Ep. 145: Climbing Mount Rainier with John Murray

Glen Van Peski is a retired civil engineer who accidentally started the ultralight backpacking gear company Gossamer Gear. Besides an avid ultralight backpacker and bike packer in the U.S. and abroad,...

28 Aug 20241h 8min

Graeme Esarey is a sailor, climber, skier, and father of 2 adventurous girls. During an attempt to sail through the Northwest Passage with his family, he noticed the amount of trash heaps and unsustai...

21 Aug 20241h 4min

Originally published June 21, 2022Elise is a runner, author and all-round outdoors lover. In 2016 she became the first woman and youngest person to run self-supported around the coast of the UK – an a...

15 Aug 20241h 6min

Hey folks! Although this episode was going to be about fly fishing basics, Dave is a podcaster, so we ended up talking quite a bit about his show, Wet Fly Swing, and not so much about fly fishing itse...

14 Aug 202458min

Originally published July 7th, 2016While thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail in 1996, Whitney LaRuffa found his new hiking companion, a wandering dog which he named Erwin after the town in Tennessee whe...

8 Aug 20241h 5min

"Alpine Rising is a fascinating history of the crucial and frequently tragic role of local Nepalis, Tibetans, and Pakistanis on mountaineering expeditions to the world’s highest peaks."-- Jon Krakauer...

5 Aug 202454min

Originally published September 2, 2019Patrick and Michael have been living with Type 1 Diabetes for most of their lives. Feeling a bit isolated and hesitant as children to venture too far away from av...

4 Aug 20241h 13min

Dion Leonard's lifestyle was killing him. Weighing 250 pounds; Dion’s uncontrollable eating habits, heavy smoking and excessive drinking to hide the demons from his abusive and turbulent childhood wer...

31 Juli 20241h 6min