Day Fire Podcast

We are back, "part 2" with Hollee Brock, author and podcaster talking about experiences along the Camino de Santiago. Hollee shares her vision of a "Camino Ring" in Chattanooga Tennessee. We discuss the spiritual side of outdoor experiences and how nature can support personal growth and be a place to release your problems/issues and move on through a pilgrimage or even a hike. Thanks for listening...

This week we talked with Shane Adams. Shane is the Marketing Director for Esee knives and Ranndall's Adventure Training. We talk bushcraft skills, fire making, navigation and search and rescue. Shane is certified in swift water rescue at the advanced level, Wilderness First Responder (WFR), and also holds a NASAR SARTECH 1 certification. Shane has spent the vast majority of his life in the mountai...

This week we sat down with talk radio legend Jeff Styles, who moved to Chattanooga many moons ago for work and the great outdoors. Jeff describes himself as an "all arounder." Jeff flies hang gliders, paddles whitewater, climbs mountains and has been a mountain boarder before he regained his senses; haha. One thing for sure the man is a great story teller. His first story is about a one-legged han...

This week we spoke with Clay Watson, who was born and raised in Southeast Tennessee. Clay has been employed at Mountain View Ford Lincoln for 24 years and is currently a Partner in the Mountain View Auto Group. Also, President of Mountain View Motorsports. But our talk with Clay is about fly fishing all around the world. Clay learned how to fish from his father and Grandfather in the Lakes and str...

This week we talked with Mike Wilkinson. Mike Wilkinson is a filmmaker and photographer in Lexington, Kentucky, the main person behind the curtain at Wilkinson Visual. For more than 15 years, Mike has been producing and directing video production projects. His passion is creating documentary-style films related to outdoor adventure, travel, and conservation. Mike produced a film about Ice Climbing...

This week we talked with Jeff Woody. On August 25, 2020, he completed all of the trails in the GSMNP (aka Great Smoky Mountains 900 Miler Club) in the Fastest Known Time of 33 days and 9 hours…beating the previous record of 43 days set by Benny Braden in 2017. Jeff is a Life-long backpacker and hiker with some mountaineering experience that includes summits of Mt. Rainier, several 14’rs in Colorad...

This week we spoke with Liz Anjos, aka “Mercury,” who just finished and set the new women's South to North supported record on the Appalachian Trail from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Katahdin in Maine. 51 days, 16 hours, and 30 minutes. Liz’s record attempt was supported by Warren Doyle, who was also in the studio with us and is a hiker, educator, and expert on the Appalachian Trail; who set an...

This week we speak with Auden Schendler, Vice President of Sustainability who is with Aspen Skiing Company. Auden focuses on big scale solutions to climate change, primarily clean energy and activism. He worked previously in corporate sustainability at Rocky Mountain Institute. Auden has been a trailer insulator, burger flipper, ambulance medic, Outward Bound instructor, high school math and Engli...

This week, Kristi Parsons is back talking about her beloved Smoky Mountains and some of the challenges that Covid-19 has on the National Park. We talk trails and how we can all get involved in supporting The Smoky Mountains National Park. We also get a quick history lesson. We love talking with Kristi, she is a rock star! Thanks for listening! Find all our episodes at dayfirepodcast.com This podca...

This week our guest is - (insert dramatic pause) Dawson Wheeler! What advice would the current Dawson give the younger Dawson? What adjustments has he made in order to stay active as he has gotten older? Tis the season to plan your winter ski trips - so we talk about that. Plus - some gear info, what adventures has he been on recently and where is he headed next? We pulled this audio from a Facebo...

This week we talked with Stan Prichard. After finishing High School it was off to Durango and Fort Lewis College where he quickly quit the cross-country team for adventures, climbing and skiing around Colorado and Utah. All of his time during college that wasn’t spent on schoolwork was spent developing his skills, gaining his medical and technical certifications and trying to work in the outdoor i...

This week we spoke with Hollee Brock. Hollee says, "I tend to problem solve like an inventor, ponder life like a philosopher, and express it like a poet. I have been the COO of Brock Inc, a living and loving enterprise where we help things grow, for almost 30 years. I am proficient in ways that might be less visible in the typical metrics of achievements but are strong in the big picture of life....

