts. Like they won't take a leather belt out into the woods either. I like having like a sturdy belt. Like what you see people like big leather boots or whatever it's not because it gets washed, or waterlogged, but I guess because it's maybe a weight thing. I think that's what the idea was for, for maybe they're like going backpacking use like a piece of nylon webbing as a belt at that time. or other stuff we're like, I don't know just little tricks and things of like how you kind of hide certain materials and other materials and stuff. But it's weird how it goes. So I guess yeah, cotton stuff is sort of a go. They talk about using wool a lot as sort of like a preferred material to make it out of or down here like down stuff is kind of a preferred material. And then I also kind of hear similarly sided, bad things about sort of the petroleum developed products that you get from polyesters or nylons, or I guess like this polyester insulating foams, you get like those thermo ball insulating foam that would be in the pouches of another polyester material that makes up like the puffy jacket that I wear. For the Patagonia one that's a downfield, puffy jacket. You have little goose feathers poking, poking out of it all the time, too. Yeah, I feel like you feel around the right way a little goose feather I'll punch out the side and pull it out a little feather right there a little down feather, which is kind of trippy. But those I guess are like a better insulating system. Then like the synthetic kind of oil-based stuff and I guess the same goes for like sleeping bags too. If you want to get into like a sleeping bag to keep you warm. There's something like the 15-degree bags that are well I don't know and it has a couple of other features too. I guess it's like light and it stretches down well and if you get it wet, you can get it dry again. Well, I guess it depends on like certain qualities down sometimes that kind of gets I think a little tricky. But the wall I guess you can get. You can get wet, you'll stay warm and you can get it dry faster. And I think that's sort of the benefit of the war on the animal that gets wet to you know like if you think of a sheep getting rained on all the time. I guess it's sort of part of the fibers that don't attract a lot of odor because it has to be on an animal all the time. And I guess it does well to not have to like make you cold when it gets wet. I guess that's a big part of it. So a lot of the merino wool fabrics that have come out, or the merino wool blends that are with some little bit of spandex or some other kind of natural fiber product that they try and put in helps to kind of be a little bit more durable when they have those little blends. But mostly you want a pretty strong merino wool fabric. And that's pretty cool if you're getting sort of like a base layer or something like that. It's A little bit more tuned for the outdoors it's like wool sweaters or something that you can find but that's not quite there cool old wool shirts you know like an old old Pendleton shirt or an old Filson shirt that's like a lagers kind of wool button that would go into like a canvas jacket. I kind of think is cool but that's sort of a different look and it used to be the technical gear layering and probably still you'd see if you get like I don't know like a horse guide like a guided trip with a horse or a mule or something like that's the pack in a bunch of stuff they probably still use gear that sort of similar to that without the kind of like the technical synthetic gear that you try and find it like Rei hiking places or something or, or wherever, whatever else similarly branded. But yeah, it's cool trying to do some wool Merino underlayers and trying to work with those puffy jackets when they can 15:56 try to work with well I have a soft shell that gets a lot less useful than it used to be. I used to try new soft shells all the time but I just kind of go with the wool, the wool base layer, The North Face kind of wore you know like a warmer temperature-rated puffy jacket and then have the gore-tex layer over that. picked up a hat this year. That's pretty cool like in that boots. I had a couple of different sets of boots for the October stuff before it gets really heavy in the season and before it gets like real wet or rainy. Now while I'm kind of doing some of this lighter outdoor stuff I have like a pair of heavy leather boots that are super cool for some of that deeper hiking stuff that you get into especially after it's wet and rainy and stuff but really for a lot of the light season stuff and sort of summer spring stuff. I have these Nike s FB boots, it's like military boots I picked them up in brown like a desert tan color. And then I also picked up a similar pair, the underarm remakes and so they're kind of like a lighter, more athletic shoe from the base but they have like kind of tall neck that goes up to like your mid-upper ankle there. And so it's not like a real table or like it's not like galoshes they're not waterproof they're kind of vent on the sides and they dry out they're kind of like a synthetic material that dries out pretty quick when you do get it wet but it also has like a good bit of tread and you can get them wet get them dry and wet. I think they kind of made for 17:29 an okay dry environment that's sort of where I use them most of the time is you know hiking around for any of this kind of lighter duty forest I was nice because they're light boots like with those other heavy leather ones like just the soles of the boots seem like they pound each you know you kind of like feel it the first couple days you getting back into the use of them during the season where you're like man my feet are like four pounds heavier it seems like each just kind of like walking with a weight on it. So it's nice to have one of the newer sorts of higher tech boots that don't have the same kind of ankle support as a thicker leather boot does or they don't have the same kind of heel support. I like to talk about like those you know thick, like like a two-inch heel or something that like one of those white boots has. Or if you get like Red Wings they have like a real deep, thick heel that you can use to kind of stomp in and cut in on some hiking stuff, and for these yeah it's just kind of like a good sort of smooth walking boot and you get some ankle support from that that tall neck but it's sort of fabric so that it seems like it you're just it's a light boot as seems like you're ready to you know run and you can do like an athletic maneuver and these pretty well and it doesn't seem like the boot is going to be too heavy to slow you down not right for every circumstance like if I'm going in a deeper area. It's cool it's nice to have like the kind of protection of a steel-toed leather boot. But like the normal s sfbs I think are not steel toe I think I think these Under Armour ones though are and then there are steel-toe versions that are out there. But that does seem to I've kind of run into a few circumstances where after some of the more woodsy stuff it seems like having the steel toe has helped a lot to keep my feet protected and stuff and if you hike in a lie you got to get to watch out for blisters and stuff too. One of the big things I've noticed to help that is like really breaking in your shoes with three weeks or more but three weeks of like pretty near full-time use to start getting them broken in or to get kind of the feel the break the crease, the kind of the fabric kind of working together in the way that it's going to fit around your body and stuff. But yeah, it seems like it takes about three weeks to sort of get those issues broken into a spot that that ends up being comfortable for longer trips and longer where I had like a pair of chocos and this Draco's, they were great you know that you don't wear socks if you don't like to buffer it with wool socks or something. But I remember I think working with those for like, three weeks or so at first your feet man. They will Rub raw. Yeah, yeah they'll you'll get some hot spots with the webbing on those chalk as it's like this really kind of tough webbing but after like three weeks or so like after you kind of wear your foot into it so that it's kind of strong enough to deal with it. And you also start breaking in the rubber of the boot or the rubber of that foot for the shoe. It's you it's your foot. But once you get that all kind of broken and I was able to hike for miles and miles in those and have no rub problems at all. I think I did. I think I did the whole hiking trip up to the summit of the paintbrush divide and the cascade Can you know, like the Teton's chip I talked about sometimes Yeah, I did that whole hiking trip with the Tetons in early, mid-late September. Probably right around now. But I did that trip in the Tetons with just those black shakos that I had that had like kind of that boot shed bottom and I did great through that whole trip I did like a 42-mile trip down the lower road that was like a hiking backpacking trip so you have a background backpack on the got these little river shoes on and you're hiking away on the trail and yeah, a lot of the times if you're not really in shape for it man, those will just rip your feet up pretty badly and I've seen it affect people's trips before you know like where their shoes just like really start to bite in on them. And it happens fast. As soon as you get like a hot spot or something it can be just a quarter mile or another mile and then like that problem has been exacerbated a lot so as soon as like gets bad boom man gets bad fat or it starts to degrade fast and then once it's gone it's gone on for a while you know it's bad. And it can cause some mobility problems when you're out there. So I think kind of to kind of deal with some of that stuff. We're kind of breaking them in earliest at school, which is what I've been trying to do with some of my shoes. But yeah, trying to get outfitted for this stuff in October. It's been kind of fun, trying to work out the layers 21:58 and stuff. You can check out more information at Billy Newman's photo comm 22:08 you can go to Billy Newman photo.com Ford slash support if you want to help me out and participate in the value-for-value model that we're running this podcast with. If you receive some value out of some of the stuff that I was talking about, you're welcome to help me out and send some value my way through the portal at Billy Newman photo comm forward slash support, you can also find more information there about Patreon and the way that I use it if you're interested or feel more comfortable using Patreon that's patreon.com forward slash Billy Newman photo. 22:45 But the holidays were kind of an interesting time because I ended up sort of thinking a lot about what But well, what photographs are, you know, I'm getting a little bit older now. And I think there's there's sort of like a change in the vision that I have of the way that I kind of think about photographs or you know, what, what is their purpose? Why are we making them and in a big way, like maybe propagated by the Instagram culture or the sharing content creation culture that sort of seems to be out right now, especially for those you know, photographers or artists, I think they feel the pressure to be content producers now, and that maybe is a little bit of a different job than the photographer or the real artists, that kind of person. And so I've been trying to sort of think about that a little bit. And then and sort of taking a look at the trends of Instagram and my art is what I need to pursue. And a lot of the time I sort of noticed this, and even in my images, this like super sharp, super crisp, everything has to be perfect or edited or meaningful and dramatic and these images. And what I'm noticing a little bit especially as I review my older images is the photographs that I'm drawn to. They're the photographs that represent the truth more, they're the photographs that kind of have 24:03 I don't know what it is really but they have a little bit more of an essence of reality. Or maybe it's its reality, but it's also a little bit of grit to it to like this happened it was magical. It was interesting, I liked that surrealism in the photographs that I take and I have for a long time but there's a little bit more and I've always I think a lot of stuff I've done kind of pushed for the Unreal. And some of the stuff that I'm kind of noticing the last couple of years as I looked at like the photographs and how they change this sort of how that shifted from the Unreal of landscapes of the world. You know kind of trying to select things about landscapes You know, when they have unusual colors to them, or unusual dynamics or phenomena like clouds or weather or water or something like that makes it sort of feel like a different look or a different image than like what we'd see midday at noon if we looked at the same thing. So I think that's still part of photography but one thing I was noticing through the holidays and reviewing a bunch of my old photographs was how much the stock value of, a photograph goes up over time, over one year, it's a bit over a few years, it's a bit more, but over a decade, you get, you get to see the change that happens in time, you know, I get to see, like much younger relatives. And these photographs took 15 years ago than they are now and it seems like kind of an obvious point or seems like something everyone should know. But really, there's a huge amount of value in the photographs because they capture something at the time that it was and you get to hold on to that after their people or the moment or the event or the experience changes. Certainly, notice as I'm getting older that life does sort of change, it changes, then it's an obvious kind of the point of fact that everybody's sort of known about for a long time. But in my naive sense, I've been so focused on photography or image creation or on the product making something that's kind of crisp and sharp and perfectly usable today. I don't know if I was thinking so clearly about how the nostalgia factor or how the value of something you know, from a family or just sort of a small moment that's captured this, this more real, how that escalates in value over time. And like coming at these photos, 15 years later, even like seven years later, from some of the stuff that I had, it's really interesting to see, like, wow, like I took a ton of photos of this type of topic. But I didn't, I didn't take as many photographs that sort of represented my artistic experience in my life. For that humanity, I want to try and show more of that in the photographs, the humanity that kind of the way you feel about a photograph. And I think that's so much about what a photographer is there to do is sort of being able to kind of pick and select which moments to capture and which ways you're going to be able to share that stuff in the future that's going to become more nostalgic, more meaningful, or just a way of kind of knowing Oh, this was part of my life. Wow, that's cool. So I've been trying to think about some of those ideas around photography for the new year a little bit but along with that I've been going through the last like 15 years of photos and in my big super catalog that that collection of Lightroom photos I made that's kind of trying to pull in every phone photo, every phone video every different camera I've had since 2002 I'm trying to get all those photos together, put them in there I think it was like 120,000 images something like that which isn't that many photos for someone that's been doing stuff for a long time. But I went through those and I tried to like punch those down to a lot of the Select so out of the images that I kind of want to keep from and I was trying to pull out a lot of good photos but but photos that were kind of irrelevant to me for this sort of future moving forward catalogue of stuff I want to get rid of like product photos or word photos that are hundreds and 1000s of photos even that kind of fill up space and memory in the catalog I'll keep those definitely but those will be backed up on another hard drive but what's active to me what's in my library currently I want to be like the last I think I've talked about this for like the last two years or so photos and whole in total so I can get back to that library and edit any one of those raw files that have but for stuff that's older than two years like 2015 and before I kind of want to pair those down a little bit so that I'm a little bit more specific and unable to get to those photos that were selects a little bit faster and then especially for older stuff like pre pre 2010 or so I want to around really have those pared down to like the the 100 photos I actually you know I need to have around two to get to for for whatever kind of stuff I need to do. But it was cool that going through the old photos and you just kind of do it in this pretty quick way you know this is a star This is a two-star kind of thing. So you kind of punch through those pretty fast and then and then I have another round to do or I'm going to try and punch it you know from one star to two stars those are going to be what I keep for a while and then from that I'm going to try to render that down to select all the three-star photos all the that's kind of like I would take this photo and sort of put it under review and then and then my system at least is a little bit of the four-star five stars zone that's for this is going to be published or this is going into the portfolio or as content sort of thing. So yeah, I'm gonna try and push on that stuff a bit more and get some photographs sorted for the year but is cool going through all of these old trips that we've done all those different places that we've gone to and of course I've seen well one thing I've noticed is good lord how bad at Photoshop I was. And I want to say that I'm going to put a little blame because I remember this happened at the time but I want to put a little blame on how god awful my laptop monitor was like a 2006 2007 2008 laptop monitor just had no color gamut against what we know now in like modern o l or LED Retina Display monitors like Apple puts out or like any kind of modern LED, more color accurate monitor that we have now but I was looking at it and there's like it's just so muddy. There are few colors that it can represent. So you have to push things a little further out of the gamut, or at least I did at the time, kind of not understanding what I was compensating to. So I look back at some of these photos and go, Oh, I would never make it this yellow and green in a modern world. So it's kind of interesting what you know, whatever was going on, or whatever I was thinking about at the time visually, that sort of drew me to that place. But it's interesting to see like how that changes, how your aesthetic sort of changes, and also a little bit of how your tools and calibration systems changed and sort of seeing like, wow, off was that way back, then. So all stuff that you kind of learn and you get better at and it's interesting, at least to the benefit, you get better over time. And like a decade later, I see changes in the kind of creative or the style that I would lay out just if I started working, you know, out without actually having to try and implement a style, you know, try and lay with Oh, I'm going to make a photograph that's black and white, and of events and personal or something, instead of trying to go out with, you know, a set intention of that which you should or could in any set of photos. But if I just go out and am shooting what I am drawn to the photographs that are capturing get in the way that I kind of perceive what they look like, and how I want to show them to people, that's all kind of changed and evolved. And it seems like my choices in that are better than they once were. But it was interesting to just kind of seeing like, man, how many years and years and years, it takes me taking photographs before any of these photographs really got good or got to the point where they were more than snapshots or more than just kind of data collection sort of thought of myself as an archivist for a long time where we're like the job wasn't really to be a photographer where it was editing to select like a moment and character and sort of like nuance between things that have like an emotional pole to them, I didn't really understand that type of composition stuff, I just sort of understood the camera mechanically functioning is a light capturing tool. And so that was like that was probably the first four years of photography was sort of thinking about it like that, like I'm capturing data of reality. And then that's going to be processed into something else later. And it wasn't really for years until I understood like emotional vision or you know, like having some way to kind of tie the way you feel to the way that you see something and that was interesting kind of learning about how some of those things work and it's still such a long road and I still have you know, no, no real understanding no real experience in that by anybody that's trained just self-taught. Little Billy out here and nowhere Willamette Valley So yeah, that's some of the stuff about making selects. 32:40 Thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy Newman's photo comm a few new things up there some stuff on the homepage and some good links to other outbound sources. some links to books and links to some podcasts. Like these blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy noon in a photo calm. Thanks for listening to this episode and the backend.

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On this episode of the podcast, Tayson answers your questions! Be sure to comment below or email us at liveultralightpodcast@gmail.com to hear your questions answered on the next Q&A! Great Outdoor Gear (Support the Podcast): https://bit.ly/3W0x6Rt *** List of Questions: - What happened to the first 65 episodes? (YouTube) - would you do an episode on food? - So I'm just curious if y'all know anyone that started doing ultras after they turned 50. I have never had the luxury to do a through hike but I have been backpacking for about 10 years now I started going UL in 2017 so I could pull 25-40 mile days while section hiking KY's Sheltowee Trace. I also have found that going UL / being a minimalist simplifies the experience making it more enjoyable to me. I don't UL to be able to boast I do it because I'm old and it allows me to cover more mileage and enjoy the experience more. - Wondering if you all use any kind of footprint under your tents, and if so, what do you use? - Would like to hear your thoughts on the difference between 40° or whatever temperature when the sun is out and shining on you and when it's overcast or dark at 40°? I've definitely noticed there is a difference, even though the temperature stays the same. - Are you looking at manufacturing in US if cost is already so high why not at this point…..??? - Any intentions of making a sleeping bag with the same technology? (as the Nova Jackets) - By the way when will you guys be bringing out the rain pants? - Which hoodie performs the best under this raincoat at around 30 to 40°. Dragon wool, tern, or the altitude hoodie? I couldn't imagine wearing the ventus hoodie under this raincoat it's so warm on its own. - What are your thoughts on using in conjunction with the ventus as a layering piece. Is it sized/fitted appropriately for that or would you recommend going up a size? (Vario) - What kind of soap do you launder this jacket in? (Vario) - Do you have the mvtr % of the two different membranes used? (Tushar Rain Jacket) - I'm curious how this would fit a woman (16/17ish torso) when using with the hip belt. I've tried other men's packs and as soon as I do up the hip belt (Since pack rides higher on back and not just hanging from shoulders) the top of the bag sits so high it's hitting the back of my head with every step almost. There's only 1 picture on website of a woman wearing it and she's not using the hip belt to show how high it sits. Can you add more pics of women wearing it in backpacking mode (wearing it with the hip belt fastened)? Or can you make this in a woman's version (shorter torsos)? (KotaUL) - The real question is: What does angry Dan Becker think? (KotaUL) - Which one would pair best with the ventus hoodie for a thru hike of the AT? (Nova Jackets) - Will you consider making a Dyneema version in the future? (Fortius Tent) - I should probably leave this on iTunes, sorry Joe, lol. My big thing/question is which size pack, 45 or 60 L? My newly wed wife and I will be going backpacking very soon and I thought, “Well, we both have big Agnes q-core deluxes, 2 big Agnes sidewinders, a Jetboil minimal Mimo, and 2 NovaUL, and a dog bed along with a Big Agnes Copper Spur UL 2 person because we have a 25 lb Welsh Pembroke corgi (Penny Lane) in tow. After that it would be a Katadyn, 1 each 1 L smart water bottles. 2 Helinox chair zeros, 2 OV pillows… Some extra undies and socks, and maybe the 2 altitude sun hoodies. Plus food… Some one on another channel said, “between the two of you the 45 should be fine”. Now I have the 45 Kota… and doing a test load out… it was full with… maybe(?) 4-5 inches to spare on the top of the inner area. I did not include the Copper Spur, or even separating the pieces of it, and shoot… strapping the Ruffwear dog sleeping bag to it at the time. Oh God… a bear canister or bag… shoot. Sooooo… if the roll top of the 60 goes far enough down to make it a smaller liter carry, and max weight for both the 45 and 60 is 35 lbs max (though I would think(?) the 60 could handle 5(?) lbs more) than maybe my best bet would be for her and I to each get the 60 liter. Plus future trips… longer hikes… more available storage, just in case. This video and other videos you all have published lately made me think hard about this [...] - Those trekking poles look awesome! Design question: what was the deciding factor to go with foam for handgrips instead of cork? - Thoughts about the Garmin Fenix 6 series of watches? I have heard good things, but they are very expensive. Do any of you upload topo maps to your watch for navigation? - Snowshoes? (talking about retail updates for OV) - Hey great podcast. As you hit on the Garmin inreach mini I was wondering if you were going to do a podcast on the new version the inreach mini2? As well gatorz or Oakley always a solid go to for whatever your needs are. #outdoorvitals #liveultralight #backpackinggear #backpacking #ultralightbackpacking

