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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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Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Brandon Fifield & Jack Lau link up with Eric Engebretsen CEO and owner of Bay Weld Boats and Cold Water AK spear fisherman Brad Conley.
Draw hunt woes, Hunt results party at Double Shovel Cider Co, Moose call competition, shout outs, Anchorage Boat Show, Bay Weld boats at the show and the process, other boat shows, community connections, growing up together and Alaska history, homesteading, Brad’s path to ownership, Erics design mind, employees of Bay Weld, building a positive work culture, shop growth, manufacturing, book of knowledge, state trooper boat, process of boat order and building, part ownership of Raider Boats, building up to a Bay Weld boat, 278 boats built so far, landing crafts, cold water AK, spearfishing, North Cape Video, trivia, cold water adventures, spearing halibut, surfing, future for cold water & Bay Weld,
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Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Sunday Feb 18, 2024
Daniel Buitrago, Brandon Fifield & Chad Aurentz welcome in Kevin Kehoe, President of the Alaska Wild Sheep Foundation
Kevin’s first Kodiak brown bear encounter, “Who’s doing their laundry in the middle of the night?” Alaskan Turkey’s, Engineering prep and a college career @ Syracuse University, graduation and a career in the Army, Jagermeister history and backstory, learning to hunt in Germany, Roe Buck, Red Stag, Rifle options, delayed miletation, Revier (Permit), hunting tradition saving game thousands of years later, retrieving ducks in the dark, shooting critters in the dark, barn cats, Wild Boar Fever, Kevin’s New Zealand Stag, win a hunt loose your voice, good take karma, Carmen Island Big Horn, British Columbia Lions, Resolute Bay Polar Bear w/Canada North, Shiris Moose meat quality, Sloths jumping in front of the car, North American WSF Chapters, Ducks Unlimited in Alaska, “Triple Canopy” & Matt Man, Finaz to WSF, Starting up WSF in 2014, dealing in YETI, AWP coming to, wild harvest initiative, “A night with Shane MaHoney” a sport hunter that eats the meat, a message to the swing voter, federal overreach issues, closing 19C, executive director (Molly McCarthy-Cunther), M.ovi,
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Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Daniel Buitrago & Brandon Fifield pound the trail with Iron Dog veteran’s and newly acquainted teammates Mike Morgan & Bradley Kishbaugh
Podcast overload, iron dog hard knocks, draw result part reminder, how do you eat ptarmigan, X games timber sled division, Polaris manufacturing, athletes and the come up from the late 50’s, Polaris, Skidoo dominate race sleds over arctic cat/Yamaha, 26 race teams, the mountain sled market, Eddie Burke taking 3rd on the 2024 Yukon Quest, winter coat BMX riding, Bradley towing up in Soldotna, learning how to ride with dad, paying comp hockey, the new 2024 race sleds, lead dog helmet light, mandatory safety gear for the race, Head to toe Klimb, Toggaddi Klim Bibs, Klim Valdez Parka, Klim F3 Carbon Helmet, Haydays in Minnesota, total product testing practice sleds/race sleds, 2024 fresh start
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Sunday Feb 04, 2024
Sunday Feb 04, 2024
AWP Episode 153 “Iditarod Veteran, Blackhawk Expert” w/Sean Underwood (Mushing Alaska) Podcast
Daniel Buitrago, Brandon Fifield & Jack Lau take a ride with Iditarod veteran and fellow podcaster Sean Underwood of the Mush Alaska Podcast
