Ep. 1117: Mississippi Source to Sea with Trapper Haskins
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Join us as Trapper Haskins shares his incredible journey of rowing the length of the Mississippi River with his wife Mandy, exploring themes of adventure, personal growth, and redemption. He recounts the challenges faced during the trip, the significance of the river in his life, and the lessons learned along the way. The conversation also touches on his experiences with music and vintage baseball, highlighting the importance of community and connection in pursuing one's passions.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:19.9 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:21.6 | Hey Adventure Sports Podcast Family. |
| 0:25.6 | I had to jump in here. |
| 0:27.6 | This is episode 1117 and Trapper Haskins just knocked it out of the park. |
| 0:34.6 | But not just this episode. |
| 0:36.6 | I have since we had this conversation |
| 0:38.9 | completed reading his book, and it is so well written. It is so much worth to read. So make |
| 0:45.5 | sure that you do get a copy of his book and read it. And then I also have been listening to his music. |
| 0:51.4 | It's on Spotify under Trapper Haskins, and his lyrics are so thought-provoking, |
| 0:57.3 | and he has such an excellent voice. So with Trapper, we get more than just an interview on the |
| 1:03.1 | Adventure Sports podcast. There's also a book and music. The book, by the way, is called Cricket Old |
| 1:08.0 | River. And I know you're going to love this one. It ran a little |
| 1:11.2 | bit longer the most because we just had so many good things to talk about. So plan for that |
| 1:16.1 | and enjoy this episode. Hey friends, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. Today is going to be a fun one. |
| 1:26.8 | We're going to be talking about rowing the length of |
| 1:29.9 | the Mississippi from the headwaters all the way down to the Gulf. And it was done in two |
| 1:34.7 | stages, and it was a very life-impacting journey. The guest today is Trapper Haskins. |
| 1:42.4 | And Trapper, I'm excited to hear this one. I have interviewed one other person |
| 1:47.6 | who actually did a similar trip, but it's just mind-blowing to me when people take on a, you know, |
| 1:54.3 | a trip like of this length on a river of that size that's busy as well. But anyway, we'll get into all of that, but we have some other things. |
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