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And what I liked about this photograph is this is right before the sun rose, where we were camped I think there was so much in the shade as you can kind of tell by the ground there. But what was neat is as you look up the to the eastern wall there that that peak of the steam is rising 1000s of feet higher than where we are in the Alvord. And so the sun shines on that earlier, which was cool to see the dawn light hit the kind of intricate shape of the mountain to the scenes for a few minutes before it rose right where we were around our camp, I just thought was a cool moment. And it's a really beautiful spot to be this was photographed on film with a wide-angle lens and like a Nikon. And it was a great time and I love being up there in Alvord's cool spot I'll probably always talk well a bit, but amazing to see how the landscape has changed just in the way it used to be wet or used to be a lake. And that's just so dry out there. It's amazing how things could change. That's a really interesting way to see it. 1:52 You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think if you look at Billy Newman under the author's section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism, camping, and cool stuff over there. If like I say I like the October period, you know it's kind of a cool outdoor month for stuff and that's kind of what I'm going to talk about too is kind of layering up stuff for October I've been trying to kind of build up the layers of clothes and layers of like shelter stuff that I have for some of the outdoor travel stuff that I go out and do and I do it on a budget and I don't have much stuff and like other people have a lot more experience of like just getting to try all these different pieces and see like the benefits or the kind of way out the pluses and minuses are different pieces. And so I'm sure it's probably the case that like the best gear is always the best gear. It's kind of interesting to sort of go through those checklists or you know, like kind of in your mind like seeing like what like how's this work or what's better for me for this thing or not. So I've been pretty happy to always have or for the last couple years to have like a vortex range outlay and for a lot of outdoor stuff that I do in Oregon, later into the year that's been like a real lifesaver for having just like a hard waterproof shell that I can like the trust that has like a good hold on it that can keep me dry for most of the day. That along with I guess kinda working inward like the puffy jacket makes a huge difference. And so I use a puffy jacket all the time. There are a few different sizes though and you sort of have to like look at the down-fill layer to see what's going to be best for you and like the climate that you're going out to. That is kind of weird, it goes back and forth through me a little bit. So like out here in Oregon, where I am like west of the Cascades it's sort of a mild climate a lot of the year and so I'm able to I think you're kind of dealing with like above freezing temperatures. Most hours and on most days for the year I think like you know there's some sections of the year where you get some heavy freezes but outside of those storm times it's like pretty mild weather a lot of the time and if I'm going camping or doing something outdoors in the winter I well there are a couple of different types I definitely use it but really for a lot of like the three season work I do I use a light puffy jacket either because North Face thermal thermoball I think it's like a polyester based one. It's not a downfield, puffy jacket but I've used that for maybe six years now and I appreciate you having that. I think it's been great. That's probably one of my most used insulating layers when I'm going out and I mean works great, really all four seasons with the kind of compared and these mild weather circumstances like I am here in Oregon like that paired with that Shell has been enough for me to go out and in almost every kind of weather circumstances I've been in when I've gone out and been working or like when I was working outside a lot in the rain and trying to be si Like most days through the fall and winter, it was really fine to do that with a strong or like a good Gortex shell that keeps you dry all the way and puffy, thermo insulating layer that keeps you warm. So it was pretty cool but kind of comparing that and I have like this Patagonia jacket that I think has a heavier down fill rating and that has a lot of insulation to it, which is cool, warm jackets are great. And I take that out kind of deeper into the winter. But what I noticed though, is that for a lot of circumstances, like I say three season work and while you're working or kind of like physically kind of exerting yourself I've noticed like if it's not below freezing that is too warm of a jacket to wear. And so you kind of get to pick a little bit of like where your, your environmental thresholds are like what kind of environment you spend a lot of time and is it going to be above freezing temperatures or below freezing temperatures? Or is it gonna be hot weather temperatures, like where you're working, you know, your coldest temperatures might be 50, but you're going up toward like the 80s and 90s pretty regularly? And that's kind of a different environment to work into. So I've been kind of trying to keep an eye on that but as we're kind of dropping into October the outfitting stuff that I'm doing is sort of away from the heat gear stuff that I would have been using where I'm in like lighter synthetic shorts and trying to use like lighter layers and stuff like in the winter you kind of get to layer up and stuff we're just got some kind of fun sweater weather right 6:31 what I picked up last year and I'm kind of excited to put some more use into it was a wool baselayer so I got a great wool t-shirt and I kind of appreciate trying to cut out some of the cotton material that I'm using when I'm going out and doing some more outdoor stuff and I guess it's because back in the day cotton was a great revolution right you know, it was a more breathable fabric and it would dry faster than other fabrics that they had available to them I guess is part of what was cool about it. But as I sort of understand now it's one of the riskier types of fabric that you can wear as a base layer when you're out in the woods for a couple of days or when you're out camping or you know the talking TV shows about when you're in a survival situation. Not that but yeah, when you're out camping or if you were gonna go hunting or you're gonna go on a couple of day photo trip in the woods, you're just going to be living out of your truck and stuff, it kind of it ends up being a little difficult to use a lot of cotton pieces especially if you're going to get wet or if it's cold and you don't want to get wet but you do get wet and that's a bummer because the cotton stuff just kind of stays wet and it gets cold when it gets wet. And a couple of those things just sort of lead to it being a little bit frustrating and I guess that's where some of the survival complications of happy with people who are out in okay conditions they get hit with cold rain or wet snow and they're in like an outer let you know their insulating layers but they're like a cotton coating. Or like I guess tough warm-insulated Carhartt jackets on hunting in that they got into some wet snow on the second morning. The car hard wet pants got or the pants that were insulated got wet from the tall grass and brush that they walk through and then the person became hypothermic because of their exposure to the cold that soaked through their pants that got them very cold and I think they had to like ditch the band's get into their sleeping bag it was synthetic and then they try to like to warm them up with a hot water bottle in a sleeping bag or something like that out of the Jetboil but like it ended the trip I think they like they can't continue out of that sort of stuff so it's kind of interesting I like that kind of thing can go and people have probably heard anecdotes like that similarly in the past I'd hear like someone else talking about like a warm weather thing where I think they're going out on like a 42-day canoe trip Can you imagine that like going through some big river system and Labrador up in Canada? Wow, fun times popping out in Hudson Bay or something who knows? But they would go up there and they would talk about like all like the specific limitations on the type of fabrics that they would select to use because like if they got wet in the river, or I think it was like cold weather or who knows what kind of weather you're gonna get sort of circumstance where you go between hot and cold and Canada kayaking or canoeing down 1100 miles or something like that just big long trips like that. And they would kind of be really specific about how like they won't even have cotton boxers or cotton underwear because it'll be the thing that ends up being a problem for other people or another person. I think kind of there are a lot of great ways to sort of work through this next problem, but I think someone argued that they did have cotton on them so that they could use it as a fire starter. If they needed a fire starter. I said Just to just bring a Firestarter or some other material like that I think it would probably get you by a little better than your cotton underwear. The best Firestarter that I've used and heard about was 10:18 well, I mean yeah like a stove or whatever but if you're trying to light a fire in the winter having a plastic bag with Vaseline-dipped cotton swabs was like a pretty inert material. Just like having a backpack that doesn't smell like kerosene or something. And it has multiple uses you can use it cosmetically for everything's our best, if your lips chap, I hate when it gets dry and cold and you go oh man, my pores can't handle it. They were in a different environment. 5000 feet a difference in elevation a day ago, too much change and too much seasonal change. Now you get like, I don't know just rough spots or dry spots or something you use the Vaseline you get the cotton swabs for all sorts of different things, but they're fantastic. If you light that up. It's a great little flame ball and you can use that with a stack of your other dry materials to get a fire going. Even in pretty wet conditions especially if you're kind of keeping your Firestarter material protected. And some little party backpacks give it a try and stuff that works out pretty well. And I think it works better than your underwear on a rafting trip. So but yeah, I've heard of that. Yeah, people, people try to not use that people try to like drop their leather belts. Like they won't take a leather belt out into the woods either. Like I wouldn't like a sturdy belt. Like what you see people like big leather boots or whatever it's not because it gets washed, and waterlogged. But I guess because it's maybe a weight thing. I think that's what the idea was for. Maybe they're like going backpacking and using a piece of nylon webbing as a belt at that time. or other stuff we're like, I don't know just little tricks and things of like how you kind of hide certain materials and other materials and stuff. But it's weird how it goes. So I guess yeah, cotton stuff is sort of a go. They talk about using wool a lot as sort of like a preferred material to make it out of or down here like down stuff is kind of a preferred material. And then I also kind of hear similarly, sided, bad things about sort of the petroleum develop products that you get from polyesters or nylons, or I guess like the polyester insulating foams, you get like those thermo ball insulating foam bits that would be in the pouches of another polyester material that makes up like the puffy jacket that I wear. For the Patagonia one that's a downfield, puffy jacket. You have little goose feathers poking, poking out of it all the time, too. Yeah, I feel like you feel around the right way a little goose feather I'll punch out the side and pull it out a little feather right there a little down feather, which is kind of trippy. But those I guess are like a better insulating system. Then like the synthetic kind of oil-based stuff. I guess the same goes for like sleeping bags too. If you want to get into like a sleeping bag to keep you warm. There's something like the 15-degree bags that are well, I don't know, I think it has a couple of other features too. I guess it's like light and it stretches down well. And if you get it wet, you can get a drag and well I guess it depends on like certain qualities down sometimes that kind of get I think is a little tricky. But the wall I guess you can get, you can have to get wet, you'll stay warm, and you can get it dry faster. And I think that's sort of the benefit of the wall on the animal that gets wet too. You know, like if you think about sheep getting rained on all the time, I guess it's sort of part of the fibers that it doesn't attract a lot of odor because it has to be on an animal all the time. And I guess it does well to not have to, like make you cold when it gets wet. I guess that's a big part of it. So a lot of the merino wool fabrics that have come out, or the merino wool blends that are with some little bit of spandex or some other kind of natural fiber product that they try and put in helps to kind of be a little bit more durable when they have those little blends. But mostly you want a pretty strong merino wool fabric. And that's pretty cool if you're getting sort of like a base layer, or something like that it's a little bit more tuned for the outdoors like wool sweaters or something that you can find but that's not quite their cool old white shirts, you know, like an old old Pendleton shirt or an old Filson shirt that's like a loggers kind of wool button that would go under like a canvas jacket. I kind of think is cool but that's sort of a different look. And it used to be the technical gear layering and probably still you'd see if you get like, I don't know like a horse guide like a guided trip with a horse or a mule or something like that. That's the pack and a bunch of stuff. They probably still use gear that's sort of similar to that. Without the kind of like the technical synthetic gear that you try and find it like Rei hiking places or something or wherever whatever else similarly branded but yeah it's cool trying to do some wool Merino underlayers trying to work with those puffy jackets when they can 15:19 try to work with lavish a soft shell that gets a lot less useful than it used to be. I used to try new soft shells all the time but I just kind of go with the wool, the wool base layer, The North Face kind of wore you know like a warmer temperature-rated puffy jacket and then have the GoreTex layer over that picked up a hat this year. That's pretty cool that boots had a couple of different sets of boots for the October stuff before it gets really heavy in the season before it gets like real wet or rainy. Now while I'm kind of doing some of this lighter outdoor stuff I have like a pair of heavy leather boots that are super cool for some of that deeper hiking stuff that you get into especially after it's wet and rainy and stuff but really for a lot of the light season stuff and sort of summer spring stuff. I have these Nike s FB boots it's like that military dude I picked them up in brown like a desert tan color. And then I also picked up a similar pair that under armor makes and so they're kind of like a lighter, more athletic shoe from the base but they have like kind of tall neck that goes up to like your mid-upper ankle there. And so it's not like a real table or like it's not like galoshes they're not waterproof they're kind of vent on the sides and they dry out they're kind of like a synthetic material that dries out pretty quick when you do get it wet but it also has like a good bit of tread and you can get wet get them dry and wet. I think they're kind of made for an okay dry environment that's sort of where I use most of the time you know hiking around for any of this kind of lighter duty for us that was nice because they're light boots like with those other heavy leather ones like just the soles of the boots seem like they pound each you know you kind of like feel it the first couple of days you getting back into the use of them during the season where you're like man my feet are like four pounds heavier it seems like each just kind of like walking with a weight on it. So it's nice to have one of the newer sorts of higher tech boots that don't have the same kind of ankle support as a thicker leather boot does or they don't have the same kind of heel support. I like to talk about like those you know thick like a two-inch heel or something that like one of those whites boots has or if you get like Red Wings they have like a real deep thick heel on it that you can use to kind of stomp in and cut in on some hiking stuff and these Yeah, it's just kind of like a good sort of smooth walking boot and you get some ankle support from that that tall neck but it's sort of fabric so that it seems like it you're just it's a light boot and seems like you're ready to run and you can do like an athletic maneuver in these pretty well and it doesn't seem like the boots gonna be too heavy to slow you down not right for every circumstance like if I'm going in a deeper area it's cool it's nice to have like the kind of protection of a steel toed leather boot but like the normal s sfbs I think are not a steel toe I think I think these Under Armour ones though are there are steel toe versions that are out there. But that does seem to I've kind of run into a few circumstances where for some of the more woodsy stuff it seems like having the steel toe has helped a lot to keep my feet protected and stuff and if you hate gonna lie you gotta watch out for blisters and stuff too. One of the big things I've noticed to help that is like really breaking in your shoes with three weeks or more but three weeks of like pretty near full-time use to start getting them broken in or to get kind of the feel the break the crease the kind of the fabric kind of working together in the way that it's going to fit around your body and stuff but yeah, it seems like it takes about three weeks to sort of get those issues broken into a spot that that ends up being uncomfortable for longer trips and longer where I had like a pair of chocobos then this jacket was they were great you know that you don't wear socks you don't like buffer it with wool socks or something but I remember I think working with those for like three weeks or so at first your feet, man, they will rub raw 19:25 Yeah. Yeah, they'll you'll get some hot spots with the webbing on those chocolates. It's like this really kind of tough webbing but after like three weeks or so like after you kind of wear your foot into it so that it's kind of strong enough to deal with it. And you also start breaking in the rubber of the boot or the rubber of that foot for the shoe. You're your foot. But once you get that all kind of broken and I was able to hike for miles and miles and have no rub problems at all. I think I did. I think I did the whole hiking trip up to the summit. The paintbrush divide and the cascade Can you know like the Teton's chip I talked about some times But yeah, I did that whole hiking trip of the Tetons in early, mid-late September, probably right around now. But I did that trip in the Tetons, with just those, those black shakos that I had had like kind of that boot tread bottom and I did great through that whole chip I did like a 42-mile trip down the lower road that was like a hiking backpacking trip so you have a background backpack on you got these little river shoes on and you're hiking away on the trail and yeah, a lot of the times if you're not really in shape for it man, those will just rip your feet up pretty badly and I've seen it affect people's trips before you know like where their shoes just like really start to bite in on them. And it happens fast. As soon as you get like a hotspot or something it can be just a quarter mile or another mile and then like that, that problem has been exacerbated a lot. So as soon as like gets bad boom man gets bad fat or it starts to degrade fast and then once it's gone it's gone on for a while, you know so it's bad and it can cause some mobility problems when you're out there. So I think kind of to kind of deal with some of that stuff. We're kind of breaking them in earliest School, which is what I've been trying to do with some of my shoes but yeah, trying to get outfitted for this stuff in October it's been kind of fun trying to work out the layers and stuff. You can check out more information that Billy Newman's photo comm you can go to Billy Newman photo.com Ford slash support. If you want to help me out and participate in the value-for-value model that we're running this podcast with. If you receive some value out of some of the stuff that I was talking about, you're welcome to help me out and send some value my way through the portal at Billy Newman photo comm forward slash support, you can also find more information there about Patreon and the way that I use it if you're interested or feel more comfortable using Patreon that's patreon.com forward slash Billy Newman photo. 22:00 also interested in as I've spoken about before on this podcast I have an affinity for taking photographs on film. And I want to get back into that in a way because right now I don't have a film camera with me, I still have the Nikon en ad floating around. Though I'm short a lens or you know that's what I'm saying is like I've kind of made it an investment now into this whole range of focal lengths that have been quite nice pieces of glass over on the Canon side now. And so I'd like an opportunity to be able to take those photographs on film with that range of glass that I now have available to me. So what I'm looking at trying to do is, is trying to pick up one of these older now but one of these older but one of the last runs of film cameras that canon had put out and so I was looking around and trying to do some research for that. When I talked to you guys before about it. In the podcast, I was mentioning that I picked up a Nikon F for a camera that was the fully manual camera or you know like no I don't it wasn't for me anyway, I think it was autofocus and I had a whole color matrix It was one of the first cameras have that color matrix auto system in it where you could kind of like set it up. But nav has a lot of those same features what I'm trying to do to get to the point is I'm looking at the EOS line of film cameras that canon produced in the 1990s and the 2000s. And there's a lot of opportunities there where you can pick up a very nice camera body that you know shoot film, and that would kind of accompany the five D Mark three and all the Canon lenses that I have now. So I was looking at the EOS one n which I think is the camera that can come out in 1994 it looks quite a bit like a five-D body shape but it's not like that. It was it's not the oversize body but it looks you know just kinda like that camera SLR body style. And as a bunch of the features on the back, I think has that roller wheel that canon users have gotten accustomed to it probably was one of the first cameras to introduce that big roller wheel to control your F stop, and then the other roller on the front to control your aperture. So it was kind of it's interesting how it's laid out. But it feels like it looks almost the same way. So I'm looking around at those that came out in 1994. And then in the year 2000. They had come out with the EOS one DC one n before. What was it? I think I wrote it down over here. I can't remember what it was. There was the one and maybe the one h sunray. What would it have been? Let's look here is the one v that's I think the one I'm looking for. Yeah, the one V is that the film camera that canon produced in the year 2000, and probably up through like 2006 or 2007 or 2008 there's probably even new versions of that body that are still around if you notice those hardcore film users out there, so I'm looking around at some of those on the US market, I think they're like three, four, maybe 500 bucks if it's kind of on the higher end of expense but but I'm looking at some of those and it seems like it'd be kind of an interesting purchase to pick one of those up, then it could be shooting you know, film images like I have had an interest in doing with a professional body that kind of matched a lot of the same layout and workflow that that the five D Mark three that I'm using has, so I'm pretty interested in that and then I can use all this L class that I've been making a purchase of two so I have the super wide angle, or I don't know is it super wide, I think it's just a wide angle zoom for that 17 to 40 millimeter f4 I've got the 24 to 72 a i would have the 70 to 200 USM f4 and then I would have a couple prime lenses on top of that so it's like a pretty full collection of glass that I could use to make a whole bunch of different types of art or you know, like different different photographs different pieces that I'd be interested in trying to produce. And you know, like a lot of the film stuff I was I was building like all the stuff that was on that film book that I put together that was almost all done with a Nikon 50 millimeter f1 A and maybe like a couple of manual focus lenses that I should not have been using actually kind of knowing better now. The optics of those we're always kind of thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy Newman photo.com few new things up there some stuff on the homepage, some good links to other outbound sources, some links to books, and links to some podcasts like this blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy new minnesota.com. Thanks a lot for listening to this episode and the back end

In this final episode of the 2022 Fall Series of Bush & Banter, Jennifer and Dyana discuss the topic of Capability. Jennifer reminisces about finishing the Pacific Crest Trail, and Dyana relives completing the Pacific Northwest Trail. Both women talk about how thru-hiking helped redefine their perception of Capability and how it fueled their mission to inspire others to chase their dreams. Special thank you to our sponsors, including:Jetboil https://www.jetboil.com/ Waymark Gear Company https://waymarkgearco.com/ Sawyer Products https://www.sawyer.com/

Jennifer and Dyana have a casual and relaxing conversation about grizzly bears, mountain lions, and sloths. Jennifer recalls her most horrifying moment while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, and Dyana recounts a close call while diving off the coast of Australia. Both women share how they each manage fear as well as shed light on the benefits of learning to dance with your fears. Series powered by Jetboil (jetboil.com), Waymark Gear Co. (waymarkgearco.com) and Sawyer Products (sawyer.com). 

