Day Fire Podcast

This week we talked with Tish Gailmard, Director of Wildlife Conservation, Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center, Chattanooga, TN. Tish has a 20 year tenure with Reflection Riding and is a Tennessee Wildlife Federation 2016 Conservation Educator of the Year. She is also a Federal Red Wolf Species Survival Plan Management Team member, Red Wolf Task Force Member, Red Wolf Blood Champion.

This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week we talk with Ryan Meulemans who has been exploring the outdoors since an early age. Growing up camping and fishing led to a job as a fly fishing guide and owner of his own fly fishing travel business. In his late 20’s he discovered trail running which has been a consuming passion since. As with everything, he is all in and taking everything to the absolute extreme, 50k races quickly moved on to 50mi and 100+ mile races.

This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week we are talking with Dave Baker, a native and resident of the Sonoran Desert, living in Tucson, Arizona.

He has enjoyed a lifelong passion for the outdoors; at various times taking pleasure in hiking, backpacking, rock climbing, kayaking, mountaineering, ski touring and outdoor photography. He most often adventures in the magnificent American West, having a special fondness for wild places on the Colorado Plateau including Grand Canyon, Escalante, Canyonlands, Bears Ears, and more.

In 1967, with a childhood friend, Dave launched one of the early outdoor equipment outfitters in the United States, the Summit Hut, which has served Tucson ever since supplying equipment and clothing for outdoor adventurers.

Some 10 years ago, Dave passed the business on to new owners and he now enjoys time spent with family, grandchildren, and continuing outdoor adventures.

This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Andy Anderson started running and climbing in Chattanooga, Tennessee at age 13. In high school he started working at Rock Creek Outfitters. He ran competitively through college and annoyed his coaches and professors by climbing and skiing way too much. Andy worked as a climbing ranger in National Park Service for 15 summers. Since leaving the Park Service, Andy spends his summers being a dad, programming computers, guiding, running and climbing as much as he can, and keeping up with his wife (a biathete, runner, climber, skier, and climate scientist) and 10 year old son who says his favorite things are running, skiing, and biking. In the winters Andy is an avalanche forecaster for the Sierra Avalanche Center where he spend his days going up and down mountains on skis and digging holes in the snow. Andy currently hold the fastest known times on Longs Peak and the Grand Teton and the second fastest time on Mt. Whitney. He regularly places in the top five of most of the trail races he enters. Andy is also an athlete for Mammut. Since turning 40, he is hoping that his baldness will make him more aerodynamic and that he will be able to tap into that elusive “old-man-strength.”

This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Sunny Montgomery lives in Ocoee, Tennessee, in a 600-square-foot cabin she built with her boyfriend. Since November, they've been living off-the-grid, gardening, chicken-keeping and boiling water to take baths.

Sunny is a writer and editor with Get Out Chattanooga and Chatter magazine. On summer weekends, she and her boyfriend run a taco truck on the Ocoee River (though this season's opening has been delayed due to coronavirus.)

Her passion is whitewater canoeing. Discovering new creeks and rock smears make her happiest, but the Ocoee River, where she learned to paddle and where you'll find her any summer weekend (before opening the taco truck, of course) is among her most favorite places on Earth.

Notable past paddling trips include Gates of Lodore in Dinosaur National Monument, Costa Rica and the Grand Canyon. This October – pandemic willing – she has plans to launch for her second Canyon trip.

This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

If your stuck in the house, or out on the trail alone.. Here are some stories to enjoy from Day Fire Podcast.

This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week we talk with Jason Finnell, who was born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Jason is the mountain bike program director for the Schejola Foundation, and helps open mountain bike programs (with start up grants through the foundation of up to $25,000) for Boys & Girls Clubs across the Southeast.

Jason’s hobbies include mountain biking, snowboarding, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu He has competed in numerous adventure races with his team Adventure Capitalists/BDAR with a division win at the ATOMIC 30 hour. Jason is a BJJ black belt, and is the owner of Veritas Brazilian jiu-jitsu in Dalton, Georgia.

This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week we talk with Jim Markley, a Founding Partner of Sockwell Socks. Jim is an outdoor industry icon with over 4 decades of successful business experience. Hear his founders story, talk fabric, construction, design, recovery, travel and plantar fasciitis. For more information on the Sockwell story: sockwellusa.com

This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Dawson shares more stories and experiences from his trip out West!

This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week we talk with Justin Shipp, founder and owner of Site Seven and ultimate van guru. We talk about vans, RV's, camper trucks and must have features when building out your van. Did you know Ford has a new all wheel drive Transit?

This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm