Alaskan "Can Do!" Spirit

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Alaskan "Can Do!" Spirit

FromDark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska

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29 minutes

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Jul 29, 2022

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Champion dogmusher Brent Sass shares the hilarious story of his first attempt at caribou hunting and Bill Schnabel tells the story of how not to raise pigs for bacon.

Released:

Jul 29, 2022

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Titles in the series (35)

Hear amazing true stories from Alaska told by the people who experienced them!

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Dog Sense: Betsey Jacobs nearly loses her new service-puppy-in-training in a frozen river and Seth Robinson and his wife are worried about getting caught in an avalanche, so they consult with their dog. NO DOGS DIE IN THIS EPISODE so don’t worry. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Run for Your Life!: Alaskans escape their problems in the most fundamental way you can–running like hell. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Christmas in Seward: Sam Cosnotti arrives alone in Seward shortly before Christmas and is welcomed by a co-worker to a rather unconventional Christmas Day dinner. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Soaked Science: Knute Keilland takes a prominent visiting scientist for an impromptu swim and Cody Dean steps out of his tent for a pee and makes a horrifying discovery. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Scientists On Ice!: Geoff Carrol fights off a polar bear with the wrong end of a shotgun and Mike Ruckhaus falls asleep behind the wheel of a Nodwell tracked vehicle while traversing frozen arctic tundra. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Starving Around Denali Expedition: Mike Speaks receives life-saving beers from the heavens on a poorly-executed winter hike around Denali. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Alaskan MacGuyvers: Alaskans try to solve their problems in MacGuyver ways but don’t get MacGuyver results. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Abdicating the Throne: A woman moves to Alaska and finds the freedom to explore her understanding of the world, leading to huge and terrifying ideological shifts. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Won't You Be My Neighbor?: Host Rob Prince meets his neighbor for the first time–three years after he passed away… by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
20 min listen
Bear Cub: What Alaskan animal should you fear the most? A bear cub, because they don’t travel alone… by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
My Alaskan Mother: Alaskan mothers give their daughters a real run for their money. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
28 min listen
Alaskan Practical Jokes: Alaskans prank each other with very mixed results. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Up a Creek Without a Canoe: A woman goes on a remote canoeing trip with a guy friend and gets stranded when they wrap their canoe around a huge rock. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
22 min listen
Bad Day at Work: The cast of an Alaskan play decide the show doesn’t necessarily have to go on and a guy’s hat saves his life while on the job. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Walk for your Life: Two men survive a fiery plane crash only to have to walk miles through snowy woods and a kid nearly surrenders to hypothermia. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Don't Look Back: Jabin Collins experiences a life-altering car accident that threatens his dream of playing high school football, but not all things that are “life-altering” alter life in a bad way. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Alaskan Rescues: Alaskans manage to rescue each other from certain death in miraculous ways. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Kindness of Strangers: Matt Irinaga is saved by a mysterious stranger emerging from the ice fog and Phoebe Rohrbacher meets the nicest man in Alaska in the un-nicest of ways. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Hitchhikers: Deb Horner picks up a furry hitchhiker who refuses to leave her truck, Kat Betters picks up a dead hitchhiker who miraculously comes back to life, and host Rob Prince tells the bizarre story of the time he picked up a hitchhiker in his 1982 DeLorean sports car. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Awkward Situations: Lorien Nettleton gets auctioned off in the Talkeetna Bachelor Auction Matthew Sturm decides the best way to make it through a tricky kayaking situation is to get naked. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Alaskan "Can Do!" Spirit: Champion dogmusher Brent Sass shares the hilarious story of his first attempt at caribou hunting and Bill Schnabel tells the story of how not to raise pigs for bacon. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
The Power of Nature: Josh Weiser tells the story of the most incredible experience he ever had as a tour bus driver in Denali National Park. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
19 min listen
Close Encounters of the Fuzzy Kind: Ray Smith runs with a pack of wolves and Jan Hanscomb finds it hard to rid her house of an uninvited bear. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Moms Improv: Sarah Sullivan discovers as a little girl that her mother’s threat assessment radar isn’t as tuned in as she thought it was and Taryn Hughes delivers her own baby in her truck on the way to the hospital on a frigid Fairbanks night. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Lost & Found: Dawn Erbeck shares a story about the hazards of bringing jewelry into the wilderness and host Rob Prince shares his personal experience with a life threatening case of lost and found. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Squirrel, Squirrel, Bigfoot: Harper O’Brien’s grandfather gets scared by a squirrel in bear’s clothing, host Rob Prince discovers squirrels have an appetite for mushrooms and breaking and entering, and Glenner Anderson finds out why the Finding Bigfoot Reality TV show never finds Bigfoot. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Silver Linings: Atileo Frizzera accidentally becomes the poster boy for chainsaw chaps and Karl Monetti takes advantage of a plane crash to recruit a rugby player. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
The Blowhole: There’s a mysterious evil force that lives in Alaska and it’s called “The Blowhole.” Anyone who has ever seen it has learned why they always say, “Don’t stop in the blowhole.” by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
America's Farthest North Little Free Libraries: Correspondent Ryan Peterson explores the little free libraries of Fairbanks and interviews their creators. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Don't Let Go: Jessica Thomas barely survives when her pickup truck goes through the ice, but it turns out to be just the start of her problems. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen

