Episode 82: Going backpacking can be expensive: especially purchasing high performance equipment that is crucial to your trek's success. I will guide you through a purchase strategy, a purchase schedule, that will spread out your larger purchases over a strategic calendar of sales. This plan will get you focused on what to by, and when. So that if you are following along on my training plan for crews headed out on the trail, you will have what you need, when you need it. So you can start training and using your equipment far enough in advance, that if you need to swap out items, you have time to do so.