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Episode 22, Paul Shirky, Dog Sledding Expeditions.

Hi, friends, and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast.

Our show today is with Paul Shirky.. Paul Shirky leads dog sledding adventures

in the Boundary Waters area in northern Minnesota. He also leads Arctic expeditions, and you too

could be a part of that. Paul Shirky first started dog sledding back in his college years,

and he has made a business out of this now for over 30 years.

Paul, welcome to the program.

Yeah, I'm talking to you now from the Canadian border of Minnesota, and I'm looking out my window at one of America's most precious pieces of real estate.

It's called the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.

It's the most popular, most beloved, protected wilderness area in the world.

And a quarter million people come here every year to travel by canoe and dog sudden ski and hike the thousands of lakes that are all still clean enough.

You can dip your cup from and drink alcohol.

It's a very special place.

Set aside in Perpetuity as a place of natural sites and natural sounds and and also it serves the livelihood

for our little tiny town of Ili, Minnesota where there's several dozen folks that own canoe

out for any businesses and then a few of us that make winter a way of life. And so my wife Sue and our kids are home here out on the edge of the wilderness and a

piece of woods called winter green because it's carpeted in a wonderful plant called winter

green.

And so our businesses adopt the same name, both our dog sledding lodge and my wife's line

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