This week we talk with up and coming Ultra runner Noah Cochran who was born in 1999. Noah was a high school cross country runner who earned an athletic scholarship at Bryan College. But after one season he transferred schools to pursue Ultra running. He has run a 14:47 100 miler; whoa!!. In 2019 he won, the Chattanooga Mountain stage race, the Georgia Jewel 100 miler and set a course record and in...

Karah Nazor is a biologist, science teacher, aquarist (she raises 3 species of jellyfish in her lab), She loves to swim in oceans, lakes and rivers, Karah is also the Race Director of Swim the Suck, and she loves insanely spicy food and IPAs. Karah teaches scientific research, molecular biology, environmental science, general biology, and marine biology at The McCallie. In her lab, her team of res...

This week we are talking with Dr. John Anderson. John works as an emergency medicine doc primarily at a trauma center and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada School of Medicine. In the winter, John also works in a ski clinic in the Lake Tahoe region during the winter fixing primarily orthopedic injuries. Also John, helped start and teach for our company, Tahoe Wilderness Med...

This week we talk with Nick Rader and Chris Loizeaux, Founders of Trekka Designs. It all started when they – Nick & Chris – met while on a week-long fly fishing and motorcycle adventure/photoshoot for RoadRUNNER Motorcycle Touring & Travel Magazine. What was suppose to be a week of riding motorcycles and fly fishing small mountain streams turned into a week of torrential rain. It turns out...

This week we talked with Tish Gailmard, Director of Wildlife Conservation, Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center, Chattanooga, TN. Tish has a 20 year tenure with Reflection Riding and is a Tennessee Wildlife Federation 2016 Conservation Educator of the Year. She is also a Federal Red Wolf Species Survival Plan Management Team member, Red Wolf Task Force Member, Red Wolf Blood Champion. Tha...

This week we talk with Ryan Meulemans who has been exploring the outdoors since an early age. Growing up camping and fishing led to a job as a fly fishing guide and owner of his own fly fishing travel business. In his late 20’s he discovered trail running which has been a consuming passion since. As with everything, he is all in and taking everything to the absolute extreme, 50k races quickly move...

This week we are talking with Dave Baker, a native and resident of the Sonoran Desert, living in Tucson, Arizona. He has enjoyed a lifelong passion for the outdoors; at various times taking pleasure in hiking, backpacking, rock climbing, kayaking, mountaineering, ski touring and outdoor photography. He most often adventures in the magnificent American West, having a special fondness for wild place...

Andy Anderson started running and climbing in Chattanooga, Tennessee at age 13. In high school he started working at Rock Creek Outfitters. He ran competitively through college and annoyed his coaches and professors by climbing and skiing way too much. Andy worked as a climbing ranger in National Park Service for 15 summers. Since leaving the Park Service, Andy spends his summers being a dad, prog...

Sunny Montgomery lives in Ocoee, Tennessee, in a 600-square-foot cabin she built with her boyfriend. Since November, they've been living off-the-grid, gardening, chicken-keeping and boiling water to take baths. Sunny is a writer and editor with Get Out Chattanooga and Chatter magazine. On summer weekends, she and her boyfriend run a taco truck on the Ocoee River (though this season's opening has b...

If your stuck in the house, or out on the trail alone.. Here are some stories to enjoy from Day Fire Podcast. Thanks for listening! Find all our episodes at dayfirepodcast.com This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

This week we talk with Jason Finnell, who was born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Jason is the mountain bike program director for the Schejola Foundation, and helps open mountain bike programs (with start up grants through the foundation of up to $25,000) for Boys & Girls Clubs across the Southeast. Jason’s hobbies include mountain biking, snowboarding, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu He has co...

This week we talk with Jim Markley, a Founding Partner of Sockwell Socks. Jim is an outdoor industry icon with over 4 decades of successful business experience. Hear his founders story, talk fabric, construction, design, recovery, travel and plantar fasciitis. For more information on the Sockwell story: sockwellusa.com Thanks for listening! Find all our episodes at dayfirepodcast.com This podcast...

Dawson shares more stories and experiences from his trip out West! Thanks for listening! Find all our episodes at dayfirepodcast.com This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm