The Trail Less Traveled

By Mandela Leola van EedenSociety & Culture

The Trail Less Traveled episodes

April 24, 2018 A fascinating look at BIRDS with ornithologist, Tim Keyes.
This show was recorded on the veranda of a 130+ year old Victorian home near the salt marshes on the southern coast of Georgia. Featuring, Tim Keyes, an ornithologist and wildlife biologist for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Tim's focus is coastal non-game birds. Tim will elaborate deeply on how dinosaurs evolved into birds, physiological aspects of birds in terms of why they are able to fly & sometimes swim underwater. Tim talks about eggs & their various shapes and colors in terms of how they differ from species to species and why. In addition, Tim talks about bird's eye sight, feather makeup & we take an in depth look at massive migration and how birds are able to fly across oceans without stopping to destinations they have never been to before. Did you know that birds use celestial navigation? The knowledge embedded in this show will blow your mind.
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1 hr 12 min
April 16, 2018 Andy Ambelang Blue Nile Expedition
Andy was born and raised in Hamilton, MT and from a young age he would solo hike with his dog in the Bitterroots. Andy started rafting when he was 16 and guiding on the Middle Fork of the Salmon when he was 18. Andy has 12 seasons under his belt & now guides primarily on the Grand Canyon, Middle Fork of the Salmon and Selway. In the fall of 2017, Andy completed one and a half expeditions on the blue nile in Ethiopia. The Blue Nile is in its final stages of being fully dammed much like many of our beautiful free flowing rivers around the world. Therefore, Andy was one of the last river runners to experience the Class V+ whitewater and pre-dam ecosystems of the Blue Nile before it is flooded. Andy truly experienced the Blue Nile with everything from being chased by enormous man eating crocodiles to the water level raising 2-meters overnight & losing rafts only to find them completely looted downstream. Andy is an avid adventurer and one of the most humble humans you will ever meet. Andy is known by many on the Grand Canyon as a "Guide's Guide". The next adventure Andy has planned is to drive his 1967 split window VW bus from Missoula to the very tip of South America.
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52 min
March 27, 2018 Bob Marshall Exploration & Backcountry Packing: Smoke Elser
I invite you to listen to stories from our local living cowboy legend, Smoke Elser. Smoke has spent the past 56 years living in the Bob Marshall wilderness packing mules and horses. This unique interview was recorded in Smoke’s 113+ year old historic barn in the Rattlesnake wearing cowboy boots next to a crackling fire drinking muddy black coffee surrounded by thick snow & retired mules. This is a unique opportunity to pass down knowledge from a historic figure who arrived in Montana in 1955. Learn about the history of the Bob Marshall wilderness and some of Smoke’s favorite places to camp after exploring over 55,000 miles of trail within the Bob. Learn about the first man who developed a map of the roadless land in the United States. Smoke is now 84 years old and he is currently teaching his 56th annual mule packing course in his barn right here in Missoula.
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48 min
March 23, 2018 Backcountry mule packing in Montana with saddle maker, Jordan Knudsen.
Recorded in Smoke Elser's 113 year old historic barn on the edge of the Rattlesnake Wilderness. Mandela sits next to a crackling fire with professional packer & saddle maker, Jordan Knudsen.
After moving to Montana in 2001, Jordan Knudsen rapidly grew a passion for horses, mules and back country travel. After a few years of experience in self-taught techniques, he completed Smoke’s packing course in 2004. Since then, not only did Jordan take the time to become proficient in the techniques of decker packing, but he also took it upon himself to improve the equipment he was working with. In 2006 he started a business, now called Sun River Saddlery, that is devoted to building equipment that carries on the traditions of decker packing and back country travel.
To date, Jordan also spends his fall season as a Licensed Backcountry Hunting Guide, contract packs through the summer season and enjoys as much personal and family time in the mountains as time allows.
Jordan has been instructing alongside Smoke Elser going on four years now in the classroom, the field and other public demonstrations.
