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One particularly boisterous and sonorous spring, podcaster and long-distance hiker Alison Young chose to walk the entirety of the Superior Hiking T...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Mar 21, 2024
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
For years, there were only two in the nation, but in 2011, Minnesota got its first with US Bicycle Route-43, the 600-mile Mississippi River Trail f...
- Added: Mar 18, 2024
- Length: 05:21
Minnesota is known for its 10,000 lakes and maybe more specifically, for its canoe culture through the pristine lakes of the Boundary Waters. Over ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many hero...
- Added: Jun 18, 2021
- Length: 28:00
It's almost the Great Conjunction and we've been on the run, on the road, rambling around. It was time to visit the devastation on Cima Dome, where...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Dec 18, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Mitch Treadwell is an avid paddler who kayaks a small creek in downtown Traverse City, Michigan, called Kid's Creek.
- Added: Oct 01, 2020
- Length: 04:20
If the winds are right, I could be in the Bahamas in 10 days. It's nice to have the option.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 04:10
- Purchases: 1
It has always been my dream to live on a sailboat and travel the world. In this short audio piece, I invite the listener into the first step in the...
- Added: Apr 10, 2018
- Length: 05:03
Sam won’t tell you this, but he’s a really great athlete. He has another secret, too. There’s this photo of him leading a ski race, and it’s plaste...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 08, 2016
- Length: 17:19
- Purchases: 1
Today, we take a step back to imagine a world without a web of GPS satellites telling your smartphone where you are every second of the day. While ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 24:33
- Purchases: 1
“Blue Water” sailing is the kind where there’s no land to be seen, hopefully for days or weeks on end, and there’s a rare group of people who contr...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 21, 2016
- Length: 22:39
- Purchases: 1
For alpinist Ben Clark, scaling the world’s toughest mountains was a source of pride and peace; for his parents it was a source of constant worry. ...
- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 18:44
A group of 19th century pioneers lay claim to one of the world’s most inhospitable mountains and turn it into a premiere tourist destination.
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 19:41
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 10, 2016
- Length: 27:59
Paddle Minnesota producer Jim Gallagher shares an audio postcard from a canoe trip he took during the summer of 2015 in the barren lands at the cen...
- Added: Feb 04, 2016
- Length: 07:39
Reporter Andrew Poirier takes a ride on the A train from beginning to end and discovers that there is more to this train than meets the eye.
- Added: Dec 09, 2015
- Length: 04:22
Catch a wave on Lake Superior! Jim Gallagher talks with Randy Carlson of UMD’s Recreational Sports Outdoor Program about surfing the frigid waves ...
- Added: Nov 13, 2015
- Length: 05:31
Jim Gallagher talks with canoe racer and race organizer Mark Walters about the Minnesota Canoe Championship Race held earlier in September in Bemid...
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 10:45
Jimmy Chin, Conrad Anker and Chai Vasarheyli talk the lure of the impossible, taking one’s own medicine, and living in the moment.
- Added: Aug 24, 2015
- Length: 22:07
The Mig Maw had a name for this place that means cradle on the waves. Which is exactly what Prince Edward Island—PEI as the people here call it—loo...
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 26:31
Oyster Virginia is an old fishing village on the seaside of the Easter Shore. On the road in there are old dead rises, some half submerged in the s...
- Added: Jun 10, 2015
- Length: 26:36
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 25:24
Everyone’s felt it. A breeze, a gust, a storm. Wind. Produced for the Transom Story Workshop.
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 07:53
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Marshall Expedition, an important event in the history of early American commerce. Recently, a group o...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 03:27
If the Caribbean’s balmy turquoise charms are doubled by wintry weather at home, the argument could be made they’re halved in close succession to a...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 2
