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8 ABSURD Backpacking GADGETS You Might Purchase with Alex Hatlevig
Episode 400
Alex Hatlevig joins the show to discuss backpacking gadgets and trinkets that you might be buying that are useless (or mostly useless). Sure, you can come up with scenarios where they could potential…
Published on 12 hours ago
VOMIT in a Bag! The WORST Freeze Dried Meals in the Universe?
Episode 399
What are the worst backpacking freeze dried meals? And are some of them really as bad as people say? Derek and Carl asked over 40,000 members of the backpacking community what their least favorite me…
Published on 1 week ago
6 Pieces of Bad Advice You Should Stop Taking with John Kelley (Throwback Thursday)
Episode 398
What are 6 pieces of backpacking advice that are just plain bad? John Kelley joins the Backpacking & Blisters podcast to co-host and discuss a lot of information and mis-information you might be hear…
Published on 1 week, 4 days ago
A CONTROVERSIAL New ULTRALIGHT Strategy That Will Blow Your Mind...with Alisha McDarris
Episode 397
If you’re looking to shave about a pound off of your pack weight without spending any money (potentially), Alisha McDarris from Terradrift will tell you how! Last year she was challenged by the B&B p…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Top 10 MOST BIZARRE Camp Experiences We've Ever Had (and You Can Too!)
Episode 396
Bizarre trail and camp experience stories are the backbone of the B&B community. Derek and Carl run down their top 10. Some you’ve heard, some you haven’t. Either way, they’re weird. Even more weird …
Published on 3 weeks ago
Death Wish Backcountry Skills That You Might Use (Throwback Thursday)
Episode 395
One of the most experienced, adventurous, death-defying backcountry experts, Marty Morissette, joins the show to discuss some of the tactics he’s employed that one might consider ‘death wish skills’.…
Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago
The WORST REVIEWED Backpacking Gear in the World
Episode 394
What is the worst reviewed backpacking gear? And does that mean that reviews are terrible or that the gear is terrible? Maybe both. And how does a 20 minute task take 15 hours? One of the guys finds …
Published on 4 weeks ago
2025's MOST POPULAR Backpacking Gear & Trends with Lloyd Vogel
Episode 393
Lloyd Vogel, CEO of Garage Grown Gear, joins the show to discuss 2025’s best backpacking gear and trends. He also shares items that are losing steam. And Carl, of course, has a couple of “innovative”…
Published on 1 month ago
10 Things Only ADVANCED BACKPACKERS Do...with Huck Outdoors (Bonus Thursday)
Episode 392
What are the 10 things that only advanced backpackers do? Huck Outdoors joins the show to discuss skills, gear and knowledge that only advanced backpackers have. Rocky also chimes in with a list of h…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
5 Backpacking CRISES on the TIMBERLINE TRAIL: How Would You Handle Them?
Episode 391
There were 5 Backpacking Crises on the Timberline Trail Patreon trip this year! Five might be a stretch but you be the judge? How would you handle them? How would Derek have handled them (if had the …
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago