Drew Hardesty // Avalange Forecaster

On the Wind Sailing

Andy Schell

Sports, Wilderness, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

#89. This one is for the sailors who are also skiers - Drew Hardesty is a forecaster with the Utah Avalanche Center. How does he relate to sailing? Drew is the definition of an outdoorsman, and the wilderness envrionment that is the backcountry in the mountains of Utah is strikingly similar, philosophically, to the wilderness that is the high seas, and both are blessed and cursed with the same adventure and the same problems.

Drew and Andy discuss his career as a rescue-climber and backcountry avalanche forecaster, as well as Drew's ideas on how to manage the influx of people into the backcountry, how those same problems plague the ocean sailing community, his hopes and fears to the future of backcountry use, and what he thinks we can do about it.

Reach out to Drew to join his backcountry outreach program on drew [at] utahavalanchecenter [dot] org, or check out avalanche.org for more information.

Want to go ocean sailing with Andy? Book a berth on 59-north.com/events.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Anna Winners, live from Sweden. Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast with your host, Andy Shell. Enjoy the show.
0:08.8	Greetings, folks, and welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast. I am your host, Andy Schell, and this is episode number 89.
0:19.2	Big thanks to our returning sponsor, Weems and Plath. I'm just going to
0:23.8	continue a little bit about the history of the company. For centuries, man had relied on the
0:28.5	heavens, on the circling planets, and the constant horizon to guide him in his travels. An accurate
0:33.6	clock, a compass, a sextant, and charts were the necessary tools for plotting a course,
0:38.3	but these required time for computations and a place to spread out and study the charts.
0:43.3	This time-worned system of celestial navigation was ill-suited to the cockpit, but the airplane was
0:48.8	here to stay. Lieutenant Commander Weems, a brilliant, inventive and determined young man,
0:53.9	knew as he tracked that first flight, that navigation was his destiny, and he went on to revolutionize the field with his ideas, writings, and inventions of navigational instruments.
1:03.9	That started way back in 1919, and today, Weems and Plath is still located in the Chesapeake Bay town of Annapolis, where it began so many years ago.
1:13.0	We are committed to supplying, sorry, weems and Plath is committed to supplying the world with the finest nautical products and navigational instruments available while maintaining the high standards of service that have distinguished Weems and Plath from its inception.
1:26.5	So big thanks to weems and plath
1:27.9	for sponsoring this episode of the podcast as i mentioned before i'll be taking their new prototype
1:33.3	binoculars with me to the caribbean i'm actually leaving on thursday i'm recording this on a
1:38.2	monday so by the time you hear this i'll already be gone and at sea hopefully and i'll give you
1:43.2	all a report on what i thought of the binoculars
1:45.3	when I get back. So check out Weems and Plath at Weems-Path.com. And again, thanks to them for
1:50.9	sponsoring this episode of the show. Okay, this is a slightly different episode this week.
1:58.0	I was out in Utah last week with Mia.
2:06.2	We were on vacation, actually, skiing at Snowbird, and I picked up a free magazine called the Utah Adventure Journal.
2:07.7	And I found an article in there that was a basically transcribed interview with a guy
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