We had flames from Florida ceiling, and we all just dove back against the cave walls,

and here's this inferno, and there's nowhere to go.

And we were thinking about just standing up and breaking out of the snow cave,

but if we did that, we'd have no shelter for the night.

Episode 8, Kurt Linville. This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. This is the Adventure Sports Podcast.

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Get out there and have some fun. On this episode of the adventure sports podcast, we're speaking with Kurt Linville.

Not only is Kurt a fellow adventure sports enthusiast, but he is my co-host for this show.

Today he'll be speaking about winter backpacking and snow cave

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Kurt, I've given the listeners a little information about you, but can you take a few minutes to go into a little bit more detail about yourself?

Thanks, Travis.

First, it's, you know, it's a lot of fun to work with the co-host because you and I have

known each other for a long time, so this is a fun, special thing to do.

I grew up primarily in northeastern Oklahoma in the Ozark Mountains and grew up loving

the woods. My mother was a college professor. My father did a variety of jobs and ranging from construction through

working for grocery stores and what have you. So we lived on a farm, but we weren't farmers.

And I grew up in nature, which offered a lot of opportunities to just fall in love with the outdoors and

with adventure sports. And in Oklahoma, my adventure sports were long-distance biking, lots of

motorcycles, dirt bikes, water skiing, scuba diving, did quite a bit of hiking and quite a bit of camping,

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