To the caravanners stuck off-track without a plug for their tyre puncture, the light sleepers who've woken to their backbone cold and flat against the floor through a deflated mat, and the adventurers scanning shelves, sites, and profiles for potential gear upgrades – we see you.To the foodies looking to extend their campsite cuisine, the gadget geeks busting for another JetBoil in their cookware collection, and the ever-evolving outdoors people looking to match the standards of our Snowys fam – we hear you.In Part One of our fourth Q&A episode, we carry a handful of your campsite questions from the metaverse to our podcast room, where they're answered by your trusted Snowys gear experts.For links to everything mentioned in this episode, check out our show notes:https://www.snowys.com.au/blog/podcast-questions-answers-4-part1/Join the conversation over on our Facebook group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/snowysHead to snowys.com.au for all your gear needs:https://www.snowys.com.au

Video Version: https://youtu.be/1pD6sNqPNpEIf you are new to backpacking you probably wonder which cook kit is the best for backpacking? If you are being budget conscious the choice can become even more confusing. The Jetboil is an awesome all-in-one cook kit setup, but is it truly the best one out there for you? Are there other better alternatives? Come find out in this week's episode.#backpackinggear #budgetgear #cookkit Hello, there. My name is Craig, aka thenaturalmedic.  My mission with this podcast is to help you be safe while enjoying the outdoors.  I appreciate you being here. Feel free to review us on your favorite podcast directory. Drop an email to connect. Thanks!Catch up on my social media and my podcast here: https://campsite.to/thenaturalmedicadventuresA review of the Stanley Cookset: https://youtu.be/GYjbcP-CkjsA review of the Coleman Peak 1 Stove: https://youtu.be/Mwm1nRbd3QsConsider supporting me on Patreon to create more great content like this! Here is the link: https://www.patreon.com/thenaturalmedicadventuresAffiliate Links (we may earn a small commission if you follow these links and make a purchase at no additional cost to you; it helps support the channel!)Video/Podcast Edited using Descript follow this link to find out more: https://www.descript.com/?lmref=Sqa-bwVideo optimized using tools from Tube Buddy follow this link to find out more: https://www.tubebuddy.com/thenaturalmedicProducts Mentioned in this EpisodeColeman Classic Backpacking Stove—1 Burner Backpacking Stovehttps://amzn.to/3xCAQyqJetboil Flash Camping and Backpacking Stove Cooking Systemhttps://amzn.to/3MK3t10TOAKS Titanium Long Handle Spoon with Polished Bowlhttps://amzn.to/3xl9QlVBRS Outdoor BRS-3000T Ultra-Light Titanium Alloy Miniature Portable Picnic Camping Gas Cooking Stove Portable Ultralight Burner Only 25 Gramhttps://amzn.to/37T72DjStanley Adventure Camp Cook Set - 24oz Kettle with 2 Cups - Stainless Steelhttps://amzn.to/3qBwILoGSI Outdoors - Spice Missile: Lightweight, Modular Spice Carrier for Camping and Outdoorshttps://amzn.to/3aIcZ7uColeman Butane / Propane Mix Fuel (Mix Fuel 7.75 oz.) - 7.75 oz.https://amzn.to/3aXYY61Sea to Summit X-Series Collapsible Silicone Camping Drinkwarehttps://amzn.to/3mCk3oUBIC EZ Reach Candle Lighter, The Ultimate Lighter with Extended Wand for Grills and Firepits (1.45-inch), Camouflage Lighters, 3 Count Pack (Assortment of Designs May Varyhttps://amzn.to/3tsAnwyThese links should give you some great ideas.  Again thanks for listening!  Copyright Fourgreen LLC 2019-2022.Support the show

In this episode we discuss the items we pack in our backpacks for camping in the backcountry.

On this episode we debate the long argued Jetboil versus the Pocket Rocket saga. Is one really better than the other? Is burn time speed more important than Canister efficiency? Is there a better stove to use when outdoor conditions change? You Betcha! Why is it a good idea to have both in your gear […]

