Catch Me Outside

A few listeners have kindly reached out to say they don't understand all the adventure lingo that's used on the show. 

So for this episode my partner Ian and I bring you a beer-fuelled hiker lingo quiz show. The results are (hopefully) informative, sometimes funny and often crass. So be warned, this episode definitely earns its explicit rating. 

Definitions start around the 7:45 mark and include: 

• Type-2 fun

In the future, I'll try to define obscure terms as they come up.

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Judith Kasiama is the founder of Colour the Trails, a collective of Black, Indigenous, People of Colour and LGBTQ2S+ adventure seekers that has been growing and enriching Canada’s outdoor adventure community since 2017.

Judith was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but left as a refugee with her family, settling first in Australia, then the U.S., and then, in 2010, in Canada. 

She quickly took to the trails around her home in B.C., and while she saw some diversity on her hikes, the fabric of Canada’s outdoor industry still looked pretty white.

So she founded Colour the Trails in 2017 to provide opportunities for Black, Indigenous and people of colour around Vancouver to learn hiking, mountain biking, skiing and snowboarding as a community.

Since then, the group has expanded to add chapters in Alberta and Ontario. This episode featuring Judith covers:

• Diversifying Canada’s outdoor adventure industry

• How the conservation and leave no trace movements can be less exclusionary

• How white folks can help keep their Black, Indigenous and PoC friends safer in white-dominated spaces

• The joy of colourful outdoor fashions

• Judith’s favourite high-risk, high-reward, steep-learning-curve sports 

• Judith’s favourite and least favourite backcountry foods

To learn more about Colour the Trails, including how to become a member or support the group, visit colourthetrails.com.

Colour the Trails operates on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

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I had so much fun talking to long-distance hiker Nicole Dubeta in December for the first episode of Catch Me Outside, we ended up with too much material to reasonably fit into one episode. 

So, just in time for the start of the 2022 thru-hiking season, here is the rest of my conversation with Nicole about her thru-hikes of the Pacific Crest Trail and the Great Divide Trail.

This episode covers (though not in this order): 

• Skills courses to take before the PCT

• Bricking her phone

PLUS: A surprise guest appearance by Otis

NOTE: This interview was recorded in December 2021, so references to the state of the pandemic aren’t current.

NOTE NOTE: If you haven’t listened to episode one yet, you should listen to it first! 

As promised, the Blackfly Song - https://www.instagram.com/tv/CbsJuc6gViJ/

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Chev Dixon is a leader in New York’s kayaking community.

He’s a professional sea kayaker, outdoor educator and director of Hudson River Riders, an organization in Yonkers that works to increase access to the river and introduce urban youth to kayaking.

Personally and professionally, he’s working all the time to diversify the outdoors and speak truth to power.

He’s also on a mission to complete the Hudson Valley Challenge, a human-powered 527 kilometre exploration of the Hudson River Estuary, starting at the New York City Harbour and ending in Troy New York.

On today’s episode, Chev talks about his recent cross-country road trip, his journey to kayaking, how paddling empowers youth in Yonkers and some of his upcoming adventures. 

Links:

Follow Chev's work and adventures on Instagram at @negus_chev

If you want to support Hudson River Riders or Chev himself as he raises funds for the Hudson Valley Challenge, email Chev at [email protected].

Learn more about Hudson River Riders at hudsonriverriders.org. Land:

Hudson River Riders operates on the traditional territory of the Lenape. 

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Vancouver Island, off the coast of British Columbia, is criss-crossed with hiking trails. One, in particular, draws thousands of Canadian and international hikers each year: The West Coast Trail.

The West Coast Trail is a 75 km-long coastal hike that follows some of the ancient paths and paddling routes used for trade and travel by Indigenous peoples for millennia.

It’s located on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, on the traditional territories of the Huu-ay-aht, Ditidaht, and Pacheedaht First Nations, and takes hikers over beaches, through temperate rainforests, rivers and deep mud and up and down more than 100 ladders. It’s very popular, and sites need to be reserved in advance. Also, because so much of it involves beach walking, hikers need to carry tide charts to plan their timing each day. They’re rewarded with views of the ocean though.

Just south of this iconic trail is a lesser known but probably equally awesome multi-day hiking called the Juan de Fuca Trail. Like the west coast trial, it follows the coast of the island and involves beach walking, hiking through mud and planning around the tides. It’s shorter, at 47 kilometres, less busy and sites are mostly available on a first-come, first served basis.

Laura and Kyle are a couple I met last year while hiking B.C.’s Sunshine Coast Trail. We met in town during a resupply and leap-frogged each other for the rest of the hike, often camping in the same spots. They explained to me that, a few years earlier, they’d attempted back-to-back hikes of the West Coast Trail and the Juan de Fuca. On this episode of Catch Me Outside, they share their experience, including the moment they helped rescue a hiker from a potentially deadly situation. 

This episode covers: 

• What to expect on the West Coast and Juan de Fuca trails 

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Did you know there’s a pretty big surfing scene in Canada? Or that stand-up paddle boarding can actually be seriously competitive, like on an international scale? People compete in races that go from short sprints to marathons hundreds of kilometres long. 

People have travelled over water with boards and paddles for millennia, but surfing and stand-up paddle boarding — or SUP — originated as sports in parts of Polynesia, particularly Hawaii, in the last hundred or so years. They’ve since become popular around the world, including in Canada, where people like Maddi Leblanc have made careers out of them. 

Maddi is a semi-pro SUP athlete, a surf and SUP instructor and the founder of On Board, an annual fundraising event for the Canadian Cancer Society. On this episode, she talks about how SUP helped her recover from a year marked by major loss, her wildest moment on a board, the competitive world of SUP, some of the best spots to surf in Canada and how someone living just about anywhere in Canada can get into surfing or SUP.

This episode covers: 

• People are surfing the Great Lakes right now, in February, and apparently that’s normal! 

• How stand-up paddle boarding helped Maddi recover from the deaths of two friends in one year

• Maddi’s top surfing spots in Canada 

• The Great Lakes are just un-salty seas

• Ocean surfing vs Great Lake surfing

• How get into surfing and SUP, even if you’re landlocked

• Long-distance paddle boarding…like backpacking! 

• Maddi’s wildest moment on a board

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Does your backpacking gear gather dust each winter while you sit by the window like a Victorian ghost, yearning to sleep on the ground? It doesn't have to be that way, if you're prepared to face the cold.

In this "adventure 101" episode of Catch Me Outside, Jenna Nodding — certified mountain guide and founder of Canmore, Alberta's Get Outside Adventures — goes over the basics of winter backpacking, including:

• Why it's great

Canmore was originally known as Chuwapchipchiyan Kudi Bi, which translates to “shooting at the willows” in the Stoney Nakoda language. It is situated on the traditional Treaty 7 territory of the Stoney Nakoda, Blackfoot, Tsuut'ina, Ktunaxa, Secwépemc, Dene, Mountain Cree, and Métis.

Links:

Get Outside Adventures 

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Last April, Pascale Marceau and Eva Capozzola summited Canada’s third tallest peak in a three-week Yukon expedition, becoming the first-all woman team to summit Mount Lucania. 

Today, they talk about the ascent, how they became mountaineers and how you can. Plus, they chat about upcoming adventures.

Links

SIKU

Colour the Trails

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