Stay ConnectedThe Live Ultralight Podcast is all about inspiring you to get outdoors and teaching you how to lighten your pack so you can go on more adventures.
We largely focus on backpacking and things that are interesting to backpackers, but occasionally we delve into other adventure and travel topics as well. In addition, we aim to feature interesting and inspiring guests all around the backpacking, travel, and adventure space.
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On Today's episode, we sit down to discuss layering for winter camping. We try to debunk the most common myths about winter camping and help you stay comfortable in the worst conditions. We'll talk about how base layers, an insulating layer, and a shell all work together to keep you warm and dry, enabling you to stay out longer, go further, and generally enjoy just about any type of weather. If you would like to help us spread the word about the live ultralight lifestyle please give us a 5-star review and tell your friends to subscribe. We're available on Apple podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, and every major listening app.
In today's episode, the whole Outdoor Vitals team sits down after our recent backpacking trip in the Tushar mountains to discuss peak bagging and what camping above treeline looks like. We talk about what gear worked and what didn't for each of us. We talk everything from footwear to sun protection and more. This episode was recorded live in the field so please excuse some of the sound quality. This episode also can be found on our YouTube channel if you would like to watch along. https://youtu.be/CxsYJxYdks8
On today's episode, we sit down with Carl and Derek from the Backpack & Blisters Podcast to discuss all things backpacking. We breakdown how to plan a successful group trip, why you must bring a toilet seat on your next backpacking adventure and our favorite Disney characters. The guys also breakdown the best method for catching sasquatch. https://backpacking.podbean.com/ If you would like to help us spread the word about the live ultralight lifestyle please give us a 5-star review and tell your friends to subscribe. We're available on Apple podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, and every major listening app.
GIVEAWAY WINNERS ANNOUNCED! On today's internal episode, we sit down with our newest design team member about how we designed our newest LoftTek 2.0 products. Tayson and Brigham walk us through every aspect of the design process from the idea phase to the finished product. We'll do a deep dive into our newest Lofttek bags/quilts and tell you how you can get them on a deep discount for the 4th of July. We also announce our sleeping bag giveaway winner from our last episode.
*Giveaway* Today we sit down to do an internal episode about our recent team backpacking trip. We discuss what gear worked well and what we would change next time we head out in the winter. Stay tuned until the end to find out how to enter our giveaway. If you would like to help us spread the word about the live ultralight lifestyle please give us a 5-star review and tell your friends to subscribe. We're available on Apple podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, and every major listening app.
On today's episode, we sit down to chat with Levi Pendleton. Levi, a previous whitewater rafting guide in the Grand Canyon, Moab and Jackson Hole, ski patroller in New Zealand and now an overall outdoor enthusiast who currently works at Southern Utah University as the coordinator of SUU Outdoors. We spend time talking about some of his ultimate adventure stories that come from being a member of a Rescue Team in Denali National Park in Alaska. We focus in on understanding what it takes to climb a brutal mountain like Denali (also known as Mount McKinley) the highest peak in North America. We also talk about the shift from a seasonal employee lifestyle where one can "entertain their own passions and hobbies" into a job that requires more administrative tasks in order to get others outdoors. If you would like to help us spread the word about the 'live ultralight' lifestyle please give us a 5-star review and tell your friends to subscribe. We're available on Apple podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, and every major listening app.
On today's we talk with Brian from Colorado Backcountry Adventures. He tells us how he escaped the corporate world to live full time on the road. He tells us how he can live for free by volunteering on our Public Lands. We talk about how to plan financially for living on the road full time. Brian recorded from a remote location in Bear Ears National monument so please excuse the sound quality for the first half of the show. https://www.coloradobackcountryadventures.com/ If you would like to help us spread the word about the live ultralight lifestyle please give us a 5-star review and tell your friends to subscribe. We're available on Apple podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, and every major listening app as well as LiveUltralight.com.
On today's episode we sit down with Devin Karch also know by his trail name of @DarwinTheHiker. He talks about falling in love with the AT at the age of 3. We talk about the differences in hiking the PCT vs the AT and how to plan financially for 6 months on the trail. He also tells a story about his brief run-in with Whitney Houston and how he wound up in the backseat of a strangers car with an enormous pit bull while on the trail. https://travelandtrail.com/ If you would like to help us spread the word about the live ultralight lifestyle please give us a 5-star review and tell your friends to subscribe. We're available on Apple podcast, Spotify, Stitcher, and every major listening app as well as LiveUltralight.com.
On today's episode, we're joined by Ryan Scavo). Ryan is a photographer, freelance writer, outdoorswoman and proud mountain mama, who sat down to talk with us about how to incorporate adventure into every aspect of your life--including parenthood. She gives advice on not giving up the outdoors while expecting, and how to continue adventuring as a family by setting realistic goals and expectations for taking the little ones along. She also talks about how to acquire used gear and what works best for outfitting her children. https://www.ryoutside.com/ @ryoutside
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