Ep. 1087: 10,000 Miles of Adventures in Alaska - Luc Mehl Revisited
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Packrafting in Alaska: Luc Mehl's 10,000+ Miles of Wilderness Travel by Packraft, Ski, Bike, Foot, and Ice Skates – Insights from The Packraft Handbook Author and Outdoor Safety Expert.
Luc Mehl is an Alaskan adventurer, author, and educator based in Anchorage, known for his extensive wilderness travels and expertise in outdoor safety. Born and raised in McGrath, Alaska, he has traveled over 10,000 miles across Alaska by packraft, ski, bike, foot, and ice skates. Mehl is an award-winning author of The Packraft Handbook, a comprehensive guide to packrafting, which earned accolades such as the National Outdoor Book Award and Banff Mountain Book Competition Guidebook Winner. He holds graduate degrees from MIT and UCSB in geology and geophysics, works as an environmental data scientist, and teaches at Alaska Pacific University.
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| 0:00.0 | And I always knew I was going to come home. |
| 0:10.0 | Like if I started dating a girl, it was kind of like, could she live in Alaska? |
| 0:16.0 | Like that was one of my, yeah, like, and that was bad in a way that really you know limited my |
| 0:23.6 | social my romantic opportunities but that's how big of a role Alaska played for me from the |
| 0:31.4 | get-go episode 187 Luke Mill on backpacking, packrafting, skiing, biking, and ice skating, 10,000 miles |
| 0:44.8 | around Alaska. |
| 0:46.6 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:48.8 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation |
| 0:53.1 | you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:57.5 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 1:00.0 | Hi friends and happy Independence Day, 4th of July here, stateside. |
| 1:05.7 | This is a revisited episode, but I love the sound of it. I love the idea of exploring vast wildernesses |
| 1:13.6 | in a variety of ways, and Luke Mel did that one in spades. I don't want to take up the time. |
| 1:19.4 | This is going to be a fun episode, so let me hand this over to Mason Gravely. Enjoy. |
| 1:38.8 | I mean, Alaska is always an amazing topic. That's like, you know, that's like the promised land to so many of us in the adventure world. And I don't know if anyone has seen |
| 1:44.1 | more of it than Luke |
| 1:45.3 | Mel here. I'm excited to get into these stories, Luke. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Yeah, |
| 1:51.1 | I'd like to be here. I've noticed on some of the other podcasts that you have a love for Alaska. |
| 1:56.8 | And so I appreciate that. Alaska's pretty amazing. Man, I got to say, there are a bunch of people that have seen way more of Alaska than I have. So, disclaimer right away. |
| 2:07.0 | Well, I usually ask where you're coming from, but obviously you're there right now. Where specifically in Alaska do you call home? |
| 2:16.1 | I live in Anchorage. I grew up in a village called |
| 2:18.9 | McGrath that's on the Cusco Quim River, and I didn't have any say in growing up there. You know, |
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