Like a Bigfoot

This week we are once again honored to be joined by world renowned adventurer Ray Zahab! Over the years Ray has taken on expeditions all across the globe. He’s crossed vast deserts and arctic regions, taken on every possible weather challenge imaginable, and has dived deep into his capability to endure. This past year turned his challenges inward when he was diagnosed with a rare form of Lymphoma....

This week we are talking with Cole Crosby, a fantastic ultra runner! In this episode, he shares tales from taking on the Speed Project, an underground race where runners take any route from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Cole decided to add on significant amount of miles by taking the original route. Through this, he discovered a whole new level of himself as he had a near perfect race! The Speed Proje...

This week we are talking with filmmaker, adventurer and bike packer Maxwell Frost about his award-winning adventure film "Between Giants"! SPECIAL LINK TO THE MOVIE ONLY FOR THE NEXT MONTH: https://vimeo.com/820720244 This film truly shows the ups and downs and unforeseen obstacles of a big time adventure. Maxwell and his friend David flew over to India to bike the Himalayas. Pretty quickly, their...

This week we are bringing Phil Pinti back to the podcast to get his thoughts and feelings on our movie "A Long Way From Nowhere!" Phil has been a huge part of the Desert RATS family over the last few years. He is all heart and really put himself out there in our film. He has experience major loss in life and him sharing the ups and downs of his journey is extremely empowering. In this episode we t...

This week we are chatting with experienced Stage Racer Mike Williams about all of the incredible races he has been apart of! I absolutely love the stage race format! I feel like they are perfect events for community building as one pushes limits through some stunning environments. Mike Williams has been lucky enough to participate in stage races all around the globe through the Racing the Planet s...

This week we are sitting down and chatting with my friend, veteran and ultra runner Jason Comstock!! Jason was one of the runners we featured in our film "A Long Way From Nowhere" and he's also one of the kindest, most considerate, and empathetic human beings I know. In this episode we dive deeper into what happened on Stage 4 of the 2021 Desert RATS Stage Race and talk about what it was like to r...

This week we are chatting with bike packer, journeyman, and adventurer Jerry Kopack!! In this episode, we follow Jerry's journey from corporate America to founding a hospice to bike touring all across the world. We dive into his perspective on the world and explore what he has learned through this journey. Definitely check out "The World Spins By" which Jerry wrote collecting his thoughts and worl...

This week we are talking with two of my favorite people on the planet Amy Donaldson Brass and Mikie Pylilo!! Amy and Mikie's journey across the Kokopelli was featured in our film "A Long Way From Nowhere" and on today's episode we sit down and hear about their experiences during that race. We also talk about some parts that didn't make the final edit and get their perspectives on the movie! These...

Very excited to announce the release of our film A LONG WAY FROM NOWHERE available free online at the Audacious Report Youtube Channel!! WATCH THE FILM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0ddwnZ5CEM What compels a person to run 150 miles through the desert at the height of summer? Is it the need for achievement, the competitive instinct, or something more profound—a spiritual need for hardship, for...

This week we are sitting down and chatting with the absolutely incredible athlete Robbie Balenger!!! In 2021, Robbie completed the Colorado Crush, a challenge he created which consisted of running all the events in Leadville (marathon, 50 miler and 100 miler) along with running the entire Colorado Trail and summiting all of the 14ers all in one summer. It is a mind blowing and incredibly hard acco...

This week we are chatting with ultra endurance ocean swimmer and rower Cameron Bellamy!! In 2019, Cameron swam across the open ocean for 56+ hours from Barbados to St. Lucia and then followed it up by rowing with a team of five other guys across the treacherous Drake Passage to Antarctica. In this episode, we talk about what it is like to swim for over two days. Where does the mind go? How do you...

This week we are chatting with Mathias Eichler about everything from running every single street in his town of Olympia, Washington to taking on the Rim to Rim to Rim at the Grand Canyon!! Mathias is also the host of the Singletrack Podcast, race director at Rock Candy Running, and puts on the Trail Running Film Festival. MORE FROM MATHIAS: Website: https://mathiaseichler.com Podcast: https://sing...

