Ep. 057: Steve Fassbinder - Pack Rafting
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Bike to the river. Pull your raft out of your pack. Put your bike on the raft. Float the river. Put your raft in your pack. Bike on.
Sound cool? Open up some new adventure routes? You bet it does! Steve Fassbinder shares fun and hilarious stories on pack rafting and bike packing. From summit to sea in Mexico, across hundreds of miles of desert and canyons in Utah, and even through the Grand Canyon, Steve shows us how it's done!
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| 0:00.0 | Lava is the largest rapid down there, and it's kind of near the end. |
| 0:03.2 | And by then, you've done so much whitewater like you're just in it. |
| 0:06.1 | It's no big deal to look at these huge waves that are 20 feet tall and just punch right through them. |
| 0:11.4 | You got it. |
| 0:12.3 | But you get to lava, and lava is mega, and lava will scare everything out of you. |
| 0:39.2 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:42.1 | Brought to you by 180 TAC. |
| 0:43.8 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:51.9 | Episode 57, Steve Fastbinder, pack rafting. |
| 1:00.2 | Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:01.8 | This is your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 1:07.0 | We have a really fun topic for you folks today and a great guest to tell us all about it. |
| 1:12.5 | I don't know how many of you have heard of pack rafting before, but pack rafts are carryable rafts that you can actually put in a pack, carry along with a bike. It allows you to |
| 1:17.9 | deal with water that's in your way, and we have a great adventurer to visit with us today about |
| 1:23.8 | this. Steve Fastbinder lives outside of Durango, Colorado. He is into cycling, both |
| 1:30.1 | road biking as well as mountain biking. He's into climbing. He's also a photographer and a writer |
| 1:36.1 | and a packrafter. So Steve, welcome to the program. Thanks, Curtis. Good to be here. |
| 1:41.9 | Take a few minutes, if you would, to tell our listeners about yourself and your connection |
| 1:46.2 | to packrafting. |
| 1:47.4 | Like you mentioned earlier, I've been into mountain biking, climbing, and, you know, outdoor adventure |
| 1:52.9 | for as much, as long as I can remember, really. |
| 1:56.4 | But about five or six years ago, well, let's go back a little farther than that. |
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