The Mountain Side

The Mountain Side is a long-running Colorado studio show centered on mountain people and the cultures that gather around them. Its range is wider than a simple outdoor podcast. Recent conversations include bare-knuckle boxing, UFC and BKFC veterans, jiu-jitsu coaching, backcountry hunting, hydration gear, wildlife management, tactical competition, restaurant work, beekeeping, foraging, and suicide awareness. The common thread is not one sport or one lifestyle. It is people who train, build, teach, compete, feed others, spend time outside, and carry responsibility in their communities. The show’s pacing is informal and familiar. Guests return. Friends drop into the room. A fight poster, a trade-show booth, a hunting season, a restaurant menu, or a Colorado weather story can become the doorway into a longer conversation. That casualness gives the show its texture. Chris Camozzi can talk through a Denver fight card and contract realities. Joe Gavain can explain a backcountry hydration product through actual failures with bladders and filtration systems. Dan Gates can bring wildlife policy into a room that already understands hunters, broadheads, and local stakes. Jacqueline Clark’s suicide prevention episode shifts the tone completely, using the same community trust for a more serious purpose. Chef Josh Work’s appearance connects food, restaurant craft, foraging, and mental health without making those subjects feel separate. The Mountain Side often sounds like a workshop, gym, range, kitchen, and trailhead feeding into one table. It is candid, occasionally rowdy, and more interested in lived experience than neat segments. For PlayNext discovery, the show lands best with listeners who want outdoors culture with real personalities attached: athletes, hunters, coaches, makers, advocates, and friends talking through what they actually do.