Category: Travel
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Chasing Mountain Lions, Elk, and Wild Pigs across the USA
Montana’s film industry trends toward the wild – literally. If we’re not setting up Western gunfight scenes, or filming bucking broncs, there’s a good chance the job includes fly fishing, elk hunting, or some kind of outdoor activity. I’ve been fortunate enough to walk into Montana’s high country while filming various hunts, including whitetail deer,…
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Ski Guiding in Japan – Achieving My Goal
Many of us set difficult goals. It’s a necessary life skill. You save for a new car, complete a college degree, work toward a promotion, or go on that dream vacation. For the last five years, I’ve been working on a much different goal. I’ve been dreaming of guiding skiers into the wild mountains of…
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Disappearing Glaciers in Kenai Fjords
We’d been in Anchorage for three nights, and it was just long enough to make me itch for a world without gift shops and cartoon grizzly bears. On my fourth trip to Alaska, I was beginning to understand the further I moved beyond paved roads and restaurants, the better. Our film crew had just documented…
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Surfing an Alaskan Tidal Wave
Situated just east of Anchorage, the 250-mile long Chugach range rises from sea level to glacier-covered peaks that stretch upwards of 13,000 feet. This incredible mountain range towers over thousands of rocky islands, and encompasses dozens of jagged fjords that cut inland from the Gulf of Alaska. Massive brown bears live here, along with moose…
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Filming Shipwrecks in the Caribbean
Getting paid to bring a camera underwater has been my dream for over a decade. As a PADI scuba instructor who worked in Florida and Hawaii, I was always fascinated with underwater camera equipment. However, my job was to teach students, not snap photos. That all changed last year with the show Rock the Park,…
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Walking on Waterfalls in Jasper National Park
Staring into a mist of freezing water flowing down a 10-meter chute, I asked the obvious question: “I haven’t rappelled in a while … can’t you just lower me down?” “No, we made a plan to rappel, so we’re sticking to it,” said my grizzled, French-Canadian guide. His voice was drowned out by the current’s…
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Shooting ‘Survivor’ in Nicaragua
Here’s a self portrait after skinny dipping in a dirty lake on top of a volcano in order to wash an itchy rash off my butt. The rash started spreading from my wrists to my arms, then the back of my hands swelled up. I was hiking through the Nicaraguan jungle – a cloud forest…
