EP.4: Brewing up coffee and Adventures with Alex Hager

Written By Mat Hager

2022 US Coffee in Good Spirits Champion, Alex Hager, joins to talk about her background and lessons learned from camping, bike packing, overlanding. She talks about the mindset to get into solo adventures plus practical tips, gear advice, and how to uplevel your camp coffee game. Alex has also rather ironically found community from camping solo and she’ll share benefits of both solo and group adventures. 

  • Jen and Alex covered a lot of topics in their interview. See more of Alex’s adventures at amhager13@ Instagram. See a behind the scenes clip of Jen and Alex’s conversation about pushing boundaries and the joy of discovery on YouTube.

    Here are some of the highlights:

    03:15 Intro to Alex

    09:40 Alex’s intro to overlanding

    13:20 Alex decides to buy an overlanding vehicle

    19:50 How do you approach solo trips?

    27:15 Finding community while camping solo

    38:45 Favorite gear

    42:01 Alex’s coffee evolution and how to drastically improve camp coffee

  • Alex and Jen reference resources and gear:

Mat Hager

Mat is our COO. He began his career in manufacturing engineering, focusing on jet engines, before joining the Navy as a nuclear engineer on submarines. During his eight years in the Navy, Mat held various roles in engineering and operations. He has spent a total of one year and 93 days underwater and aspires to spend an equivalent amount of time camping under the stars. Currently, he camps for about 30-35 nights each year, meaning he will achieve his goal in another 11 years. Mat's association with Campworks began as a customer. Now, as COO, he has played a crucial role in transitioning our manufacturing to CF Maier and restarting production. Feel free to reach out to him for any inquiries.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathew-hager/
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