A Stone's Throw from the Arctic Circle - Chase Eckert
Adventure Rider Radio
Canoe West Media
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Chase Eckert says he’s drawn to fantastic stories told by amazing people and feels that if you listen to enough interesting people for long enough you will end up trying something interesting yourself. Chase grew up working at his family’s traveling carnival in Alaska. As things would have it, during Covid the carnival shut down, but when things started to open up again Chase went back to work. While at a carnival during the Iditarod sled dog race he got the idea to ride his motorcycle to the Arctic Circle. After some quick planning, Chase set out and rode his KTM up the Dalton Highway, but before he made it to his destination he ran in to some trouble with his bike and plans changed.
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| 0:00.0 | Chase Eckhart grew up literally in a traveling carnival in Alaska. |
| 0:05.0 | In fact he comes from an extended family of carnival people. |
| 0:08.0 | It's in their blood. |
| 0:10.0 | He says he's drawn to fantastic stories told by amazing people and feels that if you listen to enough |
| 0:16.2 | interesting people for long enough, you'll end up trying something interesting yourself. |
| 0:21.3 | So while working at the Winter Carnival in Alaska, he looked over at his |
| 0:25.8 | K-T-M-990, parked in a snowy lot with studs in both tires as if it were ready for a |
| 0:31.3 | mission and thought, |
| 0:33.0 | I should ride that to the Arctic Circle. |
| 0:36.0 | And that was that. |
| 0:37.0 | In two weeks he would be riding the KTM up the Alaskan Hall Road |
| 0:40.0 | to the Arctic Circle. |
| 0:42.0 | And for those who know Chase, well they probably wouldn't have |
| 0:45.2 | been surprised because in Chase's own words he's never been able to live normal. |
| 0:51.0 | And that could have everything to do with all those fantastic stories he's absorbed |
| 0:56.8 | over the years working at the carnival. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm Jim Martin, this is Adventure Rider Radio. |
| 1:02.1 | Stay with us, we got a good one for you. Oh, I'm Sam Manne, Zez I must have been able to see. |
| 1:34.0 | Gonnaise. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm Sam Manic of Zzo. |
| 1:41.0 | Most and then Simona Bill Bragoon, have you prepared us. |
| 1:43.7 | Jocelyn Snow, Simon Thomas, |
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