Ep. 1139: Kite Skiing Across Greenland Revisited with Katie Crafts
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Katie left her day job in 2014 with the goal of becoming her inner wonder woman. Within a month of accepting work onboard a tourist vessel in Antarctica, she sold her home, quit her job, and devoured all the cliff notes of known and unknown polar explorers. Over the course of many years, embracing a "let's do this!" mindset, she drove to Alaska with her dog, led polar bear tours in the Canadian Arctic, guided camping and hiking trips in Greenland, and lectured aboard the National Geographic Explorer in Antarctica. After many years of big living, she ultimately decided to reroot back home in Oregon... but not before crossing Greenland with a friend as a swan song to these years well spent. Join us as Katie takes us on a journey across the planet's 2nd largest ice sheet, learning through hardship and driven by discovery.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:09.1 | Thanks for adventuring with us as we discover what incredible athletes and outdoor enthusiasts are doing all over the world. |
| 0:16.8 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:19.5 | Hey friends, happy Friday. |
| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:23.9 | A few weeks ago, I started talking about a way that the Adventure Sports Podcast family |
| 0:29.8 | could make a real and meaningful difference in the world. |
| 0:35.4 | I said that I would be making the announcement a little bit later on. I was just |
| 0:39.3 | kind of sending out the tickler that it did involve a major expedition, and I am almost, |
| 0:45.3 | almost ready to make the big announcement maybe on Monday's show. I'll be ready. I have some |
| 0:52.8 | preparation to do first, which I hopefully will get done over the |
| 0:56.2 | weekend. So listen in on Monday for the big announcement and for an opportunity to make a real |
| 1:04.8 | significant, positive difference in the world today. Today's episode is with Katie Crafts, Revisited episode |
| 1:13.6 | Kite skiing across Greenland. Amazing. Sometimes I think humans have come up with so many |
| 1:22.1 | different ways to do different things just for the heck of it, just for the fun of it. And I think kite skiing is |
| 1:29.1 | almost whimsical, but what a great idea. So much fun. This is going to be a fantastic |
| 1:35.0 | episode. Enjoy, and here's Mason. Hey, y'all, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. I'm |
| 1:41.3 | your host, Mason. Today we're talking to Katie Crafts, and we're going to |
| 1:45.5 | discover with her again how she found her love of ice, ice sheets, the Antarctic and Arctic |
| 1:53.1 | regions through guiding trips in those areas for years, through cruises and exploring those areas, and then how she ended up kiteskiing across |
| 2:05.1 | Greenland as a way to close that chapter of her life and start a new one. |
| 2:10.7 | So we find a lot on this show, and I see it all the time in my personal life and just |
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