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Catch Me Outside

Catch Me Outside

Canada is home to 21,324 named mountains, two million lakes, the longest coastline in the world and untold opportunities for adventure. Catch Me Outside Podcast shares outdoor adventure stories and wisdom from the hikers, climbers, mountaineers, cyclists and others keeping the community alive. Want to get outside more? Start here.

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E29: Anniversary adventure check-in with 12 past guests

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2023/01/20

Catch Me Outside turned one year old on January 14, 2022!One of my favourite things about producing this show is getting to live vicariously through all the brave, curious and adventurous people I interview. In the past year, guests have taken us to the tundra of the Northwest Territories, the peaks of some of the tallest mountains in Canada and the U.S., up and down the Hudson River, across the Great Lakes and along hiking trails that trace Canada's coasts and cover the span of the United

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E28: Getting a PCT permit - A crossover episode with...

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2023/01/04

You probably know by now that Catch Me Outside is hitting the Pacific Crest Trail this spring. What you might not know is what went into getting my long-distance permit for the hike. You may or may not also know about another Canadian outdoor podcast called A Long Walk North. It's a podcast about PCT hikers hosted by fellow Ontarian Dan Deveau. Dan and his daugher Chantal are preparing to hike the PCT in 2024, and as part of that journey, Dan interviews all kinds of folks with PCT stories to

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E27: Backcountry nutrition with Aaron Owens Mayhew

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2022/12/21

Food is the fuel that allows adventurers to hike, climb, paddle, swim, cycle and, well, adventure. It’s more than just calories. It contains the vitamins and minerals that help our muscles repair themselves, our bones stay strong and our eyes stay sharp. It helps keep us warm during chilly nights in the backcountry. A delicious meal at the end of a long day can be a huge source of comfort. Nutrition can make or break a thru-hike. So for today’s episode, I interview Aaron Owens Mayhew, founder of

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E26: It’s swimming. It’s backpacking. It’s swimpacking!

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2022/12/06

What would it look like if mermaids took up backcountry camping? It would probably look kind of like swimpacking. Swimpacking is an adventure sport that involves swimming in open water with a drybag that contains everything a backpacker would normally keep in their pack, like food, clothes, shelter and other gear. Swimpacking trips are usually combined with hiking or biking, and allow participants to travel by land and water to places they couldn’t otherwise access, like old growth forests and

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55:29

E25: What if I get lost?

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2022/11/16

Everyone who spends time in the outdoors will lose their way at some point. According to the Government of Canada, search and rescue personnel provide assistance to more than 20,000 people in Canada each year. In this episode of Catch Me Outside, a listener tells his story of getting lost in Killarney Provincial Park after dark, and then Tom Girrior of Yellowknife Search and Rescue shares some insights into lost person behaviour as well as some advice that should help outdoor adventurers avoid

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E24: Zwena Gray is Black on the Bruce

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2022/11/01

Today, not only are we talking about Canada’s longest and oldest continuous hiking trail, which stretches for 900 km from Niagara Falls north to Georgian Bay, but I’m also joined by Zwena Gray, the first modern Black woman to thru-hike the trail. I say modern, because the trail has extensive Black history, and at least partially follows the route Black abolitionists and freedom seekers took north through Ontario after they entered Canada from the U.S. via the Underground Railroad. One border

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01:16:24

E23: From casual backpacker to long-distance hiker

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2022/10/25

This is one for the weekend warriors who want to try long-distance hiking. There are lots of people each year who complete long-distance hikes with zero prior backpacking experience. They start with little to no practical backpacking knowledge, but with a clean slate, so to speak. Then there are people who hone their backpacking skills and test their gear on shorter trips in the backcountry first, and then take on a long-distance trail. That's what this episode's guest, Jessica Raechelle, did in

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01:26:50

E22: The elephant in the tent

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2022/10/04

What do you know about the potentially endocrine-disrupting “forever chemicals” in your favourite waterproof gear and garments? Or about your favourite outdoor gear manufacturers’ side gigs selling bullets and combat uniforms? We’re joined on this episode by friend of the pod Alex Tran to unpack a couple not-so-rosy aspects of the outdoor industry. Alex is a backpacker, bike packer and gear head who’s been going on outdoor adventures for almost 20 years. We’ve had lots of conversations about the

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01:36:07

E21: Sweet Tooth and Three Hills hike the Nootka Trail

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2022/09/20

Located on the West Coast of Nootka Island in British Columbia, is a remote backpacking trail called, fittingly enough, the Nootka Trail. It’s 37 kilometres long, but before you sniff at the length, know this: it’s an intense slog through obstacle-filled forests and over many, many stretches of pea-gravel covered beaches. What it lacks in distance it more than makes up for in difficulty. It’s a linear trail, and getting to and from its trailheads requires hikers to charter a float plane and a

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01:03:02

E20: Food follies

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2022/09/06

It's been a goal to record an episode around listener submissions for awhile, and a bunch of you were so gracious as to send in your favourite camping recipes and funny food stories last month. So for this episode, my ride-or-die and occasional co-host Ian is back to help read everything you sent. Buckle up for stories of spite beans, fly bannock, incinerated potatoes, exploding ravioli, sponge poisoning, charred weiners, and a whole lotta poop. Plus recipes! Thank you to everyone who sent in a