Kusko 300, Highest purse per mile @ $250k in total prizes, uncover secrets, trick of the trade in mushing, fragile image and culture in the sport of mushing, a unique veterinarian experience at Iditarod check point, the itidarod 22 check points, The Canadian Quest, The Alaska Quest 300, Deborah Bicknell’s found the wrong trail near Rohn in 2013, social media mushers, 2018 Girdwoodian Dominance, the happy musher, Sean’s first moose hunt, commercial fishing in Kodiak & Bristol Bay, learning how to ski, snow machine, mining & rafting, embrace the suck (Susitna River), Mahays River Adventures, Sebastian Schnuelle, Iditarod fantasy league, make shift check sleep deprivation, beautifully constructed bridges, “TRIVA GAME”, “Icebound”, catching a rogue team, Balto taking the shine from Togo, uptick in the positive trend of dog-mushing and racing, Dallas Seavy the 2024 favorite, up and coming names and mushing teams, a mushing resurgence
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Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Sunday Jan 28, 2024
Daniel Buitrago, Brandon Fifield & Jack Lau sit down with the iconic & legendary sheep hunter, author and B&C record holder Lew Bradley
Can Lew dunk?, Lew’s double knee replacement, shoulder replacement & back surgures, continued physical conditioning & exercise, horn hunting in the offseason, early years backpacking food, Sgt Major Booze and insisting in the Army in 1967, Dishwater & Ice Cicll monster rams, Chugach sheep genetic, the beast that got away, the 3/4 curl rule back in the day, the first 36 incher, John Lau’s 40 incher draw in 2000, Lew’s AK Museum & Alaskas stuff, mining buckets, evolution of mountain hunting boots, camp trail packs, barney’s packs, Joe Romero (Legendary Taxidermist), Lew’s carving and ram horn art, Kevin Dana’s ancient ram (16 year old Ram), Bill Murphy (17 year old dinosaur), Marty Webb’s beast, Brendon Burns “o’stumpy”, living with sheep (Ryan Miller), Jack’s trivia, 19-days for a 36, flock shooting, 300 Weatherby (First 30 Rams), challenge of writing books, 7 years to publish volume 1-3, Paul Klauser (Pilot), 800 books sold, publisher (Freeze & Press), over 1800 pages, $280k to produce the books, where to buy the books, the 1-day sheep hunt, Lew’s hardest hunts, the close call finale
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Sunday Jan 21, 2024
Sunday Jan 21, 2024
Daniel Buitrago, Brandon Fifield & Emily Thompson visit with special guest & TV personality Ivy O’Guinn about her unique Alaskan lifestyle, passions and hobbies,
Hunt & fishing auctions @ banquets, Emily’s Costa Rica fishing trip, Emily’s Javelina Hunt in AZ, drawing hunts in AZ, Ivy’s crossbow hunt in Ohio, Columbia Blacktail hunt in WA, blue-tongue, “Mountain Men” “Mountain Men Alaska”, babysitting the production team, Ivy & Brett’s personal & professional growth, windows to produce the show, running the trapline, women’s trapline retreat, trapping clients, trapping regulations, modern trapper, fur, fur bearing hide management, taxidermy profession & learning the trade, life size critters, shoulder mounts, growing up in Soldotna & Sky View High, UAA Cross Country running, commercial fishing in Egigik set netting, boat security, Christiansen Arms photo contest winner, Colorado/Wyoming 3 horns Ranch Hunt, 3x3 Elk Harvest, Natalie Eva Marie, ambassadors, sponsorships, brands, Outside: Beyond the Lens, finding a love for fly fishing, managing the the film production, reality vs. the agenda and the compromise, behind the scene, providing the logistics, equipment & food, seeing yourself on TV, keeping it genuine & authentic, game animals and protection on the trail, favorite game meat/fish, 2024 plans, future hunts, wedding on the peninsula, keep trapping alive
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Sunday Jan 14, 2024
Sunday Jan 14, 2024
Daniel Buitrago, Brandon Fifield, Jack Lau & “The Mayor” Adrien Gregory get caught-up and bring in the new year!
