Ep. 1122 - Sea Kayaking the NW Passage with Mark Agnew
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Join in as Mark Agnew shares his incredible journey of kayaking through the Northwest Passage, detailing the challenges faced, the dynamics of his team, and the profound lessons learned about adventure, motivation, and resilience. He reflects on the shift in his personal motivations from seeking records to valuing the experience and relationships formed during the expedition. The discussion highlights the beauty of nature encountered, the importance of teamwork, and the deeper understanding of what it means to pursue adventure.
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| 0:00.0 | And we try and go through it and as we're weaving through it, the sun touches the horizon for the first moment. |
| 0:12.1 | The first time in the whole trip it's got that low, and it doesn't quite set, but it just stays there, like a perpetual sunset threatening to set and never disappearing. |
| 0:22.5 | And it turned the whole world world like every inch of ice orange right up to the edge of our kaiacs was glowing like there |
| 0:28.4 | was a light bulb in each one you're listening to the adventure sports podcast we talk with adventurers |
| 0:33.6 | from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started |
| 0:37.7 | in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:43.6 | Episode 1,122, this is Mark Agnew, and he was on the team, which was the first to see kayak, |
| 0:51.3 | the Northwest Passage, and a single season. He does such a fantastic job of bringing |
| 0:57.5 | this to life for us. And he also has amazing advice about adventure sports, about setting goals |
| 1:06.1 | and achieving goals, and doing really hard things. But before we dive in here, I owe you an explanation. This |
| 1:13.3 | episode is coming out on a Tuesday when it normally would have come out on a Monday. The reason is |
| 1:19.3 | another one of my sons got engaged. And it's crazy because the family was in different places. |
| 1:26.2 | Some of us were in Canada and he he was here in Colorado, and he got engaged. |
| 1:32.1 | And so this weekend, his fiance's family and the rest of our family all converged here in the valley. |
| 1:39.5 | The whole bunch of us hiked up through the rain to about 9,500 feet on the edge of the West Elks |
| 1:47.7 | Wilderness area to the spot, the special location where Daniel had proposed to Macy the prior |
| 1:55.4 | week and we all celebrated with them their upcoming marriage and their engagement season. We had a picnic |
| 2:02.3 | lunch in the rain. The Aspen were golden, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. And the clouds were |
| 2:10.1 | dancing on the peaks and the sun was playing tag with the clouds. It was such a beautiful |
| 2:16.8 | day of family celebration. But that meant I didn't get the podcast |
| 2:22.2 | done, but I think it was worth it. |
| 2:24.8 | Thank you for your understanding. |
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