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  1. Becca

    Mountain House NEW Simple Sensations meals

    Let me know if you try these Jordan. We tend to eat the full 2 serving meals per person in our household because we do the bulk of our calories for breakfast/dinner, and burn too many calories for 250cal to be adequate. I'd likely consider these for a "rest" day or maybe even for our daughter to...
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    Trail Runners VS Light Hiking Boot

    I've backpacked literally hundreds of miles in Salomon speed cross trail runners here in AK. Many of those miles were through swamps, and wet socks are pretty much a given. I do like swapping the insoles with green super feet as it adds some support and improves the torsional ridgidity in uneven...
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    2019 Bear Hunt

    Great job on a nice bear!
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    Taking our daughter/ Moffat 2019 Trips

    Very cool! And I laughed about the fruit snacks...frequent snacks seem to be key in keeping her happy :)
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    Taking our daughter/ Moffat 2019 Trips

    We've certainly heard plenty from folks who are surprised we take her. And I wouldn't push anyone else to do things with small kids that they aren't comfortable with. At the same time, these are the types of trips we did numerous times before we had her, and we are careful to choose trips that...
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    Taking our daughter/ Moffat 2019 Trips

    Keeping her warm and dry has definitely been a challenge, although I feel like we are getting it dialed in. Now that she's talking so much it's really helpful, as she can tell us when she's warm or cold and we can adjust accordingly. I think she runs warmer than any of the adults, she...
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    Taking our daughter/ Moffat 2019 Trips

    In early May, we flew to Kodiak for 8 days with Luke's parents for a brown bear hunt. The logistics of fly out hunts are complicated, and even more so when you add a toddler to the mix. I won't lie, this trip was a lot of work for Luke and I, as it was really important to us that everyone had a...
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    Taking our daughter/ Moffat 2019 Trips

    We started 2019 with a lot of time at our cabin in interior AK where we enjoyed winter activities like skiing and ice fishing. In March we did a 4 day/3 night winter camping trip 80 miles round trip via snow machine (snow mobile). Skiing and hiking on short days Ready for a snow machine...
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    Taking our daughter/ Moffat 2019 Trips

    One of my goals for 2019 was to do a better job of documenting our outdoor adventures (hunting and otherwise) with our 2 year old daughter, Molly. Before she was born, Luke and I both committed to continuing hunting and outdoor hobbies as a family, but it was hard to know what that would really...
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    Getting Married and Hunting

    Some great advice in this thread, and also some really awful advice. I’ll leave it to you to sort it out. While it isn’t for everyone, if she enjoys hunting and the outdoors you can do a lot to foster that by buying her decent gear and working hard to ensure she has a good time when you are out...
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    How many times per week leading up to hunt do you train with weighted pack

    I don't ever "train" with weight on purpose, but our regular spring and summer recreation has me hiking a lot. Since I carry our two year old daughter, that has me hauling a 50lb load at minimum on a regular basis May-October. She's 30lbs, and our kid carrier strapped to Kifaru frame is 10lbs...
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    Wiggy’s superlight with additional overbag any good

    We use our Wiggy's bags for base camp or out of a boat or atv. We will haul them next week winter camping by snowmachine (snowmobile for you lower 48 folks). They are pretty much bomb proof, and warm even when wet. I have literally several hundred nights in mine at this point over a decade of...
  13. Becca

    Kodiak road system deer

    I suggest taking the baby. We did it when Molly was 7 months old and it was way easier than the next year at 19 months because she wasn't walking or eating real food yet. I'd be glad to talk to you and Ashley about it more if it's helpful. We did a lot, but in retrospect I wish we'd done even...
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    How much are you reasonably willing to spend on hunting each year?

    Regarding the original post, Difficult to quantify, and not sure I'd want to. We do a lot of trips each year with outdoor gear or equipment, many times we are hunting sometihing but not always. Does that stuff count? Tags and licenses are relatively inexpensive for AK residents, but getting off...
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    How much are you reasonably willing to spend on hunting each year?

    Well said! Majority of our trips these days are family trips. While that certainly can increase the cost (we will have to buy 3 tickets to Kodiak twice this year!), it's absolutely also increased our enjoyment.
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    Adaptations and Energy Requirements in Backcountry Hunting

    I may be wrong, but I didn't get the impression that they kept the amount of protein consumed consistent. I know it definitely varies from dehydrated meal to meal. I believe they just had the participants track their calories consumed, although they may have been recording protein and or fat...
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    Adaptations and Energy Requirements in Backcountry Hunting

    Yes, kind of makes you realize how sedentary most of us are compared to historically. Something I found fascinating about Larry and Dr Coker's project was that they were able to objectively measure energy expenditure after the fact by analyzing urine samples from the field. I've found some rough...
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    Adaptations and Energy Requirements in Backcountry Hunting

    Me too! In counting calories consumed, i've long known that Luke and I struggle to consume more than 2,600-3,000 calories per day on backcountry trips. Even when we carry more, we rarely eat it and so we've stopped carrying the excess weight. I found it fascinating that muscle mass was...
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    Adaptations and Energy Requirements in Backcountry Hunting

    Yep, without question! Just watching him drag that sled around makes me tired.
  20. Becca

    Adaptations and Energy Requirements in Backcountry Hunting

    For anyone interested in the paper they published documenting the study and their findings, here it is: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6236107/

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