Ep. 076: Greg Floyd - Backcountry Skiing
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2015
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Is it time to talk snow already? You bet it is!! Greg Floyd shares with us stories and guidance about how to ski safely and comfortably in the backcountry. This is not ski area; lift line; ski patrol; greens, blues, and blacks. This is the real deal--out there earning turns and watching your own six. Expand your horizons beyond the ski area boundary. Don't you think it is about time?
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| 0:00.0 | On one of the days that really got me hooked on the sport, it was the biggest cliff I had ever gone off of and was probably 35 feet or so. |
| 0:08.1 | Wow. |
| 0:08.4 | Hit the snow landed and actually submerged underneath the surface of the snow. |
| 0:35.5 | Yeah. This is the adventure sports podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | Brought to you by 180 TAC. |
| 0:39.7 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:46.4 | Episode 76, Greg Floyd, backcountry skiing. |
| 0:56.2 | Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:57.7 | This is your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 1:00.2 | Today I have with us Greg Floyd. |
| 1:03.7 | Greg was born in Colorado, so he's a Colorado native, |
| 1:09.0 | and he grew up in the Rocky Mountains from Colorado through Wyoming and Montana. |
| 1:13.0 | And as a young man, he did alpine skiing, and then as a teenager fell in love with backcountry skiing. Today, he's here to share with us his passion |
| 1:18.7 | for what it's like to ski in the back country of Colorado. And also, Greg has started a couple |
| 1:25.2 | of businesses in Golden, which can help everyone with their adventure sports, |
| 1:29.8 | Bent Gate, as well as the Golden Bike Shop. So Bent Gate is a mountaineering skiing, backpacking, |
| 1:36.7 | camping style outfitter, and the Golden Bike Shop, of course, is a bike shop. So Greg, welcome to the program. |
| 1:43.9 | Great. Thanks. Glad to be here. |
| 1:45.9 | Greg, take a few minutes to tell our listeners more about yourself. I just kind of gave them a real |
| 1:50.0 | brief sketch, but who is Greg Floyd? Well, I was born here in Colorado. I started skiing when I was |
| 1:57.3 | six years old with my family, with my older sisters. |
| 2:03.3 | Definitely a fairly casual thing. |
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