Jeff Lund is host of the On Step Alaska Podcast, Author of Big Wild Life among many other books, an educator, outdoorsman and writer. We talk Alaska, Alaskan Gold Rush, iditarod, raising kids outdoors, education systems, and more. Brought to you by: SREgear.com SRE Outdoors is a Family Owned & Operated Outdoor Gear Shop in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Great gear, great prices, unbeatable customer service. Use code WILL at checkout for 10% off your first order. Fishell Paddles - Makers of Fi...
Jul 01, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Calem Watson is an adventurer, angler and outdoorsman. He spent 122 days canoeing through Canada to the Arctic Ocean, and a second epic journey canoeing to Canada's Barrenlands and back. We talk canoe adventures, caribou migrations, fishing, wildlife, people met along the way and more. Brought to you by: SREgear.com SRE Outdoors is a Family Owned & Operated Outdoor Gear Shop in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Great gear, great prices, unbeatable customer service. Use code WILL at checkout for ...
May 14, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Jim McNamara is the author of In the Wake: An 80 Day Canoe Odyssey into Canada's Northern Wilderness . We talk canoeing, wilderness, traveling by paper maps, technology of tripping, caribou herds, and more. You can find Jim's book here: https://www.amazon.com/Wake-Odyssey-Canadas-Northern-Wilderness/dp/B0DWDTR6CS Brought to you by: SREgear.com SRE Outdoors is a Family Owned & Operated Outdoor Gear Shop in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Great gear, great prices, unbeatable customer service. Us...
Apr 11, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Frank Bures is an Author, outdoorsman and paddler. His new book Pushing The River: An epic battle, a lost history, a near death and other true canoeing stories is available for pre-order now. We talk canoe racing, Mississippi River Speed World Record attempts, near death experience paddling the Mississippi River, canoe racing and connections to Minnesota and more. Franks book is avaialbe anywhere books are sold, including here: https://shop.mnhs.org/products/pushing-the-river Brought to you by: ...
Mar 20, 2025•1 hr 16 min
Tim and Cora Berry spent their "honeymoon" canoeing 141 Days, Souce to Sea on the Missouri River and Lower Mississippi. Along with their dog Whiskey, they traveled over 3,700 miles on their journey paddling the longest river system in North America. We talk long distance paddling, canoeing, wildlife along the way, the kindness of strangers, grandness of the Mississippi and Missouri, Lake paddling vs river paddling and more. Check out their video recaps and follow along future adventures on their...
Feb 16, 2025•1 hr 16 min
Joe Motz is an adventurer and outdoorsman canoeing paddling 3,000 miles through the Midwest of America. We talk canoeing, Ohio River, Mississippi River, Paddle For a Purpose, camping and more. Follow Joes adventures on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MotzMoves Brought to you by: SREgear.com SRE Outdoors is a Family Owned & Operated Outdoor Gear Shop in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Great gear, great prices, unbeatable customer service. Use code WILL at checkout for 10% off your first orde...
Jan 15, 2025•1 hr 24 min
Jon Werning is an outdoorsman who has backpacked the Ice Age Trail, Superior Hiking Trail, among others. We talk hiking, beauty of the Midwest, Lake Superior, and more. Brought to you by: SREgear.com SRE Outdoors is a Family Owned & Operated Outdoor Gear Shop in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Great gear, great prices, unbeatable customer service. Use code WILL at checkout for 10% off your first order. Soda Peak Outfitters - Experience true Wyoming Wilderness With Soda Peak Outfitters. DIY and...
Dec 06, 2024•1 hr
Zach Fritz recently completed a 106 day journey canoeing from Minnesota to the Arctic Ocean. We talk Caribou Herds, long portugues, joys of long canoe trips, paddling the Arctic, planning a long trip, wolf sightings, whitewater and more. Brought to you by: SREgear.com SRE Outdoors is a Family Owned & Operated Outdoor Gear Shop in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Great gear, great prices, unbeatable customer service. Use code WILL at checkout for 10% off your first order. Soda Peak Outfitters - ...