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And all of these places have been, this was a really special one I was here I think this is one of the furthest theories in the background that I've been in the allow mountains. And maybe for a lot of people that are more experienced with it, it wouldn't seem like that far. But that's one thing I really love about backpacking and about traveling outdoors and taking photographs is getting to a spot that's really interesting. And then staying kind of local to that spot for a couple days, or three days, four days, something around 70 to 200 hours or so. And I've heard that from other photographers in the past as well the ones that have bigger careers than I do where they really want to stay there for about three days. And after that that familiarity familiarity that they get from their experience is what really allows them to communicate the story of what's going on in that area, through their photographs in the most interesting way. So that I've heard about portfolio building in the past but I love that about this of getting the stay there and see the sunrise and sunset sunrise again, in the same location and kind of work it out and feel what the different moods of that environment look like during different times of the day. But I love how crisp and clean kind of the the mist the fog that's coming up on top of the lake is it's mirrored is really cool. It's such a dramatic landscape always been one of my favorites. 1:51 You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think you can look at Billy Newman under the authors section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping, and cool stuff over there. So last time I was on the podcast, I was talking about knives I was talking about pocket knives I was talking about steel is talking about different types of steel that you can use in your pocket knife, or that pocket knife makers use in the pocket knives that they sell you, I suppose is what I meant. And I kind of wanted to continue on with some of that stuff today. And then I don't know maybe the other everyday carry kind of stuff that comes around that I've been thinking about a little bit too, but I was thinking about the couple knives that I have. So it's kind of going deep into like, well there's this dabish steel, there's this type of steel and this doesn't rust and this is hard and whatever that is, but I was gonna kind of jump in and just kind of go to the knives that I have. So I mentioned the Gerber Gator, I was gonna mention three knives. I think that'd be good. These are kind of the three that I'm into right now. But I was going to mention the Gerber Gator that's that like three and a half inch blade, you can get that real inexpensive, it's probably like 40 bucks tops at most places I picked mine up a biomart a couple years ago, it's held up great the coating on it sort of a rubberized coating that's held up great with the ozone stuff and they probably were out over a number of years, that's really fine with me and it's a sharp knife, it's D two steel, it works really well for most of the stuff that I do, but in a lot of ways it's kind of my cutting around knife. So I have in my my side pocket. When I'm doing some outdoor stuff, I can kind of carve on a tree, I can chop on some stuff, I can put a you know, like put an X in the tree when I'm marking my campsite or something like that's fun, I can kind of chop up whatever if I need to I can open a box, I can do all those kinds of things. And I feel pretty good about its length and its use as durability in the outdoors. So that when I kind of carry on me when I'm doing a little bit more outdoorsy stuff, I'm actually kind of going out for a bit, but that's sort of the end the pocket knife. And really when that extends it's about eight inches, and it's got like a pretty solid bit of grip to it. So it really feels like there's something in your hand and it really feels like there's a big thing in your pocket too. So that's kind of why I only carry it around when I'm actually kind of stepping out into into doing some real camping stuff. But the thing that I have with me every day now is this little like two and a half inch or two and a quarter inch Spyderco knife. I really liked this one. There's some smaller ones. There's some bigger ones. They're all kind of like a basic design. They've got sort of a, I guess it got a broad shaped blade. This one's kind of that it's a Scandi blade, I think it's a flat grind. And then sporadic coaster to know for these big finger holes or you know like on the blade. There's like this big circular hole that you kind of put your thumb into and use that to kind of whip out the blade as your your unfolding. This has got that locking back design as soon as that Gerber Gator too. I like that locking back folding design and then in addition to that I've got a really inexpensive phone Tang knife that he used for some of that baton and kind of whacking around stuff and data keep over in an ammo can that I have in my truck here when I'm out camping and stuff and maybe I'll throw that onto a backpack clip on the side so that I have it there but that's like a full thing. I think it's a four inch blade with about a four inch handle for as usually as a little more than that but so it ends up being about nine inches or so. And it's kind of based off the the the SA five p knife I think is what it would be you can look that one up cool knives I really liked those that's actually when I want to get the future this is sort of like a Chinese knockoff version of that. So I kind of break out the prices and a little bit but but uh yeah, if you look up those nicer like the rat three I think it's kind of pretty similar in style to that. But this one's made by SEMA. Sema is a Chinese company I don't know they even really exist as anything more than that but I found them online I found them on Amazon, they have a few different cheap knife options as it's printed on the blade they use a higher end steel at least in comparison at its price point. So I think this way that I have is a seven car blade which is okay. But it was like $20 for this full tang knife and that's really a lot with a micarta handle 6:24 and a she like a kydex sheath. So it's a great knife to kind of keep on the side over here. I've been using it like when I was saying I go out on the shun trail picking days you know have like have a camera bag on my side. I've emptied the camera out of it and then I've got like a just like a little shopping bag like a little plastic sack in there. And then as I'm walking around in the forest and stuff, I've got that full thing nice I'll pop that out as I find a Shawn trail I'll cut the base of it and then throw it in my bag pop the knife back in and then kind of carry on so I'm using it for like a lot of like kind of basic harvesting stuff like that it's just kind of been easy, easy side access and stuff for me while I've been kind of hunting around, he was forging stuff but really a lot of the time it stays in the car and it works really well and for that kind of knife and kind of for as often as I've been using it for some stuff it's sort of like a cool camp knife to kind of like whittle on stuff you know that are you know, kind of like dig and whittle and stuff whack on stuff. That's sort of the bushcrafting knife like last time I was talking about bushcraft and you know like petani through I want to insure it to interesting stick or something like that. Trying to make a What is it like a tent or a type hanger or like an A frame for a type or a frame for like boiling water and getting stuff ready for your fire or whatever is it mostly I just kind of use it to like backup smaller kindling sticks for firewood or feather sticks feather sticks are cool. I don't really think that this bushcraft knife is really been sharpened for it I kind of like the Spyderco knife a little bit more for some of the smaller, smaller feathering stuff but but when you really have like a sharp blade, it makes it so much easier sharpening something I want to get into too. But for these feather sticks, it's cool you get like a piece of kindling right like just kind of a long like foot long piece of dry wood that's sort of an inch or half inch thick around maybe a little thicker than that. 8:11 And then what you do is it takes a lot of skill to kind of get used to but you do this, this kind of long and thin car like if you were like grading if you're gonna like great just like a little fillet off of that one inch round stick and then you got all the way down to the end of the stick like the last like inch or centimeter and then you pulled up on your cut and then left that little last bit there. And when you get if you get it thin enough is that wood will kind of naturally curl up like a little piece of ribbon or something but it'll kind of curl up and it's going to be this dry, thin wisp of wood that's sort of curled up at the end of your branch there and that holds them and then you repeat that cut another nice thin thin little paper thin carve of wood off down to the bottom down in the last centimeter leave it there and then you sort of work your way around the whole stick there and then you kind of work around again a layer up and as you do that, if you put enough time into it, it really does take a good bit of processing but if you do that you can make out in the woods you can make these feather sticks, which are kind of cool. A lot of the time you have the tools on you to build a fire or to build a heat source without going into this much labor to try and produce some sort of tool to facilitate this for you but it is cool to know about if you're working in some conditions that are a little bit more difficult to get a fire gun but you get these these feather sticks set up you probably have to get a handful of them and then once you get your kindling set up, you can lay that you can get your your kindling or you can get just your your starter going. If you're able to like use like one of those fire rods is Ferro rods, you're able to strike that with your knife, throw the sparks down onto whatever you have is your fire starter if you can get that to the Kindle up into a flame. Then you put these feathers sticks right over it. Then you're able to because you kind of cut those those filets down into it, the the air is able to get in between the cuts of the wood that are so thin there. And as it's dry wood, it'll catch fire quickly the SAP and little burn. And then it'll really take off almost like it's a piece of paper, but it has that sustaining quality of being a real piece of wood. So you get a flame, and you get some embers to start burning off of it. And that's a good way to get a flame to build up quickly, then you're able to also have the kind of thicker pieces of wood attached to it there. So you're able to get kind of a stronger build of the kindling a little earlier on, it's kind of a cool way to do it. But I think really, in a lot of ways, man, it's a lot of preparatory work to get those, those pieces ready, if you're trying to build a fire in sort of a mobile situation, you know, if you're kind of setting up a base camp or setting up some, some sort of, you know, location where you're going to be, you're going to be and that's what your stuff is, and for whatever reason, you didn't bring any technical gear with you, that might be something that you run into to try and do. Or if you're trying to set up a fire in conditions that are wet, or like a little bit damp, or in some way, you know, more challenging to get a fire going. I think these are these are kind of good ways to do that, if you're stuck, but really the trick is to not get stuck. I think like that's kind of the big thing of a lot of the wilderness stuff that I've learned is that was sort of man, it was a couple channels of it, there's a whole bunch of stuff that you'd kind of think to worry about. As you know, like I need to start a fire and then there's sort of a whole complicated series of things you can do to naturally start a fire. If you want to go down that route, good skills to have good things to learn about. There's also sort of another route where you know about the modern world, you know about some of the tools you can get ahold of, and you can kind of cut down the time and the way and the expense or the expense on yourself that it takes the resources that you have to give up to get a fire going to get a thing going when you're out in the woods and if you kind of traveling light and trying to travel fast and not really staying in the same locations a lot. It's almost a greater expense of your energy and time to try and build a camp with wood and a knife every time you get somewhere than it is to just have a cup of pieces that you can bring in and then utilize quickly and then in a clean way you can kind of pull out you don't really risk injury or risk any loss of time. And you get kind of a lot of the benefit out of it a one I guess are kind of particularly dropping into that would be like a jet boil, or specifically for fire starting stuff. I guess it's kind of staying there. Jeb Bush is sort of one of the fancier ends of that. Really the most simple way is get cotton swabs and scoop up a bunch of petroleum jelly, you know like Vaseline, that kind of stuff. You can test this before you go out too but because some things are like a little different, but the petroleum jelly i think is supposed to light up pretty well so if you have a cotton ball, and a little petroleum jelly one, it's a cosmetic so you can use that as like a lip balm if you go out which is that I've been wracked with before when I go out and kind of quickly changing drier or higher elevation or colder climates than the one my skin and pores we're kind of used to before man I get burns and stuff in the cold. It's weird how that can be or chaps you know, like chapped lips but lips that sort of stuff. But the Vaseline can help a lot for that but if you have like a little Ziploc bag and some Vaseline, cotton swabs and then just like a regular pocket lady, you can light those up as your Firestarter release without having to hunt down dry moss and bark on the south side of a tree out in the woods somewhere while you're cold and trying to get a fire going. So you kind of pop one of these out. You hit that with your lighter or you hit that with your ferro rod if you don't have a ladder but really I say bring the lighter you have the yeah the Flint with you if you need it, you got the butane you can have a ferro rod as a backup if you like it, but for a lot of the kind of lighter just a few day kind of things. It's tricky man if you get a lighter that goes bad but I haven't really heard of like hunters are kind of longer term 14 plus day outdoorsman. going out with things that are way different than even just like a regular big lighter. The Ferro rods are cool though they seem to help a lot but I think there's some some cool stuff that you can do or there's the reliability of a lighter that I've had for a long time is kind of always helped me out or been fine for a lot of stuff that I've done for the shorter periods of time that I've been out but yeah, you can hit that fire starter and then put that under some kindling so you can get a fire gun pretty easy. In a lot of ways, I haven't really jumped into doing a lot of cold weather camping this year or cold weather kind of remote camping the man having a fire is great, but also sometimes not having a fire is sort of the way to go to like I've been talking about I've been using a like this portable propane heater with me a lot of the time and that's a lot lighter and a lot cleaner for some of the more simple stuff that you want like a little fire a little heat source from like if I'm going fishing down at the Bank of a lake and this has kind of come up just like a week or so ago when I went out to a spot but but yeah efficient down on the side of a lake he wants some heat there something and it's kind of nice to give you want to catch a fish throw a throw a casting skill down and like you know make it up there on the side of the bank but but if if you're out and yeah, just kind of carrying that real light kind of two pound or three or four pound 15:25 little box down with you hooking the propane up to it and then yeah, boom, you got heater right there, you throw in your cast and you can kind of kind of manage temperatures that go down a lot more so it makes just kind of the simple things a lot more comfortable that sort of for the car camping based stuff, I wouldn't really ever pack that out with me. But But even for when I pack it out, I sort of noticed that if I go with a lighter bit of stuff, it really ends up being okay, a lot of the time so sometimes it's cool, especially at night to have the big fire and stuff but even for like a lot of the cooking stuff that I do or a lot of the midday stuff that I do if I'm taking a break, I really want to just pull out the Jetboil from my backpack, through the fuel canister on it filled out, catch up with water, make a tea and make a coffee or something like that or make a soup or whatever kind of kind of backpacking meal might be in there. That That kind of thing is or even just like as the Jetboil is like a source of heat is pretty cool. And then if you had the the dry wood and kindling sources around, you can use that as a as a fire starter tool too. But which has happened a couple times it's kind of an off label use i don't i don't really recommend this stuff. But even just having a quick little jet boil, punch that on, get some water hot, heat up your hands and stuff and then kind of rely on your jackets and your waterproof gear to keep you warm through at least most of the daylight hours and stuff but that's kind of kind of how I've tried to avoid some of that stuff. Yeah, the nice stuff. It's been pretty cool. I like yeah working with that Gator. The spider co dragonflies kind of a smaller pocket knife every day and then yeah, that bigger Sema knife has been pretty cool been been digging that for some of the bigger kind of bushcraft and stuff that I got to do. 17:10 sharpeners sharpeners are pretty important I think sharpening also don't sharpen very much and so that's kind of one of the things is I'm sort of probably most notably a an irresponsible knife owner at least in the sense of trying to keep them sharp so I'm normally more likely to just buy a new $15 knife you know go from one night to the next night to the next step to the next knife as as I noticed that the blade on it goes dull you know like I buy that's how it was for the longest time especially the kind of early on is you know, I kind of afford a cheaper knife that was cool. I thought at the time I didn't really know much about it, but you know, hey, this is great, it's a it's a step up from my, my Victorinox that I used to carry around so this is cool, you know, easy folding blade knife or whatever it is I'll use this and then by the time it gets dull or it gets kind of shaky in the handle or whatever it is they end up just kind of tossing a knife and I don't even really ever worry about tooling the knife or sharpening the blade and the knife and really a lot of time it's not been a quality of blade to really bother to invest that much into so in some parts, that's my fault from the very beginning. But the thing I'm trying to do now more responsibly is even if it is like a less expensive knife train tool that knife to keep it in good shape, but also kind of select a knife that's going to be a fine knife for a longer period of time. I don't think they all have to be brilliant, you know, state of the art knives you know there's like 30 or 40 year old buck knives that are made out of 316 steel that people have had around as their hunting knives forever. So I think that's really cool and that's really I think I was talking about a bit last time on the podcast I'll bring it up again this time to a knife is really a cutting tool you know it's supposed to be just like a sharp blade and so so it's cool to kind of use that as just that tool and kind of work that that blade down to be a sharp piece for you when you're out in the woods and stuff but for a lot of time. If it's not like a specialized knife that I'm using for like something a little bit more specific that I'm trying to bring it in for and it's just kind of my cutting around knife. It really ends up cutting on all that stuff which could be sticks or wood or it's just sort of like a tool knife that I used to you know like cut fishing line or or wrap up rope or get something ready on the truck or get something rigged up on my backpacker or whatever it is you know so it's kind of like a lot of occupancy and that puts a lot of like wear damage on the blade. And for as little as I'm saying I sharpen it. The blade is really often pretty dull. Like I don't know if it's really like practice to just do an easy slice through a lot of stuff. We were really like take advantage of that cutting edge on it so so yeah sharpening stuff is cool. There's a couple brands that do sharp things out there you can get them in a lot of places. I think the one that I see often is Smith's as a sharpener. They do a lot of kitchen stuff, they do a lot of pocket Mike's knife stuff, you can get them a Walmart you can get them up by Mart, I'm pretty sure the one I prefer Though is the brand work sharp workshop you can find a lot of places to. They're available online also and if you're an Oregonian, I think it's a company based at Ashland Oregon I had no idea until I was looking at the pamphlet and trying to figure out which pieces I should get but workshop they have a number of different sharpening tools and I guess the reason I kind of elevate them above the Smith stuff, at least for for some of the things that I'm kind of interested in their tools are just like similarly priced but like a little bit more robust on the on the work sharp side so specifically is this this electric belt sharpener that I'm looking at that sharpener has way more flexibility way more robustness way higher horsepower, just kind of machining to it the other Smith's kind of knockout version of it is much more limited much thinner component pieces, kind of plastic component pieces. Nowhere near the same kind of quality or longevity would be expected in that as a tool. There's other pieces sort of like oh, that's like you know, that's like a power tool sort of what you're looking at there. Also in addition to that the workshop stuff has I guess it's like a sharpening bench you would call it I think it's like a field sharpener. I'm actually pretty interested in this but I think it's a field sharpening pieces sort of like a little flat piece that you you bring with you in your your backpack or in your truck when you're going out on a trip and you'd have in your camper, you'd have it with you and to sharpen up a knife and it really takes more time than I thought it did you know you kind of look at a quick video or something and you look at a guy kind of do a quick wax on a sharpener and then Nick Yeah, there you go. Cutting the hair off my arm in no time but really for a lot of this stuff after I've kind of been on a knife for a bit. It takes like a half hour to kind of work the two sides of a knife on a whetstone and grind it down with an electric sharpener man it's like you know a past two passes or whatever it is to kind of re re angles that that grind immediately that if you just kind of rub in that blade against the stone it takes a long time to sort of work in the sharpness to it you know and really level up that knife to a higher level but but yeah, this workshop 22:06 sharpening bench is pretty cool it's kind of a little little platform it's got these angle guides on as you can put the knife on that angle and then cut across that flat surface and then kind of put the right angle grind in on your your cutting knife then on the side of it I think it has like ceramic alignment rod you guys seen those in your kitchen or something to you know you rent your kitchen knife or you seen a chef or something before they they get going on a piece of meat or their vegetables or whatever you see little chef video and they kind of run the chef knife across this this sort of solid rod they put down to the table Oh shrink, shrink, shrink shrink, and then they they align the blade by kind of coming in on the right cut and then the left cut of the blade from the I guess from the hilt is that by your the top of your hand there when you grab it but sort of from the hilt end to the point yeah. And then it kind of I guess it pushes the atoms it pushes the blade you know whatever little kind of microscopic warbles you'd have those little meanders that you'd have and what you'd want it to be a real straight fine aligned blade there I guess those kind of those kind of quick slices on that piece of steel they align that and then bring that into a sharper piece there's also like a leather strap I've never gotten into leathers butter strap I should probably that's sort of a part of that I really don't understand yet. I was like working the leather strap I've seen people use their belts that sort of made the most sense to me if you have that around but really like as as the thing I'm going to bring out back with me I haven't really brought that back out but but yeah you're in the knife backside across the leather and that's supposed to I guess do even more to sharpen it but at a point it's like man it must be some sharp knife Have you seen the test like that you know when they put it up to their arm hair or you know like guys do that a lot I've seen chefs do that but they put it up to the hair and then they kind of do just a real light little just hardly whispering across the the hairs that stand up on the wrist and there's a knife blade is easily able to just kind of cut right through that without a real hesitation or kind of bending it over and knocking it down and dragging it out. That's supposed to be a sharp knife that's like your your litmus test for it is almost razor sharp. That's what it seems like you know, sharp enough to shave with it seems so I've seen people like work their axes down to that sharpness, right? You see people with an axe head and grind that down to such a sharp net that they can take, take that axe and cut the hairs off their wrist or I guess shave off their face with a hatchet. You know, that's a little more. That's a little more lumberjack that I'm willing to do. I'm kind of just hanging out trying to take some pictures trying to stay warm, trying to keep the heat going to keep a knife sharp. So kind of cool stuff. But yeah, thanks for talking about knives and sharpening. 24:59 You can check out More information at Billy Newman photo comm you can go to Billy Newman photo.com Ford slash support. If you want to help me out and participate in the value for value model that we're running this podcast with. If you receive some value out of some of the stuff that I was talking about, you're welcome to help me out and send some value my way through the portal at Billy Newman photo comm forward slash support, you can also find more information there about Patreon and the way that I use it if you're interested. Or if you're more comfortable using Patreon that's patreon.com forward slash Billy Newman photo. 25:39 I've been working on a few photos, putting out a couple. And it's been going okay. I don't know I last week, I tried to put out a bunch of stuff, which was, which was good. That's cool. I've been trying to go through like a bunch of the photographs that we had. There were leftover from our September trip. Hey, yeah. And I had a blast going on, like a big, big trip around Eastern Oregon and the backup to Eugene. And we got a bunch of photos from it. But I haven't really been able to cut through most of them. Since we've gotten back. 26:06 You know, it's really been true for me, too. Yeah, I've been busy. I've been editing other work photos, like wedding photos since we got back from that trip. So I know you've been working. It's really in this last couple of weeks that I've finally barely lightly started getting into that editing. 26:25 I'm trying to do it when I'm at work, and yeah, pull up the files and I go through and I'll edit a couple and I'll probably try to edit a couple that'll try and post. And that's been a good way to go through it. Or I'm just kind of chipping at it. A little bit at a time. But it's been pretty, pretty useful so far. But yeah, I think the first one was a follow up today. I put up an older photo as a Facebook ad. I think I'll talk about that in a minute was the other one that I put up. I don't even remember. I think I put a picture. Oh, I put up the picture of the alvord at sunrise that we were talking about and I think we put up the other day on the Facebook page. Hey, that was a cool one. I liked it. Yeah, I like this photo that we have for the billing name and photo podcast cover out in the alvord sunrise the cool day, like hanging out or we did a bunch of stuff on the onboard morning but it was so much colder this time. It was different it was only like a week later in the year than the you know time we'd gone Yeah, yeah, I mean I know that was early September and a mid September is really almost a different season. But man Yeah, it was a bit cold that day we had like a bunch of I think it was the day we left there was a lot of clouds up in the air. Up in the higher elevations you can see like a lot of texture in the clouds. And then you saw that dust storm kind of Yeah. Yeah, the center there it is cool. It's really cool. Yeah, it's strange how, how big it is out there. You know, you look out and there's this big wall, a dust bowl and a grass. But you don't realize that that's just like miles away from you. And it goes on for miles of dust inside of that, but it's just not where you are. And it's so flat. You just see up to that. That change and whether that's up there. It was really weird seeing that. 28:09 It was weird. Yeah, it was interesting driving around it and seeing Yeah, cuz you're because your perception of like, where it is and how, what the size of it actually, is really it's difficult to 28:20 Yeah, I thought it was just a weird thing. You think it's closer than it is? Yeah. It's very strange. Yeah, that's cool, though. It's cool drab enough to it. Then you're just like, wow, this is like a whole big, foggy, thick weather system. You know, it's very strange. It was just really weird and kind of surreal to like, see it? But it was cool. to spot that. 28:41 Yeah, it was interesting being out there a second time. Oh, yeah. 28:45 I dug it. I thought it was cool. We went to the fields store. Oh, yeah. So last time we were out there was 2014. And then and then there's, you know, 2015, and then 2016. And now in 2017. We went back we went out to fields. And you can get like a milkshake and get a burger out there and get gas out there. I think you can get like a little motel stay out there if you want to. And it's kind of near the border by Nevada before you get into the niaa. And it's the nearest thing to get any resources outside of the alvord. And it was cool. When we went down there. I think we looked at the there's this sort of post that they have for the years past and it shows like how many burgers they sold. And then and then like how many milkshakes they sold. And like, I think it was the 2013 it was like 5230 something like that it was kind of close to for the years before that. And 2014 it was about that. The year that we went and then the year after we went It was like 6200 it was like 1000 Gold jump or something. Yeah, and then it was like 6500 the next year so you're like wow, I bumped up like so much there's a 20% increase in traffic through the alvord area just since the time that we saw Are you coming here? Yeah, I really didn't see that jumping in the period before. 30:03 No, no, it was really consistently. Like about that same number. Yeah, yeah, 30:08 it was like the 4000s or something like that. So hamburger sales. That's my metric to the traffic through the outboard area. But it was interesting. 30:18 It was really interesting. Cool. 30:20 I was kind of surprised. Now think about it. I want a milkshake. And I want a cheeseburger master. I think we might have tried this podcast at Bain a few. I think we'll do that. But But really, there really needs much 3d emotion. It was fun, though. Going out there to fields. Yeah, seeing that, but seeing kind of the influence of how much how many people are out there and alvord now Yeah, it seemed like there are way more campers out there. Oh my gosh, just kind of doing different projects and different kinds of things. Lots of photo projects. 30:57 Yeah, that was so interesting to see. 30:59 I was surprised to see that. Yeah. A couple models with little people assisting a little bounce cards and stuff, trying to throw some light onto them and little breezy. pieces of fabric. 31:11 Yeah. Yeah, it was cool. Seeing like a few other people set up out there for photoshoots. 31:16 Yeah, yeah. And a bunch of campers kind of put out, you know, on the on the farther perimeter. It seemed like there's a lot of people that were kind of kept posted up out there. And it didn't seem like there was any particularly big event or something going on. I 31:28 just know, I think that it's just more well 31:31 traveled. Yeah. So our Instagram posts, we gotta say, yes, it's 31:38 been 31:39 fun. Yeah. Yeah, it's fun. It was so cool. Going out there the first time shoot. Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was a blast. But it was kind of fun spotting that stuff and going out there second. That was really cool. We spent a couple days out there in the truck and attempt but yeah, windier cold air much 31:55 when you're Oh my gosh. I yelled up the sand during the day. There was no way to avoid it. That's a 32:03 little ply that stuff. Yeah, it was weird. Yeah. Just comes in up on the sleeping bags and stuff just kind of blown about. Yeah, it's a really weird thing. How it comes together. 32:12 I must be what Burning Man is closer to the first time we were in the airport. It was not as windy. Anywhere dusty, definitely. But our stuff was much easier for me to clean. 32:23 Yeah. Before I remember that. Yeah, it was it was definitely easier. Way difficult. It was frustrating. But 32:30 it was. It was cool. Seeing a different kind of water system kind of moving through there having to be more stormy. 32:37 I did like that. Yeah. Heavier cloud. Yeah. I missed out on having a couple good sunsets. I 32:42 missed that. I was disappointed with a couple of the nights because there wasn't a sunset. It was sort of strange almost disappeared was behind the cloud, which was behind the mountain. Yeah. Yeah. It just went to just gray. Gray right away. Yeah. But there wasn't any color in the sky. It was really strange. 33:00 I was thinking that yeah, it was partly cloudy. I thought it was broken up enough that we get a couple of good sunsets or, you know, some some good textures as it was fading off. But yeah, we really missed most of it. And yeah, just definitely dropped to gray and blue pretty fast and wasn't really quite what I was looking for. But some of the textures on that last day, they were kind of interesting, listening a little bit more stormy. And it was cool on that drive out. I think I had a couple of those posts. This last week on that day that we drove out on highway 78 to go to crane and then up into burns. And I think we pulled over a couple times I took a couple photos. But those are some others that I put up on Instagram. And pretty recently, I've been trying to do a bunch on Instagram, I've been trying to do a bunch of like, reaching out and direct messaging stuff. I've been trying to do like a little bit more networking stuff overall, too, which has been working a bit and I've been trying to work on my story too. Like the Instagram story. I think you've been noticing a little bit like I put up each of the posts that I put up in the day, I try and copy those in Instagram and then and then post them over into the story also. And then I've also been messing around with adding like your location to your story and tag to it. Which is something you can pull out from the filters, if you swipe up on the on the thing when you're making it. And you can add a couple of things. But that like puts it into a location it tags it there. And I think if you do a search for stories, like there's one that was put in, like Eugene, and there's like a bunch of people that that hit it throughout the day, just because it was tagged with a location. So I'm going to try and do that more with some of the location stuff and use that a little bit more interestingly, to try and get people to see some of those posts. 34:35 That's really cool. I didn't know that was a feature I have I need to get into the Instagram story stuff. 34:40 There's a lot you can think of Yeah, yeah, I don't really understand it well enough either. But there's a good bit of traction similar to like how Snapchat, you just kind of like keep watching the video keeps moving. I think it's really visual. So I like a lot of that stuff. And you really get into see what people are doing in sort of a really late way, like what snapshots use for now and really what snapshot was part of what Instagram was, like years ago back in 2010 2011. When I first got on, it was it was really like a lightweight thing where you just take take a picture of anything was sort of you take, take a picture of your food, take a picture of a drink, take a picture, just some silly place that you're at sort of thing, but it wasn't really any kind of highfalutin level of professionalism or edited posts that would go up. There was just, you know, a square only, right, yeah, there's only the really rough filters that you could apply from your cell phone photos. So yeah, I remember I remember those days that Instagram too, and it's weird to kind of see how it's progressed a little bit. But similarly, like the stories are a really lightweight way of just kind of showing anything that you're doing or kind of expressing like the the moments of your life, like Snapchat, everybody's kind of familiar, I guess, with the, the language of Snapchat nowadays. But it's cool. There's a lot of distribution on the Instagram stories. Like there's, there's a good bit of people that it shows do see a lot of the the content that you put up there. So that's kind of fun to be messing around with. And yeah, I'm trying to like, take those little like snapshots. Yeah, like screenshots on my phone of the Instagram app showing like the the photo that I'm featuring on that day, and then I throw that in there. And I put the location and a hashtag or something with it. And that's been a cool way to test some stuff out. And, yeah, I'm trying to mess around with that. But try to keep that for I think they kind of heard from marketing stuff that like you want to try and put in about six a day. Which seems like a lot. Yeah, it's like a lot of stuff. But yeah, like every couple hours, you're trying to get like some one or two second thing up. And that's why I try and like kind of punch it up with a few of the photo posts or screenshots. So that those are like remarketed. And if I do like a podcast or something like that, I try to put up some kind of notifier in there. And then like a couple of posts to the photos and working on my day, the camera I'm using or something like that. We should do something of podcasts. Yeah, it would be cool. But yeah, thanks for sure. Do it like a bunch more podcasts? 36:55 I'm so happy to be doing it. Yeah, I really like being project smart audio stuff is really cool. 37:01 Audio is going to explode in the next year or two. 37:06 Yeah, you really write about it, it's totally going 37:09 to be like, the thing of the future. old radio is gonna be the new future. So I think it was like really, the thing that's gonna be like, taken off. And it's what I've been thinking about for years, or you know, like audio podcasting. So it was cool. 37:22 Yeah, you really been on top of it. Oh, but 37:26 I need to be doing more stuff with it. You know, radio is a weird thing, like radio and like, and like college atheists. That's really weird. Getting into podcasting is sort of a strange thing at the beginning, but just like getting in and doing it, you know, it feels like a strange thing. I don't know if it's felt like that for you a little bit. 37:41 It is really difficult to adjust to. You're a really good speaker to begin with, I'd say and I'm not No. Thank you. 37:51 I appreciate you doing. 37:52 Thanks for doing it with me for a few years now. I should be a little bit better. 37:57 A lot better. And I remember like a couple of my first ones. It's like a muscle that you build. I've heard other people talk about it that way. But speaking in a mic. You got to do it for like 100 hours. And then it's like, you're still bad, but you can kind of do it a little. It's a weird thing. Yeah, I don't. But that's what I want to try. I'm still under 100 hours, right? So do another little short podcast. Yeah, 38:22 I think it's gonna be great. I think it's gonna be cool in the show every night. 38:26 No, it'll be it'll be great practice for us. And in 24 months, if we kind of keep doing podcast stuff, like we want to. Yeah, yeah, that's really gonna develop into something that we're proud of. Yeah. But yeah, I think we started doing this billion one photo when like in 2015. That's when I first started setting up some microphones and like, this laptop is an audio podcast and thing. So it's cool to have it go through a couple different iterations and sort of develop it and get to use the studio more and get to develop it more. I think it's gonna be cool. Put up more stuff and using like this, on our website, on iTunes, and on YouTube, on Facebook. 39:02 Everywhere. Yeah, I 39:04 think it's really cool. Thanks for being my producer. 39:06 Yeah, thanks for training me to be a podcast producer. I'm so excited. Yeah, I want to get into some sound clips with you later. 39:13 Oh, yeah. Let's cut in. That'd be a cool idea. We should go for with that. This week. We should try to find some cool sound stuff and try and settle on some stuff. 39:22 Yeah. Next week this week. Pick some sounds ferocious. 39:25 Ooh. Yeah, we got to get fresh sounds. I want to do more. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. I'm gonna do just a little bit body just a little production. 39:33 Yeah. I'm so excited about it. I really, I needed sleep. I like that part. So yeah. 39:38 I love it. Yeah, I like it. All the other podcasts that we hear with, you know, pre production elements to come in, you know, that makes it's great. I dig it. So it'll be fun for us to kind of do some of the same stuff with it. I think along with all the content that I've been putting up, like on Instagram, like the content that I'm putting up, we've been just now I'm starting to mess around with boosting posts. I was working with Facebook, and the Facebook page system and the advertising system. I think I've been learning a lot from that just in the last two weeks or so. 40:10 Yeah, I think it's so cool and valuable that you've been getting into that. 40:15 Oh, yeah, I think it's definitely super valuable. And it 40:17 seems like it's really effective. It's really effective, like, 40:21 for the day and date for the age that it is right now, for the attention that Facebook has, like for the population that Facebook has, using it constantly. Twitter, Twitter is not the deal. Facebook is facebook is great, every Grandma, every dad, everybody hits Facebook one time a day, or a couple of times a day, really, the data shows a lot of times. And so there's just so many opportunities for an impression of your ad to be seen, or for your content to get promoted to the right audience. And there's so many abilities for you to target people with the data that Facebook has. So you can really get down and find audiences that you couldn't have before. Even just friends of friends, so everything, that's a great audience for me to start with. But just being able to like put your put your stuff in there and get your content promoted to your entire audience. That's a new thing. or not, well, it's a new thing for me, I suppose. But it's an because Facebook once allowed you to promote that much content to your entire social feed, you used to get a lot of engagement. But now because of the algorithm, it kind of tailors unpaid content back a lot, right? In the fee, if it's not being shared attentive, it's not super interesting. And then now to get it to get it higher ranked in the feed, then you know, you pay this $5 amount and you get you know, a value of that for your impressions that you buy. That's cool. It's a good advertising system for boosted posts. And there's there's other stuff that I'm not really sure about that I want to try and talk to more people about to put some of those pieces together of trying to understand some of the ideas around working like an advertising campaign. So there's boosting posts, which is just the content that you would you would post regularly into your feed. I'm trying to do that with like, like portfolio level photographs that we have. Or just other other fun photo content that we can put up like the most successful one so far was one of the first ones I did have a cabin in the woods up in the wallowa Mountains beautiful spot beautiful little kabaneri up next to a really cool kind of Alpine looking mountain. And so I get why it was kind of an attractive photo to be advertised. But it was interesting. Yeah, like how effective it was, it was cool to kind of see how much of an audience it could get to if it was promoted a little bit. And it's interesting too, if you put a good bit of money behind even a single post that really delivers it to a really large audience. And if that audience like appreciates what you're doing, like you do get a drawback of people interacting with the content and people liking your page. And all of that kind of eventually turns into the value of a larger brand or a larger network. And there is like a lot of value in that that I think we can build maybe over the next 24 or 36 months. Yeah, well it's still good it's still gonna be a good deal you know, like Google AdWords now it's not really as good as it was back in like 2002 1000 we should we should do Google AdWords, but like 2017 we should try and do a bunch in these Facebook advertisements, Facebook boosted posts. I'm really excited for it. I think it's a good way that we could build a cool part of our content media photo business. 