Spruce Tip cider, spruce tip picking secrets, reserving campsites early, prince William sound cabin reservation woes, Christmas tree harvesting permit, local military base tree harvesting, Kare Kare (B’s Favorite Philippines dish), missing creature comforts, appreciating a culture of true happiness & quality of life, critters in the Philippines, the Philippines Eagle, Daniels knee replacement (Arthroplasty “Bionic” Knee), surgery process and recovery, the death valley salt and Star Wars, Jack & Darcy’s December Las Vegas adventure, Valley of Fire, Nevada State Park parks, hikes, camper van camping,
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Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Sunday Jan 07, 2024
Daniel Buitrago, Brandon Fifield, & “The Mayor” set the hook at the fly shop with A.J. Hoffman of 3 Rivers Fly & Tackle
Graphic design and social media influence, Death of an industry (Phone book, newspaper & magazines), is there still Playboy?, Luke Mehl “Wild Ice” driving vehicle on open ice & frozen lakes, “The Wolf Pack” snow machine club, the ice haller, ice house registration law, ice fishing guides are typically stewards of the lake, the fish, a little more loose lipped on the ice fishing honey holes, growing popularity of the ice fishing sport in Alaska, the underrated “Chum Salmon” sport fishing, becoming an outdoors-women, a need for more youth hunting opportunity, the development of ics fishing shelters, ice castles, hub systems, soft shelters, auger technology, Electric vs gas powered, pistol bit augers, camera technology, moon cycles, environment knowledge learning to fish, local ice fishing tournaments, growth in surf fishing in Alaska, understanding fishing regulations and emergency orders, lets talk by-catch, trawl fishing (The good the bad & the ugly), the EE zone Cook Inlet, Fukushima radiation leaking poisoning salmon, nature adaptation to climate change, state/federal/international collaboration needed, Mike Hudson, Dans tackle Town, history of the shop ingrained in the community, project heal-waters, a small shop stigma, transient population and its effect on retail, selling knowledge at the tackle shop
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Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Daniel Buitrago, Brandon Fifield & Jack Lau link up with up Caleb Martin of Alaska Outdoor Council to cover the preservation of outdoor pursuits in Alaska -
Freezer scares, loosing meat & capes, luck of the draw, becoming the director of the AOC, EXPLORE ALASKA PODCAST, Moose hunting with a 5 month old, a custom built haul road hunting van, Chicken Caribou hunt pressure, the Alyeska Slushfest, Caleb’s dicey knee blow out, Brad Sparks Alaska Fracture & Orthopedics, the history of AOC starting in 1955, taking over the history & legacy, Ira Edwards Kincaid moose hunt proposal, the governors view on hunting, pro-sportsman, issues with planting animals in natural habitat, unit 19C Sheep closures, extending closures in 24 & 26, States game management and information, based on science, KGB Kids club, super seven raffle, raffle strategy, Ambler Road, mining, haul road shift and conversion to public land access, AIDEA, West Susitna Access Road, Larry AOC Awards, wild game killing strategy for meat quality, favorite freeze dried, MSR, Cabela's Guide Tent,
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Sunday Dec 24, 2023
Sunday Dec 24, 2023
AWP Episode 147 “You Gotta Live It” w/ Andrew Smith of Anchorage Yamaha Polaris
Daniel Buitrago, Brandon Fifield, Chad Aurentz & “The mayor” bring in Andrew Smith of Anchorage Yamaha Polaris to talk all things power sports and the impact it has on Alaska outdoor life style & culture
CPAP & Deviated septum surgery, playing ball @ UAF, Drew’s intro, Anchorage Yamaha Polaris, Wasilla Performance Yamaha, purchasing a power sports dealer, competition with local dealer and other brands, learning how to run and manage a power sports business and taking over ownership, the marine line @ Anchorage Yamaha, Suzuki/Tahtsu, backcountry adventuring, awareness & responsibility, Avalanche training, education and showing & packing classes, new age equipment safety & avalanche equipment, education on trailering, loading & unloading, the industry switch over to electric, e-bikes, seasonal shift timing and the inch, set-backs, Polaris re-calls, stop sell & stop rides, brand loyalty, brand shifting, competition breeds innovation, old school snowmobile premier,
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