Nick Clausen - Videographer/Producer

Nick Clausen has been an inspiring videographer ever since 9th grade where he produced the Friday Video Show at Central High School in St. Paul, MN. Since then, he went to college at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale where he received a B.A. in Radio-Television. He then covered the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996 while working in Chattanooga, TN. Then he moved to Baltimore, MD, and then back to Minnesota where he worked for KARE-TV and KSTP-TV.

Awards: Finalist for the National Press Photographers Association, Photographer of the Year, Four regional Emmy's for the National Television Academy, Excellence in Craft awards for the Outdoor Writers Association of America.

When I'm not begging my wife Laura to go camping, I'm whitewater kayaking, rock climbing, mountaineering, or ice climbig. I also love to throw the tennis ball around with our dog Ellie.

Favorite MN Bound Stories: Probably my favorite story (sorry Ron) was when Bill Sherck and I went to Alaska. There we gallivanted with Kodiak Bear, caught silver salmon, and climbed the Talkeetna Mountain Range. My next favorite story would be a trip Ron and I took to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. There, we caught yellowfin tuna and striped bass. Our guide, Captain Tim Barefoot gave us a first class tour where we observed humpback whales and dined on some of the best seafood I've ever had!

Favorite Ron Moment: Ron was shooting a standup for a story we were shooting on Stearns. He put on an inflatable lifejacket and as he pulled the cord and the jacked squeezed around his nexk, I saw his eyes grow to the size of golf balls. I think it startled him a bit, and we all had a good laugh. It's good to see he's still enthusiastic after all these years of catching fish, its still like he caught the very first one.