Ep. 194: Mountaineering & Travel - Life-Changing Adventures with Tom Smith
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Tom Smith is the Executive Director of Summit Adventure. Want some life-changing adventures and college credit to boot? Summit might be for you. Listen in as Tom tells of stories of impactful travel, cultural immersion, mountaineering, and more. Tom is an avid tele skier, climber, and mountain biker who has made his passion for adventure sports into a career helping others with life-changing experiences—and it is not just for college students. Check it out!
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About Summit Adventure:
Participants throughout the years have told us that their experiences have been truly transformational, whether domestically in Yosemite, Joshua Tree and Death Valley or internationally in Ecuador, Mexico and Israel. Summit Adventure works with a wide range of groups, including youth (age 12+), college students, parents, adults and individuals with physical and mental disabilities. Although every course is different, typical course components include backpacking, rock climbing, mountaineering, rappelling, orienteering, trekking, cultural immersion and service.
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| 0:00.0 | How are you going to tell somebody, like, just as you're talking to them in a coffee shop or whatever, hey, you know what you really need to do? You need to put a 50-pound pack on. You need to sweat bullets. And you need to be so hungry, you can hardly see straight. And then you need to not be angry enough at your fellow compadres who just turned you down the wrong trail. And now you're going to take another two hours before you eat. and that's going to be one of the best things |
| 0:20.6 | has ever happened to you. |
| 0:44.0 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180Tack. |
| 0:45.8 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:53.7 | Episode 194, Tom Smith, Adventures that will change your life. |
| 1:17.9 | This episode of the Adventure Sports podcast is sponsored by Biotropic Labs.com, custom formulators in sports performance supplements for active people like you. |
| 1:36.3 | Designed for everyone from weekend warriors and outdoor enthusiasts to high-level athletes, if your body moves, you need biotropic. Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:38.9 | This is your host, Kurt Lindville. |
| 1:40.7 | Today I have Tom Smith with us. |
| 1:43.1 | Tom is the executive director of an organization known as |
| 1:47.2 | Summit Adventure and Summit Adventures is pretty darn cool. It allows people to get college credit for |
| 1:53.9 | spending time interacting in the woods. We're going to talk a lot more about that, but Tom grew up |
| 2:00.3 | I guess falling in love with adventure sports. |
| 2:04.1 | And his biggest passion, he says, is snow skiing. |
| 2:07.8 | And he does telly skiing and cross-country skiing. |
| 2:10.6 | He also does a lot of alpine climbing. |
| 2:13.5 | He does some backpacking, and he also races mountain bikes. |
| 2:16.8 | So Tom just really plugged into adventure sports, and now he has a career with some adventure |
| 2:22.9 | that allows him to continue that passion while he works with others to help them with their |
| 2:27.3 | passion. |
| 2:27.8 | So Tom, welcome to the program. |
| 2:29.8 | Oh, thank you very much. |
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