Hunt Backcountry Podcast Archive — Fitness & Nutrition

Jeff Cayley joins us on the Hunt Backcountry Podcast to share his experience completing America's Toughest Race — a multi-sport adventure race that covered 300+ miles of hiking, mountain biking, climbing, packrafting, and wayfinding.

If you are new to backpack hunting, you are probably overwhelmed with what you need, where you can go, and how to get started. In this podcast, we discuss the first steps that beginning backpack hunters need to take to get started backpack hunting.

Founder of Outdoor Vitals, Tayson Whittaker, joins us on the Hunt Backcountry Podcast to discuss his 100-mile solo hike in the Wind River Range of Wyoming. We discuss the mistakes he made on this trip, stories from his hunts this fall, the "ultralight" sacrifices he makes, changes in the outdoor industry, and more.

At what point does nutrition help or hurt you on a backcountry hunt? When, and how, can your food choices make a difference in your performance? What are some of the common nutrition-related mistakes that hunters make when packing food for a trip? We answer these questions (and many more) with nutritionist, Kyle Kamp.