The Guide Life, with Ian Havlick
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4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Ellsworth is in Iceland this week, skiing at Deplar Farm and being guided by AMGA-certified guide, Ian Havlick. And in between their time in the mountains, they sat down to talk about Ian’s path to becoming a professional guide; the misperceptions about the profession; recommendations for how to get into guiding; they try to clear up the confusion around tipping; and more.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Skiing at Deplar Farm (2:27)
- Ian’s path to becoming a professional guide (4:55)
- AMGA Certification (13:34)
- Guiding fly fishing (15:44)
- Recommended steps to becoming a guide (17:53)
- Responsibility & risk (28:11)
- Tipping (37:52)
- Guiding & family life (44:10)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the Blister podcast on the Blister Podcast on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:17.5 | Today, we are coming at you live from Deppler Farm in Iceland, |
| 0:23.6 | truly one of the most remarkable places I have ever been in my life. |
| 0:28.7 | And our guest today is my friend Ian Havlick, |
| 0:32.3 | who has been our guide this week at Deppler Farm. |
| 0:37.0 | Ian is a great guy. He is an AMGA certified guide, |
| 0:42.2 | and he has guided in the United States and Iceland, Norway, France, and Belakula, British Columbia. |
| 0:51.4 | And I'm sure there's a place or two where Ian has guided that I'm not even |
| 0:56.4 | aware of. |
| 0:57.9 | And in this conversation, I wanted to talk to Ian a bit more about the guide life. |
| 1:03.6 | I actually had a conversation just over three years ago with Angela Haas, another AMGA certified guide, along these same |
| 1:14.0 | lines. |
| 1:14.7 | But I figured, given the world we've been living in for the last couple years, it was probably |
| 1:20.8 | time to check in with another accomplished guide that I really admire. |
| 1:26.4 | And so I ran back some of the same questions that I was |
| 1:30.6 | asking Angela three years ago. And of course, I ended up asking some different questions to Ian as |
| 1:38.2 | well. Bottom line, I think that anyone who is thinking of getting into the guide game ought to listen to this |
| 1:46.8 | conversation. |
| 1:48.0 | Ian has a whole lot of perspective and information to offer. |
| 1:52.7 | But I also think that anyone who is thinking of hiring a guide or wondering how this all works, you should probably listen to this conversation |
| 2:03.7 | too. We get into the nitty gritty, some real brass tack stuff about what it means to be a guide |
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