Nov 22, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Buck Nelson is a retired Alaskan Smoke Jumper and outdoor adventurer. Check out a list of his trips here . We talk Living off the land in Alaska and on the "Cast Away" Island in Fiji, kayaking the Mackenzie River, Yukon River, Brooks Range Alaska, Grizzly Bear encounters, Wolf and Wolverine sightings, Great Divide Trail, Superior Hiking Trail, and more. Brought to you by: SREgear.com SRE Outdoors is a Family Owned & Operated Outdoor Gear Shop in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Great gear, grea...
Sep 26, 2024•1 hr 11 min
John Ruskey is the founder of Quapaw Canoe Company in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the creator and author of Rivergator.org - a paddlers guide to the lower Mississippi River, and author of Wildmiles.org . We talk all things paddling, canoeing the Mississippi River, history of the river, the Delta Blues, how rivers can change us and more. Brought to you by: SREgear.com SRE Outdoors is a Family Owned & Operated Outdoor Gear Shop in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Great gear, great prices, unbeatable...
Sep 06, 2024•1 hr 11 min
John Chase is the host of Paddling the Blue Podcast and an avid sea kayaker. We talk all things sea kayaking, paddling the Great Lakes, kayak camping trips and more. Brought to you by: SREgear.com SRE Outdoors is a Family Owned & Operated Outdoor Gear Shop in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Great gear, great prices, unbeatable customer service. Use code WILL at checkout for 10% off your first order. Soda Peak Outfitters - Experience true Wyoming Wilderness With Soda Peak Outfitters. DIY and Gu...
Aug 20, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Greg Fishell is the owner and lead craftsmen at Fishell Paddles , makers of custom handmade wooden canoe paddles. We talk canoeing, crafting paddles, camping, the Grand Canyon, slacklining, camping, and more. Brought to you by: Soda Peak Outfitters - Experience true Wyoming Wilderness With Soda Peak Outfitters. DIY and Guided Pack trips, fishing trips and more. Nestled in the Greater Yellowstone Area, Soda Peak calls the stunning Bridger Teton National Forest and the Teton Wilderness Home. Use c...
Aug 06, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Boyce Upholt is a writer and author of The Great River - The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi . We talk all about the Mighty Mississippi River, canoeing, history, barges, Locks and Dams and more. Join Will on the River! Summer and Fall 2024 Guided Canoe trips available at www.buffaloroamer.com/trips Brought to you by: Soda Peak Outfitters - Experience true Wyoming Wilderness With Soda Peak Outfitters. DIY and Guided Pack trips, fishing trips and more. Nestled in the Greater Yellowstone Are...
Jul 19, 2024•57 min
Some people have the outdoors in their blood. Will Collins is one of them. From the time he attended his first summer camp as a child, he felt drawn to the outdoors. In this episode, I talk with Will about his path from childhood summer camps in Wisconsin to multi-week expeditions in remote areas. In 2017, he paddled source-to-sea on the Mississippi River. I ask him how he planned for the trip, about the generosity of people he met along the way and the daily rhythms of a long-distance trip, and...
Jul 12, 2024•1 hr 8 min
John Sullivan is a paddler and record keeper of Mississippi River Through Paddlers as admin of the Mississippi River Paddlers Facebook Page. He has canoed the entire length of the Mississippi, the Iowa, Wisconsin, and many other rivers throughout the Mississippi valley. We talk canoe camping, thru paddling, and more. Join Will on the River! Summer and Fall 2024 Guided Canoe trips available at www.buffaloroamer.com/trips Brought to you by: Soda Peak Outfitters - Experience true Wyoming Wilderness...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 19 min
Tori Baird is an paddle and outdoor woman. She hosts workshop for women paddlers at Paddle Like a Girl, has a TV show streaming on Disney+ called Home In the Wild and hosts a youtube channel . We talk canoeing, camping, paddling with a young family, youtube, classic Canadian Canoe routes, Green River Utah, Disney+ show, character building canoe trips, filming trips for youtube, flooded out camp spots and more. Join Will on the River! Summer and Fall 2024 Guided Canoe trips available at www.buffa...
