Over the Line
Over the Line
“It’s like the Iditarod with a chance of drowning,” says Jake Beatty, one of the organizers of a bizarre, crazy race called the Race to Alaska. The course traces 750-miles of Alaska’s Inside Passage through complicated currents and tides, busy shipping channels and bear-ridden coastlines from Port Townsend, WA to Ketchikan, AK. In June. The most unpredictable month of the year for weather. There are two rules: no support and no motors. First place wins $10,000. Second place gets a set of decent steak knives.
What’s crazier than trying to race from Washington to Alaska on a boat without a motor? Karl Kruger’s decision to enter the race on a stand up paddleboard.
We’ve got one for you today about a ridiculous goal, about stepping over ‘the line’ and the unexpected places you can wind up physically and mentally.
Want to learn more about the Race to Alaska? Visit r2ak.com
Want to sail with Karl? Check out krugerescapes.com
Music: If Walls Could Talk by Jacob Bain & Nis Kotto • Harbor by Kai Engel • Somnolence by Kai Engel • Barrel Eyes by Canyon Kids • Blowback Blues by Canyon Kids • Loops to Aviemore by The Freeharmonic Orchestra • Dybbuk Box by Sergey Cheremisinov • Numb by Cleod9 • novocaine by fog lake • On the Brink by Jason Tyler Burton
Tracks provided by Free Music Archive and with permission from the artists.
Tales of Terror Vol. 8
For our eighth annual Tales of Terror episode, we have not three, but five stories that span the range of things to fear–from angry men with shotguns, to bears and mountain lions, to things that really don’t have any explanation in the world of science.
First, we visit an abandoned Pennsylvania town with Joe Shearer. Then, we’ll wander the overgrown Forest Service roads of the Sierras with Drew Villeneuve, join Maria DeBari on a spooky descent from Washington state’s Mt. Stuart, jumpstart a dead car battery at a trailhead on the edge of Colorado’s Weminuche Wilderness with Sam Whitley and, finally, travel off the map in Iceland with Sal Zullo.
Happy Halloween!
Music: Live at Bazillus by Aidan Baker • If Walls Could Talk by Jacob Bain & Nis Kotto • Daemones by Kai Engel • The Meadow by Little Glass Men • No Longer The Damaged One (Rebirth Mix by Christopher Alvarado) by Ars Sonor • Original Score by Amy Stolzenbach • No Longer the Damaged One (Original Mix) by Ars Sonor • Halloween by Steve Combs • Thru the Americas by Little Glass Men • A Ghost in My Own House by Schemawound • Oneiri by Kai Engel • paranoiaXII by The F*cked Up Beat • The Magic Bullet by Little Glass Men • Somnolence by Kai Engel • All too human. By Coin Locker Kid • If You Can’t Be The Sun, Be The Sun by Schemawound • She Wolf in my Heart by Sergey Cheremisinov • Dark November #1 by Wayne Kinos • We’ve Given Up On Love by Schemawound • paranoia XVI by The F*cked Up Beat • Portal by Evan Schaeffer
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The Shorts — Yard Sale
Yard Sale
“On a typical day, I taught farmers how to snowplow and chased foreign exchange students through the parking lot as they careened toward diesel pickup trucks,” Tyler Neese remembers from his winters in college at an Iowa ski hill. “While skiing is never a bad way to earn a buck, at the end of the day I found myself dreaming of powder days and places where Carhartt overalls were not standard ski attire.”
So when Tyler and four friends loaded up the truck for a spring break ski vacation in Colorado, the stoke was high. Until, just minutes from the base area of Keystone, black ice and a distracted driver flipped their trip–literally–upside down. But, sometimes, it’s not about what happens to you, it’s about how you react to it.
Music: If Walls Could Talk by Jacob Bain & Nis Kotto • Dub 1 by Jacob Bain & Nis Kotto • Save My Soul by MC Cullah • Home by Publish the Quest
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Endangered Spaces — Boundary Waters
Boundary Waters
Raising awareness. It seems like every day, someone embarks on a new project to ‘raise awareness’ about a particular issue, cause, disease, endangered species or threatened public land. But what separates the projects that cut through the noise and the ones that get drowned out in the static of issues competing for our attention?
For our third Endangered Spaces episode, we travel to Northern Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to follow Dave and Amy Freeman on “Paddle to D.C.” and “A Year in the Wilderness,” two adventures that had a real impact in advocating for the protection of the place they love most.
To learn more, visit SavetheBoundaryWaters.org,
get a copy of Dave and Amy’s brand new book, A Year in the Wilderness,
watch Duct Tape Then Beer’s film, “Bear Witness” about the Freeman’s year in the Boundary Waters
and watch Nate Ptacek’s film on “Paddle to D.C.”
Music: If Walls Could Talk by Jacob Bain & Nis Kotto • Wild Wind by John Berry • When It All Falls Down by Publish the Quest • The Architect by Cleod9 • Somnolence by Kai Engel • Holy Water by Denise Casey • Original Scores by Amy Stolzenbach
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The Shorts — Thirst
Thirst
“If you’re thirsty, you’re probably already dehydrated. That’s what they say. Those perfect people who always have a clean, happily-colored, reusable adult sippy bottle on hand,” says Anya Miller. “Most often, I only realize that I’m thirsty when someone offers me a drink. My friend Jesse Bushey brought up climbing El Cap. I didn’t even know I wanted to — until he suggested it.”
Duct Tape Then Beer’s Director of Brand and Creative Strategy extraordinaire shares the story of her first big wall attempt, selective memory and different kinds of thirst.
Want more? Listen to Anya’s other Short, “Sleeping Bag Metamorphosis” or follow her on Instagram.
Music: If Walls Could Talk by Jacob Bain & Nis Kotto • Stop by Vienna Ditto • I Dare You by Little Glass Men • Freaks by Bradley Carter • Owl Time by Kellee Maize with J. Glaze & Udachi • Little Black Balloon by Fog Lake
Tracks provided by Free Music Archive and with permission from the artists.
