Ep. 099: Adventures in Canada - Jim Baird
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2015
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Jim Baird is an Adventurer, videographer, writer, photographer, and talent. His previous rolls include extensive work with a map company as well as guiding and gold prospecting. Jim has shot video for Cineflix productions, 13 Minds and The Weather Network US. He's produced, video series such as “The Kesagami River Solo” and “Lessons From The Trail with Jim Baird”. Jim’s content has also appeared in print for several publications that include Explore, Canoeroots, Real Fishing, Kanawa, Ontario Out of Doors, Outdoor Canada, Kype, Canoe & Kayak, Che-Mun, and Field & Stream magazines. Jim is an expert woodsman, white-water canoeist, survivalist, and a bold wilderness navigator. His expedition experience includes a solo trip down the canoe eating rapids of the Kesagami and then along the tempestuous James Bay coat, an 800-mile snowmobile expedition across the Northwest Passage, 200miles above the Arctic Circle. A month long descent of the Northwest Territories Kuujjua River in the Arctic Archipelago followed by 120-kilometers of paddling on the Arctic Ocean. He's also completed a 33-day canoe expedition via four rivers including the Adlatok in northern Quebec and Labrador. In addition to this, Jim has done several other major trips and hundreds of shorter ones closer to his home in Ontario.
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| 0:00.0 | and here we are stuck in the Arctic Ocean. |
| 0:02.4 | We can't turn around because the wind is so strong, it'll send us into uncontrollable |
| 0:07.6 | surfs, and we'll start surfing uncontrollable and breach and dump. |
| 0:11.8 | And, you know, I'm carrying satellite phone. |
| 0:14.2 | I'm carrying colored smoke signals, survival gear all on the waterproof strap to my body. |
| 0:20.0 | But, you know, at that that point it's going to be like |
| 0:22.5 | if we're clinging to the side of these cliffs |
| 0:24.7 | and our canoe smashing in the waves |
| 0:26.5 | on the rock and I managed to get a sat phone call |
| 0:28.8 | out, it's going to be like, here's |
| 0:30.8 | where you can find the bodies. |
| 0:49.2 | Music Adventure Sports Podcast episode number 99. |
| 0:52.4 | Adventures in the Canadian Wilderness with Jim Baird. |
| 0:55.0 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:57.8 | Brought to you by 180TAC. |
| 0:59.5 | Get out there and have some fun. Welcome to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:16.6 | This is Travis. |
| 1:18.0 | Jim Baird is a web video producer, videographer, writer, photographer, and talent. |
| 1:22.4 | But above all, he's an adventurer. |
| 1:24.9 | From solo trips paddling the Casogamy River to an 800-mile snowmobile |
| 1:28.7 | expedition across the Northwest Passage, Jim is no stranger to the outdoors. And he's here today |
| 1:33.8 | with me to share some of his experiences with Wii. Jim, welcome to the show. Hi, good to be here. |
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