43:20 Yeah, I love it. I think it's so cool being able to because this is something we talked about being the challenge of being able to actually find an audience Yeah. And it's really cool being able to actually reach more people who would want to see our stuff 43:34 Yeah, there's there's some math to do on it but like paying for distribution is really worth it like absolutely it is cheaper. If you think about it for time, like say it would take 10 years to build an audience that would be an equivalent size that you can make some money on but like you would make a lot more money if you made that audience in two years and then worked that audience for eight years. That makes sense it's like some kind of like compound math of how big something I don't really understand it but maybe there's a salesman talking about it. But it seems like it seems like the benefit of it would be now like working faster now and I'm really excited for I think it's cool I've been trying out like a couple different ads and different promoted pieces and stuff and it's kind of interesting figuring out like what works better where to target stuff. And I got to figure out more stuff about that but it's definitely something just to research. I wish I knew more about it intuitive or you know, just like from the start but there's definitely some stuff that we should try. I wish I could afford it is really the thing I want to try and put you know like $50 $100 behind like each of these more impressive posts are more than the things that seem to like catch on better with people Sure. Yeah, and I want to try to like put like a bunch behind it and then try and like get a better market demographic selected so that new people get to see some of this work or see some of these photographs. And then you know, like come on or you know, join or communicate. And then I also want to do some stuff like when we transition into selling more photo packages to like generating leads with Facebook advertisements, or generating like contacts. There's an option to like, have people like schedule a meeting with you? Oh, right. All sorts of things, of calls to actions that you can you can use in in some of these advertisement systems. So there's a lot of things that you could pay for, that you could probably really generate some business with, which is a cool thing. 45:20 Yeah, I think it's really interesting to be getting into more. Yeah. 45:24 It's interesting to get into it, for sure. And it's fun, like, as a photographer, as people trying to do media stuff, just the, the different opportunities, just kind of some of the things you learn about 45:33 it. So yeah, I think it's really cool. It's really paying Facebook. 45:37 But it's cool. I think, you know, getting average. It's like it's real. 45:43 Yeah, yeah. No, because it is Israel. I love that it works. 45:47 Yeah, we got to buy some marketing stuff. And it's been coming together. I think it's been really cool. 45:51 That's cool. So you're, you've been doing the Facebook ads, and you've also checked out the Instagram ads. But 45:58 I've been trying more Instagram ads. And it's interesting with the Instagram ads, like I ran promotions, it's interesting how it's set up, because Facebook owns Instagram. So somebody that's connected, I've been trying to do a bunch from the phone. The phone's been great, and just trying to like develop more, more systems for that and how it worked. But you can do promotions just from Instagram, which works pretty well, if you'd like to do that. I think we started at $3. And it's probably like a $5. CPM, I think it's a cost per 1000, which is pretty similar to how it is on Facebook. But what I've been doing is using like the Facebook pages app, and the Facebook ads app that you can get for your iPhone. Yeah. And I've been trying to like manage the advertisements from those two apps. For both Facebook and Instagram, there's a there's an option where you can like simultaneously run this ad on Instagram, that you have just from just from your Facebook ads program. Yeah. And so when you're creating an ad for your Facebook page, you can click just slide this lever over, it says, simultaneously run this ad on Instagram. And I think you know, it kind of picks the market and sends it out. And it seems like it's a pretty effective way to do it. If Instagrams information about the demographics of the person that correct what I've noticed sometimes is that you put some money into it, and it doesn't really seem quite as effective on Instagram, given the amount of attention that's on Instagram. So there's probably some tricks around advertising on Instagram. I think maybe it's like a little bit more. I don't know, I just don't really have the keys to it, but it seems like just because they were separate social networks. It seems like Instagram maybe doesn't know as much about a person. Like how old they are or like should they see the ad that I'm promoting to them? Yeah, seems like it gets a little a little wishy washy. Sometimes Facebook is really tight. And what that means is that your cost per impression is lower so it's more effective for your money, I think is I think a little bit of what I've been understanding but I'm not really sure I'm just kind of experimented twice so I've tried to figure out some stuff around it but it's been really cool kind of getting close to thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. 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Today we're going to be talking just I guess for a second about some of the outdoor hike stuff that's kind of going on as we're coming in to late May and definitely as we're coming into the Memorial Day weekend but I just finished up a hike in the Mackenzie River area which is really cool beautiful spot you go up highway 126 outside of Eugene OR probably down for any number of ways that you get down on the the I five but beautiful area to get up there you know it's probably one of the world class hiking areas you can get to in a pretty easy way a lot of opportunities that are that are kind of offered there there's a lot of really nice open hikes that are there you know, like pretty wide natural trails that are near the road but are also really separated from from the road and from any kind of like highway action pretty significantly. So it seems like you're really kind of removed from it in a pretty nice way. And then as you know, it's really beautiful right now as the snow melt has kind of dropped out of the mountains you get this really just crystal clear blue water that's in the higher elevation areas as you move up into the mountains in the Mackenzie River area. But it was really awesome to see in that and a fantastic area to go to go hike and to go take some pictures and to get spent part of the day but if you're in the area, or if you have the opportunity, one of the places to get out there would be the Mackenzie River Trail area. 1:50 You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo calm, you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think if you look at Billy Newman under the authors section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping, cool stuff over there. Yeah, like I said, I like the October time period you know it's kind of a cool outdoor month for stuff and that's kind of what I was gonna talk about too is kind of layering up stuff for October I've been trying to kind of build up the layers of clothes and the layers of like shelter stuff that I have for some of the outdoor travel stuff that I go out and do and I do it on a budget and I don't really have much stuff and like other people have a lot more experience of like just getting to try all these different pieces and see like the benefits or the kind of weigh out the pluses and minuses of different pieces. So I'm sure like it's probably the case that like the best gear is always the best gear. It's kind of interesting to sort of go through those checklists or you know like kind of in your mind like seeing like what like how's this work what's better for me for this thing or not so I've been pretty happy always have or for the last couple of years to have like a gortex range outlay and for a lot of outdoor stuff that I do in Oregon, later into the year that's been like a real lifesaver for having just like a hard waterproof shell that I can like really trust that has like a good hood on it that can keep me dry for most of the day. That along with I guess kind of like working inward like the puffy jacket makes a huge difference. And so I use like a puffy jacket all the time. There's a few different like sizes though and you sort of have to like look at the down fill layer to see what's going to be best for you and like the climate that you're going out to that it's kind of weird it goes back and forth through me a little bit. So like out here in Oregon, where I am like west of the Cascades it's sort of a mild climate area a lot of the year and so I'm able to I think you're kind of dealing with like above freezing temperatures. Most hours and on most days for the year I think like you know there's there's some some sections of the year where you get some some heavy freezes but outside of those storm times it's like it's really like pretty mild weather a lot of the time and if I'm going camping or doing something outdoors in the winter I well there's a couple different types I definitely use it but really for a lot of like the three season work I do I use a light puffy jacket either this north face, thermo thermo ball, I think it's like a like a polyester based one. It's not a downfield, puffy jacket but I've used that for maybe six years now and I really appreciate having that I think it's great. That's probably one of my most used insulating layers when I'm going out and I mean works great really all four seasons with compared in these mild weather circumstances like I am here in Oregon like that paired with that shell is been enough for me to go out and in almost every kind of weather circumstances I've been in when I've gone out and been working or like when I was working outside a lot in the rain and trying to VSI like most days through the fall and winter. It was really Fine to do that with a strong or like a good gortex shell that keeps you dry all the way and puffy thermo insulating layer that keeps you warm. So it's pretty cool but kind of comparing that and I have like this Patagonia jacket that I think has like a heavier down fill rating and that has a lot of insulation to it, which is cool, warm jackets are great. And I definitely take that out kind of in deeper into the winter. But what I noticed though, is that for a lot of circumstances, like I said, three season work. And while you're working or kind of like physically kind of exerting yourself I've never noticed like if it's not below freezing that is too warm of a jacket to wear. And so you kind of get to pick a little bit of like where your, your environmental thresholds are like what kind of environment you spend a lot of time and this is going to be above freezing temperatures or below freezing temperatures, or is it going to be hot weather temperatures like where you're working, you know, your coldest temperatures might be 50, but you're really going up toward like the 80s and 90s pretty regularly. And that's kind of a different environment to work into. So I've been kind of trying to keep an eye on that but as we're kind of dropping into October the outfitting stuff that I'm doing is sort of away from the heat gear stuff that I would have been using where I'm in like lighter synthetic shorts and trying to use like lighter layers and stuff like in the winter you kind of get to layer up and stuff which is kind of fun sweater weather 6:26 right what I picked up last year and I'm kind of excited to put some more use into it was a wool baselayer so I got a wool t shirt which is great and I kind of appreciate trying to cut out some of the cotton material that I'm using when I'm going out and doing some more outdoor stuff and I guess it's because apparently back in the day cotton was a great revolution right you know it was a more breathable fabric and it would dry faster than other fabrics that they had available to them I guess is part of what was cool about it. But as I sort of understand now it's one of the more riskier types of fabric that you can wear as a base layer when you're out in the woods for a couple days or when you're out camping or you know the talking TV shows about when you're in a survival situation. And not really that but yeah when you're out camping or if you were going to go hunting or you're going to go on a couple day photo trip in the woods you're just going to be living out of your truck and stuff it kind of is it ends up being a little difficult to use a lot of cotton pieces especially if you're going to get wet or if it's cold and you don't want to get wet but you do get wet and that's a bummer because the cotton stuff just kind of stays wet and it gets cold when it gets wet. And a couple of those things just sort of lead to it being a little bit frustrating and I guess that's where some of the the survival complications of happy with people who are out in okay conditions they get hit with a cold rain or a wet snow and they're in a like a an outer let you know their insulating layers but they're like a cotton coating. Or like I guess like I guess tough, warm insulated Carhartt jackets on hunting in that they got into some wet snow on the second morning. The Carhart wet pants got or the pants that were insulated, got wet from the tall grass and brush that they walk through and then the person became hypothermic because of their exposure to the cold that soaked through their pants that got them very cold and I think they had to like ditch the band's get into their sleeping bag it was synthetic and then they try to like warm them up with a hot water bottle in a sleeping bag or something like that out of the Jetboil but really like it ended the trip I think they like they can't continue out as sort of stuff so it's kind of interesting. I like that kind of that kind of thing can go and I know people have probably heard anecdotes like that similarly in the past I'd hear like someone else talking about like a warm weather thing where I think they were going out on like a 42 day canoe trip Can you imagine that like going through some big river system and Labrador up in Canada. Wow, fun times popping out in the Hudson Bay or something, who knows. But they would go out there and they would talk about like all like the specific limitations on the type of fabrics that they would select to use because like if they got wet in the river, or I think it was like a cold weather or who who knows what kind of weather you're going to get sort of circumstance where you'd go between hot and cold and Canada kayaking or canoeing down 1100 miles or something like that, just big long trips like that. And they would kind of be really specific about how like they they won't even have cotton boxers or cotton underwear because it'll it'll be the thing that ends up being a problem other people or another person. I think kind of there's there's a lot of great ways to sort of work through this next problem, but I think someone argued that they did have cotton on them, so that they could use it as a fire starter. If they needed a fire starter, I suggest to just bring Firestarter or some other some other material like that I think it would probably get you by a little better than your cotton underwear. Best very sorry that I've used and heard about was 10:15 well, I mean yeah, like a stove or whatever but if you're if you're trying to light a fire in the winter like having a plastic bag with Vaseline dipped cotton swabs was like a pretty inert material. Just like having a backpack doesn't smell like kerosene or something. And it has multiple uses you can use it cosmetically for everything's our goodness, if your lips chap, I hate it when it gets dry and cold and you go oh man, my pores can't handle it. They were in a different environment. 5000 feet a difference in elevation a day ago, too much change and too much seasonal change. Now you get like, I don't know just rough spots or dry spots are supposed to use a Vaseline you get the cotton swabs for all sorts of different things, but they're fantastic if you light that up. It's a great little flame ball and you can use that with a stack of your other dry materials to get a fire going. Even in pretty wet conditions especially if you're kind of keeping your your Firestarter material protected in some little part of your backpack. Keep it a try and stuff that works out pretty well. And I think it works better than like your underwear on a rafting trip. So but yeah, I've heard of that. Yeah, people people try to not use that people try to like drop their leather belts like they won't take a leather belt out into the woods either. I like I wouldn't like a sturdy belt. I like what you see like people like big leather boots or whatever it's not because it gets washed, waterlogged, but I guess cuz it's maybe a weight thing. I think that's what the idea was for, for maybe they're like going backpacking and use like a piece of nylon webbing as a belt at that time. or other stuff we're like, I don't know, just little tricks and things like how you kind of hide certain materials and other materials and stuff. But it's it's weird how it goes. So I guess yeah, cotton stuff is sort of no go. They talk about using wool a lot as sort of like a preferred material to make it out of or down here like down stuff is kind of a preferred material. And then I also kind of hear similarly, sided, bad things about sort of the petroleum develop products that you get from polyesters or nylons, or I guess like this polyester insulating foams, you get like those thermoball insulating foam bits that would be in the pouches of another polyester material that makes up like the puffy jacket that I wear. For the Patagonia one that's a downfield, puffy jacket. And you have little goose feathers poking poking out of it all the time, too. Yeah, I feel like you feel around the right way a little a little goose feather I'll punch out the side and pull it out a little feather right there a little little down feather, which is kind of trippy. But those I guess are like a better insulating system than like the synthetic kind of oil based stuff. And I guess the same goes for like sleeping bags too. If you want to get into like a sleeping bag to keep you warm. There's something like the like the 15 degree bags that are well I don't know and it has a couple other features too, I guess it's like light and it stretches down well and if you get it wet, you can get a drag and well I guess it depends on like certain qualities down sometimes that kind of get i think is a little tricky. But the wall I guess you can get, you can have get wet, you'll stay warm and you can get it dry faster. And I think that's sort of the benefit of the wall on the animal that gets wet too. You know, like if you think of a sheep getting rained on all the time, I guess it's sort of part of the fibers that it doesn't doesn't attract a lot of odor, because it has to be on an animal all the time. And I guess it does well to not have to like make you cold when it gets wet. I guess that's a big part of it. So a lot of the merino wool fabrics that have come out or the merino wool blends that are with some little bit of spandex or some other kind of natural fiber product that they try and put in helps to kind of be a little bit more durable when they have those little blends, but mostly you want like a pretty strong merino wool fabric. And that's pretty cool if if you're getting sort of like a base layer or something like that. It's a little bit more tuned for the outdoors there's like wool sweaters or something that you can find but that's not quite there cool old white shirts, you know like an old old Pendleton shirt or an old filson shirt that's like a lagers kind of wool button that that would go into like a like a canvas jacket. I kind of think it's cool but that's sort of a different look and it's used to be the the technical gear layering and probably still you'd see if you get like I don't know like a horse guide like a guided trip with a horse or a mule or something like that. That's the pack and a bunch of stuff they probably still use gear that sort of similar to that without the kind of like the technical stuff Got a gear that you try and find it like Rei hiking places or something or, or wherever, whatever else similarly branded. But yeah it's cool that I tried to do some wool Merino underlayers trying to work with those puffy jackets when I can 15:16 try to work with a soft shell that actually gets a lot less use than it used to. I used to try new soft shells all the time but but really I just kind of go with the wool the wool base layer The North Face kind of wore you know, like warmer temperature rated puffy jacket and then I have the gore tex layer over that picked up a hat this year. That's pretty cool. Like in that boots had a couple different sets of boots for the October stuff before it gets real heavy in the in the season before it gets like real wet or rainy. Now while I'm kind of doing some of this lighter outdoor stuff I have like a pair of heavy leather boots that are super cool for some of the deeper hiking stuff that you get into especially after it's real wet and rainy and stuff but really for a lot of the light season stuff and sort of summer spring stuff. I have these Nike s FB boots it's like that military dude I picked it up in brown like a desert tan color. And then I also picked up a similar pair that underarmor makes and so they're kind of like a lighter, more athletic shoe from the base but they have like kind of tall neck that goes up to like your mid mid upper ankle there. And so it's not like a real Tabu or like it's not like galoshes, they're not waterproof, they're kind of vented on the sides and they dry out they're kind of like a synthetic material that dries out pretty quick when you do get it wet but it also has like a good bit of tread and you can get them wet get them dry and wet. I think that kind of made for a okay dry environment that's sort of where I use most of the time is you know hiking around for any of this kind of lighter duty for us that was really nice because they're light boots like with those other heavy leather leather ones like just the soles of the boots seem like they're pound each you know you kind of like feel it the first couple of days you getting back into the use of them during the season where you're like man my feet are like four pounds heavier it seems like each just kind of like walking with a weight on it. So it's nice to have one of the newer sort of higher tech boots they don't have the same kind of ankle support as like a thicker leather boot does or and they don't have the same kind of heel support. I like to talk about like those you know thick like like a two inch heel or something that like one of those whites boots has or if you get like Red Wings they have like a real deep thick heel that you can use to kind of stomp in and cut in on some hiking stuff and these yeah it's just kind of like a good a good sort of smooth walking boot and you get some ankle support from that that tell him neck but it's sort of a fabric so that it really seems like it you just it's a light boot and seems like you're ready to run and you can do like an athletic maneuver in these pretty well and it doesn't seem like the boots gonna be too heavy to slow you down not not right for every circumstance like if I'm really going in a deeper area it's cool really it's nice to have like the kind of protection of a steel toed leather boot but like the the normal s sfbs i think are not a steel toe I think I think these Under Armour ones though are and then there are steel toe versions that are out there. But that does seem to I've kind of run into a few circumstances where after some of the some of the more woodsy stuff it really seems like having the steel toe has helped a lot to keep keep my feet protected and stuff and if you hike ally you gotta gotta watch out for blisters and stuff too. One of the big things I've noticed to help that is like really breaking in your shoes with three weeks or more but three weeks of like pretty near full time use to really start getting them broken in or to get kind of the feel the break the crease, the kind of the fabric kind of working together and the way that it's gonna fit around your body and stuff but yeah, it seems like it takes about three weeks to sort of get those issues broken into a spot that that ends up being comfortable for longer trips and longer where I had like a pair of shakos in this jacket they were great you know that you don't you don't wear socks and you don't like buffer it with wool socks or something but I remember I think working with those for like three weeks or so at first your feet, man, they will rub raw Yeah. Yeah they'll you'll get some hot spots with the webbing on those chalk as it's like this real kind of tough webbing but after like three weeks or so like after you kind of wear your foot into it so that it's kind of strong enough to deal with it. And you also start breaking in the rubber of the boot or the rubber of that that foot or the shoe through your foot. But once you get that all kind of broken and I was able to hike for miles and miles and those and really have no rub problems at all. I think I did. I think I did the whole the whole hiking trip up to the summit of the paintbrush divide in the cast. skiing, you know, like the Tetons chip I talked about some times Yeah, I did that whole hiking trip at the Tetons in early, mid late September. Probably right around now, but I did that trip in the Tetons with just those those black shakos that I had that had like kind of that boot tread bottom and I did great through that whole trip I did like a 42 mile trip down the lower road that was like a hiking backpacking trip so you have a backup back pack on you got these little river shoes on and you're hiking away on the trail and yeah a lot of the times if you're not really in shape for it man those will just rip your feet up pretty badly and I've seen it really affect people's trips before you know like where their shoes just like really start to bite in on him and it happens really fast. As soon as you get like a hotspot or something it can be just a quarter mile or another mile and then like that that problem has been exacerbated a lot so as soon as like gets bad boom man gets bad fat or it starts to degrade fast and then once it's gone it's it's gone on for a while 20:59 you know it's it's bad and it can cause some some mobility problems when you out there so I think kind of to kind of deal with some of that stuff we're kind of breaking them in earliest school which is what I've been trying to do with some of my shoes but yeah trying to get outfitted for this stuff in October it's been kind of fun trying to work out the the layers and stuff 21:25 you can check out more information at Billy Newman photo comm you can go to Billy Newman photo comm Ford slash support if you want to help me out and participate in the value for value model that we're running this podcast with. If you receive some value out of some of the stuff that I was talking about, you're welcome to help me out and send some value my way through the portal at Billy Newman photo comm forward slash support you can also find more information there about Patreon and the way that I use it if you're interested or if you're more comfortable using Patreon that's patreon.com forward slash Billy Newman photo we've made like a big switch over the summer and like I've been talking about on the podcast over until like the Sony lineup which has worked out I think pretty well for us I think it's been cool like using the Sony camera systems for a couple months now. 22:22 Yeah I've really liked it it's been cool having a completely different camera setup. 22:28 Yeah I see we were working with Nikon for the longest time like it was probably about 10 years ago so that about my first Nikon camera and that was like a D 40. Before that I'd used a couple others but but yeah, that was like the first DSLR system that I got to get into digital photography and that was about 10 years ago and so I was with Nikon kind of building a system in Nikon for a really long time nearly that whole 10 year period and it really didn't didn't blossom into a ton of stuff so I thought yeah, I'm gonna sell all this I'm gonna try and go with a different system for a little while and I think the Sony stuff is paid off pretty well there's definitely some stuff that fits what we do in photography really nicely. 23:06 Absolutely I think that yeah, I think that the Sony cameras are really really good for like outdoor landscape and all that adventure photography that people are starting to that we're so into. 23:19 Yeah, I love doing the the outdoor adventure tourism photography stuff and like the low light 23:23 stuff really the low light all of the nighttime photography options. It's really amazing. 23:30 Yeah, there's so many great options or just abilities that you can have with them with high ISO sensors now like on the Sony line, there's just a lot you can do really cool stuff that you can shoot stuff you can never have done before like, like the whole like Chris Picard documentary or film that he put out about photographing like surfers in the auroras. Yeah, at night. Yeah, you just could never have captured that before but it's really one of the first times and it's right on the cusp of at that point in history where we have sensors that are that are capable of capturing that kind of low light stuff in real time. Like capturing that many frames to get video at night like that but also capture those real colors. So it's cool to get stuff that's kind of close to the human eye can do. Yeah, 24:11 it's really cool. It's It's really amazing shooting with it and seeing that really yeah, like you just said it's it's capturing really just what you are able to see 24:20 Yeah, yeah, it's a really fun part about it. And then that's also what's so cool about being like our age and being photographers is we're gonna get to kind of grow into some of this technology has its really starts to mature over the next decade and two decades, it's really going to advance a lot where we get into way more capable sensors. I mean, you know, now we're just getting to this point where we think like, oh, wow, that's starting to look like what an AI can do. Like imagine 10 years now into the future where we get wide dynamic range photos, or you know, like things that have like, like, just way more capabilities way more information than the files we get. Now we get like 3d maps that are like 360 degree, you know, we're gonna have like, we're gonna be shooting holograms someday 25:01 yeah No kidding. 25:03 Really cool if it happens I don't know. But it's fun though yeah working with the Sony stuff and kind of transitioning into something that's a bit more of a modern camera system for like a long time in the last couple years we shoot with a Nikon d3 system and which was great and that was kind of the first the first time that we were working with full frame cameras right which was a big upgrade I mean I said the film work that we did for a long time yeah working with full frame digital was it was a big upgrade and then now working with the with video, which is a silly thing to talk about. Sounds like 2009 but I'm really excited Yeah, having a DSLR or now not a DSLR since it's not single lens reflex. These mirrorless ones are interchangeable lens cameras, 25:45 right? I saw that it was written as that in smiles that I read yes 25:51 and interchangeable camera yeah it's kind of strange but but yeah I'd like to have like shooting with it and kind of changing over to that 26:01 yeah it's really cool because it's kind of our camera set up before it was like you said it was the the d3 the Nikon d3 yeah but that doesn't do video nobody does our full frame camera and then the camera that we had for video stuff was my Nikon D 7000 was yeah full frame 26:19 yeah the crop sensor but it was cool though like working with it and try it was 26:22 great I loved that camera we got a lot of really wonderful video with it. Yeah but it's so cool having a full frame camera that does really nice video really amazing low light video 26:32 yeah it really does a lie you know I know that a seven S is like the the model that that's supposed to be like the hot one for video right? 26:41 Yeah, 26:42 I think it has like a I think it has a different kind of sensor and it's like a way lower megapixel sensor. And I think it's supposed to be able to capture some kind of higher quality file type like I think it's s log sweated here before it's you know how we were shooting like the AVC Hd mp4 is I think there's this other one called s log it's sort of like it's closer to a raw file or it supposed to be closer to like a higher end file that you would get out of a cinema cameras or something like that is I think a little close to what it is but yeah these these cameras do like a great job at shooting video it's been really cool to try and get used to that and man like compared to what you could do years ago it's it's astounding what you can do it's awesome so it's been cool switching over but the thing is is like we have in a seven our I think this was modern technology in 2014 that sounds right maybe it was 13 but I think yeah, it was like 2014 that this one had popped out and it's a fantastic camera I really appreciate it I mean we were living here at that time it doesn't seem like it's that far in the past but there's been a lot of advancement even since then and especially from Sony as an equipment manufacturer for cameras and I think you were doing some research about that and you pulled up some some great notes about like the a seven or three release that was just announced 27:55 right 27:56 that's pretty cool we had like the a nine announced I think earlier this year which is also a really interesting camera option like it's the higher the more fully professional version of a Sony interchangeable lens camera Yeah, I think that's what it's supposed to be but there's a lot of interesting stuff about the a seminar three now but that could be pretty cool I think there's a new battery type yeah higher capacity battery system now. 28:28 Yeah which is great news because those batteries suck it's really that's what I don't like about this cameras 28:34 yeah for as much as screentime time as it uses with you so much battery yeah for the types of files that is writing to disk I mean if you if you ask like your laptop to transfer 40 gigabytes of you know like when we shot one of those weddings and we burn through a battery it's like well we did right 32 gigabytes to a card pretty constant yeah pretty remote video like causley so I guess it must take like some amount of electrons to want to run that to charge it so it's amazing that it can do it but it's it's really awesome and necessary that the a seminar three gets the upgrade of having a more stable battery system and that's really been one of the downsides of the Sony system for a long time the other upgrade that they've been talking about was improved autofocus systems like it was a faster autofocus it really I don't know anything about it though but I've been upset with the the autofocus system so far on on the a seminar I think a lot of people have complained about that it's one of those weird things where I think it has like a gajillion autofocus points but just they're not like fast you know what I mean? It's like it's just it's like it has them but they don't like operate 29:44 yeah they don't respond the way that they're supposed to all the time. 29:47 It doesn't seem like it I mean I suppose it was supposed to be kind of a slower auto focusing camera. I don't really know what changes that the dynamics of what makes like faster, slower but man yeah I was definitely behind some of the competition on Canon or Nikon of like just being in focus. Yeah. And maybe that's an issue that we have with our camera it could it could very well be more more prevalent with this one. But I noticed like with with the a seven two that we had for a while that that seemed like poor focus a little faster. Yeah seemed like work a little bit sharper. 30:23 It seemed like the second model. I bet that a seven or two is probably yeah at least similarly a little bit quicker at it. 30:32 I know that it was supposed to have a new autofocus system in it. It was like a 500 point autofocus system that was supposed to be just kind of a crossover. It was supposed to be a lot better as I guess what? I don't know what it was supposed to be really but now this one's supposed to be better than that one. 30:48 That's what I heard I heard it was supposed to be pretty comparable to the a nine I 30:52 think that's great. I mean, yeah, it's decent or acceptable. And it's really cool that it's coming out soon I think we're probably likely to hear announcement of an a seven or Yeah, an a seven s three and a seven s three instead of an a seven or three Yeah, we're I think we're gonna see like an upgrade to that one also sometime in this next year. And maybe an a seven three as that goes to you know what? upgraded battery system? Yeah. Yeah, maybe an upgraded sensor, or, or upgraded sensor options or something, but, but it seems like maybe they're on track to do something like that in the next year. I think then the kind of space their announcements are a little bit. 31:33 Yeah, they're quick with it, are they they have a lot of announcements this seems like are just like through the last few years, it seems like so many things have been updated. Oh, I totally agree like quicker than quicker than canon comes out with things quicker than Nikon comes out with. It seems like 31:49 it seems like it's going pretty fast though. I do remember like 2000 by 2001 234 and five, man it really exploded during that time. Like the like it was just boom, boom, boom, a camera like every six months, it seemed like you know, to get to get that many iterations out that quickly. It was like because they were just populating the home the whole market channel for the first time with digital cameras, so they just had to had to make the professional one an immediate one, the beginner one, all at the same time for the first time. And then again, like a year later, so it was just like, like every couple of weeks. new cameras coming out. Yeah. Yeah, like, I mean, if you imagine like, how much how much changed, it was between 2002 1007 or so that was a huge growth, you know, and in camera stuff during that time. It was crazy how that was and then now like we're kind of thinking like 2010 to 2017 let's say Sony has definitely come a long way. I think in 2010 they were working on like the early MDX mirrorless systems those cropped up sensors Yeah. And and that was kind of the predecessor to the a 6008 6500 you know, whatever they have right now. That's out but but yeah, it was interesting, they've kind of progressed so much and then and then really built out the the interchangeable or the mirrorless systems because for a long time in the 2000s they had sort of a mid range Sony line that was built by Mumia or not me me me some other some other camera manufacturer Minolta um and also okay Minolta made Sony DSLRs I think in the 2000s the other a series like the one that we gave our friends like that was I think a camera that was sort of constructed by Minolta as a manufacturer but it was sold as a Sony system and sold with Sony branded glass I don't know if Sony was looking for a camera system but I think that these are these are now like more in house Sony systems and they're much much better you know like that's why like Sony DSLR was was never really something you heard back about 10 years ago. And then now like the next point that you'd brought up is that Sony is overtaken Nikon as the second company in the US for for full frame interchangeable lens camera sales. Yeah really interesting. I heard another thing there's a photo of some photo convention over in New York and there was there's like you know two big booths it was it was traditionally canon in a big booth and then Nikon and a big booth this year not Nikon it's Sony yeah yeah Sony's taken over in that spot and he's announcing that he seminar three I think Nikon that just had an announcement You know, they're out that they're at the place with a different booth or somewhere else or something. So it's interesting to kind of see that that change over from so many people sort of moving away from Nikon stuff and moving into some of this interesting Sony equipments and coming up 34:47 and it's really interesting. I really noticed it, I think, to just when we were selling off our Nikon stuff and stuff we saw a lot of a lot of other people seemed to be doing the same thing. 34:58 Oh, yeah. Yeah, definitely. It seemed like that when I was cruise through kth it really seems like Sony cameras camera bodies are really hard to be found. Yeah they're pretty pretty hard to come by so there's definitely yeah yeah it's it's interesting to see kind of how that that shift is happening and 35:16 it's it's really interesting I see a lot of people using the like the a 6000 yeah also like the not quite professional ones I see a lot of people using just Sony cameras. 35:31 I think that was what a lot of selling cameras of the year that it was produced. 35:37 36,000 35:38 Yeah, I think that's one of the 35:39 higher I believe it. That's a really good camera. First cheapest it is. Yeah, that's a great camera. 35:45 Yeah, yeah, it definitely is one of the one of the best cameras that you can get started with, I think, yeah, and with a lot of the things that it does it perhaps simply it really gets it done. I've been working with easy's Yeah, I've been working with an A 6000 for a few months now. Just as a production camera for work. works great. It's just the base kit. It's really simple. It was way cheaper than like the 15 $100.70 mark two system that we were working with. And that was just body only this was like, you know, lens and flash and we were half the price or something. So for a production system like this. Yeah, I just it just fit in just perfectly. It was fine. It was both crop sensor, you know, nothing different about. So yeah, it's been really interesting to kind of see see some of the interesting stuff that Sony is doing. But what Well, I don't know what I thought was cool about some of the Sony transition stuff. I heat is coming on here, at least. Yeah, it's a fun old house with a boiler in the basement. And then as the heaters Come on, it sounds like people are sledge hammering the pipes in the walls. Maybe look up maybe look up the sound filter earlier, the noise gate that we've got. But yeah, with some of the Sony stuff, it's been cool transitioning kind of being part of the the wave of stuff that we're learning about and being able to kind of dip into some of the low light stuff that we can do some of the video stuff that we can do. I've liked it so much. No, it's been it's been really useful. I've learned a lot just by doing that, you know, like before that we were really invested in film equipment. And and that was a really cool workflow. Like for the last couple of years, we've been doing 35 millimeter film processing stuff, or you know, we have a process and to do digital adjustments to and then I can scan it and show it and stuff. And that's been great. I really did the style that we got out of that. And I want to get back into that a little bit with like the nav. Yeah. But for, like professional, like commercial activity and work and stuff. I think it's great, like moving into the Sony stuff, and I really want to invest in some class with you, 37:47 man, me too. 37:47 Yeah, we got to do more class. Yeah, we 37:50 need a few more lenses. 37:55 Thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy Newman photo.com a few new things up there some stuff on the homepage, some good links to other other outbound sources. some links to books and links to some podcasts like this. A blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy numina photo.com. Thanks for listening to this episode and the backend.

