Podcast 105 | Expedition Kite Skiing Across Greenland with Jesse Crocker

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In today’s episode of the Backpacking Light podcast we’re going to learn about traveling off-trail responsibly, a rain jacket that defines new standards for durability and performance, and a kite skiing expedition across greenland with Jesse Crocker.

[Ryan Jordan]

It will be interesting to see these mapping apps evolve, especially if they can accomplish what Gaia (almost) was able to do – which is sort of “get out of the way” so we can have a mapping app that is easy, fast, topographically accurate, and aesthetically nice to look at. Base maps are getting better and better, and the auto-scaling features they offer are a nice break from having to deal with the business of USGS quads on a phone screen. But, I still don’t find most app base maps (incl Caltopo, OnX BC) to be accurate enough for challenging off-trail travel.

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