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Your window to Outdoor Adventure. Join us as we explore hiking trails and paddling routes in New Brunswick, PEI (Prince Edward Island), Maine, Nova Scotia, and sometimes the rest of the world. Learn about the trails and routes, and meet the people who love and protect them.

Explore Everywhere Podcast James Donald

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Your window to Outdoor Adventure. Join us as we explore hiking trails and paddling routes in New Brunswick, PEI (Prince Edward Island), Maine, Nova Scotia, and sometimes the rest of the world. Learn about the trails and routes, and meet the people who love and protect them.

    Episode 29: Hiking in Las Vegas?

    Episode 29: Hiking in Las Vegas?

    On this episode of the podcast we discuss why we love exploring Las Vegas.  We take you with us up Mount Charleston to the highest I have ever hiked and feel the heat as we hike through the desert in the search for water at La Madre Spring at Red Rock Canyon Recreation Area. 

    • 38 min
    Episode 28: Visiting Howland Falls with Nick Guitard (author)

    Episode 28: Visiting Howland Falls with Nick Guitard (author)

    In this episode I visit Howland Falls in Bear Island with Nick Guitard who is the author of the Waterfalls of New Brunswick and The Lost Wilderness books.  We discuss what drove him to write the books, a bit about the publishing process, and about some of his adventures visiting the waterfalls and other geological features around the province of New Brunswick.  You can find more details on both of the books at the Explore Everywhere Media online store.  The following is a list of some of the locations we discuss:
    Walton Glen Gorge LookoutEye of the NeedleWallace (Quiddy) FallsFall Brook FallsHayes FallsHowland FallsMcLeod Brook FallsShogomoc FallsGibson (Kilmarnock Falls)Kilmarnock Deadwater (paddling route)Trout Brook FallsSplit Rock FallsLong FallsBalancing RockChimney RockLower Joslin FallsGarden Creek FallsMullin Stream FallsReddin Falls (mentioned that it's in Kiersteadville)

    • 44 min
    Episode 27: The Five Trails of Grande-Digue - An Interview with Stéphanie Albert

    Episode 27: The Five Trails of Grande-Digue - An Interview with Stéphanie Albert

    In this episode of the podcast I interview Stéphanie Albert from the Sentier Pluriel de Grande-Digue Association.  We discuss all of the work her group of volunteers does to develop and maintain the hiking trails in Grande-Digue, in the southwest corner of New Brunswick.   We also discuss all the other volunteers and organizations that make this trail system possible.  Following our interview I hike all five trails (more than 10 km) and share what I experienced on my hike.

    For more information on the trails go their website here.

    • 53 min
    Episode 26: Winter in Campobello (Part 2)

    Episode 26: Winter in Campobello (Part 2)

    In Episode 1 of our Winter visit to Roosevelt-Campobello International Park we got a tour of the trails in the park from Pete Colman, the park's Natural Areas Supervisor. 

    In this episode we go and pick up Vicki and hike out to the dome bog overlooking Lower Duck Pond.  On day 2 I get up early and hike the Customs House Trail and then Vicki and I hike up to the lookout at Friar's Head and then down to Friar's Bay Beach.  We end our day by hiking the short Life Guard Trail at the Quoddy Head Lighthouse in Maine on our way home.

    For more information on the trails in Roosevelt-Campobello International park go to the Hiking NB page for the Roosevelt-Campobello International Park.  For more information on the fascinating history of the park check out the Roosevelt-Campobello International Park's website.

    • 41 min
    Episode 25: Campobello in Winter (Part 1)

    Episode 25: Campobello in Winter (Part 1)

    Vicki and I are given a tour of the trails at Roosevelt-Campobello International Park on Campobello Island in New Brunswick by Pete Colman.  Pete is the Natural Areas Supervisor for the park.  We discuss the plans they have to put more of a focus on their amazing natural area, while maintaining the historical significance of the park.  We visit Fox Hill Meadow, Con Robinson Point, Raccoon Point, Liberty Point and the lookout at Lower Duck Pond.

    In the second episode we pick up Vicki and hike out to the bog at Lower Duck Pond and Vicki and my hikes in the park on day 2.

    For more information on the trails in the park go to the Hiking NB page for the Roosevelt-Campobello International Park.  For more information on the fascinating history of the park check out the Roosevelt-Campobello International Park's website.

    • 50 min
    Episode 24: Part 2 of A Paddle to Molly's Rock

    Episode 24: Part 2 of A Paddle to Molly's Rock

    On this adventure we finish our paddle to Molly's Rock and explore where the Maliseet Trail crosses land around Benton.  We walk out to Eel River behind the St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church to a site that is expected to be the start of a land crossing on the Maliseet Trail, where there may have been a summer village.  We also hear stories about the hardships of travel in this area from Henry David Thoreau, stories of hardships endured by John Gyles (circa 1689) and hear about the mystery of the lost golden calf of 1877.

    For more information on the Molly's Rock paddling route check out the Molly's Rock page on the Paddling NB website.  For more information and a map of the full Maliseet Trail check out Maliseet Trail page on the Hiking NB website.

    • 37 min

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