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Alaska based podcast shining a light on the Alaska outdoor lifestyle, culture, people, and activities around our great state.
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4 days ago
4 days ago
Daniel Buitrago & Jack Lau are in studio with Anchorage Ski Club president Rich Todd & General manager John Robinson-Wilson of Arctic Valley Ski Area
Can you ski on volcano ash?, what did we do when in the 92 Mount Spur volcano eruption, Hiking Mount St. Helens 15 years after the 1980 eruption, Daniel’s spring break trip to AZ with the family, Emily’s family heirloom footage of Arctic Valley, the Thompson lift , the OG Ski Lodge on the military site, Anchorage Ski Club founded in 1937, building the arctic valley ski care in World War II, the first ever chair lift in Cordova, challenges of maintaining and upgrading old school ski lift equipment, summer events & weddings, Thompson Truck, last minute spring ski ticket, a tough winter and not much snow in the Anchorage bowl, the beer & wine license & the game changer for the community, life music on the weekends, learn to ski program, starting a junior ski patrol at Arctic Valley, The ski train w/the Double Shovel crew, Merry Marmot Festival - April 12, 2025, fat tire bike race & dummy race, new cabin constructed for rental opportunities at Arctic Valley, become a life time ski member, the STAR up in Arctic Valley, ski patrol coverage and keeping the area safe, future improvements to the ski area, fundraising efforts, the old NIKE site & radar site at Arctic Valley, support Anchorage Ski Club
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Sunday Mar 16, 2025
Sunday Mar 16, 2025
Daniel Buitrago, Brandon Fifield & Jack Lau bring back in studio, The Chives The Most Interesting Man in the World, Ira Edwards!
Boneyard Alaska, the Delta Bison pro tips, bison cuisine, dat pho, Iras future land plans, berry’s, rhubarb & apple trees, Iras fermented pepper hot sauce, ski for kids, Made in Alaska permit, moose calling techniques, early spring bear sightings, international packrat film festival May 4th , AK Wild Sheep Foundation Annual Banquet SOLD OUT, conservation night Friday April 11th, Princess Rapids on the Kenai, Freezer tips, wizb-ang chicken plucker, raising Canes chicken James Beard Award to “Lucky Wishbone”, back country magazine, matchstick fundraiser, Talkeetna Bachelor Auction, The Oosik Classic in Talkeetna, Toko Ski Wax, Kincad moose stomping, Ira’s Kincad moose hunt proposition, the state is ready but what about the muni, lets go park director, Iras 2025 hunting plans, Ira’s Sheep Tag, upcoming Africa Trip, Oxtoberfest, Muskox Farm, shoutout to Total Truck & AK Overlander, Montage grille cheese sandwiches, the real deadliest catch wildest
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Sunday Mar 09, 2025
Sunday Mar 09, 2025
Daniel Buitrago, Brandon Fifield, Jack Lau & Chad Aurentz are back in studio to talk shit, crack some caribou calls and review the latest AK Department of fish and game draw permit results
Otter or the 206? Beer on a float hunt, lack of barriers, Iditarod Start from Fairbanks, 2025 Fur Rondy events, Outhouse Races, running of the reindeer, dog sled mobile, the Iron Dog results, Rinah’s Bison draw, Delta Bison Hunting Window, the silencer/suppressor game, bison meat quality, wiggy’s sleeping bags, taking in the scene and the river pace, the SB105 debate,
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Sunday Mar 02, 2025
Sunday Mar 02, 2025
Daniel Buitrago, Brandon Fifield & Jack Lau are joined by special guest Jule Harle Owner & Executive Director of Alaska Packraft School
