Ep. 1121 - Adventure Racing All Over the World - Jari Kirkland Hiatt Revisited
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this thrilling episode, we sit down with Jari Kirkland Hiatt, a trailblazing athlete who's conquered the wilds of Patagonia through grueling adventure races and represented the US in international ski mountaineering competitions. Jari shares gripping stories from multi-day expeditions involving paddling, trekking, biking, and orienteering in unforgiving terrains. She also offers insights on the mental and physical grit required for mega-scale adventures. Whether you're an aspiring endurance athlete or just love tales of human resilience, this conversation will inspire you to lace up and head outdoors. Do you have what it takes?
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| 0:00.0 | It is so cool. It's so beautiful. The sunsets and sunrises, I think, in the wintertime are like probably a little better than the summer. |
| 0:15.0 | Just because the peaks and where you are, and if you can get up someplace and have a sunrise or sunset, |
| 0:25.7 | it is pretty special. We never take it for granted. Like every day that we get to do that, |
| 0:35.5 | it's special. Episode number 1121, this is a revisited episode with Yari Hyatt. And we're talking about eco challenges. We're talking about ski mountaineering, we're talking about |
| 0:39.4 | backcountry ski racing, it's a fantastic episode from 2016. |
| 0:45.4 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:48.1 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation |
| 0:51.9 | you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:56.3 | Now here's your host, Kurt Lindville. |
| 0:59.0 | There is something so epic about the Gunnison Valley. |
| 1:02.8 | I interviewed Yari in 2016, which was about a year, year and a half before my family moved to the Gunnison Valley. What was funny |
| 1:12.6 | is that we kept interviewing amazing adventure athletes and they all seemed to be coming from the |
| 1:18.2 | same place from Gunnison Valley and I never expected that we would live here or anything like that. |
| 1:24.6 | But some crazy turn of events took place and suddenly my family is moving to the |
| 1:31.2 | Gunnison Valley and I started bumping into people on the streets, in the lift lines at the ski resort, |
| 1:37.6 | out on the mountain bike trails that I had interviewed for the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:41.6 | And some of these people that I only met, you know, interviewing |
| 1:45.7 | with a microphone are now my friends. |
| 1:48.4 | So it's super cool to revisit some of these. |
| 1:51.9 | I bumped into Yari and Crested Butte years after we did this interview, and it was just |
| 1:57.8 | so fun to bump into her and say, hey, there you are. |
| 2:00.1 | You're the real deal. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this episode from 2016. It's a classic. Yari is an amazing individual, |
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