Ep. 1171: Holding Nature's Hand Through Natural Navigation - Tristan Gooley
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Mountaineering: Tristan Gooley on Natural Navigation Using Sun, Stars, Landscapes, and Age-Old Techniques for Orientation, Deeper Nature Connection, and Emergency Preparedness. Join us today as Tristan Gooley talks about how to navigate purely by observing the natural environment. Curt and Tristan explore the art of using natural elements like the sun, stars, and landscapes to tell direction, sharing age-old techniques for staying oriented in the wild. They explore how learning these techniques are not only fun, but also unlocks nature's closely kept secrets, fostering a deeper connection with it--not to mention being able to navigate from the natural environment is extremely useful in emergencies.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. This is Caleb. |
| 0:05.3 | In addition to the work that I do for the Adventure Sports Podcast, I am also a video game composer, |
| 0:13.4 | and in addition to my background in music, I also have a background in philosophy. |
| 0:19.4 | It's something that I studied a lot in college. And I thought it |
| 0:22.9 | would be fun to combine the two. So recently, I started a YouTube channel where I talk about the |
| 0:29.8 | congruence of music and creativity in general with AI and how AI can affect creativity, the human creative spirit, and the human |
| 0:42.9 | creative conversation. And it's just me thinking through what AI means for human creativity |
| 0:51.8 | and things that we can do, practical things that we can do to preserve |
| 0:58.4 | our own human creative spirit in light of all that. So if that's something you're interested in, |
| 1:03.7 | you can check out the link for that YouTube channel and the description below. |
| 1:18.3 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:22.6 | 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. |
| 1:27.3 | In this episode, Kurt interviews Tristan Gulley. |
| 1:30.7 | Tristan is an author and natural navigator expert. |
| 1:34.4 | He spent decades learning the clues and signs in nature across the globe about how to navigate |
| 1:43.6 | using the natural signs like the sun and the stars |
| 1:47.0 | and even the environment around him such as plants, the weather and those sorts of things. |
| 1:54.0 | Tristan has led pioneering expeditions, sailed boats across oceans, and piloted small aircraft to Africa and the Arctic. |
| 2:03.6 | He has also ran fun experiments like testing ancient Viking navigation methods. |
| 2:09.6 | He is the only living person to have both flown solo and sailed single-handed across the Atlantic, and he is a fellow of the Royal Institute |
| 2:20.9 | of Navigation. |
| 2:23.8 | Unfortunately, the beginning of this episode was cut off, and Kurt tells a story which Tristan |
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