EP 100EP 100 Writing about a life spent living off the land with Seth Kantner
In this episode, Cody talks to Alaskan author Seth Kantner. Seth was born and raised in Alaska, among the animals and the wilderness, and his writing ...
EP 107 Doing dangerous things as safely as possible with Dane Ferguson
In this one, Cody talks to snowmachiner Dane Ferguson. Dane started sledding in 2003 and almost immediately began hitting jumps. Before he even really...
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In this one, Cody talks to snowmachiner Dane Ferguson. Dane started sledding in 2003 and almost immediately began hitting jumps. Before he even really knew how to ride, he would double up the mountain with filmers and then they would go back down to retrieve his snowmachine for him. Once he and his snowmachine were reunited, all he had to do was point it at the jump and hit the throttle. Dane is a tenacious guy, though. He’s a quick, calculated learner. So, it wasn’t long before he was riding the backcountry and hitting kickers like a pro.
Watch any of his parts in Turnagain Hardcore or Slednecks and you’ll see the type of rider he is. He goes huge, he tries new tricks and he’s not afraid to fall. He says that at a certain point, he realized that the more time you can spend in the air, the more time you have to register what’s going on and make corrections before you hit the ground.
In 2021, his uncle was strong-armed into signing a piece of paper that gave the Taliban permission to marry-off his daughters. So, five days before the weddings, Dane found himself helping his cousins escape from Afghanistan. Then, when Russia invaded Ukraine, Dane got a call from a guy who had helped coordinate the resources that helped get his cousins out of Afghanistan. He said that women and children were disappearing, possibly to human trafficking or possibly to disorganized evacuations. So, Dane made an easy decision: he would go to Ukraine and he would help safely evacuate those women and children who were in impossible situations just like his cousins.
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