This week Nick explores food consumptions and recommendations for snacks as well as meals while on your hike. https://linktr.ee/HeadingNorth Become a Patron: patreon.com/headingnorthpodcast Music by: Asylum music and Media Works Links from info in show: Rip Van: https://www.ripvan.com/ JetBoil: https://www.jetboil.com/ MSR: https://www.msrgear.com/ Kuju Coffe: https://www.kujucoffee.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/headingnorth/message

Jimmy is joined by fellow Able Shepherd Lead Instructors Skip Miller and Parker Mansour with an open discussion of gear highlights and recommendations in the September 2021 timeframe.   Highlights Include Scout Rifle setup, Ballistic Helmets, OpsCore hearing protection, JetBoil water heating solutions, Power River Hats, summertime holster, fire starting options, and the concept of a Possibles Bag.   https://able-nation.org   https://protectorculture.com   https://ableshepherd.com https://www.facebook.com/ableshepherd/ https://www.instagram.com/ableshepherd/?hl=en   https://standinthegapinitiative.com   https://standcourageous.com

Zombieapokalypse, Schneechaos, Stau oder Stromausfall Sascha und Erik überlegen was in einen Rucksack gehört, der uns nach Hause bringen soll. Natürlich schweifen wir ab und natürlich melden sich Dodo und Lou auch zu Wort. Have Fun and: Stay Prepared!

In this episode, Ryan and Andrew chat with Survivorman Les Stroud about his new book "Wild Outside."  Also in this episode: training and recovery tools, a new stove from Jetboil, and a book that digs deep into the housing crisis in towns that function as outdoor portals. Click here for shownotes: https//backpackinglight.com/podcast-035-les-stroud

On this episode of the Somewhat Frank Podcast, Frank Gruber (@FrankGruber) and John Guidos (@JohnGuidos) discuss their thoughts on Bitcoin, Super Bowl weekend, and the Clubhouse App (connect with them on the Clubhouse App - @FrankGruber and @JohnGuidos).  Frank and John also celebrate the following people from their networks: —Jessica Ewing on her $40M raise for Literati https://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2021/01/27/an-exclusive-look-at-book-club-service-literatis-new-chapter-a-40-million-series-b/?sh=534b25416499 —Erica Minnihan and Reign Ventures and the group of funds here that were invested in by Bank of America https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210126005694/en/ —Mike Jones and Peter Pham on raising a $270M SPAC https://dot.la/science-inc-spac-2650147068.html?fbclid=IwAR1v0OvWHlwPTkknwzwGrONfv5nee6UL8aZuWQB19K306-z6d3TvlsKT0lE https://medium.com/scienceinc/introducing-science-strategic-acquisition-corp-alpha-5fc0e80c3a6a —Josh Williams is back Gowalla after 12 years and just raised funding from Spark Capital, GV, and others https://twitter.com/gowalla/status/1354836611347832836  —Sara Lawhead on the launch of the latest Jetboil stash - https://gearjunkie.com/jetboil-stash-backpacking-stove-review  —Jesse Draper on raising a $21M fund Jesse Draper of Halogen Ventures Closes $21 Million Fund to Invest in the Next Generation of Billion Dollar Businesses Run by Women | Business Wire —Arlan Hamilton and Christie Pitts at BackStage Capital hit their fundraising goal of over a $1M on Republic in 9 hours! https://twitter.com/frankgruber/status/1357437559991922692?s=21 —Sarah Cone’s venture capital firm, Social Impact Capital, exists to solve all the world's most difficult problems through the medium of venture capital and recently launched www.joincolumn.com. Frank and John also talk about the following upcoming events:  — SXSW!!! - we’re going to IT THIS YEAR FROM HOME AGAIN - haha --- to be doing some fun events during the week learn more by going to: est.us/sxsw21. The event will be March 16th - 20th (more info coming soon). Watch our fun promo video on our youtube channel: https://soty.link/ESTYouTube — NASA iTech Ignite the Night Tampa event Do you like SPACE and NASA?  We’re working with them on the NASA iTech Ignite the Night Tampa event on March 9th. Ten tech startups will fast-pitch their innovations to an audience and panel of judges - online. This high energy event connects brands and organizations to the movers and shakers of our space industry. RSVP to the NASA iTech Ignite the Night Tampa event at: https://est.us/NASAiTechTampa21. LEARN MORE HERE: https://www.established.us/nit We also want to take a moment to invite all of our listeners to get involved with our program by visiting: established.us/programs. This is the best way to get notified of the various startup opportunities that we come across while working with various partner organizations and in a number of ecosystems across the country.   The guys talk about these new books/articles:  When Two Realities Collide  —https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/business/robinhood-wall-street-gamestop.html#click=https://t.co/drsWCxpKMH Early to bed, early to seize the day —The Best Time To Go To Bed Is 8:45 Clubhouse is now valued at $1B, do you use it? —https://twitter.com/FrankGruber/status/1353821952515964929  NAVY has some wild UFO Patents —U.S. Navy Has Patents on Tech It Says Will ‘Engineer the Fabric of Reality’ https://www.vice.com/en/article/4adpv9/us-navy-has-patents-on-tech-it-says-will-engineer-the-fabric-of-reality Tesla Buys Tons of Bitcoin https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/08/tesla-buys-1-5b-in-bitcoin-may-accept-the-cryptocurrency-as-payment-in-the-future/ The guys are also watching the following shows/movies: —WandaVision on Disney+ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9140560/  As always, thank you for listening and feel free to reach out and let us know what you think at: somewhatfrank@est.us. Get updates like this in your inbox before they hit the web by subscribing to the newsletter here: https://frankgruber.me/newsletter/

In this podcast, we discuss gear for different types of outdoor adventures. We give a general overview of different gear needed for different types of outdoor activities. Gear for things like Hiking, Camping, Backpacking, Overlanding, Fishing, and Rock Climbing. We discuss what we have what we like and do not like from our experience with different brands and levels of equipment. Then Robert shares about the Christmas star coming on December 21st. This will be the first time this has happened since July 1623 so make sure you check it out. Many believe this is similar to what happened on Jesus's birth that created a star for the wise men to follow. So when you watch this happen make sure to take time to reflect on Jesus's coming. Hope you enjoyed this podcast please subscribe to The Godventure Podcast and leave us a review on Apple podcast. See ya on the next Godventure Podcast. Info on the Christmas star: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/09/944560103/jupiter-and-saturn-will-be-together-again-for-the-holidays Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/godventure_podcast/ A few of the Brands we mentioned. (Not sponsored but just for reference): Waterport, JetBoil, check out REI Garage sales, Kelty, and Mammoet --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/godventure/message

In this episode, Katie Lasak and Sara Lawhead talk about the work they're doing over at Jetboil. After making a name for themselves in the hiking community for their fast, compact and efficient stoves, Jetboil has continued to apply the same brand values as they've expanded their product lines and worked to go beyond their name.    Jetboil: www.jetboil.com  @jetboil From the episode:   "Last summer we did a quantitative research study, we met a group of backpackers at the trail. We wanted to understand how they move, how they pack, and what you bring. We were able to really analyze where there is an opportunity for us to make things easier or improve their trip." "One of the challenges we face is just going beyond our name."   -  Episode produced by: Port Side Productions www.portsidepro.com - Social Channels @backcountrymarketing @portsideproductions @coleheilborn    

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Derek and Carl and joined by Youtuber Jesse from Backcountry Forward for an in depth discussion regarding cooking setups. They discuss budget cookware vs. titanium, fuel efficiency issues, just how reasonable it is to bring the Jetboil, and much more. Also, is Spam a common backpacking food? Be sure to check out Jesse's channel for a wealth of backcountry information...including how to make the Ramen Bomb! GET MORE CONTENT! Please support us at Patreon to get bonus episodes, videos, and priority invites to B&B "events!" It's a safe and secure way to support your favorite content providers. JUST RELEASED!: Part 2: How to Find a Sasquatch - The Encounter(s) To react publicly or privately to any of our episodes post/message either our Facebook page. Twitter Account: @BackpackingBli1 or email:  hikercman@netscape.net