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11:57

Bonus: More lightning talk and an announcement

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2022/08/30

Last week, you heard Crystal Gravelle tell her story of surviving a lightning strike in Killarney Provincial Park in 2005. While episode 19 only included the story itself, Crystal and I actually spoke about her experience for a little while afterward. Today, we're releasing the rest of that conversation. If you haven’t heard Crystal’s lightning survival story, you should go listen to episode 19 first. This bonus mini episode also features a special Catch Me Outside announcement! 📍Killarney

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E19: In a flash

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2022/08/23

Crystal Gravelle was on the second last day of her first backpacking trip in August 2005 when three storms converged over Ontario’s Killarney Provincial Park, peppering the park with lightning. She and a friend were part-way down an especially technical descent near the end of La Cloche Silhouette Trail in the pouring rain, trying to get to lower ground, when she felt what she thought was her foot exploding. She’d been struck by lightning. She survived, but it wasn’t until the next day she learned

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E18: Canice Leung returns from the PCT

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2022/08/10

Friend of the pod and episode 2 guest Canice Leung is back from her long-ass section hike (LASH) on the Pacific Crest Trail. Canice covered the first 1,090 miles of the PCT this spring and summer, hiking from the southern terminus in Campo to Lake Tahoe. She saw gopher snakes, rattlers and fruit platters arranged to look like Donald and Melania Trump riding dolphins. She filtered water from questionable sources. She caught the last season of Scout and Frodo’s hiker hosting. She toughed out the

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E17: The 330-km rollercoaster that is the East Coast...

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2022/07/27

The East Coast Trail is a 332 km end-to-end trail located on the east coast of *Newfoundland. It’s made up of a chain of shorter trails, and can be section or thru-hiked. Despite not passing over any mountains, the trail has a total elevation gain of almost 15,000 metres, owing in part to the fact that it passes through many towns, and many of those towns are at sea level. It’s like a seaside rollercoaster. I’ll be honest. This trail wasn’t on my radar until a few listeners reached out to mention

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E16: Outdoor gear on a budget

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2022/07/12

Outdoor adventure gear can be prohibitively expensive if you don’t have access to a resource like a gear lending library. But with some luck, patience and advice from other outdoor enthusiasts, it’s possible to find the gear you need affordably, and make it last a long time. Dionne, Lauren and Caroline from our last episode about the BIPOC Outdoor Gear Library put their combined experience together for this episode on buying and borrowing outdoor gear on a budget. They’re three outdoor enthusiasts

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E15: Anatomy of an outdoor gear library

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2022/06/29

** HEADS UP: The podcast audio for this episode has been reuploaded to correctly refer to Dee, Caroline and Lauren as racialized women, since not everyone identifies as Black. The error in the show notes has also been corrected. Catch Me Outside Podcast (a.k.a. Megan) apologizes for the mistake. This is why it's important not to make assumptions! ** Gear libraries have been popping up in communities across North America for a few years now, creating opportunities for people to get outside and go on

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E14: Dispatches from the Saguenay Fjord Trail

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2022/06/15

I decided to do something different for this week’s episode profiling the 41-km Saguenay Fjord Trail and Jacques-Cartier National Park, which are both in Quebec. Earlier this month, I took a field recorder with me on a 2,200-km road trip to the fjord and back and recorded some dispatches from the trail as I hiked it. I even managed to interview some fellow hikers one rainy evening as we huddled together in a three-walled shelter. I’ll start this episode with some background about the parks and the

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01:35:06

E13: The magnificent Sunshine Coast Trail

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2022/05/31

Ahh, the Sunshine Coast Trail. At 180 kilometres, and with at least 14 huts, it’s Canada’s longest hut-to-hut hiking trail. The trail stretches along the coast of British Columbia, from Desolation Sound to Saltery Bay, through a region separated from the rest of B.C. by several fjords, and only accessible by boat or plane. It traverses a wide range of landscapes, passing along coastal shorelines, creeks and lakes, through old growth forests and logging clear cuts and up over mountains. Its total

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01:43:58

E12: Captain Kyla’s never-ending adventure

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2022/05/17

If someone invited you to leave everything behind and go on the adventure of a lifetime — one that might never end — would you accept the invitation? During a vacation in Panama in 2013 that was supposed to last a few weeks, Kyla Fuller met someone who was preparing to sail across the Pacific Ocean to Australia and needed a crew member. He invited her to join. Without ever returning to her apartment in Ottawa and carrying little more than her passport, wallet and two weeks worth of possessions, she

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01:34:29

E11: Pits and bits

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2022/05/04

On today’s episode of Catch Me Outside, another winner for crassness and potty humour, I sit down with my backpacking friends Nicole Dubeta - who has thru-hiked the PCT and the GDT — and Erica Stern, who practically lives in the Ontario backcountry. Together, we get to the bottom of bodily functions in the backcountry. Specifically, we cover: What goes in a hygiene kit Poop and pee best practices, especially for those of us with internal plumbing Our favourite tricks for a comfortable

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