Alaska Outdoors Magazine: By Alaskans, For Alaskans, Or For Anyone Who Ever Dreampt About Alaska

Steve Levi, Master Of The Impossible Crime,talks about his books Travel Smart Alaskaand Cowboys of the Sky. Steve is an expert on Alaska - he has written extensively on the state, its history, and its people.

This episode ends with Evan’s sportsman’s high road admonition for the outdoors.

Anchorage, Alaska inventor and biologist, Smiley Shields, talks about stone bows and a flyreel made from wood. Smiley grew up in Anchorage and shares what it was like, as a young boy, to fish, camp, explore in the woods and wilds of Anchorage, in the very places now occupied by shopping malls, subdivisions, even expressways.

Our interview with Carl Douglass: Neurosurgeon Turned Author Writes With Gripping Realism, happened a few years ago soon after Carl published his first book, The Last Phoenix. Later in the podcast Carl is joined by Glen (Dusty Sourdough) Guy who shared some of Carl's CIA Phoenix experiences.

Along the way we'll stop for Traveling the Tundra and end with One Last Cast: Miss Shapen Two.

Shawn Lyons, Acknowledged Alaska Hiking Authority, is an avid hiker and hill scrambler. Many consider him the hiking guru of South Central Alaska. For many years Shawn's narratives about his hikes and races often appeared in a weekly hiking/climbing column that he writes for the Anchorage Daily News. 

We'll pause in the action for Subsistence Scenarios and Solutions by Bill Deal.

And we'll end with One Last Cast, Play Together, Stay Together.  

In this episode we interview Herb Ekman, owner of Alaska Sausage. His knowledge of Alaska outdoors is extensive. He has a fondness for hunting Kodiak. His expertise in caring for game in the field is extensive both from being a hunter and a processor of fish and game.

We'll stop along the way and have Alaska Outdoors trivia contest.

And end the show with One Last Cast.

Today's One Last Cast, Talkeetna Pack Train, is by Patti Jackson