Amazing Stories From The
Great Outdoors
Latest Episodes
My great buddy Frank Ciccone of Youtube’s Fish Hands Franky joined the podcast for a long, long overdue conversation about our friendship and frank’s love for fly fishing.
Bryan Walker, the owner of River Rat fishing rafts, joins Outdoors Podcast to talk about what makes his rafts the most approachable fly fishing boats on the market. Joining the conversation is long time friend of the channel, Fish Hands Franky , who just so happens to own a River Rat boat.
I stumbled across Piper Bates, or UrLocalLumberJill, as she’s known on Instagram and Tiktok, awhile back and I was immediately captivated by her simple, straight forward approach to sharing her not so common career as a professional Timber Faller & Tree Climber.
Scott Jensen, CEO and Founder of Near Zero Outdoors joined the show to talk about his background in the outdoors, his early career and the experience it gave him to help with the transition to opening a lightweight camping gear company that is really changing the industry.
Chris McKleroy, Founder of NOCS Provisions joins the podcast to talk about his background in the outdoors and the events that led him to starting a binoculars company in a very crowded market.
Nicole, the very popular host of Dope Kitchen joins the podcast to talk about her love of backpacking, hiking, camping and being outdoors as a form of mental therapy. We had a great time talking about several of Nicole’s outdoor adventures including being flooded out of her campsite in Hava Supi, smoked out of her campsite in the Eastern Sierra mountains, and quite the scary health situation in the mountains of Nepal.
Adam Hudson grew up fishing for bass on the lakes of northern Alabama where gear is king and largemouth rule. It didn’t take long for Adam to find his passion in fly fishing, which turned into a successful career in the fly tying business!
When 2020 rolled around and international travel shut down, Maddie got interested in seeing how she could explore the United States at the same time that #Vanlife got really popular.
Chef Corso, owner of OutdoorEats and outdooreats.com joins the podcast to talk about his career and cooking in the outdoors. We recorded this podcast by the campfire on an overnight backpacking trip.
John Lagow is a professional Fly Fishing Guide out of the historic Ark Anglers Fly Shop in B.V. Colorado. We talked about his career as a whitewater rafting guide, his love of the local rivers, and a preview of a future episode about dog sled guiding which he does in the offseason.
History
During the summer of 2015 I was invited on a weekend guys float trip. Twelve late twenties/early thirty somethings gathered at a canoe rental company in southern Missouri, eager to start our adventure.
We traveled at the pace of the river. We drank beer, told stories and created new memories as the day went on. Rope swings were tested, cliffs were braved and meals were cooked over handcrafted wooden fires. That weekend sparked a great passion for spending more time in the great outdoors. Since that weekend I have jumped headfirst into backpacking, hiking, camping and fly fishing. I even purchased a 30 year old class a motorhome with my girlfriend and we hope to travel the western United States with our two dogs this year.
Latest Blog Posts
I recently had to travel a couple hours away to Portland Oregon for a show that I was attending. An untimely flu ripped through my friend Greg’s house, where I was supposed to stay, so I ended up at a Courtyard Marriot near the airport and convention center.
Packing for one night trips can be a little tricky because it’s tempting to bring a bunch of stuff. I decided an overnight duffle bag and my smaller backpack would do the trick and I was right.
The Rainland Fly Casters volunteered to help the North Coast Watershed Association with a recent planting event. Our members, ranging from young ladies to older men worked side by side to help plant over 100 3 year old trees, including cedars and spruce into a floodplain along upper Elk Creek.
I picked up a set of the DJI Mic Mini’s to make my videos easier to understand in the windy environments we have on the Oregon Coast. This is a quick overview of how I like the Mic’s so far and a quick test with and without them turned on to show the difference.
“Hey babe, you wanna go on a weekend camping trip with the dogs to Mt. Hood in a couple weeks?” my wife asked me as the Oregon summer really started to set in for both of us. Warm days, drenched in sun, split right down their middles with a belt of cold rivers and melting snow from the mountains above us.