Why Patreon

Come behind the scenes of Backpackology.

Get access to everything that doesn't make it onto YouTube: rough cuts of upcoming episodes, deleted and extended scenes, behind-the-scenes footage, old Backpackology stories from the original blog, occasional production diaries, polls, and more.

You'll also get to weigh in on future adventures and submit story ideas of your own.

Basically: YouTube gets the finished adventure. You get everything that happened along the way.

Help make the adventures possible.

You'll get everything in Enabler, plus a Producer title in the credits of each Backpackology episode.

This tier is for people who want to do more than watch the adventures — they want to help make them happen.

Your support goes directly toward the research, travel, equipment, permits, production, and countless other things it takes to make these episodes independently.

Step inside the development room. Limited to 10 Executive Producers.

Executive Producers get everything in the previous tiers, a prominent Executive Producer credit in Backpackology episodes, and a seat at the table while the adventures are still taking shape.

I'll share the actual materials I'm using to develop upcoming episodes: early scripts, story structures, monologues in progress, research notes, raw ideas, abandoned concepts, edit notes, and the creative problems I'm wrestling with along the way.

You'll watch each adventure evolve from a messy, inadvisable idea on a page into the finished film on YouTube — and have a voice in the room while it happens.