Steve’s adventures in the bush
For anyone who happened to be channel surfing last Friday night, that was none other than Telegraph photographer and international man of adventure, Steve Eginoire, in the latest episode of “Alaskan Wing Men.”

The National Geographic series, a dramatized if not slightly overwrought look at the life of Alaskan bush pilots, featured Eginoire and his crew of ski homies en route to the Meade Glacier, near Haines, last April.

In the episode titled “Escape from Bear Island,” Eginoire and fellow Durangoan Chris Trimble were picked up at the Juneau airport amid a rainstorm, which gave plenty of theatrical grist to the show’s opening sequence, complete with booming narrator. The two were then issued headphones and crash landing instructions before being whisked off to meet their partners for a 3-week backcountry bro-dyssey.

To catch a glimpse of Steve and his buds high over Alaska, go to http://natgeotv.com/ca/alaska-wing-men

Get your freak on
Bring me your tall, short, fat, skinny and curmudgeonly, yearning to be seen. Disney has put out an open casting call for extras in its upcoming epic “The Lone Ranger.”

The remake of the classic, starring Johnny Depp as Tonto, will be shooting throughout the Four Corners this spring and summer.

The casting will be overseen by Sande Alessi, the Los Angeles-based casting director of “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Glee” and “The Social Network” to name a few.

Sorry ladies, it’s mostly men they’re after. Scouts are on the lookout for “Asian men and Native American men and men of other ethnicities. All ages over 18.”

But pretty boys and aspiring underwear models need not apply. The casting crew is seeking “extreme character types – thin, tall, short, skinny, odd features, huge nose, eyes, ears, lazy eye, grizzled and wrinkled faces, odd body types” as well as “people with any special abilities or circus type performers.”

Fortunately for the fairer sex, the Durango and Moab casting calls are seeking both men and woman.  Which means everyone from 3-foot Pygmy cat jugglers to 400-pound Samoan tight-rope walkers can report Fri., March 23, to the Fort Lewis College Theatre Department every hour on the hour from 2 - 7 p.m. Hopefuls should bring a 3-by-5-inch color photo from the waist up, a pen or pencil and a valid ID.

For information on other castng call times, go to www.SandeAlessiCasting.com.