Step number one, picking your campsite.

So people probably understand that if there's an area that's full of bear shit,

it has tons of claw marks in the trees, and logs torn apart,

bear prints all over the place. That's probably not an ideal place.

Episode 11002, Stefan Kesting, Life and Death in the Sub-Arctic.

You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast. We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors

or to keep you moving

if you're already there. Now here's your host, Kurt Lindbill. Hey friends, this episode

really speaks to me. It has all the elements of an amazing wilderness adventure. It has wild

animals. It has solitude. It has length of time. We're talking about

six weeks. It has the distance, a thousand miles. It has the sport paddling a hybrid canoe

in the sub-arctic. All of these things come together to form just a great example of what true

adventure is really about. So I'm excited. You'll love this show today. And if you do enjoy this

show today, do one thing for us, please. Share it with a friend. Just say, hey, you should hear the

episode on the adventure sports podcast today

so that they can hear it too so put on your life jacket here we go i had heard about this guy who

did a long long canoe trip in the sub-arctic in canada and i was i was in the need for a really good armchair adventure book. And so I

ordered his book and I read it, cover to cover in about a week or something. I very much enjoyed it.

And then lo and behold, he's available to be on the Adventure Sports podcast. So Stefan Kesting has agreed to come on and tell us about his

amazing canoeing adventure and about his book. The book is called Perseverance, Life and Death

in the Sub-Arctic. But I want to add something else in here, Stefan. I think that your whole

life, based on what I read in this book,

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