The Wild Dispatch
This part-Brit part-South-African from America gets very excited about nature —Interviewing guests with both deep knowledge and wild stories in their backpack.
From ancient cave painting to ultralight camping, this pod covers hunting, fishing, foraging, homesteading, tracking, tanning... even animal communication... It's an all-out fist pumping celebration of the wild stuff that's made us who we are today.
Hosted by Robin Warman
The Wild Dispatch
EP47: Henry Shires ↣ The Past, Present and Future of Ultralight Backpacking
Henry Shires is the joint founder of Tarptent - an ultralight tent company based out of Nevada City California. A tinkerer by nature, when the world didn’t provide the ultralight gear Henry wanted, he just bought a sewing machine and made it himself. Little did he know this would be the beginning of an almost 25 year business…
This Episode’s got coming of age stories, adventures, learnings and some fascinating technical stuff about all the decisions behind that almost impossibly thin fabric we shelter under while adventuring out in the boonies.
A big thanks for Henry for sharing his time and knowledge with us today!
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If you're curious, check the instruction guide for the first ever design of a Tarptent that Henry published before starting the company.
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