Podcast

Originally released August 19, 2024, this three-person company-history conversation brings Tayson together with long-standing employees Derek and Dave to examine Outdoor Vitals’ first decade. They describe a founder-funded start, overlapping early roles, warehouse improvisation, a shift toward premium product development, and the people and systems that carried the business forward.

Originally released June 25, 2024, this episode puts Jeff Pelletier in the host chair to interview Tayson about finishing his first 100-mile race at the Bryce Canyon 100. The conversation follows the practical decisions behind a 32-hour-25-minute finish: adapting to course changes, surviving a heat-related low, using crew and pacing support, and resetting the goal without confusing a personal race strategy with general guidance.

Originally released June 10, 2024, this product deep dive follows the Skyline Trail Joggers from the gap between shorts and hiking pants through fabric, fit, venting, pockets, weight, and field testing. Brigham Crane and Tayson explain the performance tradeoffs behind the original design.

Specifications, sizing, colors, pricing, offers, and availability discussed in the audio are historical to June 2024; use the accepted product page for the current presentation.

Originally released May 15, 2024, Darian Allberry’s historical account examines how battery continuity, navigation, elevation sensing, heart-rate placement, HRV, sleep, stress, and recovery data can support decisions. Product capabilities and roles reflect May 2024 participant speech, while health, training, altitude, route, and safety remarks are not medical, coaching, route, or safety guidance.

Device fit begins with the actual use case, and trend data remains one input for human judgment rather than a command.

Originally released April 30, 2024, Tayson and Derek recount a Southern Utah backpacking trip with eight invited outdoor creators, including the travel, filming, route expectations, dry camp, water, pack weight, and group dynamics they experienced. Their creator, channel, route, access, safety, product, membership, price, and availability statements are historical participant speech, not current verification or guidance.

Originally released in April 2024, this historical account follows Tayson and Brigham through a one-day South Kaibab rim-to-rim-to-rim, while clearly separating an earlier 38-mile first day plus next-day Bright Angel exit. It covers pacing, weather, group spread, food, hydration, emergency layers, and historical product and membership claims without turning them into current guidance.

Hunter Leininger’s March 2024 account traces a path from father-son adventure racing and checkpoint navigation to ultrarunning, Alaska hardship, high-point projects, and a gratitude-centered view of ambition. Record, training, nutrition, medical, television, business, and future-project details remain historical source claims rather than current verification or instructions.

Originally released in March 2024, this historical Delano account compares two winter attempts shaped by deep snow, changing travel speed, snowshoe performance, visibility, and summit judgment. It also records hot-tent camp tasks, melted-snow hydration, handwear, boots, and vapor-barrier use without presenting any route, avalanche, stove, medical, water, or gear statement as current instruction.

Originally released in March 2024, this historical discussion follows Tayson and Tyler through the OV 100 Mile Challenge’s continuous and stacked formats, baseline fitness, accountability, route planning, participant constraints, and the way preparation can change a hiker’s sense of possible distance. Registration, dates, capacity, benefits, training details, and route or permit comments remain historical context rather than current offers or instructions.

Originally released in February 2024, this historical source uses Joel Strasser and Garrett Smith’s Season 35 Amazing Race experience to examine light packing, no-phone navigation, travel preparation, fatigue, attitude, and recovery from a near-win. It preserves their first-hand television-production and race accounts as historical experience rather than current travel rules or general claims about every season.

Originally released on February 13, 2024, this historical account follows David “Moondog” Roop’s thru-skating routes in Puerto Rico, New Mexico, Florida, and along the Natchez Trace Parkway. It uses those 2024 accounts to examine how movement style changes pace, carrying demands, local contact, and the pressure to chase mileage, while keeping road-skating hazards and then-future plans in historical context.

Originally released on January 30, 2024, this historical account follows Jeff Pelletier’s second-place finish at the 2023 Moab 240, with Tayson Whittaker present as one of his pacers. The race story covers conservative pacing, crew and pacer roles, purposeful aid-station stops, sleep and fueling decisions, navigation, late-race adaptation, and a finish separated by minutes.