A Stone's Throw from the Arctic Circle - Chase Eckert

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🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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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...

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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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