If you want to get to know your significant other, try a long-distance hiking trip.

For Alex Maier and Amy Robin, their 2,000-mile hike from New Mexico to Yellowstone National Park on the Continental Divide Trail in 2021 also led to them forging a new business as full-time videographers and photographers.

Now based in Columbus, the couple’s focus is on their “passion business,” Wilderness Mindset, through which they’ve created two 90-minute documentaries with another two in the works. Their latest film, “Mississippi Speed Record: An Epic Adventure,” is now streaming on Amazon Prime.

Paddling the Mississippi River

The documentary, shot in 2023, tracks four men as they paddle a specially outfitted 23-foot canoe from the headwaters of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca, Minnesota, to th

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