1069: Jim Baird flashback episode from 2015!
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Canoeing, Snowmobiling, Camping, Whitewater Rafting: Jim Baird on Building a Platform in Adventure and Social Media 10 Years Ago, Plus Far North Adventures in Canoeing, Snowmobiling, Winter Camping, and Summer Whitewater from His YouTube Channel Jim Baird - Adventurer. Jim is still at it! See his YouTube channel, Jim Baird - Adventurer. But in this historic episode, Jim shared what it was like ten years ago to build a platform in the adventure and social media industries. If you like far north adventure, canoeing, snowmobiling, winter camping, and summer whitewater, then this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | And here we are stuck in the Arctic Ocean. |
| 0:10.0 | We can't turn around because a wind is so strong, it'll send us into uncontrollable surfs. |
| 0:15.0 | And we'll start surfing uncontrollable and breach and dump. |
| 0:19.0 | And, you know, I'm carrying satellite phone. I'm carrying colored |
| 0:22.3 | smoke signals, survival gear all on the waterproof strap to my body. But, you know, at that |
| 0:28.5 | point, it's going to be like, if we're clinging to the side of these cliffs and our canoe smashing |
| 0:33.3 | in the waves on the rock and I managed to get a sat phone call out, it's going to be like, |
| 0:37.8 | here's where you can find the bodies. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi friends, thanks for joining us on the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:43.3 | Today's episode goes all the way back to 2015. |
| 0:47.0 | This is one of the early episodes. |
| 0:49.0 | The guest was Jim Baird and the host was Travis Parsons. |
| 0:53.4 | The audio quality is different and the subject matter is even dated, and I considered |
| 0:58.4 | skipping this episode, but then I just thought, you know what, this is a really fun |
| 1:02.8 | piece of history, a blast from the past. |
| 1:06.4 | It's fun to see what a difference 10 years have made. |
| 1:09.4 | Developments in technology, developments in society. |
| 1:13.8 | Let's listen in. Welcome to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. This is Travis. Jim Baird is a web |
| 1:20.0 | video producer, videographer, writer, photographer, and talent. But above all, he's an adventurer. |
| 1:25.4 | From solo trips paddling the Casogamy River to an 800-mile |
| 1:29.1 | snowmobile expedition across the Northwest Passage, Jim is no stranger to the outdoors. And he's here |
| 1:34.5 | today with me to share some of his experiences with Wii. Jim, welcome to the show. |
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