The Savage River to Sanctuary River Denali float, 2025 AWP Draw Result Party @ Double Shovel, shout out to “The Mayor”, draw result party trivia, dudes night @ the Cabin, congrats to the permit draw winners, the love of a float hunt, the Zin Master, an addiction to nicotine, Jule’s intro to Kayaking & a love for water, Alpaca Rafts, the birth of pack rafting, raft technology, Alaska Kayak Academy, Alaska Pack Raft School, ACA American Canoe Association, New Zealand is After Alaska & Hawaii had a baby, practice on flat water, situational awareness, catch an eddy, white water essentials, not thriving but surviving, Jules close calls, the “Alpaca Mage”, writing the book, “The “Alaska Packraft Guide Book”, America Pack Raft Association, the ol’Air Horn trick, critters on the river, the film selection process, May 8th, IPFF International Packraft Film Fest @ Williwaw, Snow Kayaking, Packrafting Prince William Sound, bottom ice/office, play boating
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Sunday Feb 23, 2025
Sunday Feb 23, 2025
Daniel Buitrago, Brandon Fifield & Jack Lau are back in studio with special guest Nick Boris - Wildlife photographer and videographer @nickborisphitography
Conservation Night for the AK WSF Friday April 11th, American Primeval, 2025 Fur Rondy, Iditarod, Iron Dog, Miners & Trappers Ball, Frozen Ground, Movie franchises runs, Portage lake caving incident, Curfboard, Homer King Fishing, Spirit Bear, Could you shoot an Albino Moose?, Kyle the Admiral Senior, Kylee the rapper, sand steak night, Yolle story after the break, Nick brought some prints, the spirit owl, finding a love for photography, Kyle shows Nick the way, a career in mass communications, DIVIDS, Norfuck, 6-years in the Navy, All Hands Magazine, The Northwest Passage, tell the navy’s truth, The SERE project, The HELO experience, Mike The Mercedes Mentor, the Alaska transition, Mystique of Alaska, A career in wildlife conservation, telling the Alaskan Last Frontier Story, Road Hunting for Wild Life, the cross fox, the owl & the cannon, Canon EOS R1 & the ROS R3, if you want to feel like a man shoot with a Cannon,
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Sunday Feb 16, 2025
Sunday Feb 16, 2025
Daniel Buitrago, Brandon Fifield & Chad Aurentz are joined in studio by a true Alaskan and steward of wildlife and fish conservation, Danny Rinella.
Daniels former rap career, the future of the local music scene, the road to Hanna, the fear of letting of letting go, Ahtna and the Copper River Bison hunt, floating in the ice, Danny’s son and his first buck, 5 years in the making of the youth sheep hunt, moving the line, Phil Velayo shooting course June 6th to June 8th Kenai, AK, Skate for real & Drop your Heels, Is there good Bar-B-cue in AK?, Chad’s Trim Camp, Danny’s Marlin by spear, Spear ice fishing, The Hunt’n Dog Podcast, Danny’s AK Story & history, Chad’s Trophy Chinook, Trading a trophy king for a rifle,
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Sunday Feb 09, 2025
Sunday Feb 09, 2025
AWP Episode 206 “If the grass is long, cut it!” Coke Wallace of Midnight Sun Safari’s, Alaska’s foremost horseback guide outfitters!
Daniel Buitrago, Brandon Fifield & Chad Aurentz invite the man, the myth & the legend Coke Wallace in studio all the way from Healy AK to share his compelling story and history guiding horseback in the mighty Alaska Range.
Cokes first wolf @ 8, the big move to AK, the shower house 26 pack in the Brooks Range, Israel Payton 84 inch bull, the archery bull that got away, put a trillion toward conservation, Primary cause of predatory Dall sheep mortality, Joe Juan & the 40’s, Wilson the Ranch Dog, Coke’s 30 years @ Sheep Show, Bob Degrosy from Idaho, The Frank Galato award, towards to tunnels foundation, 1.3 million to the cause, a love for the danish, river crossing in crocs, “real men don’t shake it, they ring it” the wolverine suite, Eastern Sportsman Show, How’d he get the name Coke?, Daniels horse, Rudy from Alberta, getting split in half, struggles of raising horses in AK, Jim McCan, Same Day Don,
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Sunday Feb 02, 2025
Sunday Feb 02, 2025
AWP Episode 205 “Jimmy’s Back” James Eicher Alaska Hunting Guide & HVAC Specialist
Daniel Buitrago, Brandon Fifield & Jack Lau invite Alaska Hunting Guide James Eicher back into the studio to find out the latest & greatest with James and that guide life!