This week we cover new articles, forum threads, giveaways and outdoor news. The Hot Minute is Jordan covering her MSR vs Jetboil stove article. Book Review: Bucks I've Taken by Jay Gates -> https://www.rokslide.com/book-review-bucks-i-have-taken/ DIY Archery Target by Jimmy Tippetts -> https://www.rokslide.com/diy-archery-target/ Load Development: Unknown Munitions -> https://www.rokslide.com/load-development-unknown-munitions/ Big Bucks on the winter range all year around, by Robby Denning -> https://www.rokslide.com/big-bucks-on-winter-range-year-round/ Aubrey's first Sheep hunt -> https://www.rokslide.com/aubreys-first-sheep-hunt/ SKRE Giveaway thread -> https://www.rokslide.com/forums/threads/gear-giveaway-sponsored-by-skre-extreme-mountain-gear.162586/ Oregon cancels Blue Mountain deer hunts -> https://www.gohunt.com/read/news/oregon-cancels-blue-mountain-deer-hunts#gs.yo7h9z Yellowstone Bison Cull -> https://www.gohunt.com/read/news/bison-cull-underway-at-yellowstone-national-park#gs.yo7ite ID Commission expands wolf hunting and trapping -> https://www.gohunt.com/read/news/idaho-commission-expands-wolf-hunting-and-trapping#gs.yo7mh7 KUIU Launches conservation direct initiative -> https://www.gohunt.com/read/news/kuiu-launches-their-conservation-direct-initiative#gs.yo7oqy Merino/Synthetic layers -> https://www.rokslide.com/forums/threads/article-merino-synthetic-baselayers-for-the-modern-hunter-by-dave-chenault.31408/ 5 best nuggets from hunting podcasts -> https://www.rokslide.com/forums/threads/5-best-nuggets-from-hunting-podcasts.162514/#post-1544663 rok

Brittany Goris is a rock climber, graphic design artist, and self-proclaimed dirtbag. Her recent obsession has been projecting hard single-pitch trad climbs. We talked about her recent ascent of ‘Stingray’ 5.13d in Joshua Tree, the allure of dirtbagging, training on the road, finding community, tips for onsighting, free WiFi, and learning patience.  Support on Patreon:patreon.com/thenuggetclimbing  Show Notes:  http://thenuggetclimbing.com/episodes/brittany-goris   Nuggets:  2:23 – Deciding to go to Joshua Tree, becoming infatuated with “The Dirtbag Thing”, and Brittany’s four goal-routes    5:17 – Racking up attempts on ‘Stingray’ and comparing it to ‘City Park’   6:57 – ‘City Park’ and ‘Stingray’ compared to Brittany’s other hardest climbs   8:02 – Flirting with an overuse injury and her swollen right index finger   10:39 – The breakdown of ‘Stingray’   14:33 – The weather as a factor, ideal conditions, and added sending pressure   16:55 – Thriving on pressure   17:59 – Brittany’s process working on ‘Stingray’, dealing with tendonitis, ring workouts, and supplemental training   22:24 – On or off mode, and Brittany’s life over the holidays, and vacation mode vs. projecting mode    26:42 – Brittany’s endurance base and why she didn’t need to focus on endurance for ‘Stingray’   28:36 – Making an effort to get more sleep and drinking too much climber coffee   29:53 – The different catalysts that help Brittany find the “on mode”   31:22 – Embracing the “off mode”, and balancing the two modes   34:15 – Being discipline in specific ways, and being all in vs. moderation   35:34 – How Brittany chooses her objectives and where she travels to next and finding a sense of place   39:45 – Brittany’s thoughts on whether dirtbagging makes recovery harder, living in a CRV, and cooking meals in a JetBoil for a year   42:32 – Brittany’s beta for camp chairs and working remotely   45:54 – Favorite rest day activities, playing games, spending time with the people, and running and stretching to relax and Brittany’s version of meditation   48:32 – Writing and journaling, writing one sentence per day, and tracking time spent in each location   52:19 – How Brittany got into climbing and why she never fell in love with Bishop   54:36 – How Brittany thinks about bouldering vs. route climbing and her plans to get in shape for Yosemite   58:48 – Building on community from place to place, and the best thing about climbing   1:01:50 – Brittany’s approach to onsight climbing, onsighting tactics, and why it might be her favorite style of climbing   1:07:10 – Always going for the onsight, getting on ‘Weekend Whipper’, getting into sketchy situations, and Brittany’s close call this summer   1:10:14 – Balancing onsight climbing with redpointing and projecting, Brittany’s thoughts on (not) warming up, and sussing out a route for a 2nd go redpoint    1:16:53 – Creating art, making her van feel like home, and tips for feeling grounded on the road, van life, showers, remote working, and fast internet   1:21:51 – Early road rage and practicing patience   1:24:58 – Brittany’s struggle with self patience, and chasing her best self   1:25:43 – Reading, most impactful books, and dropping everything to pursue the love of climbing  1:28:26 – Developing routes vs. engaging with history and writing yourself into a pre-existing story  1:30:24 – Dreaming of Yosemite, unknowns, and learning mindset  1:32:57 – Plans for ‘The Stigma’ (aka ‘The Renegade’), ‘The Phoenix’, and ‘Cosmic Debris’  1:34:53 – Brittany’s dream of climbing 5.14 on gear, sharing goals vs. the “pre-spray”, and bouldering on gear  1:36:43 – The thing Brittany is most grateful for lately  1:38:19 – The dirtbag dream—has it lived up to it?  

Here's another episode of Tipsy Tuesday, for Tuesday February 11, 2020. Today's Hot Minute is about identifying and sizing up a buck track with Robby Denning. Hunting Big Mule Deer - a Rokslide.com Original Teaser -> https://www.rokslide.com/forums/threads/hunting-big-mule-deer-a-rokslide-com-original-film.159112/ Vote for the 2019 Rokslide Film Contest finalists -> https://www.rokslide.com/forums/threads/voting-thread-2019-rokslide-film-contest-sponsored-by-canyon-coolers.159380/page-2#post-1512959 Exo K3 4800 pack system by Justin Crossley -> https://www.rokslide.com/exo-k3-4800-pack-system-review/ Leupold Mark 5HD 3.6-18x44 rifle scope review by Matt Cashell -> https://www.rokslide.com/leupold-mark-5hd-3-6-18x44-riflescope-review/ First Lite NEMO Longbow sleeping pad review by Jordan Budd -> https://www.rokslide.com/first-lite-nemo-longbow-alpine-sleeping-pad-review/ MSR vs Jetboil showdown by Jordan Budd -> https://www.rokslide.com/msr-vs-jetboil-showdown/ Replaceable Blade Knife review -> https://www.rokslide.com/replaceable-blade-knife-comparison/ Javelin Pro Hunt bipod review -> https://www.rokslide.com/javelin-pro-hunt-bipod-review/ First Lite Solitude review -> https://www.rokslide.com/first-lite-solitude-bibs-and-jacket-review/ Bill will Prohibit people who owe child support to receive UT hunt/fish permits -> https://www.news8000.com/bill-would-prohibit-people-who-owe-child-support-from-getting-utah-hunting-fishing-permits/ Bighorn Sheep return to Antelope Island -> https://www.gohunt.com/read/news/bighorn-sheep-return-to-antelope-island Train kills antelope herd in ID -> https://www.gohunt.com/read/news/train-decimates-antelope-herd-in-idaho#gs.wn60ij ID House approves decrease in non resident tag with price increase -> https://www.gohunt.com/read/news/idaho-house-approves-decrease-in-nonresident-tags-but-increase-in-fees#gs.wn681u Non Resident Wyoming changes proposed -> https://www.rokslide.com/forums/threads/wyoming-nonresident-proposed-changes.159594/ Full Bill is here -> https://legiscan.com/WY/bill/SF0094/2020 Official 2020 Hunt Expo thread -> https://www.rokslide.com/forums/threads/official-2020-western-hunting-expo-thread.157015/

SHOW NOTES Backcountry Gear Challenge: fit 10 days worth of gear into 55 pounds Top-of-the-list item: Tag/Hunting license! • Sleep systems: Sleeping bag, pad, & tent • Backpacks: Types and recommendations • Raingear: Jackets & pants, pack covers, drybags for camera & electronics • Clothing & footwear: From skin to shell. Underwear, base layer, pants, shirts, the annoyance of layering, puffy coats & pants, neck gaiters and warm hats, appropriate boots, Crocs and manliness, crampons, and more.  • Cooking systems: backpacking stoves, fire starters, water filters, water containers, and the critical Life Straw • Optics: Rangefinding binoculars, Badlands bino harnesses, spotting scopes,  • Communication: inReach Mini, Midland handheld radios, lithium batteries, solar chargers, battery reservoirs, smartphone headphones, headlamps, and compasses.  • Camera: Smart phone vs. compact lightweight DSLR, plus Phone Skope • Tripod favorites: Outdoorsman Medium and Spartan Precision Sentinel • Rifle, Ammo, & Accessories: sling, Galco ammo carrier, Spartan bipod, Otis cleaning cable, electrical tape (yellow!), ballistic chart, wind checker, and handgun if applicable • Knives & Accessories: Leatherman Tool, fixed-blade hunting knife by Browning, Arno Bernard, or Siembida Custom Knives; Outdoor Edge or Havalon, compact EZE-Lapp diamond stone, Outdoor Edge folding saw, Gransfors Bruks Hunter's Axe, Kuiu or Caribou Gear game bags, contractor-grade garbage bags • Health & Hygiene: compact deodorant, hand soap, toothbrush & paste, floss, Airborne tablets, Zip Fizz, MTN OPS, Ibuprophen, Mucinex D, NyQuil, Blister kit, sunscreen, chapstick, vaseline, sunglasses, wipes, bug spray, bug net, knee braces, TETRA ear pro, notebook • Food: Mountain House and other freeze-dried brands, snacks, gum, hard candy, energy supplements, Montreal Stake Seasoning, coffee or tea RESOURCES: Mountain Hardwear sleeping bags Stone Glacier sleeping bags Kuiu sleeping bags Wiebad Mini Tac Pad (pillow) Thermarest sleeping pads Klymit sleeping pads Big Agnes sleeping pads ExPed sleeping mats Big Agnes tents Mountain Hardwear tents Spartan Precision Carbonlite Tent Kifaru tents Barney's Sports Chalet "freighter pack" Sitka Mountain Hauler 6200 pack Mystery Ranch packs Sitka Gear Stormfront raingear Kuiu rain gear https://kryptek.com/catalog/category/rain-gear/ Grundens rain gear Helly Hanson rain gear JetBoil backpacking stoves Katadyn water filters LifeStraw portable water filters Swarovski EL Range Leica Geovid rangefinding binos Zeiss Victory RF rangefinding binos Badlands bino cases Swarovski ATS 65 spotting scope Leupold 12-40 x 60mm Gold Ring spotting scope Garmin inReach Mini Midland handheld radios Leica V-Lux camera Phone Skope Outdoorsman's Medium Tripod Outdoorsman's Tripod Pan Head Spartan Precision Sentinel Tripod Spartan Precision Javelin Bipod Galco Gunleather "Stalker" ammo carrier Otis cleaning kits with flexible cable Leatherman tools Arno Bernard Dagga Boy drop point knife Siembida Custom Knives Instagram page Outdoor Edge Razorlite exchangeable blade knife Havalon exchangeable blade knife Outdoor Edge folding saw Gransfors Bruks Hunter's Axe  Kuiu game bags Caribou Gear game bags Mountain OPS energy suppliments TETRA hearing enhancement/protection Rite in the Rain notebooks Mountain House freeze-dried meals  

Planning the ultimate food adventure road trip is essential for a smooth vacation packed with fun stops, amazing food, and memories that will last a lifetime. This podcast episode is filled with fun stories about our food adventure road trips all around the United States. From our experience with both long and short trips, we have developed our own system of planning and enjoying the country's wide open roads. For more specific details of what we talk about, please reference below!  Planning Use Roadtrippers.com and download their app. The Roadtrippers website and app is an essential tool we've used for all of our road trips. Just go to the site, and see for yourself the power of organization behind the planning tool. Arrange stops, attractions, and restaurants with a simple click and explore the whole United States at your fingertips. The site also gives estimates on gas prices, the time between stops, and money spent while on the road. Download the app to have a quick reference on the road. Roadtrippers.com is guaranteed to make you trip amazing. Look to blogs for places to eat and attractions to visit. Locals know the best places to chow down! Take it from someone who's visited and eaten around the city to give their true opinion about a place. We trust other foodies wholeheartedly because of their pure ambition and love for food. If you read that a dish is good and cross-reference it on a foodie's website, you are guaranteed a delicious meal. Locals also know which attractions are worth the time and money. Pay attention to their advice and choose based on what works best for your itinerary Avoid Holidays. If you have vacation time off during a holiday, odds are, everyone else does too. Forget about traveling to well-known landmarks and cities, unless you love long hours waiting in traffic, overpriced and underwhelming food, and wading through masses of people. Plan your vacation away from national holidays whenever possible. Understandably, if this is unavoidable, avoid the flocks of tourists and head towards lesser known areas of the country. Do your research here, because an awful way to spend a vacation is at an uneventful location. Find the must-try restaurants for a regionally specific food. The whole purpose of a food adventure road trip is experiencing the wonders of our nation's food scene. Every city, state, and region of the country is known for its own specific cultural dishes. To find the best here is my best research tactic: -Google "what food is *City* know for." Make a list of the city's best options and take note if the references already name a few restaurants.   -Pick a dish and google "The best *dish* in *city*" Wallow through the results but pay attention to food blogs. If multiple sites bring up the same dish in the same restaurant, you are probably discovered something delicious.  -Make notes and put this restaurant in your Roadtrippers guide for later reference. Here are some examples of what we have experienced during our food adventure road trips: -Chicago Dogs at Super Dawg in Chicago, IL -Buffalo Wings at Bar Bill Tavern in Buffalo, NY -Main Lobster Rolls at Clam Shack in Kennebunkport, ME -Coney Island Dogs at Lafayette Coney Island in Detroit, MI -Key Lime Pie from at the Key Lime Pie Company in Key West, FL -Burgers at Louis Lunch in New Haven, CT -Blackberry liquor at Whidbey Island Distillery Langley, WA -Crawfish anywhere in Louisiana -BBQ Beef Brisket at Franklin BBQ in Austin, TX -Pizza at Pizza Suprema in New York City, NY -Fast Food Burgers at Dick's in Seattle, WA -Ribs at Central BBQ in Memphis, TN Plan out those awesome roadside attractions. We love roadside attractions! In fact, sometimes we love the fun places we stop more than the food we eat along the way. Every state and city holds a hidden gem that is bound to make for an interesting adventure. Keep in mind the hours of operation when planning your trip. Most attractions close in the late afternoon. Do not waste time driving off route to a cool attraction to find a closed sign hanging in the window. Pay attention to the cost, because some attractions cost exponentially more than the time investment. Think about how long you plan to stay there, and if the money makes sense for the attraction. When you leave, do you feel you are getting your money's worth? No one wants to stand in line for three hours at the Willis Tower in Chicago eating up all of your planned time for the day. Unfortunately, sacrifices are made when seeing attractions and unless you have an unlimited time table, fitting everything in is impossible. Pick and choose your favorites and stay the course.  Here are some of our favorite Roadside attractions: -Largest Ball of Stamps in Boys Town, NE -Tallest Filing Cabinet in Burlington, VT -Quilt Museum in Lincoln, NE -Largest Revolving Globe in Yarmouth, ME -Holding a baby alligator in Jennings, LA -Worlds Largest Czech Egg in Wilson, KS -Jello Museum in Leroy, NY -Largest Truck Stop in Wolcott, IA -Niagara Falls in NY -Willis Tower in Chicago, IL -Driving through a Redwood tree in California -Driving on Lombard St in San Francisco, CA -Bragg Farm Sugar House in East Montpelier, VT Try to visit national and state parks. State and national parks provide an exciting avenue to explore the natural beauty of our country and experience the outdoors. National parks have special memories for us camping under the starts next to a roaring fire. Every park is unique with its landmarks and attractions, so take a day or two to explore your surroundings. If you plan on visiting multiple parks, consider the National Parks pass which pays for itself after three visits. Some of our favorite National parks are: -Grand Tetons -Yellowstone -Glacier -Badland -Rocky Mountain -Redwoods  Pack an emergency roadside kit. Prepare yourself by anticipating a roadside emergency. Bring a roadside emergency kit with at least the following items: jumper cables, flares, first aid kit, and a flashlight. Some other good prep items to consider: LifeStraw, blankets, and waterproof matches. Yes, these items may appear unnecessary, but a quick Google search reveals countless stories of people getting trapped in their car in the middle of nowhere waiting for help to arrive. A little preparation goes a long way and gives peace of mind. Make an awesome road trip playlist. Listen to us carefully. Your playlist will forever link your memories to your food adventure road trip. For us, we listened to late '70s, '80s, and some folk to mix up our daily jam list. Make several playlists based on your mood, weather, and location. Driving in the mountains? Pop on the Lumineers. Raging through traffic? Try Van Halen. Always remember that music adds to the overall mood and memory, so choose wisely! Google Maps is God. When it comes to navigation, we always choose Google Maps. Time and time again Google Maps proves its faithfulness and dependability no matter the time of day or occasion. If Google detours you off the highway, then there is probably a good reason for it, like an accident or road construction. If you have a co-pilot navigating, they should look ahead to see the issues and confirm the detour. Trust Google Maps and avoid a world of frustration.  Be creative about sleeping arrangements. Long food adventure road trips can eat through your funds quickly. Not only are you spending money on gas, and super delicious food, but sleeping arrangements often rack up the highest costly. With cheap hotels averaging $75 night, keep an open mind about how and where you sleep. We converted our 2018 Chevrolet Traverse into a go anywhere, sleep anywhere machine. We used makeshift window covers to block out sunlight and give privacy, with a blow-up mattress fitting perfectly for our bed. We used campgrounds, Walmart parking lots and rest areas for the majority of our places to sleep. This saved us thousands of dollars over the years and helps us to focus our money on what we care about most: FOOD! If you want to avoid sleeping in your car, we recommend Airbnb for the community, customer service, and the pricing. We rented out a whole one bedroom apartment in Austin for $20. Yes, you heard me. We have stayed in hotels, apartments, houses and rented rooms through Airbnb, and the service and ease of use could not be better. Even if you need a room in a pinch, Airbnb can help.  Prep your vehicle. This sounds basic, but make sure your vehicle is road trip ready. Double check tire tread, get the oil changed, top off fluids and clean the interior. No one wants car trouble or needing maintenance on the road. It wastes time and money. A tow truck at 2 am is going to cost double than during normal hours, so do everything possible to keep your trip moving smoothly. Trust us on cleaning the interior. A clean car that smells good makes all the difference. Pack Dehydrated and Non-Perishable Foods. With your food adventure road trip budget set specifically for dreamy eats in your new destinations, it's important to save money on your other meals. For us, focusing our money on special foods remained a top priority, so we saved money everywhere else. We packed freeze-dried camping food where one bag usually feeds two people. The good stuff costs roughly six to nine dollars a bag, so three to four dollars per person is not a bad way to eat dinner. Our favorite brand is Mountain House, with many delicious choices. Other low cost, no refrigeration food options are ramen noodles, oatmeal, soup mixes, hard salami, and canned meats. We pack a JetBoil camping stove for convenience, but before that, truck stops and gas stations have free hot water to use. We asked for permission, and no one has turned us down.    On the Road Stop for attractions that catch your eye. Planning for everything is impossible. Keep an open mind to your wonderfully planned agenda, and when a random attraction catches your eye, consider stopping. Flexibility makes road trips adventurous. One of the most random places we stopped was in South Dakota called Wall Drug. Starting in the east side of SD we drove hundreds of miles seeing nonstop signs for Wall Drug. It's an enormous convenience store, restaurant, pit stop, and attraction all in one building. It started off as a drug store in 1931 but morphed into the beast of Wall Drug we know today filled with old western style shops, life-size animatronic T-Rex, and a giant jackalope statue. We got our homemade donut fix while taking in the wonder of Wall Drug. This was totally unplanned but how could we not stop with the several hundred signs advertising the place! A super fun memory full of laughs, and delicious eats. Other fun unplanned stops: -Bayou Rum Distillery Tour in Lacassine, LA -Lincoln Silver Dollar Bar in Haugan, MT -Calm beach in off the highway in Islamorada, FL Pack a small cooler. Bringing a small cooler was a life saver for us. Our Yeti 20L Roadie was perfect for its small size, and god-like ability to keep our food cold for days without needing more ice. Although a Yeti is a bit expensive, any solid cooler will do. Make sure it's small (under 30L) and do not over pack. Walmarts and grocery stores are all over the country so pack only what is needed and buy the rest when the occasion arises. Ice does get expensive after a while so always opt for smaller coolers. We've made the mistake of bringing bigger coolers and felt it necessary to keep it filled with food and ice at all time. Spending an extra $150 on ice over the course of the trip was not fun!  Audible is your friend! Endless hours on your food adventure road trip has dull moments. You've listened to the same playlist for the twentieth time, caught up on life with your fellow road trippers and the 180th mile in the Kansas plains looks the same as mile one. Audiobooks to the rescue! Nothing like a story to keep your imagination occupied to keep those 10 hours of driving at bay. We recommend Audible, as we listened to all of Harry Potter books, Enders Game, Ready Player One, We are Legion and many more. We pick nonfiction for its ability to make time pass quickly with easily digestible material. Take your pick of the thousands of novels and see your road trip get instantly better.   Don't go overboard on the junk food. Junk food is synonymous with road trips. Big gulps, slim jims, red bulls and dried out hotdogs all play in our memories of fully caffeinated filled rides on the highway. Junk food, however, makes your body feel sluggish, tired and sick after some time, so when it's time to eat something amazing, your body may not feel up for the heavy and dense food. Stop at a grocery store and pack plenty of fruits and veggies, and when in a pinch, reach for a green Naked Smoothie from the gas station. Keeping healthy while on your food adventure road trip means your body can handle that Chicago deep dish or the Texas beef brisket. Too often we've been unable to enjoy a meal because we didn't lay off the junk food. Remember to eat those fruits and veggies! Adapt to changes when things do not go your way. Always expect something will go wrong on your road trip. A flat tire, a restaurant is closed or your amusement park day gets rained out. Keep a "go with the flow" mindset and take each challenge as it comes. Arguments and quarrels leave a black spot on these memories and often can ruin a whole trip. Before leaving for your food adventure road trip, have a little meeting with all the passengers. Discuss this open mindset and if the unexpected happens, keep a strong adventuring spirit. Stay around major cities for a few days. Road trips take you through all sorts of cities, but if you have the chance, stay in a big city for a day or two, and focus on the local restaurants and dishes that will make the trip worth it. Passing through Michigan, we stopped in Detroit for coney island dogs at Lafayette and American Coney Island, went to a chocolate factory and ate some Detroit style pizza at the legendary Buddy's Pizza. This took about the whole day and gave us a good look at the city and some iconic dishes to try. By the way, Lafayette Coney Island is the best hotdog we've ever tried and Detroit style pizza beats Chicago style. We understand if that make us enemies now. Be a great co-pilot. The copilot holds an essential job on the road trip. Navigator, DJ, and the lookout, to only list a few of the essential responsibilities of the copilot. Basically, take care of anything the driver needs so they can keep the focus on the road. On our food adventure road trips, I (Chris) am usually the driver and Tiarra the co-pilot, and I can give testament first hand how important it is to have Tiarra helping with everything I need. It's just one less thing to worry about that I know she is going to handle.   Avoid rush hour. If you're passing through major cities between 3-6pm, you might run into traffic jams. If there is one thing on a road trip to make me irritable its unnecessary traffic. Seriously. I hate it. A rule we follow: if there is a chance of a traffic jam, stop at a restaurant or attraction and pass the time having fun instead of sitting in traffic wasting time and gas. Think about it. Sit at a nice bar, have a beer, and walk around town, or sit in a car crawling at a snail's pace. Avoid traffic! Driving in big cities can be stressful. When in doubt pay for parking and use public transport. Driving aimlessly through the confusing city streets trying to find parking or find out how to get to a main attraction can soak up hours filled with stress and worry. The best option is to bite the bullet pay for parking, and use public transport. Time in these cases can be more valuable than money, so spend it wisely. Find the local bus and metro system and use it for getting around the city. Most metro stops are within close distances of where you want to go anyways. Although it costs a little bit more, spending the extra time on making memories. Visit Local Restaurants, Orchards, Farmers Markets, and Roadside Stands. Learn this motto: If the locals are eating here, you should be eating here. No matter where you visit, you will always be a tourist, and generally, you will easily be noticed. Do not let this deter you from trying the amazing food every destination has to offer. From our experience, if you ask for help, the locals will be more than happy to help. Also, just because a place is small doesn't mean the quality is poor. Generally it's the exact opposite! Smaller local places have a long-standing history in the community and are known for making great food. Keep an open mind and find the little places. Farms, fruit stands, and shrimp shacks are the sort of places where you will have an unforgettable meal, such as these: -Discovering Snap Dragon Apples in NY, picking apples and -drinking fresh cider -Huckleberry Pie in Montana -Picking lavender from a farm in Washington State -Glenda's Creole Kitchen a few miles off the main road in Louisiana -Kokopelli Farm Market in Palisade Colorado for peaches and fried peach pie.  Avoid Alcohol! Remember, this is a road trip so avoid the alcohol. Not just for safety, but for efficiency. The last thing you need is wasting hours sobering up before you can drive again. Plus the cost of a single cocktail can be more than an entire meal in a local restaurant. The only exceptions are if your road trip is based on alcohol tours such as distilleries and breweries. Even then, be careful before returning to the road.  Look for regional snacks and food at convenience stores and gas stations. Sticking to regional foods, one of the most amazing and simplest ways to try local food is to browse the convenience store aisle. You will be surprised at how amazing potato chips and candy bars can taste when it's freshly made in a unique way right down the road from where its sold. Bakeries, restaurants, and fresh fried seafood can be found at gas stations all around the country. I still remember a Texas gas station with a full-on bakery selling Kolaches, a Czech baked bread stuffed with sweet or savory fillings, with heavenly sweet teas from companies all around the state. Totally awesome, and unrecognizable from the outside. These hidden gems are part of the adventure your road trip. Still have doubts? The Food Network TV show Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives has featured countless amazing, local eateries found in gas stations. Take your time and explore the small and local.  We hope this podcast episode and blog post helps expand your ideas of your next food adventure road trip. No matter how long or short your driving, these tips will make your trip amazing. 

