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Nicole, the host of Dope Kitchen on Youtube, Tik Tok, Instagram and all of the other social media channels joins the show to talk about her love of backpacking and the outdoors in general. 
She shared some incredible stories about harrowing tales from different backpacking adventures including being flooded out of a campground, running from wildfires and escaping mountains via helicopter.  
I had an absolute blast getting to know Nicole and it might be my favorite episode yet.

Adam Hudson, Founder of Blue Line Co Flies joins the podcast to talk fly fishing, fly tying, and what it’s like running a business in the fly fishing industry.

Maddie of Youtube’s Beer In Beautiful Places joins the show to talk about her recent through hike of the John Muir Trail and her upcoming adventure, through hiking the Appalachian Trail starting in April of 2023.

Chef Corso, owner of OutdoorEats and outdooreats.com sits down by the campfire in St. Genevieve Missouri at Hawn State Park for a conversation about his career in cooking. We talked about his love for food and the family members that helped him along the way. Chef Corso dove into the culinary school experience and his different jobs in the food industry.




After leaving a career in the test kitchens at Starbucks, Corso took a chance on himself and his passion for cooking outside. He built his own brand, website, cookbooks and started launching content. He’s developed over 200 recipes that are tested by campers like us and added to his meal plans.
I loved learning about how he comes up with recipes and adapts them to the trail. We even spent time talking about how we each overcame our nerves of launching new channels.
Chef Corso and I also made a video about our backpacking trip. Check it out here: Chef Corso and I Went Backpacking
All of Chef Corso’s meals are 10 ingredients or less, 30minutes or less, no pre prepping, no dehydrating and weigh close to or even less than the dehydrated alternative. All of the recipes are also organized by dietary restrictions and styles of meals.
We also talked about the types of ingredients he loves for outdoor cooking and where he likes to source his ingredients from.
Chef Corso asked me really fun ranking question that you’ll hear at about 50 minutes in and I’ll be using this question for the rest of my life.

John Lagow, professional fly fishing guide out of the historic Ark Anglers Fly Shop in B.V. Colorado joins the show.  I had an absolute blast getting to know yet another incredible guide, with another super unique story.  John found his way to guiding after coming to Colorado to paddle her storied waters at the young age of 19.

Erica Haller is who we should all aspire to be in the outdoors; adventurous, curious, humble, educated and enjoyable.  Erica is exactly who I have wanted to meet since the day I started this podcast, several years ago. She was fun, smart, inquisitive and lighthearted. Give this one a listen, you’ll love it.