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Car Trouble: Kaiti Ott turns her car into a fishbowl and Ashley Carrick breaks the cardinal rule of Alaska: Don’t Drive Naked. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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America's Farthest North Little Free Libraries: Correspondent Ryan Peterson explores the little free libraries of Fairbanks and interviews their creators. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Ladder Dude!: David Rockney witnesses how a ladder truck can make a bad situation much worse and Jenn Jenkins’ friends think a ladder is going to literally eat her leg. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Squirrel, Squirrel, Bigfoot: Harper O’Brien’s grandfather gets scared by a squirrel in bear’s clothing, host Rob Prince discovers squirrels have an appetite for mushrooms and breaking and entering, and Glenner Anderson finds out why the Finding Bigfoot Reality TV show never finds Bigfoot. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Happy Mother's Day 2023: Putt Clark’s mom makes her family to the most disgusting archaeological dig in history and Ryan Peterson tells the story of the Mother’s Day gift that refuses to quit giving. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Lessons Learned: Richard Dickman and his brother teach themselves how to fly WHILE FLYING, and Ryan learns how background checks work in Alaska. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Don't Let Go: Jessica Thomas barely survives when her pickup truck goes through the ice, but it turns out to be just the start of her problems. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Silver Linings: Atileo Frizzera accidentally becomes the poster boy for chainsaw chaps and Karl Monetti takes advantage of a plane crash to recruit a rugby player. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Awkward Situations: Lorien Nettleton gets auctioned off in the Talkeetna Bachelor Auction Matthew Sturm decides the best way to make it through a tricky kayaking situation is to get naked. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Close Encounters of the Fuzzy Kind: Ray Smith runs with a pack of wolves and Jan Hanscomb finds it hard to rid her house of an uninvited bear. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
The Power of Ice: Sean McGee tells the story of a police bust gone awry thanks to ice and Dick Griffith literally freezes his butt off. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
The Blowhole: There’s a mysterious evil force that lives in Alaska and it’s called “The Blowhole.” Anyone who has ever seen it has learned why they always say, “Don’t stop in the blowhole.” by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
The Power of Nature: Josh Weiser tells the story of the most incredible experience he ever had as a tour bus driver in Denali National Park. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
19 min listen
Lost & Found: Dawn Erbeck shares a story about the hazards of bringing jewelry into the wilderness and host Rob Prince shares his personal experience with a life threatening case of lost and found. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Moms Improv: Sarah Sullivan discovers as a little girl that her mother’s threat assessment radar isn’t as tuned in as she thought it was and Taryn Hughes delivers her own baby in her truck on the way to the hospital on a frigid Fairbanks night. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Kindness of Strangers: Matt Irinaga is saved by a mysterious stranger emerging from the ice fog and Phoebe Rohrbacher meets the nicest man in Alaska in the un-nicest of ways. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Hitchhikers: Deb Horner picks up a furry hitchhiker who refuses to leave her truck, Kat Betters picks up a dead hitchhiker who miraculously comes back to life, and host Rob Prince tells the bizarre story of the time he picked up a hitchhiker in his 1982 DeLorean sports car. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Don't Look Back: Jabin Collins experiences a life-altering car accident that threatens his dream of playing high school football, but not all things that are “life-altering” alter life in a bad way. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Alaskan MacGuyvers: Alaskans try to solve their problems in MacGuyver ways but don’t get MacGuyver results. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Soaked Science: Knute Keilland takes a prominent visiting scientist for an impromptu swim and Cody Dean steps out of his tent for a pee and makes a horrifying discovery. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Bear Cub: What Alaskan animal should you fear the most? A bear cub, because they don’t travel alone… by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Abdicating the Throne: A woman moves to Alaska and finds the freedom to explore her understanding of the world, leading to huge and terrifying ideological shifts. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
My Alaskan Mother: Alaskan mothers give their daughters a real run for their money. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
28 min listen
Alaskan Rescues: Alaskans manage to rescue each other from certain death in miraculous ways. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Run for Your Life!: Alaskans escape their problems in the most fundamental way you can–running like hell. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Bad Day at Work: The cast of an Alaskan play decide the show doesn’t necessarily have to go on and a guy’s hat saves his life while on the job. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Alaskan Practical Jokes: Alaskans prank each other with very mixed results. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Walk for your Life: Two men survive a fiery plane crash only to have to walk miles through snowy woods and a kid nearly surrenders to hypothermia. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen
Up a Creek Without a Canoe: A woman goes on a remote canoeing trip with a guy friend and gets stranded when they wrap their canoe around a huge rock. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
22 min listen
Starving Around Denali Expedition: Mike Speaks receives life-saving beers from the heavens on a poorly-executed winter hike around Denali. by Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
29 min listen

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Alaskan "Can Do!" Spirit

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Titles in the series (35)

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