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48 min
July 27, 2017 1,000 years of fishing in India with third generation fisherman & artist Salem Ahmad
Live from India, Mandela interviews Saleem Ahmad, a local fisherman & artist, who will speak about the evolution of fishing in India, the pollution in the ocean due to nighttime dumping of waste by local hotels, the behavior of the Indian Ocean & the effect of tourism on the culture & ecosystem on the southwestern coast of India. When he's not on the water, Saleem creates artwork with coconuts on the spot where he was born & raised in a thatch hut on the beach...this spot is now covered in cement & surrounded by hotels.
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50 min
July 27, 2017 Grand Canyon Geology (part 2) with professor Dr. Laura Jones Crossey
Recorded in the bottom of The Grand Canyon with Dr. Laurie Crossey. Laurie is a professor of geochemistry at the University of New Mexico. Her interests are in interaction of rock, water, and organic materials: clastic diagenesis, aqueous geochemistry, and organic chemistry. Her recent research in the Grand Canyon and Rio Grande rift has involved the geochemistry of the present hydrologic systems, and their paleohydrology as recorded by travertines. She received her BA from Colorado College in 1977, her MA from Washington University in 1979, and her PhD from University of Wyoming in 1985. She has been at UNM since 1986. She is currently chairman of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UNM.
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47 min
July 27, 2017 Geology of the Grand Canyon (part 1) with climber Dr. Karl Karlstrom
Recorded on location at the bottom of The Grand Canyon with Dr. Karl Karlstrom, professor of Geology in the department of earth & planetary sciences at The Univeristy of New Mexico. Karl is a professional climber who has been working in the Grand Canyon for over three decades. Karl was directly involved with the creation of the Grand Canyon South Rim's "Trail of Time".
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51 min
June 11, 2017 Longest serving owner operated sea kayaking business in New Zealand: Roscos Milford Kayaks
Rosco was on some days off with friends back in 1988 paddling down the Hollyford River into Lake McKerrow and out to Martins Bay with the plan of paddling along the coast on the Tasman Sea and into Milford Sound. After waiting for 2 days at Martins Bay for the 4 meter swell to ease it was an easy paddle down the coast and into Milford. The final 16km paddling all the way into the sound saw Rosco and his friends escorted by a pod of 30 bottlenose dolphins. It was a very “memorable” trip and one that planted the seed for setting up Milford’s first commercial sea kayaking operation.Today over two decades later Rosco has the longest serving owner operated sea kayaking business in New Zealand. With this wealth of experience and a small team of top class guides working alongside him Rosco continues to offer visitors to Milford Sound new and exciting sea kayaking adventures.
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51 min
June 11, 2017 Maori Bush Doctor, film maker, artist & historian: Tipene "Stevo"
Tipene goes by the name Stevo and works as a security guard at the Te Papa Museum in Wellington, New Zealand. Tipene is a Maori Irish man from the north western region of New Zealand’s North Island called, Wai kari mona. His Maori tribe are called “The people of the mist”. Tipene body is covered by Ta Moko traditional maori tattooing which resembles his fauno or family. The left side of his body represents his mother and the right side represents his father. Tipene is an artist, film maker and bush doctor who often makes medicine from plants gathered in the rainforest. Tipene’s newest film is a survival guide for living in the bush.
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59 min
June 11, 2017 Legendary climber w/more than a handful of first ascents & Geology Professor Emeritus: Gray Thompson
“Within a day's drive of Missoula you will find some of the best iceclimbing... in the world,” says Missoula's legendary alpinist GrayThompson. Gray Thompson is a local legendary climber and UM GeologyProfessor Emeritus. Gray has been climbing since the mid 1960s andit's easier for him to think of the places he hasn't been rather thenthe places he has climbed. Gray has done more than a handful of firstascents on North Faces in the Canadian Rockies and worldwide including the Himalayas, Alps and Andes.
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39 min

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