If we've said it once, we've said it a 1,000 times: Wind is the ultimate game changer on any trip to the Boundary Waters.

In the first full-length episode of the podcast, hosts Joe Friedrichs and Matthew Baxley navigate the complexities and challenges of wind during any given trip to the canoe-country wilderness. Expert guests, including a meteorologist from the National Weather Service in Duluth, and a fisheries biologist from the Department of Natural Resources in Grand Marais, bring science and data into the discussion of how wind can and does impact recreation across the Boundary Waters.

We also hear from Omaha Erik Dickes and his son Justin about how wind impacted their late-season canoe trip to the east side of the BWCA.

Another guest, Adam Mella from the Tumblehome Podcast, previews the January edition of the Paddle and Portage digital magazine and the feature he wrote about how becoming a father reshaped his connection to the wilderness.