Explore Everywhere Podcast James Donald

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.

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 ...

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 m...

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 th...

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 V...

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...