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Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

DEEP TROUBLE: Stranded in the Desert Without Fuel and Water

Adventure Rider Radio – Motorcycle Podcast

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4.9960 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of DEEP TROUBLE, we talk with James McCormick who went on what he calls, a ‘leap of faith ride’ in Baja, somewhere he had ridden many times before. This time he and his friend chose to explore a more remote area and everything...

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Today we have another of our Deep Trouble series.

0:02.8

Deep Trouble is an adventure rider radio exclusive series,

0:06.1

motivating stories of riders who found themselves in deep trouble.

0:09.6

In this unique series, we retrace the experience with the rider. We shed light on some

0:13.9

unique challenges they face and the strategies they use and ultimately the

0:17.5

valuable lessons they learned through it. Most critically we employ some

0:22.0

counterfactual thinking and try to envision how things could have turned out differently if some of those controlled aspects were changed.

0:28.5

This way all of us riders can learn from the experience and hopefully avoid our own deep trouble.

0:35.0

On this episode of deep trouble,

0:38.0

two riders rode off into the Baja Desert for a fast-paced adventure

0:42.0

into an area that hadn't explored before.

0:43.7

Now this trip would be running along remote roads and tracks that few people

0:47.6

traveled. This was a long route that would require more fuel than they could

0:51.7

carry, so their plan was to buy fuel at the halfway

0:55.2

mark, the extent of their fuel range in a remote fishing village.

0:59.4

But it didn't go as plan.

1:01.2

Something went wrong.

1:02.2

And every decision they made after that produced their chances

1:05.3

of getting out alive, even after they called for help. I'm Jim Martin, this is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us,

1:12.4

we got a good one for you. This is Adventure Rider Radio. Stay with us.

1:13.0

We got a good one for you. Z

1:26.3

Sim must then Simon, Simon Baby.

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