Day Fire Podcast

This week we spoke with Liz Anjos, aka “Mercury,” who just finished and set the new women's South to North supported record on the Appalachian Trail from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Katahdin in Maine. 51 days, 16 hours, and 30 minutes.

The women’s overall record stands at 46 days, 11 hours, and 20 minutes, set by Jennifer Pharr Davis in 2011 hiking North to South.

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This week we speak with Auden Schendler, Vice President of Sustainability who is with Aspen Skiing Company. Auden focuses on big scale solutions to climate change, primarily clean energy and activism. He worked previously in corporate sustainability at Rocky Mountain Institute.

Auden has been a trailer insulator, burger flipper, ambulance medic, Outward Bound instructor, high school math and English teacher, and Forest Service goose-nest island builder. He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Google and Starbucks, and to second graders and Chilean kayakers. His writing has been published in Harvard Business Review, the L.A. Times, Scientific American, Climatic Change, Atlantic.com, Huffington Post, The Denver Post, and other media, and his work has been covered in Outside, Fast Company, Travel + Leisure and Businessweek. In 2006, Auden was named a global warming innovator by Time Magazine and in 2007 he testified to Congress on the impacts of climate change on public lands. His book Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolutionwas called “an antidote to greenwash” by NASA climatologist James Hansen.

Auden lives in Basalt, Colorado with his wife Ellen and their children Willa and Elias, who call him "a goofy global warming guy."

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This week, Kristi Parsons is back talking about her beloved Smoky Mountains and some of the challenges that Covid-19 has on the National Park. We talk trails and how we can all get involved in supporting The Smoky Mountains National Park. We also get a quick history lesson. We love talking with Kristi, she is a rock star!

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This week our guest is - (insert dramatic pause) Dawson Wheeler! What advice would the current Dawson give the younger Dawson? What adjustments has he made in order to stay active as he has gotten older? Tis the season to plan your winter ski trips - so we talk about that. Plus - some gear info, what adventures has he been on recently and where is he headed next? We pulled this audio from a Facebook LIVE video Clint and Dawson did - enjoy!!

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This week we talked with Stan Prichard. After finishing High School it was off to Durango and Fort Lewis College where he quickly quit the cross-country team for adventures, climbing and skiing around Colorado and Utah. All of his time during college that wasn’t spent on schoolwork was spent developing his skills, gaining his medical and technical certifications and trying to work in the outdoor industry in guiding and retail. At the end of college, he borrowed $5,000 against his truck and got his first credit card and bought a 10 acre mining claim outside of Silverton, CO and started Treasure Mountain Hut and Guide Service. For the next ten years, his time was spent guiding, running his business and blowing it all off to travel and adventure.

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This week we spoke with Hollee Brock. Hollee says, "I tend to problem solve like an inventor, ponder life like a philosopher, and express it like a poet.

I have been the COO of Brock Inc, a living and loving enterprise where we help things grow, for almost 30 years. I am proficient in ways that might be less visible in the typical metrics of achievements but are strong in the big picture of life.

I am walking into a new season of life so I decided to kick it off by walking a pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago in Spain. I have followed that 'boots on the ground' experience with the pilgrimage of writing about it."

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This week we talk with up and coming Ultra runner Noah Cochran who was born in 1999. Noah was a high school cross country runner who earned an athletic scholarship at Bryan College. But after one season he transferred schools to pursue Ultra running. He has run a 14:47 100 miler; whoa!!. In 2019 he won, the Chattanooga Mountain stage race, the Georgia Jewel 100 miler and set a course record and in 2020 he has early season wins at Rock/Creek rabid Raccoon 25k, Fort Yargo Ultra 50k, Mass Extinction Elimination Endurance Challenge and Second in Merrill's Mile 24 Hour race.

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Karah Nazor is a biologist, science teacher, aquarist (she raises 3 species of jellyfish in her lab), She loves to swim in oceans, lakes and rivers, Karah is also the Race Director of Swim the Suck, and she loves insanely spicy food and IPAs.

Karah is from Chattanooga, TN. She started swimming competitively at the age of 7 for the Chattanooga Area Swim League’s East Ridge Youth Foundation. Her grandmother grew up in Suck Creek (she was born in the Pot House) in the heart of the TN River Gorge. She taught her how to make yodel calls which echoed down the canyon and she dreamed of swimming through that gorge one day. She was a student/athlete for the Girls Preparatory School (GPS) Bruisers. In high school, she remembers wishing they could put their yards in the river rather than the pool (the river was RIGHT THERE!) and she also knew that one day she would attempt to swim the English Channel. Fast forward through ~15,000 miles of natatorium swim practice, She finally found herself at home training for an Alcatraz race in the frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay at the South End Rowing Club. There, she befriended channel swimmers who inspired and encouraged her, and soon enough, she became one of them. There, she also learned to surf at Ocean Beach and became an abalone freediver.

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This week we are talking with Dr. John Anderson. John works as an emergency medicine doc primarily at a trauma center and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada School of Medicine. In the winter, John also works in a ski clinic in the Lake Tahoe region during the winter fixing primarily orthopedic injuries. Also John, helped start and teach for our company, Tahoe Wilderness Medicine where they do wilderness medical education courses paired with some adventures like backcountry skiing in Norway and Antarctica, trail running in Chamonix, climbing in Spain, etc. Here's a link for that https://tahoewildernessmedicine.com/ On the side John is the medical director for the Broken Arrow Skyrace Series and has provided care for various ultrarunning races from local trail races to multi-day stage races in the Gobi desert.

From a running perspective he has been running around in the woods for most of his life, from cross country in school to trails and ultra, and had a decent bit of success and certainly a ton of fun in ultrarunning over the last 16 years. In terms of race results, most recently John finished 7th overall at the 2019 Tor des Glaciers in the Italian Alps. This is a unique event, an unmarked 450km (~300miles) route done in a single push with over 105,000 of climbing that has interesting and variable terrain from steep mountain trails to 4th and 5th class scrambles. Here's a link to a race report John wrote for Ultrarunning Magazine for it https://ultrarunning.com/featured/the-inaugural-tor-des-glaciers/

Dr. John Anderson also has a great family with 4 kids and an amazing wife Janel.

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This week we talk with Nick Rader and Chris Loizeaux, Founders of Trekka Designs.

It all started when they – Nick & Chris – met while on a week-long fly fishing and motorcycle adventure/photoshoot for RoadRUNNER Motorcycle Touring & Travel Magazine.

What was suppose to be a week of riding motorcycles and fly fishing small mountain streams turned into a week of torrential rain. It turns out, that was the best possible outcome. 5 guys tried to pass the time in a cabin by playing guitar, drinking beer, tying flies & talking, but after a few days, the conversation turned to gear and its shortcomings. They ended up sketching a pair of pants with all the features they thought would be perfect for adventure and traveling.

When they got back from the trip, they hit the ground running – and Trekka was born.

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