Ep. 216: A Delightful Survey of Adventure Sports - Bob Cartwright
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2016
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Bob Cartwright joins us today as we compare and contrast backpacking and camping in the US and the UK, as well as in other locales around the planet. Bob, the host of The Outdoors Station Podcast, is very well versed on adventure. Ever want to backpack around the UK? This show is for you. Are you considering an adventure-based lifestyle? Another hit. Want to start a carrier as an adventurer? We kick that one around too.
Since its inception in 2005 The Outdoors Station has been providing free audio and video podcast entertainment, information, trip reports and reviews specifically with the backpacker, traveler, cyclist, paddler in mind. With over 8 million downloads, these people know what they are doing! You can sample The Outdoors Station at:
Thanks, Bob for a very enjoyable show!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the adventure sports podcast brought to you by 180Tack. |
| 0:22.9 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:25.6 | Episode 216, a survey of adventure sports, camping, backpacking, both in the U.S. and the UK, with Bob Cartwright. |
| 0:49.9 | Music and the UK with Bob Cartwright. Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:53.7 | This is your host, Kurt Lindville. |
| 0:55.1 | Today we have special guest Bob Cartwright with us. |
| 0:59.3 | Bob is the host of the Outdoor Station podcast, and today we are going to discuss kind of compare and contrast what it's like to backpack and camp in the U.K. and in the U.S. as well as in other countries |
| 1:14.6 | in Europe. And we're going to talk a lot about the developing adventure sports industry |
| 1:21.2 | and philosophies and how times are changing and about opportunities in the adventure sports world |
| 1:27.4 | today. |
| 1:28.0 | So it's going to be a lot of fun. |
| 1:30.1 | Bob, welcome to the program. |
| 1:31.6 | And for the first question, why don't you just tell us about the Outdoor Station podcast? |
| 1:36.7 | The Outdoor Station started in 2005, in October 2005. |
| 1:43.0 | And it was a couple of months after the word podcasting was officially invented |
| 1:47.3 | and attached to the iTunes software, which came out in July. |
| 1:52.7 | And initially, the podcast started as a way of supporting some of the items that we were selling through our shop, |
| 1:59.7 | which is backpackinglight.com.com. |
| 2:01.9 | But I found fairly quickly that there were a lot of interesting people, if you like, normal people, |
| 2:09.0 | non-celebrity people doing really interesting trips and they were taking some of this equipment |
| 2:13.7 | and they were using it as it was intended, but it was the experience that they were |
| 2:18.4 | sharing that really did engage with me and the audience as it grew fairly rapidly at the time. |
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