The good news is that the Camino is a very inexpensive way of spending a month in Spain (and certainly cheaper than most other European countries).  If you are on a budget then you can expend to pay no more than €35 a day, which will include accommodation and food... yep!  Just €35 a day! But there are always ways to cut your budget and here are my top ten hacks to trim that wallet just a little bit more. #1 - TAKE YOUR OWN COFFEE OR TEA-BAGS Us Brits do like our tea and coffee in the morning.  The Spanish coffee is the best coffee I have ever tasted, however, there is not always a cafe open in the mornings.  Either stay at Albergues that have kettles/microwave etc or, like me, take a little cooking stove (I have a Jetboil).  If that first coffee of the day is important to you then the extra weight will be worth every penny! #2 - SAVE MONEY BY DRINKING WINE! This is a silly, but true, tip.... wine in Spain is cheaper than water.  Drink more wine!  Yey! By the way, just outside of Estella there is a free wine fountain.  Please do not top up your water bottle with the wine from the fountain, simply enjoy the tradition of drinking the wine from your Camino shell.  (It's not the best wine but it has to be done!) #3 - SPLIT THE COSTS OF A TAXI Sometimes you may find yourself taking a taxi (yes, people do take taxi's on the Camino!).  If you find yourself in this situation then always ask around to see if anyone is keen on sharing splitting the fee.  Usually there is someone else who is going to the same place as you.  I was once very poorly and didn't want to loose my Camino family, so I took a taxi to Burgos and then had two days of rest whilst my Camino family walked for two days. #4 - SHARE YOUR WASHING / DRYER CHARGES I know it does not sound like much but not only will it save money if you share a washing machine with a few other pilgrims, but it will also save water.  It seems like such a waste to run a full load (washing or drying), when you only have a few small items that need to be laundered.  Sharing is a big part of the Camino and so is washing your clothes! #5 - SAVE MONEY ON THE ATM MACHINES On all of my Camino trips, I have taken the maximum cash out of the ATM machine to save the charges from the bank.  I then split the money into little plastic money bags of €35 a day which helps to keep me under budget on a daily basis.  You will often hear of pilgrims who have run out of cash as you can often walk for 2-3 days without seeing a cash machine in any of the villages that you will pass through.  Unlike the UK, you can not expect to pay for anything on your card, especially in the smaller towns and villages. Spain is still a cash economy and if you run out of cash then you will either go hungry or end up asking your fellow pilgrims to help you out.   #6 - IN GALICIA THINK ABOUT UPGRADING The very last section of the Camino is called Galacia and this is the most popular region.  It is often crowded and most people will be staying in Albergues.  A ninja tip is that the price of a private room for two or three people is often the same price that you would pay for a bunkbed in a dorm room.  So consider partnering with your new found Camino family and share a private room for a better nights sleep and often a similar price.   #7 - BUY TRAIN / BUS TICKETS BEFORE YOU GO If you purchase your train and bus tickets ahead of time then you will certainly save money on your trip.  I am never this organised and often pay for the tickets at the train station, which can incur an additional charge of up to 50% more!  Saying that, bus and train tickets are super cheap in France and Spain, so yes you will save money by purchasing them online, but if you are from the UK then you will be surprised at how inexpensive the tickets are in the first place!   #8 - BOOK YOUR FLIGHTS EARLY! If there is one thing that I regret of my most recent Camino trip is that I didn't book my flights early enough.  The myth of "last minute booking and you will get a good deal" is totally unfounded.  Flights in April or October are usually much cheaper than other times of the year.   #9 - STAY IN ALBERGUES THAT HAVE A KITCHEN If you use the Beun Camino app then you can see which Albergues have kitchens for self catering.  Many pilgrims cook and eat together which not only saves money but it is also one of the best experiences you can have on the Camino.  One pilgrim brings wine, another brings salad, another cooks pasta etc.  It is a fabulous way to save money and enjoy the spirit of the Camino. In addition, if you can not find an albergue that has a kitchen, then certainly seek out a hostel that holds a pilgrim meal as part of the deal.  They are often around €10 per meal.  A pilgrim meal will often consist of 3-4 courses, bread and a bottle of wine.  It is extremely good value for money and well worth seeking out. #10 - WALK THE CAMINO FRANCES I have walked a variety of different Camino trails but the Frances route has the best infrastructure and the most options available.  If you are looking to reduce costs by staying in Municipals (Community Albergues) for as little as €5 a night, then the Frances route is built to support this option.  There are more options for Pilgrim meals, lots of little village shops that supply pilgrim related products such as the famous Compeed.  Other routes such as the Ingles trail, you will end up paying for rooms/hostels via booking.com to secure your place, and eat at a nearby restaurant which soon adds up.  I found that the cafe's were more expensive in general on the Ingles route rather than the more popular Frances trail.

Eric Batty shares his camping experience on the show today. Eric has won the team 24 hours OCR Championships in Vegas, Set FKTs on many trails including the La Cloche Silhouette Trail in Killarney, raced mountain bike at an elite/pro level for many years and now works as an Arborist (he climbs up trees all day!)  Check out https://www.ericbatty.com/blog and his business https://www.brooklintreecare.ca/   Check out Shred-Girls.com to learn about the upcoming book series by Molly Hurford and www.smartathlete.ca for phone consults, coaching, training plans and bike-skills sessions. This podcast is supported by Health IQ, a life insurance company that celebrates the health conscious, including cyclists. Visit healthiq.com/capod to learn more & get a free quote, or check out their life insurance FAQ page to get your questions answered. The Consummate Athlete Podcast is part of the Wide Angle Podium podcast network. Check out  www.wideanglepodium.com, listen to the shows, and consider becoming a member to get free bonus content and prizes. Check out the new Wide Angle Podium t-shirts and kit at icksnay.myshopify.com/collections/wide-angle-podium. Thanks as always for tuning in. If you're enjoying the show, would be a huge help to us if you subscribe, rate and review the Consummate Athlete Podcast show on iTunes. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @mollyjhurford and @peterglassford or over on TheOutdoorEdit.com and SmartAthlete.ca. If this is your first time listening, you can explore the rest of our episodes on ConsummateAthlete.com. You can support the show and this site by checking out our swag in the Consummate Athlete Shop. Have a question, comment, complaint or suggestion for a guest? https://consummateathlete.wordpress.com/contact/ Social and Links ERIC SITE https://www.ericbatty.com/blog    Eric Batty Photography on Instagram   Brooklin tree care = Eric's Business for Ontario Tree Removal and Care    Killarney Provincial Park    Article on Peter and Eric Running La Cloche FKT 2010 12:30    Eric Batty Blog on Kilarney La Cloche FKT 2011 (current FKT as of 2018 May)   FKT Proboard   TOPICS AND LINKS FROM TODAYS SHOW: camping - basic skills,  tents = shelter systems - reliable (rain, winds, thunderstorms)                                    - often too warm sleep for summer,                                      - sleep mat = close cell (Thermarest), reliable                                       - backpack - 90 and 100L perhaps too big for a few days  water - filtration - aqua tabs                         - UV - light stick  socks/ shoes?         = consider lighter trail runner for short         = Peter and Eric have used Salomon Trail Runners                         - Food - hang it in what?    = bear hanging options videos food - best lightweight 'dinner' ' breakfast'?    = dinner in a bag    = JETBOIL - small, quick, canister, pot, built in Flint  bugs =       = superlight bug  hat/cover           = sun / wind effect           = off/Deet - hard to say still bug you ... maybe not bite first aid = Can get kits        = clean, gauze, bandaid, safety pin, tweezer, crazy glue for blisters, tape, pills (gravel, Imodium, NSAID)  Brooklin tree care

Joyriders, Meet Richelle! ✨SHE'S OUR FIRST INTERNATIONAL GUEST! ✨ Richelle Olsen is a badass Australian adventure-seeker who is all about body positivity and escaping your comfort zone. I had such a great time chatting with her and could mostly keep up with her accent! Topics discussed on the show: Bells Beach, Victoria, Australia Adult onset athlete Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Mt. Everest Basecamp Pink Triathalon Escaping Your Comfort Zone The Inca Trail The Great Divide Trail Aussie Rail Trails Tour Divide Whistler, B.C Banff, Alberta Steamboat Springs, Colorado Napa Pacific Coast Highway Cycling to Cabo Munich Helinox chair Aldi   Bike Touring for Beginners w/ Escaping Your Comfort Zone   Queenscliff   Trail mix + chocolate!!   Cheesy mashed potato flakes   Jetboil superstove   Couscous with tuna   Cycling Australia versus in the U.S.   The kindness of strangers   Packin' heat   Amanda Batty   Calling out shit (check this counterpoint to call-out culture)   Tour Down Under   Equal prize money for women!   Senator Penny Wong Casual violence and the turdness of people Words of wisdom: Find your tribe! Facebook and Meet-up area great resources! It takes a lot of guts to reach out -"your dreams need to outweigh your fears." Check out other podcasts Richelle has been on here! Check out RichelleOlsen.com + RichelleRides on Insta + Escaping your comfort zone (on Insta)  Tag us in a story if you enjoyed the show! Coming up on the Bike Love Calendar: Live the Revolution! Get ready for another night of bike love stories! The eighth annual Live The Revolution on Friday, February 9, 2018 at the Alberta Abbey in Portland, Oregon. Live the Revolution is a bicycle-themed storytelling event that benefits The Street Trust and features four storytellers, three of whom are badass women in the Portland cycling community, including the Shero of Black Girls Do Bike Portland and WomenBike Roll Model Keyonda McQuarters. Tickets are $15 in advance, and $17 at the door, get 'em while they last! Learn more here. Worst Day of the Year Ride: February 11 Swift Stoked Spoke Series (Seattle): January 31, February 28, March 28 Cycle Oregon Joy Ride: June 9 World Naked Bike Ride: June 23 Cycle Oregon Weekender: July 14-15 Seattle-to-Portland: July 14-15 WTFbikexplorers summit (Whitefish, Montana): August 16-19 Cycle Oregon Classic: September 8-15 Friends, you know I believe in the transformative power of the bike, in our personal lives, our communities, and the world at large. I would be super grateful if you'd leave a rating or review in iTunes, Stitcher, or via whatever method you listen. It helps more gals find the show, and I believe the more stories we share, the more women who ride, we make this world - both our internal and external worlds - better with every revolution. Also, I read 5-star reviews out on the show because I love you. Ratings and reviews help with that, but nothing is better than a personal referral, it'd be rad if you would share the show with even just one woman who you think might dig it. Never forget, "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." Keep moving forward and until next time I hope you enjoy the ride. Forever Forward! xo ~C

If I were king of the shooting sports, I'd make some changes, across the board. I'd like to see the the shooting sports grow, and I think the best way to do that is to reach out to people who already own guns by hitting them up a gun shows and things like that. Almost all of the shooting sports could do a better job of making it easier for someone to find out exactly what they need to get started. I checked the IDPA, USPSA, 3 Gun Nation, and National Skeet Shooting Association websites looking for some sort of tutorial (like what I have written here) and none of them really had an actual primer article, however 3 Gun Nation did have a good section of videos on their site that give a good overview of the game. Plug of the Week I saw IDPA posting about this either on Facebook or Instagram the other day, and I thought it was pretty cool. It's a charity called "Aiming for Zero" that's designed to get competitive shooters to donate to causes around veteran suicide. Folks are setting up teams and making donations to the charity based on their number of points down at the match. Below is an example I pulled off of their site: Example: IDPA Tier 1 - Tier 3 Matches: PD (Points Down) x $.10PE (Procedural Errors) x $.30HNT (Hits on Non Threats) x $.50FTN (Failure To Neutralize) x $.50USPSA Level I - Level 3 Matches: PointsBravos   x $.20Charlies x $.20Deltas   x $.40PE (Procedural Errors) x $1.00NS (No Shoot) x $1.00 I think this is pretty awesome. If you're interested, check them out at AimingForZero.org. Gear that Doesn't Suck I've been finding myself using my JetBoil stove more and more lately when I'm at different places. At the USPSA Range Officer class I took last month I used to to make hot soup and coffee while everyone else was getting fast food or sandwiches. During the big ice storm that we had back in January and we were without power for a couple days and this thing really saved the day. I was able to boil water, make hot cocoa, soup, coffee, and whatever else we wanted. Serious butt saver. Just a couple weeks ago, I picked up a french press for it, and now my mobile coffee making setup is complete. I can make a killer cup of coffee anywhere, in about 5 minutes. If you're in a place where you might lose power or if you've ever wanted to make a good cup of coffee at a match, consider picking one up, it definitely doesn't suck. Dryfire Drill of the Week This past week I've been messing around with shooting some close targets really fast, and then transitioning and shooting a small target accurately. I've been setting up like 3 or 4 targets at about 7 yards, and then transitioning 90* to a pepper popper and really making sure I'm getting my hits on the popper. You could also do it with just a head box on a target or something like that. Contact luke@triangletactical.net

SUBSCRIBE: iTunes / RSS/Stitcher/Podbean/Android On this episode of Gritty Bowmen Aron Snyder and I talk cook stoves. Aron also shows us some of the latest Kifaru backpacks coming soon and the winner is announced for the Kifaru Apollo Backpack.

This week we talk jet boil, (at a pub again) Sorry the audio is a little off (SHIT IN OTHER WORDS), somthing was not working as well as it should!!!   Compact, fast and efficient outdoor stoves and cooking accessories. Award winning technology in personal and group cooking systems, with Flux-Ring technology for superior fuel efficiency and reduced boil time   http://www.jetboil.co.nz/

Welcome to the We Like Shooting show, Episode 81 – This week we’ll talk about B5 Systems Gripstop,  cz-75-sp-01 shadow target II, Prepping, Jetboil, The last stand, Kustom Concealment and more!

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In this how-to series, we show you how to use the Jetboil Outdoor Cooking System, which is available for rent through OU Fitness & Recreation for camping and other outdoor excursions. For more information about Outdoor Pursuits and rental equipment, visit http://www.ou.edu/content/far/recreation/outdoor_pursuits.html

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