May 31, 2024•1 hr
Hap Wilson is an artist, author, conservationist and renowned canoeist and outdoorsman. He is an International Fellow of the Explorer’s Club and member of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and has paddled over 60,000 kilometers across Canada. We talk Canadian Wilderness, building trails, how guidebooks can save a river, Temagami, and more. www.hapwilson.com Join Will on the River! Summer and Fall 2024 Guided Canoe trips available at www.buffaloroamer.com/trips Brought to you by: Soda Peak...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Trapper Haskins is an author, musican, woodworker and outdoorsman. His book "Crooked Old River, Rowing Toward Redemption on the Mississippi" is out now. We talk traveling the Mississippi, building a rowboat, the pull of the River, writing a book, music, John Hartford and more. Join Will on the River! Summer and Fall 2024 Guided Canoe trips available at www.buffaloroamer.com/trips Brought to you by: Fishell Paddles - Makers of Fine, Handcrafted Wooden Canoe Paddles Try a Fishell paddle and FEEL t...
Apr 26, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Ray Goodwin has been a mainstay in the UK Canoe and Kayak scene for over 30 years. He has crossed the Irish Sea by canoe, kayaked the Grand Canyon, Ice Climbed Africa and has paddled rivers of all kinds across the globe. He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II and is a member of the Council of the Canadian Canoe Museum in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of a technique book called Canoeing. Check out his Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/@RayGoodwinCano...
Mar 29, 2024•1 hr 26 min
Mark Fingerhut is a paddler and lover of big rivers. In 2019 he kayaked over 2,500 miles in 96 days completing a solo decent of the Missouri River in his custom built wooden kayak. We talk long distance paddling, micro adventures, canoe and kayak racing, MR340, Missouri and Mississip Rivers, Madison River Montana, hardest part is getting started, the people met along the way make the journey, Paddle Stop New Haven paddle shop, Missouri River Breaks, Lewis and Clark, Missouri River Paddlers Rende...
Mar 08, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Dan Faust is an outdoorsman and canoer/kayaker with a passion for paddling rivers. He has kayaked the length of the Mississippi River twice, and plans to paddle the entire Missouri River in 2024. He's featured in the documentary film "Greybeard: The Man, the Myth, the Mississippi" Follow along with Dans adventures at https://dannofaust.wordpress.com/ Subscribe for more stories of adventure Guided Canoe Trips & more @ www.buffaloroamer.com Follow Will @Buffalo_Roamer Brought to you by: Fishel...
Feb 02, 2024•1 hr 22 min
Paul Fuzinski is a thoughtful outdoorsman and host of the podcast & youtube page Aptitude Outdoors . We talk about the transition to becoming an all around outdoorsman, his new documentary "The Hunt Within" observing nature around you, and more. 2024 Buffalo Roamer River Trips Dates Now Out @ buffaloroamer.com Subscribe for more stories of adventure Guided Canoe Trips & more @ www.buffaloroamer.com Follow Will @Buffalo_Roamer Brought to you by: Fishell Paddles - Makers of Fine, Handcraft...
Jan 20, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Matt Mason is an outdoorsman, thru hiker and wildland firefighter. He has hiked the "Triple Crown" - Appalachian Trail (AT), Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) and Continental divide trail (CDT) and more. We talk thru hiking, fighting wildfires, outdoor adventure, bike packing, and more. 2024 Buffalo Roamer River Trips Dates Now Out @ buffaloroamer.com Subscribe for more stories of adventure Guided Canoe Trips & more @ www.buffaloroamer.com Follow Will @Buffalo_Roamer Brought to you by: Fishell Paddl...
