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#403: Josiah Jones 2 -- Filming Jeff Mercier for Ice Climbing Film "Ephemeral" by Chris Ward

#402: Ray Zahab 6 -- Our Kapik1 Backpack Trip through Death Valley by Chris Ward

This week we are chatting with Cyclist Steve Herschberger! Welcome to 2025 and to the new season of the Like a Bigfoot Podcast!! This week's episode is a very open discussion about a healthy mindset, the obstacles we face, and how to recover from trauma (both physical and emotional). Steve Herschberger is an extremely accomplished cyclist- having raced all over the world. A year ago he was hit by...

HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE!!! In honor of the shortest day of the year and the coldest season of the year, we are releasing two conversations with one of the coolest (literally) guys I've met, Ryan Wanless!! The first half is a conversation after Ryan survived the coldest Arrowhead 135 and the second half is years later after he completed the 1,000 mile Iditarod on foot!! Enjoy the episode!! Happy Holi...

This week’s BIGFOOT REPLAY is with adventurer, polar explorer, environmentalist, Minnesotan, and wonderfully nice guy Paul Schurke!! Paul is a legend in the adventure world- completing multiple expeditions to the North Pole (including an unsupported trip in the 80s), dogsledding across Siberia (to convince the US and Soviet Union to open the Bering Strait to help out Inuit families), following in...

This week we are revisiting a conversation from 2019 with ultrarunning's absolute phenom Courtney Dauwalter!!

"That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run." - Forrest Gump I'm extremely excited to welcome Rob Pope, the real life Forrest Gump, to this week's show! Over the last few years, Rob has taken on the EPIC challenge of recreating Forrest Gump's famous run. Over 15,000 miles across the United States 5 times, he tested the limits of his own endurance and experienced the U.S....

BIGFOOT REPLAY!!! This week’s guest is the incredible ocean rower Lia Ditton! Lia is a sailor, rower, adventurer with a lifelong passion for ocean travel. In this week’s episode we chat all about what it was like to spend 87 days alone on a record setting row across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Hawaii. Lia dives into her mindset, what it was like to spend so much time with herself, how...

Clips from Episode 189 and 372 with my friend and wisest man I know Paul Scheuring!!

This week we are celebrating EPISODE 400 with my good friend Phil Pinti!!!! Topics covered: Wrapping up season 2 and plans for season 3, future projects, Phil's prep for Gila Monster 300, Life of Phil post "A Long Way From Nowhere", Route 66 Ultras, and much more!! Thank you so much for supporting the show over the last 400 episodes! This whole project has truly been life changing for me!! Leave a...

This week we are chatting with one of the hosts of the EXCELLENT "Bush and Banter" Podcast, Jennifer Mabus!! Jen was a guest on this show a few years when she backpacked the entire Pacific Crest Trail, an adventure of a lifetime. Now she's started a family and dives deep every week on her podcast with a wide variety of adventure guests. It truly is one of my favorite adventure podcasts of all time...

This week we are joined once again with the best leadership coach in the country John Petersen!!! In this episode John talks about Trust, teaches us what to do after you've identified your core values, shares some tales from adventure - biking from Cali to Chicago, bring back and rowing across the Monterey Bay, and rowing to Antarctica! This is a fantastic episode that I am going to listen to mult...

#397: Adam Casey 5 -- Adventure Life and the Connections We Make Along the Way by Chris Ward

#396: Nic Chiri 3 -- The Highest of Highs and Lowest of Lows at Booneville Backroads 100 by Chris Ward

This week we are celebrating our 8th year of the podcast by taking a walk down memory lane with my lovely wife Lindsey Ward!! In this episode, Lindsey blatantly rips off Brett Goldstein (Roy Kent from Ted Lasso) and his podcast "Films to Be Buried With!" by stealing his format to ask me about some of my favorite adventures. We talk adventures and I also give a recommendation for a past Like a Bigf...

#394: Cody Taylor 3 -- The Bruce Trail Unsupported FKT, 900Kms Through Ontario by Chris Ward

This week we are chatting with Alan Tenta from Season 10 of "Alone"!! MORE FROM ALAN: "Tenta Outdoors" Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alantenta9825 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alan_tenta/

MORE FROM JASON: Website: https://jasonromero.net/ "Running into the Dark": https://jasonromero.net/running-into-the-dark "Success Cycle": https://jasonromero.net/the-success-cycle-book

This week we are chatting with spearfished and free diver Skye Bailey about her journey into the sport! MORE FROM SKYE BAILEY: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skye_dive_/ "Bombardier" Short Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0iij5H4m9g&t=1s

This week we are chatting with competitive cyclist Hannah Otto about her film "Kokopelli Strong" documenting her quest to set the FKT on the Kokopelli Trail!! Hannah has been an elite athlete since she was 9 years old, has competed in major cycling races all over the world, and recently stepped up to the challenge of riding the Kokopelli Trail as fast as possible. The film is a wonderful story, do...

#389: Ray Zahab 5 -- His Recent Crossing of Death Valley by Chris Ward

Lien James has ran 136 marathons since becoming a runner at age 50. In this episode Lien shares stories from her adventures, what it was like to run her very first mile at age 49, we talk about the time she took on the JFK 50 miler, and her recent knee surgery. We also chat about resilience and what it takes to be an athlete in your 60s and 70s. Lien is AWESOME!!! Hope you all enjoy the episode an...

This week we are chatting once again with "the Canadian Berserker" Noel Thomson!! In this episode we dive deep into how mental health, ultra running and fitness all interweave. Noel is very open and vulnerable with some of the struggles he has faced in his life and how "controlling what he can control" with exercise and ultra running has helped him climb out of a hole of depression and drug abuse....

This week we are chatting with author, filmmaker, artist, adventurer, ultra runner, and a guy who is "semi rad" Brendan Leonard!!! Brendan has one of the most unique, creative, and oftentimes hilarious voices in the adventure community. He's the author of many GREAT books (which we do a quick recap of towards the end of the episode) including his newest release "Ultra-Something". This book is the...

This week we are once again chatting with ultra runner Cody Taylor!! Cody is currently training to attempt the unsupported FKT of the 900km (550 mile) Bruce Trail through his home province of Ontario!! In this episode we talk all about his training and motivation for taking on this challenge, his plan for the summer leading into the attempt, and how his transition from musician to athlete has been...