Alex Maier Movies

2017
Yooper Tours: On the North Country Trail
Yooper Tours: On the North Country Trail
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A man hikes 550 miles across the North Country Trail in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula from July through February, experiencing it in all of its...
2019
Yooper Creoles: Finnish Music in Michigan's Copper Country
Yooper Creoles: Finnish Music in Michigan's Copper Country
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When the immigrants came to America, their cultures entered the "great melting pot." In Michigan's Upper Peninsula Finnish immigrants mixed their...
2020
Learning to Splitboard the Northern Rockies
Learning to Splitboard the Northern Rockies
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Splitboarding is a fast-growing sport for snowboarders who want to venture out of the resorts and into the backcountry. A splitboard is a snowboard...
2021
Pioneering Nevada's Basin and Range Trail
Pioneering Nevada's Basin and Range Trail
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A long distance solo hiker maps out a 1000 mile route across the vast and untouched Nevada wilderness and spends the next 67 days making the trek.
2019
A Year in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
A Year in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
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Take a visual journey through every month of the year in Michigan’s beautiful hidden gem, the Upper Peninsula. The scenery of this remote...
2019
Finnish American Chip Woodcarvers
Finnish American Chip Woodcarvers
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The deep northern forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are home to small villages of Finnish Americans—communities carved out from the...
2016
A Sense of Direction: a 1,200 Mile Walk on the Pacific Northwest Trail
A Sense of Direction: a 1,200 Mile Walk on the Pacific Northwest Trail
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After graduating college with a dream of becoming an outdoor filmmaker but no job prospects Alex Maier set out to hike 1,200 miles from the...
2020
Life on a Knife Edge
Life on a Knife Edge
02020HD
Traversing untested mountain ridge routes in Montana, solo hiker Alex Maier embarks on a journey with many unknowns where things rarely go as planned.
2019
Finnish American Rag Rug Weavers
Finnish American Rag Rug Weavers
02019HD
Between 1865 and 1920, Finnish immigrants brought traditional arts to America, including woven and braided rag rugs. As a hallmark of Finnish ethnic...