The Accidental Polar Plunge
The swim takes an unexpectedly funny turn.
Kerouacs Cruising | Where Off-Grid Living Meets Soulful Awakening
Sep 15, 2026 · 41 min · 13 segments
He wasn't going in. Then he went in. James just got back from seven days of backcountry hunting in the Sawtooth Wilderness with his son. 90 miles down a dirt road, no phone service, nights in the…
James KerouacHost
Cara KerouacHost
But I just got back from the Sawtooth Mountains, hunting elk in the middle of nowhere.

And Kara got to be home with absolutely no connection to me because we were 90 miles down a dirt road, Bear Valley Lookout, and, uh, I had absolutely no phone service for seven days, which was glorious, really.

Now, Ryan had a Garmin, so if there was an emergency he could reach out and, you know, potentially get us saved.

So we parked at Bear Valley Lookout, and I think that's, it's like 8,500 feet, and we hiked down, but down then up, down and up, down and up.

And we got, I don't even know how many miles we did, but we did a lot of miles and a lot of ups and downs.

Yeah, if you wanna watch this episode on YouTube, this is one of those good episodes where you...

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But I just got back from the Sawtooth Mountains, hunting elk in the middle of nowhere.

And Kara got to be home with absolutely no connection to me because we were 90 miles down a dirt road, Bear Valley Lookout, and, uh, I had absolutely no phone service for seven days, which was glorious, really.

Now, Ryan had a Garmin, so if there was an emergency he could reach out and, you know, potentially get us saved.

So we parked at Bear Valley Lookout, and I think that's, it's like 8,500 feet, and we hiked down, but down then up, down and up, down and up.

And we got, I don't even know how many miles we did, but we did a lot of miles and a lot of ups and downs.

Yeah, if you wanna watch this episode on YouTube, this is one of those good episodes where you...

Um, we're still processing it, but it's over an hour of video, so we're gonna clip that up and-
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