The High Route Podcast

The High Route Podcast episodes:

• 06.14.2024

  The Cat in the Bag Episode with Fabrikant and Haas

  The show must go on. It will go on when we bust into September. But it's a wrap for season one of The High Route Podcast. Lucky number episode 13, we'll call it good right there. In this episode, Adam...

  
• 05.01.2024

  Roadkill Burritos and some Wasatch Skiing with Pete Vordenberg

  Here are a few notes to get this podcast rolling. We hope you are reading this.  1) There is some foul language in this podcast. F-bombs abound, in particular, after ~the 45:00 minute mark.   2) The episode is broken into...

  
• 03.12.2024

  Avalanche Airbags and Wilderness Medicine with Dr. Patrick Fink

  Dr. Patrick Fink joins us on Episode 11 of The High Route Podcast. Fink is an ER physician in Bend, Oregon, involved with the local and broader Wilderness Medicine community. He hosts Wilderness Medicine Updates—"a podcast for those interested in...

  
• 02.23.2024

  The Emergence Episode with Hennessey, Gardner, and Fabrikant

  We're dropping this episode a bit before March—a dreamtime month for many THR readers and podcast listeners. March is on the cusp here in the Northern Hemisphere of longer days. All that translates into more time to move through the...

  
• 01.16.2024

  Empowerment with Blizzard Tecnica's Leslie Baker-Brown

  This past Fall, Blizzard-Tecnica released a ski and a book to raise money to support the Hilaree Nelson Fund. The fund promotes women-specific scholarships to support women in pursuing professional development relating to mountain pursuits. Formally, the scholarship is called...

  
• 01.05.2024

  Seeking Impeccability with Lynne Wolfe

  We’re titling this the "Seeking Impeccability" epsiode for a few sound reasons. Lynne Wolfe, the guest on our first 2024 episode of The High Route Podcast, is aspirationally impeccable. She has decades of experience as an avalanche educator and a...

  
• 12.13.2023

  Moving Through the Mountains with Sophia Schwartz

  Many folks make up the backcountry community. Sliding skis or a splitboard uphill takes some discomfort tolerance (until you feel sufficiently fit) and a commitment to the unknown, even in small doses. Throw other people into the mix, and the...

  
• 12.01.2023

  Traversing the Redline

  There are some foundational values here at The High Route. Right at the top of the list is inspiring backcountry travelers to dream big adventures, and when the time is right, go out and have that adventure. Adventure has gradients,...

  
• 11.16.2023

  Golden Ages Collide: Fabrikant, Haas, and Lou Dawson

  I think we all can recall our first time. You're scrambling around a digital facsimile of a library on the early Internet, and wham, you stumbled onto WildSnow. Lou Dawson, author of Wild Snow: 54 Classic Ski and Snowboard Descents...

  
• 10.24.2023

  Training and Resting and the Mountain Athlete Scene: Sam Naney of Cascade Endurance

  About 50 years past the start of the Anthropocene (~1950), mountain towns were abuzz with people running on trails, rock climbing, backcountry skiing, and mountain biking. Rumor has it that even back then, there were complaints of crowded trailheads and...

  
• 10.10.2023

  Alpinism and Ski Mountaineering with Cordes and Fabrikant

  In episode 3 of The High Route Podcast, we bring together two high level practitioners of their respective crafts. Kelly Cordes and Adam Fabrikant. If you are unfamiliar with Cordes and his work, you are about to familiarize yourself with...

  
• 09.14.2023

  Seeing Adventure Films with Nick Rosen

  After a weekend day in the high alpine, where puffies, a biting wind, and turning leaves teased of winter, we're more in tune with the season—which is ski film season. The socials are beginning to buzz with the sending as...

  
• 08.28.2023

  Breathing Room with Caley Fretz of Escape Collective

  Small tremors and more rattling seismic activity have tossed and turned the outdoor media landscape for several years at this point. For example, if you are a core surfer, cyclist, and skier, you know the drill—legacy titles, both in print...