Episode 147 | Thermoregulatory Debt
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What is thermoregulatory debt and why does it matter for backcountry travel?
Welcome to the Backpack and Light podcast, where we investigate the intersection of science and technology, gear design, and wilderness experience to help you develop a deep foundation of true backcountry expertise. In today's episode, we explore the concept of thermoregulatory debt. Today's episode is sponsored by Bryna of Norway. Learn more about Bryna and their polypropylene mesh base layers. at Brynausa dot com. That's B-R-Y-N-J E USA dot com.
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Hello everyone and welcome to the Backpacking Light podcast. I'm your host, Ryan Jordan, and today we are talking about thermoregulatory debt. By thermoregulatory debt, I mean the delayed physiological and functional cost that results when clothing, movement, weather, moisture, and heat production fall out of balance. But before we go there, let's dive into what's new at Backpack and Light because we have a lot going on right now. The big news this spring is that we launched a major new software app called TRIPS, which is now the anchor of the backpacking light trek planning ecosystem. TRIPS is our patent pending backcountry planning software that uses terrain geometry, physiology, and itinerary planning to model energy demand and travel time and fatigue risk signals.
Signaling. It lets you import a GPX file, split a route into days, position campsites, identify resupply points, inspect overall route and daily terrain and energy diagnostics, compare planned versions, save plans, and calibrate from your existing wearable data if you want deeper personalization and better predictive modeling. TRIPS was created to address the issue that mileage and elevation alone cannot answer, which is the question of how hard is this hike? Time and time again, We all plan routes that look reasonable on paper but still contain days that are surprisingly hard or too long or too steep, too backloaded, or too affected by food weight, altitude, sleep, pacing, or accumulated fatigue.
And trips help identify these types of difficulties and gives you the framework for adjusting your itinerary to give you the best possible. possible experience and outcome when you're out on the trail. Unlimited members get free access to TRIPS, and we're hosting an introduction to TRIPS webinar on June 24th. The links to both the TRIPS app and the free webinar will be in the show notes. We're also getting ready to release another planning app, which is our new Backcountry Permit Explorer. This is a map-based app. For finding and checking the real-time availability of reservable overnight wilderness permits across U.S. national parks and wilderness areas and other uh permit-controlled backcountry camping zones.
Like trips, the backcountry permit explorer will be included with unlimited membership at no additional cost. So stay tuned. We'll be launching the beta version of this app before the end of this month. Next, I want to take a moment to talk about the backpacking light gear swap. The Gear Swap is Backpacking Lights Member to Member Used Gear Forum where members can buy, sell, and trade backpacking gear. And for more than 20 years, it has garnered the reputation as being the most valuable place online to find high-quality, state-of-the-art, lightly used, ultralight backpacking gear at affordable prices. We are experiencing an interesting economic time right now, so I feel like we should. be investing more energy to keep used gear out of your closet and get it into the hands of people who can use it without breaking their bank.
The gear swap is available to all backpacking light membership levels, and it's been particularly busy this spring with a lot of transaction movement, especially for gear like ultralight shelters and backpacks, quilts, sleeping pads, insulating clothing, rain jackets, and stove systems. Okay, I'd like to highlight a few new articles that we've published recently, including an article called Camping Under Trees. My home hiking area is the Rocky Mountains, and here in Colorado we have a whole bunch of wildfire burn areas and quite a bit of beetle killed pine.
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