Open Container: Outdoor culture as a free flowing conversation

Open Container: Outdoor culture as a free flowing conversation

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Episodes 41
Avg. Duration 53m
Activity Dormant
Apple Rating 4.9 (22)
Since Jan 2025
Latest Episode Oct 2025

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Open Container is the outdoor podcast trekking deeper into outdoor culture than the headlines. We talk about creativity, adventure, conservation, politics, and the people who make the outdoor space so vibrant. Renowned outdoor journalist Doug Schnitzspahn steers the Open Container conversations with people who look to nature to find inspiration and solutions. Learn how the outdoors teaches us, changes us, heals us, and how we will build a better world from simply going outside. 
While indoor conversations are dominated by climate change, politics and cultural upheaval, outdoor conversations provide the answers. Because the outdoors is not a niche. It's way bigger than that. So please join us each episode as we grab the open container and find out what outdoor conversations are inside. Let’s get some.

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