Ep. 118: Alaska Mega Adventures and Packrafting with Roman Dial
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Roman Dial has been exploring Alaska, America's greatest last frontier, for more that 20 years. Listen in as Roman relates exciting stories about his exploits: packrafting, ice skating over 100 miles, backpacking more than 600 miles self-supported without resupply--all in America's most vast landscapes.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, we had bear encounters. |
| 0:01.4 | We only had bear spray, and we had bears circle us and charge at us and, you know, gnash their teeth. |
| 0:09.7 | And we didn't have any way to defend ourselves except bearspring. |
| 0:12.3 | We only had one can of bear spray. This is the adventure sports podcast. |
| 0:36.2 | Brought to you by 180TAC. |
| 0:38.6 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:42.7 | Episode 118, Roman Dial, Alaska Mega Adventurer and Packrafter. |
| 0:59.7 | Hi, friends. Before we start the main part of the show today, I wanted to remind you, |
| 1:06.0 | today is the last day that you can get in your entry to win the lift ticket to El Dora Mountain Ski Area. All you have to do is send an email to contest at adventure sportspodcast.com and if you'd like to improve |
| 1:15.4 | your odds of winning refer a friend and when they send us an email copy you and say referred by you |
| 1:21.1 | then you get entered three more times of course they can do the same thing to get entered three |
| 1:25.3 | more times themselves so make sure you get |
| 1:28.0 | your entries in. Today is the last day. And we're excited to give away a free lift ticket. Now on with |
| 1:35.5 | the show. Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:46.1 | This is your host, Kurt Lindville. |
| 1:47.8 | Today I have Roman Dial with us. |
| 1:50.9 | Roman is here to talk to us about Alaska Adventure, |
| 1:54.6 | but he has a lot of experience with amazing adventures all over the planet. |
| 1:59.0 | He was a National Geographic Explorer. He's done a lot of |
| 2:02.9 | canopy-filled work in Australia, Borneo, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. |
| 2:09.4 | And he loves pack rafting. Matter of fact, he knows Steve Fastbinder, who was on episode 57, that |
| 2:16.4 | told us all about packraf crafting and the fun there. |
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