Ep. 050: Gail and Porter Storey - Hiking the PCT and More
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2015
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Listen in as Gail and Porter delight us with tales and excerpts from Gail's book about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail and MORE. Gail and Porter get real, share the funny and the serious in a fresh light. And you've got to read the book - Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award!
I Promise Not to Suffer
A Fool for Love Hikes the Pacific Crest Trail
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, friends and welcome to the adventure |
| 0:10.7 | Hi, friends, and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. This is your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:25.5 | Hey, I wanted to take a moment to recognize that this episode is not just another episode. |
| 0:30.8 | This is our 50th episode, episode number 50. We launched our podcast back on February the 28th, and we are a young show, but 50 episodes already. |
| 0:42.3 | So I'm pulling my co-host, Travis Parsons, in here. |
| 0:45.7 | I just wanted to do a little mini celebration with you listeners, because we're excited about having done 50 episodes already. |
| 0:53.1 | Travis, you there? |
| 1:12.1 | I am. Yeah, it's been a blast. It's been a bit of a whirlwind, but we're having a ton of fun with it, and we're loving the feedback that you guys are giving us. So it makes us feel like, hey, you guys are really enjoying the show, and I hope that's the case. When we started the podcast, our plan was for this podcast to go on for years to come. |
| 1:18.2 | And so I'm not surprised to be at episode 50, but I'm surprised at how quickly it came. Wow. |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah, I think when we did those first few episodes, you know, it just seemed like it was going to be way out in the future, you know, getting to 40 or 50, but they go by so quickly. |
| 1:31.6 | And three days a week is a lot. |
| 1:34.7 | But I think it's been a good pace. |
| 1:39.8 | I think hopefully everybody thinks we've been providing good, entertaining stories and getting some insight into the world of other adventure sports for them and hopefully they're getting |
| 1:46.0 | inspired to go out and try these adventure sports they're hearing about oh yeah i agree it has been |
| 1:51.2 | really really cool but 50 episodes done it's our half centennial woohoo right right well i hope everybody |
| 1:59.1 | hangs in there tell all your friends i can't wait till we're doing this again for episode 100. |
| 2:04.6 | And I want all you guys to be there. And I want all your friends to be there. Just find whoever you can find and tell them all about the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 2:12.2 | Make sure you do share the Adventure Sports podcast with all of your friends. We want to continue to grow. We want this |
| 2:19.6 | podcast to be something that we all get to enjoy for years to come. So thank you in advance for doing that. |
| 2:26.0 | Thank you for me as well. Today we have the Gail and Porter story story. Gell and Porter |
| 2:33.6 | are through hikers, and Porter spent 30 years as a hospice and palliative care |
| 2:39.4 | physician, and after 30 years of doing that, I'll let him tell the story as to why, but he decided |
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