I drove 52 hours and 12 minutes to Baja, Mexico to freedive and spearfishing for Marlin. After day two of the trip I sat down with my guide, Angelo, from La Ventana Dive Center for part 1 of a two part episode. We talk Marlin, how I almost got arrested on the way here, the challenges of guiding spearfishermen, and how Angelo almost got eaten be a tiger shark. 

Taylor organizes and guides expeditions to the North and South Pole, across Greenland, over South Georgia Island (following Shakleton’s route) and has some good stories to tell as well as insights into what it takes both mentally and physically to endure these climates. Enjoy the show and check out Polar Explorers if you want to do a trip like this. 

Fan favorite, Madeline Lau is in studio this week with her precious yellow lab puppy sleeping at my feet to talk about river ecology, responsible tourism and to discuss the aspects of marine corps leadership that can be applied to parenting. Enjoy!

Taylor Chism is just your garden variety blonde gal who flies helicopters to fight wildland fire, jumps into canyons from hovering helicopters to tackle wolves, elk, and bighorn sheep for science, flies to Baja by herself in her 70 year old airplane to swim with whale sharks, rescues cow dogs, hunts moose, and has strong opinions about how a life should be properly lived. After a two year absence we welcome back to the 6 Ranch Podcast the one and only..

What started as an off-road race using cars that cost less than $500 has turned into the largest organized clean up of trash on public land in the country. Tune in for some laughs, good stories, and to hear how the Sons of Smokey are taking care of our national forests and BLM. 

Danny Bolton is a father, skateboarder, spearfisherman, off-road driving instructor, and hunter— among other things. He’s also a good friend and an all around interesting guy. He came out to Oregon from Hawaii to guide archery elk with me this season and we sat down to talk elk, off-roading and a number of other subjects. Enjoy the show and if you haven’t already, write a review on whatever platform you listen to this show on. This show is expensive to produce and is how my editor and I make a living, your reviews help us keep producing it. Thank you!

My guests this week are several herds of rutting elk. This may be the best audio recording of elk ever made. Over the next hour you will hear up-close vocalizations from bulls, cows and calves like never before. In some cases you can hear the bulls breathing into the microphone. I captured low frequency growls, grunts and glunks that can only be heard within a few feet of an elk. You’ll hear huffs, hisses, whines, and even a flat out bull fight— not to mentioning epic bugling and chuckling. While listening to this episode you’ll have the chance to understand elk sounds like never before. If you listen to this entire episode and don’t hear an elk sound you’ve never heard before I’ll give you your money back. Enjoy the sounds of September. 

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In this episode, we sit down with Cate Havstad-Casad—a hatmaker, rancher, and founder of Range Revolution—to unravel the hidden environmental cost of America’s closets and how she’s forging a different path. From handcrafting custom western hats and wrangling cattle to building a 1,400-acre regenerative farm and launching a luxury leather goods brand, Cate reveals the waking moment when she learned that over 5 million cattle hides are discarded in the U.S. each year. She explains how Range Revolution is more than a business—it’s a radical redesign of the leather supply chain, using hides that would otherwise go to waste, partnering with ranches regenerating the land, and rejecting petroleum-based fast fashion. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in sustainable style, ethical agriculture, and how one woman is changing the way we value natural materials—one heirloom-quality piece at a time.

There is only one overland company that was born on an elk hunt, and I sat down with the owner and inventor of the Lone Peak to hear the story while mine was being installed on my truck. Since then I’ve spent a few nights in it and used the other features on a daily basis and I have to say, I’m impressed. After another 40 nights sleeping in it, this thing will have paid for itself. Anyhow, enjoy the episode and dig in to see if this is a piece of gear that would benefit you. 

This week I have a very special guest, my mentor and friend, Tim Butler. Tim served in the Marines in the gulf war and since then has worked as an engineer for many if not most of the major gun manufacturers in America. While he may argue this point, I believe he has influenced firearms more than any other individual in the past century, and more than likely, if you’re an American hunter, you own a firearm that Tim worked on. Make sure to check out the portion of this episode where he describes making the pistols carried by the guards of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier— more detail and nostalgia have been put into these sacred firearms than any other in active military service. Give me chills.