The boys share their animal cruelty stories & regrets, lack of small game hunting opportunity on Alaska, finidng the hustler magazine stash in the woods, rock’n the Elmer-Fud hat, getting hopped one a tank of a bear on day-1, the helly trench, the Sitka Trench Coat, wearing hippers, Jame’s coming out to be a moose call competition judge, January 30th @ Double Shovel BHA & The Goat Alliance, 40 mile Caribou Herd Winter Hunt RC867 1-Bull January 11th - March 31st, James client 65 inch dandy bull, bear buster call, the black bear double tap, a love for big brown bears, Kodiak & a wide variety fish & Game, the Havalon Hydra, Jacks new sleeping bag & pad, Frank the tanks ass whoop’n, embracing the Tipi, breaking bank for a new Barney’s pack, running Argo’s, The Alyeska Gecko, James’ 2025 Guide season plans
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Sunday Jan 26, 2025
Sunday Jan 26, 2025
Daniel Buitrago & Brandon Fifield are on site @ the 2025 Sheep Show in Reno, Nevada! Our first year attending the event and so tune as we are soaking it all in! Tune in and listen as we have a great list of guest speakers.
- Segment 1: Thursday - w/Kevin Kehoe - 2025 Sheep Show Intro
Thank you to AK WSF for having AWP @ the show, Family vibe @ the sheep show, the sheep show youth section and activities, exceptional organization of the event, gracious guest and staff, biologist hall of fame?, gotta book early folks, biologist connections, celebrating 47 years if the sheep show, 19 Sheep Jurisdictions in the world, Nick Nolty Safari’s, make sure to buy a table seat for the AK WSF Banquet April 12th, Desert Bighorn Sheep hunt “Life Member” Giveaway, The Chugach Dall Sheep raffle, Bear viewing giveaway, the gift of volunteer time
• ⁃ Segment 2: Friday
- w/Jack Ahtcheson (Legendary Hunting Consultant & Kurt Alt (Former Biologist & WSF Conservation Director)
Mongolian government, adopting the WSF conservation model, biologist, outfitters and government working as a team, Argali research center, retaining citizen hunting, red books, hunting consulting, funned going to the right, ear marked funds, measuring success by measuring the impact, The Hurley Scholarship fund, wild sheep internship, behind the scene work happening at the sheep show, be bold or go home, Mongolian Conservation permit, import conditions, not all hunting is conservation, and not all conservation is hunting, Mongolian chess champions, F.A.C.E,
- Segment 3: Saturday w/Shane Mahoney
A church like feel to the event and community, 15 million hunters annually in the US, over 1,4 billion meals are harvested annually, 4.3 billion to replace wild game, the prevision of wild food, our revolutionary past, “eat wild live free”, what is the North American American Model of Conservation, the Lacey act, fundamentals of wild life conservation, 981 million raised in the purchase of licenses, 34 billion in revenue raised by haters annually, the holy grail, what if hunting went away, hunting is not a side show, the marshal plan, One Natural World, One Humanity, One Chance… Conservation Matters,”
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Sunday Jan 19, 2025
Sunday Jan 19, 2025
Daniel Buitrago, Brandon Fifield & Chad Aurentz sit down with Marshall Johnson regional director of the shiny new Blacktail Deer Foundation established in December of 2024
A transition from a career in the newspaper industry to habitat conservation, recent wind storms in South central Alaska, the death of news paper, American Primeval, Marshall’s loss of dominate eye sight, starting the Blacktail Deer Foundation chapters in Alaska, Mule Deer in Alaska, Team Blacktail, 2024 Kodiak Big Buck Contest, Blacktail deer night @ the Double Shovel in Kodiak, Blacktail Deer Foundation Kodiak Chapter Banquet May 3rd 2025, Infrared drone, opening new chapters in Alaska, the new Anchorage chapter, plot treatment projects in the Tongass, a focus on habitat conservation getting the information to the people through a digital age, finding common ground for a common cause “Conservation of Animals & the Resource)
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