In this episode we are chatting with ultrarunner Emily Keddie about her experiences taking on incredibly long races like the Moab 240 and Tahoe 200! We also discuss the Snowman Race- an incredibly difficult stage race that she was invited to race by His Majesty the King of Bhutan. Then we dive into her future plans at the Cocodona 250 and discuss the challenges she faces in her journey as an elite...

This week we are chatting with Gemini Adventures Race Director Reid Delman!! In this episode, Reid and I celebrate their Desert RATS Trail Running Festival becoming a part of the UTMB World Series races and discuss how they are approaching that change. We also dive into how and why he started Gemini Adventures, tales from Dadmode, and Reid shares his passion for wrestling while he was growing up!...

This week we are sitting down with ultra runner and coach Brian Passenti to talk about all things Leadville and Moab 240!!! Brian is an incredible athlete who has really embraced the LOOOOOOONG distances over the past decade or so. In this episode we hear about his experiences running MULTIPLE Leadville 100s and Moab 240s along with how he wound up in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, his mountain lion...

I really enjoy people who bring their own unique and creative perspective to adventures in the outdoors. They fully embrace their individuality and find interesting ways to express what it feels like to be pushing their limits in really beautiful places. It’s that expression of these adventures that always fascinates me. This week we are chatting with adventurer and artist Kelly Halpin about the o...

This week we are chatting with an adventurer Sunny Stroeer!! "Sunny is a free spirit and adventurer. A Harvard MBA and hard-charging strategy consultant in her twenties, she turned her back on material possessions and career shortly after turning 30 in order to live in an Astrovan so she could run and climb full-time instead." (Sunnystroeer.com) In this episode we talk all about her adventures fas...

This week I am joined by my lovely wife Lindsey Ward to record a quick episode before the year ends! We chat about our trip to Iceland, Purpose Anxiety and in the outro I share what I learned from my social media break and my plan for more healthy, intentional use for 2023. Hope you all enjoy and that you have had a wonderful year!!

This week we are sitting down and chatting with adventurer, filmmaker, and professor Jerod Foster. (Come to think of it...those three descriptors make this dude sound like the Texas version of Indiana Jones!) In this episode we chat all things filmmaking, storytelling, bikepacking and creativity. Jerod created a course at Texas Tech called Adventure Media where he takes students bike packing all o...

I can't believe it took this long to chat about Pack Burro Racing!! The unique sport where donkeys and their runners take on the trails! "We run with our burros. There’s no riding in this sport. This is NOT just a foot race. Even the fastest racer can be humbled by his running partner - equus asinus."- Western Pack Burro Association I've had the opportunity to join today's guest, the AWESOME Micky...

Deep in the Himalayas lies the country of Bhutan, one of the world’s only carbon-negative countries. And yet it is a place of major impact from the terrible effects of climate change. As glaciers melt high up in the mountains, small villages are being washed away in horrifying glacier lake outburst floods (essentially, giant lakes formed from melting glaciers overflow, sending a massive rush of wa...

It's finally here...the episode EVERYONE was clamoring for!! Wait...I mean no one....no one was probably asking for this... Except me! This is a spiritual sequel to one of my personal favorite episodes of the podcast "Travis Steffen's Ultimate Guide to Sports Movies" (episode 228) where we are once again rejoined with movie connoisseur Travis Steffen and our buddy Brandon Swett to chat all about t...

This week I am very excited to chat with the creators of the website "The Town Bicycle" to promote and highlight women in cycling, Alexandera Houchin, Katie Strempke and Eszter Horanyi!! All three are incredible athletes, storytellers, and awesome humans that started the website as a way to highlight stories that weren't being told in their sport. The Town Bicycle is an excellent adventure site th...

This week we are chatting with my friend Seth Caroll about what it was like to run his very first marathon last spring!! We also chat about misadventures while canoeing the Boundary Waters in Northern Minnesota and his experiences playing Rugby…aka the greatest sport of all time! In other words, this one is the most Like a Bigfooty Like a Bigfoot Podcast of all time. Hope you all enjoy!!

This week we are chatting with awesome human Sabrina White!! I’ve been looking forward to this one since she returned from her big trip to Mongolia last summer. She had planned on a HUGE bikepacking tour of the Mongolian wilderness, trained for months, dialed in all of her gear and even shipped a giant mountain bike halfway across the world. In other words, she was focused on this adventure for ov...