Ep. 1003: Thru-Hiking the Arizona Trail - Revisited - Jacob “Valhalla” Myers
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired Sept. 6, 2021.
Read about Jacob’s recent attempt to ski to the South Pole: https://outdoors.com/almost-history-inside-a-failed-polar-expedition/
Jacob Myers thru-hiked the Arizona Trail early this year and is joining us today to tell us all about it! Not only was the desert vastly different from the lush, rainforest-like Appalachian Mountains he grew up in, but it was one of the driest summers on record in Arizona, making the adjustment even more challenging. He dealt with sun poisoning, lack of water, and extreme heat.
His next adventure will be quite literally on the opposite end of the spectrum...crossing glaciers in Norway.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm your host, Mason Gravely. |
| 0:25.4 | Today, we are throwing it back to Jacob Valhalla Myers. |
| 0:29.8 | And this episode is really cool because just this weekend, |
| 0:34.8 | I was able to go with a bunch of friends camping and canoeing and kayaking. |
| 0:40.2 | We did this like 21, 22 mile route through these rivers and lakes. |
| 0:44.7 | And right at the halfway point is where we camp. |
| 0:47.5 | And that was our night of camping. |
| 0:49.6 | It was at a campground that was actually accessible by road. |
| 0:52.5 | One of our former guests reach out and said hey |
| 0:55.7 | you been thinking about you just all the news with announcing the thousand episodes and the |
| 0:59.6 | partnership with outdoors.com and he's like by the way i'm in florida and like well where are you |
| 1:04.8 | in florida and they said you know where they were and i'm like holy cow that's like 30 minutes from |
| 1:09.2 | where i am like right now. |
| 1:10.8 | If you're around, come by the campground. We're having dinner soon and, you know, if you're available. |
| 1:17.0 | And it was Jacob here, the guest of today's episode. So such a cool, full circle moment, |
| 1:24.6 | Jacob, ever since this experience, he was talking about some big polar exploration |
| 1:30.3 | and kinds of the big glacier crossings. And he has since attempted some pretty huge adventures. |
| 1:38.3 | He most recently got back from an Antarctic expedition, trying to be the youngest person to go from the coast |
| 1:45.5 | to the south pole of Antarctica. And after a couple weeks, he was really hurting and things |
| 1:54.1 | did not go to plan and he had to bail. There is a really great article on outdoors.com about that experience. |
| 2:03.4 | And I'm going to link it in the show notes. |
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