Jan 05, 2024•1 hr 4 min
BD Markey is an outdoorsman and Riverman based in New Orleans. In 2017 he canoed the length of the Mississippi river, solo. BD offers guide canoe trips based out of New Orleans @ guidedcanoetours.com We talk canoeing, Mississippi River, dinosaur national monument, through paddling, and more. 2024 Buffalo Roamer River Trips Dates Now Out @ buffaloroamer.com Subscribe for more stories of adventure Guided Canoe Trips & more @ www.buffaloroamer.com Follow Will @Buffalo_Roamer Brought to you by: ...
Dec 15, 2023•39 min
Dean Klinkenberg in an author, speaker and Mississippi Valley Traveler. He runs the website mississipivalleytravler.com and publishes a podcast under the same name. We talk all things Mississippi RIver, from mound building cultures, to fur trappers, floods and farmers. Subscribe for more stories of adventure Guided Canoe Trips & more @ www.buffaloroamer.com Follow Will @Buffalo_Roamer Brought to you by: Fishell Paddles - Makers of Fine, Handcrafted Wooden Canoe Paddles Try a Fishell paddle a...
Dec 01, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Jayson Holland is a hiker, kayaker and outdoorsman. He lives and plays in Souther Illinois near the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers, a stones through from the meeting of the Mississippi and Ohio. Jayson runs the blog lookingdownriver.com We talk kayaking through sobriety, beauty and remoteness of Big Rivers, learning how to kayak big water, Cache River - Illinois Cypress Swamp, River to River hiking trail, and more. Subscribe for more stories of adventure Guided Canoe Trips & mor...
Nov 18, 2023•51 min
Matej and Zuzana Dolinay are Zoologist and features of the upcoming documentary "Figures" . They run the popular youtube page Living Zoology where they film venomous snakes (among other wildlife) around the world. We talk filming for the documentary, traveling the world, captureing wild and dangerous snakes, working as a married couple, and more. Living Zoology Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LivingZoology Figures Documentary Film: https://figuresfilm.com/ Subscribe for more stories of adventu...
Oct 29, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Scott Oeth is an outdoorsman, canoer, and creator of bullmoosepatrol.com We talk canoeing, bushcraft, winter camping and more. Subscribe for more stories of adventure Guided Canoe Trips & more @ www.buffaloroamer.com Follow Will @Buffalo_Roamer Brought to you by: Fishell Paddles - Makers of Fine, Handcrafted Wooden Canoe Paddles Try a Fishell paddle and FEEL the difference. Each paddle is handmade by Greg Fishell at his shop in Flagstaff, Arizona. Will uses a Ray Special model, and outfits a...
Oct 20, 2023•1 hr 19 min
Sam Armacost is a paddler and lover of nature. She canoed then entire length of the Mississippi River on a trip with her Dad, and spent 62 days canoeing the Artic on the all women's expedition 6 North of 60. We talk weather and environments effect on people, Minnesota, Canoe camps, Father Daughter dynamics on a river trip, Canoeing whitewater, MaKenzie River, Lake superior, 62 days paddling the Arctic, Traveling the Tundra, Discovering thru padding, Thru paddling culture, Rivers as Wilderness, M...
Sep 15, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Cliff Jacobson is an Author, Outdoorsman, educator and one of most well known canoeist in the America. We talk all things paddling, tips and tricks, getting outdoors and more. Find Cliffs Books and Blog @ cliffcanoe.com Subscribe now for more stories of adventure Guided Canoe Trips & more @ www.buffaloroamer.com Follow Will @Buffalo_Roamer Brought to you by: Fishell Paddles - Makers of Fine, Handcrafted Wooden Canoe Paddles Try a Fishell paddle and FEEL the difference. Each paddle is handmad...
Sep 01, 2023•1 hr 4 min
