`Welcome to the Peax Thrive Vodcast!
This short-form, straight-to-the-point show is unlike anything else available in the Western hunting space. It was built for Western hunters looking to level up their game.
We'll cover Western hunting topics important to you, such as advanced e-scouting, hunt planning, tactics and strategies, DIY backcountry meal preparation, gear reviews, technology training, and more.
Every episode is designed to give you the edge you need to move your Western hunting pursuits to the next level.
Thrive 68 - Grizzly On The Blood Track • Live From The Hunt
Two bulls down, a grizzly on the blood trail, a barrage of gunfire next to our kill site, and a llama still running with an elk herd at 12,000 feet.
The Wyoming hunt had it all.
This is a Peax Thrive Live From the Hunt episode, recorded at a Montana trailhead the night before packing in. Mark wraps up the final days of the Wyoming elk hunt with Josh and Chiam Loyd, and previews what's next.The full stories behind the gunfire and the grizzly are coming in the Wyoming hunt film. Subscribe so you don't miss it.
🦙 HELP US FIND SMOKEY. Smokey, our 6-year-old pack llama, broke his lead rope during a bear encounter in camp and has been missing in the Wyoming backcountry since September 2nd. He's black with white face markings. If you're hunting the Cody area and see him, message us on Instagram @treeline_pursuits.
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15 Sept 2026
Thrive 67 - Grizzly Attack In Camp, Missing Llama | Live From The Elk Hunt
Five days into our Wyoming elk hunt, a grizzly came through camp at two in the morning. One of my llamas broke a half-inch lead rope and disappeared into the dark. He's still out there.
This is a Peax Thrive Live From the Hunt episode — recorded in camp at last light, no script, still in the middle of it. Josh, Chiam, and I go through what's happened so far: hundreds of elk and almost nobody else in here, a textbook stalk on a bull with 25 cows that fell apart for no reason we could see until we heard the howls come up out of the drainage, and a grizzly above camp that turned an ordinary evening into buttoning down for war. It has not been a clean hunt.
We don't have an elk on the ground. We've had more close encounters than I can count, and the wind has taken every single one of them — six straight days of it, thermals running exactly backwards, prevailing southwest blowing out of the north.
IN THIS EPISODE
• Elk are spread from the bottom to the top this year
• A perfect stalk, a herd that blew out, and the sound that explained it
• What llama alerts actually mean at night
• The 2 a.m. wreck that cost us a llama
• A grizzly above camp, and the worst thirty seconds of my week
• Bulls answering but not committing
• Smokey is still missing
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1 Sept 2026
Thrive 66 - The Most Expensive Backcountry Stove We Tested Finished Last
Chiam owns more backcountry stoves than any sane person should. So, he finally did what nobody in the hunting space has done: he put twelve of them head-to-head on a 100-point scorecard and let the data decide.
Boil times measured three separate ways and averaged. Fuel burn weighed to the gram, before and after every boil. Cold performance after twelve hours at negative four. Altitude performance re-tested at 12,800 feet on top of the
Beartooth. Wind resistance at 20 miles an hour — where a surprising number of big-name stoves simply never boiled at all.
The winner scored 91 out of 100. Last place scored 51. And the stove that took it costs under $70 — while the newest, priciest, most-hyped stoves in the test finished at the bottom of the board.
I sat down with Chiam at the PEAX Equipment headquarters in Bozeman to walk through how he built the test, what shocked him, and the one number every backcountry hunter should know before their next hunt: how many grams of fuel your stove burns per boil. Get that wrong, and you're carrying a second canister you never needed — which weighs about the same as the stove itself.
We keep the winner's name out of this one on purpose. Chiam's full review has the rankings, the charts, and every data point. Link below.
WHAT WE COVER
- Why almost every stove review you've watched is missing the comparison
- How the 100-point scorecard was built, and what got weighted heaviest
- 12 burner and pot combinations, 3 boils each, 16 oz every time
- The cold soak, the altitude run, and the 20 mph wind test
- Regulated vs. non-regulated, and why it decides everything
- Where Jetboil still wins by a mile (simmer control is not close)
- Why every piezo igniter on the market is on a countdown
- The half-flame fuel myth, tested
- The night in New Zealand when a stove was the difference between
miserable and done hunting
WATCH THE FULL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/gqMZAZxHNtE?si=GVLiVb6RGFZYkdGa
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