Ep. 1202: Climbing Montana's 50 Highest Peaks Revisited with Branden Joy
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Mountaineering: Follow one climber's grueling 18-day journey tackling Montana's 50 highest peaks above tree line with minimal gear.
From enduring injuries, to hunger, to all sorts of mental toughness, Branden gives us a very fresh deep dive of his recent climb of Montana’s 50 highest peaks. The journey was mostly above tree line which added some interesting challenges to the 18-day journey. Branden was also traveling pretty light so his challenges and achievement are that much greater. There's so much to unpack so let's get moving!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the adventure sports podcast. |
| 0:10.7 | We talk with adventures from around the globe to give you the inspiration you need to get started in the outdoors or keep moving if you're already there. |
| 0:19.3 | Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:22.1 | This is Caleb. |
| 0:23.5 | We've got a really interesting revisited episode for you guys today. |
| 0:28.1 | Today we joined Brandon Joy on his mountaineering adventure from 2020 when you couldn't do anything because of COVID. |
| 0:40.4 | And in this adventure, he decided to set out climbing Montana's 50 highest peaks in a grueling 18-day journey. Mason and Brandon talk about |
| 0:50.7 | injuries which he endured on the trip, hunger, mental toughness, and what it's like |
| 0:56.3 | to be mostly above tree line for that long a period of time. I hope you guys enjoy this |
| 1:01.1 | episode. Here's Mason. All right, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. Thanks for |
| 1:08.6 | tuning in again. Today, we've got a really cool story. I'm actually |
| 1:12.2 | very excited to hear this just because it's such a crazy idea to climb all of Montana's top 50 |
| 1:20.8 | mountains. And yeah, we get to talk to Brandon who just really got off the trip not that long ago |
| 1:27.1 | and still processing |
| 1:28.9 | it but Brandon welcome to the show how's it going yeah thanks mason it's uh it's an honor to be here |
| 1:35.3 | it's going good yeah man so so you're traveling you said right now taking some time off and you're |
| 1:40.3 | coming at us from the road when did you off, when did you get off the route? |
| 1:45.4 | I finished the route on August 29th. So I think it's, it's about five weeks post the project ending. |
| 1:52.6 | How does it feel five weeks later? It's interesting. Now the project is just a series of memories. |
| 2:00.7 | I felt that essentially as soon as it, as soon as it, now the project is just a series of memories. |
| 2:05.2 | I felt that essentially as soon as it ended. |
| 2:10.1 | You know, my family kind of pick me up at the end, |
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