Ep. 002: Steve Piragis - Boundary Waters Canoeing
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Steve Piragis is a wilderness canoeing enthusiast and owner of Piragis Northwoods, an outfitter for the Boundary Waters Wilderness area. Hear about the joys of canoe camping in the Boundary Waters Wilderness, fun wildlife encounters, protecting the wilderness and more!
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| 0:00.0 | and an eagle flew by, followed closely by another bald eagle, |
| 0:05.6 | and the two right in front of me grasped talons together and did a roll, |
| 0:10.9 | a 360 roll within about 20 yards of where I was sitting. |
| 0:20.5 | Episode number two, Steve Piraigas. |
| 0:35.9 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:39.5 | Brought to you by 180Tack. |
| 0:41.9 | Get out there and have some fun. Welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. This is your host, Kurt Lindville. Our guest today is |
| 1:04.9 | Wilderness canoeing enthusiast Steve Pragus. Steve and his wife Nancy took a trip to |
| 1:09.6 | L.A. Minnesota way back in 1975. They visited the |
| 1:14.0 | Boundary Waters and just fell in love of the place, so they made it their home. Since 1979, |
| 1:19.9 | Steve has been running Pragus Northwood's company, which is an outfitter in Ellie. He's passionate |
| 1:25.0 | about canoeing, limnology, and ornithology, and he's active in a campaign |
| 1:28.8 | to help save the Boundary Waters Wilderness. |
| 1:31.9 | Steve, welcome to the program. |
| 1:33.3 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
| 1:34.5 | Great to be here. |
| 1:35.3 | So, Steve, I gave a brief sketch of who you are, but take a minute to tell our guests |
| 1:40.3 | about yourself and your connection to canoeing and your connection to this campaign |
| 1:44.7 | to save the Boundary Waters. |
| 1:46.7 | Absolutely, yeah. |
| 1:47.8 | Nancy and I, as you said, were limnologists. |
| 1:50.1 | We came here from the University of New Hampshire in 1975 for the summer. |
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