
← Big Red Canoe - Friends of the Boundary Waters podcast10 Dec 2025 · 57 min
A Wilderness Beyond Sight: Navigating the Boundary Waters with a Vision Loss
A Wilderness Beyond Sight: Navigating the Boundary Waters with a Vision Loss
How do you navigate a challenging wilderness when you can't even see it? In this fascinating and deeply moving episode, we sit down with Kelly Carver, who has been paddling the Boundary Waters for over 40 years—including the past three decades since he became legally blind. After being diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease following his first BWCA trip in 1982, Kelly refused to let vision loss stop him from experiencing the place where he says "part of his soul" resides. Kelly takes us in...