The High Route Podcast
Episodes
Skinning and Skiing with Big Sky Mountain Products
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with the two folks behind the climbing skins at Big Sky Mountain Products, Jackson Keogh and Eric Ha...
Learning the Ropes with Tina Currin Haver
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with Tina Haver Currin. Here’s some background. Currin is a crusher when it comes to long-distance...
Making Art (not Air) with Matthew Tufts
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with Matthew Tufts, a touring focused ski journalist and storyteller and photographer. To be clear, ...
Part 2: A Wrinkle in Time with Ptor Spricenieks
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The High Route Podcast, we feature part two of our interview with Ptor Spricenieks, a noted adventure skier, cosmic traveler, and f...
Part 1: A Wrinkle in Time with Ptor Spricenieks
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The High Route Podcast, we connect with Ptor Spricenieks, a noted ski mountaineer, husband, father, cosmic traveler, guide, and Can...
Story Time with Nikolai Schirmer
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s put this out there up front. Before you listen to this episode, we don’t want any spoilers. We’ve got a conversation with Norway’s Nikol...
An Avalanche Awareness Episode: Dr. Patrick Fink and the Latest Research on the Safeback SBX System
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, which comes fast on the heels of our last episode (we’re getting a bit ambitious over here), we explore some new research about the...
Andy Lewicky and SierraDescents
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode goes deep with Andy Lewicky. If his name doesn’t ring a bell, you’ve likely, over the years, come across his ski touring blog, Sierra...
The Espresso Episode with ZipFit's Jeff Colt
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this podcast episode, we are going all in on... ZipFit liners. Specifically, we’ll be speaking with Jeff Colt, marketing and design go-to for the...
Peaks & Couloirs with Chris Kussmaul
27 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Chris Kussmaul is our guest. I’ve been aware of Chirs for a few years—a friend of a friend kind of thing. He is based in Bozeman,...
The Arc of Traversing: Madeleine Martin-Preney
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One thing was clear a few years back when watching the film “Mind Over Mountain.” That film documents a team of three women on the classic Bugs to...
Becoming Billy Haas
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here at The High Route Podcast we’ve come to the conclusion of season 2 here on the podcast. We’ll pick back up again with season three in late su...
Backcountry Touring: A Beginner’s Dilemma
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s something a bit different on today’s episode. It all started back in March when I Googled a general term like “backcountry skiing in the...
Fay Manners and the Multi-Sport Addiction
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to mid-spring here at The High Route Podcast. Here in the Pacific Northwest, ski crampon season. It is also the season to unearth an interview...
Backcountry Business with Cripple Creek Backcountry’s Doug Stenclik
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For those of you keen on backcountry skiing podcasts, you will hear a familiar voice on this episoide. Doug Stenclik is our guest—he’s part owner ...
See You Tomorrow: Author Jeremy Evans on Snowboarder Marco Siffredi
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before we roll into this episode full steam, here’s some basic information: this interview was recorded in the fall of 2023. That was when a group f...
Her Own Style: Hadley Hammer
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Retirement. It is a word with notes of one chapter solidly shutting down and, with good fortune, another opening up—a transition in chapters we expe...
In the Steeps with Vivian Bruchez
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, the eyes go wide, the mind quiets and thoughts turn to the realization that you might be watching mastery. Chamonix-based skier, Vivian Bru...
On Mapping and Ski Atlases with Andy Sovick
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of The High Route Podcast, we do some exploring with Andy Sovick. If you are unfamiliar with Sovick, he is the humble founder of Beaco...
Picture Show with Drew Smith
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the best parts of liking to ask questions and running The High Route is the opportunity to speak to folks we admire and want to learn from. Wit...
Resurrecting Summit Journal with Michael Levy
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It has been more than a minute since our last episode. Over here at The High Route, there has been a bit of burying our heads in the sand as we focus ...
Moving Through Mountains and Life with Mali Noyes
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The first snows have fallen. And if the local webcams have anything to say about it, it might as well be winter. Snow sliding and keeping bases intact...
The Steeps and Slogs Episode with Aurel Lardy
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bonjour listeners of The High Route Podcast. On this steeps and slogs episode, we feature Aurélien Lardy. Good energy and ceaseless energy are two ke...
Avalanche Dreams with Lou Dawson
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The High Route Podcast, we speak with Lou Dawson. As much as anyone in North American ski mountaineering, Dawson has been a corners...
Riding a Rising Tide with Nick Russell
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some things should be laid to rest, like the idea that splitboarders are universally slow on the ups and slow to transition. Sure, the gear might be, ...
Dropping in with Cody Townsend
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 2 Episode 2 of The High Route Podcast. There's a video clip on YouTube, back from 2014, cataloged by RedBull. You've likely seen it...
Embracing Unknown Outcomes
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As we open up year two at The High Route, emerging from our late summer slumber, it's time to cue up the podcast. Episode 14 is all about reflecting o...
The Cat in the Bag Episode with Fabrikant and Haas
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The show must go on. It will go on when we bust into September. But it's a wrap for season one of The High Route Podcast. Lucky number episode 13, we'...
Roadkill Burritos and some Wasatch Skiing with Pete Vordenberg
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here are a few notes to get this podcast rolling. We hope you are reading this. 1) There is some foul language in this podcast. F-bombs abound, in pa...
Avalanche Airbags and Wilderness Medicine with Dr. Patrick Fink
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Patrick Fink joins us on Episode 11 of The High Route Podcast. Fink is an ER physician in Bend, Oregon, involved with the local and broader Wilder...
The Emergence Episode with Hennessey, Gardner, and Fabrikant
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're dropping this episode a bit before March—a dreamtime month for many THR readers and podcast listeners. March is on the cusp here in the Northe...
Empowerment with Blizzard Tecnica's Leslie Baker-Brown
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This past Fall, Blizzard-Tecnica released a ski and a book to raise money to support the Hilaree Nelson Fund. The fund promotes women-specific scholar...
Seeking Impeccability with Lynne Wolfe
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re titling this the "Seeking Impeccability" epsiode for a few sound reasons. Lynne Wolfe, the guest on our first 2024 episode of The High Route P...
Moving Through the Mountains with Sophia Schwartz
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many folks make up the backcountry community. Sliding skis or a splitboard uphill takes some discomfort tolerance (until you feel sufficiently fit) an...
Traversing the Redline
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There are some foundational values here at The High Route. Right at the top of the list is inspiring backcountry travelers to dream big adventures, an...
Golden Ages Collide: Fabrikant, Haas, and Lou Dawson
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I think we all can recall our first time. You're scrambling around a digital facsimile of a library on the early Internet, and wham, you stumbled onto...
Training and Resting and the Mountain Athlete Scene: Sam Naney of Cascade Endurance
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
About 50 years past the start of the Anthropocene (~1950), mountain towns were abuzz with people running on trails, rock climbing, backcountry skiing,...
Alpinism and Ski Mountaineering with Cordes and Fabrikant
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 3 of The High Route Podcast, we bring together two high level practitioners of their respective crafts. Kelly Cordes and Adam Fabrikant.If ...
Seeing Adventure Films with Nick Rosen
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a weekend day in the high alpine, where puffies, a biting wind, and turning leaves teased of winter, we're more in tune with the season—which ...
Breathing Room with Caley Fretz of Escape Collective
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Small tremors and more rattling seismic activity have tossed and turned the outdoor media landscape for several years at this point. For example, if y...