Ep. 232: Life-Changing Adventures Holiday Flashback - Tom Smith
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year! Enjoy this holiday flashback! 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 | This is the adventure sports podcast brought to you by 180Tack. |
| 0:22.9 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:25.2 | Episode number 232 holiday flashback with Tom Smith, adventure, travel, mountaineering, and a whole lot more. |
| 0:37.4 | Music Happy 2017, can you believe it? |
| 0:50.6 | 2016 is a wrap. Packaged that one up for the history books, folks. You know, I hope that |
| 0:56.7 | 2017 will be the best year of your life so far. Dream big, you can always wake up later. But, |
| 1:03.3 | hey, if you dream big, it might just happen for you. So go for it. Today's show is going to be |
| 1:08.3 | another holiday flashback. Tom Smith, with Summit Adventures, has a wonderful perspective and a lot of fun things to share with us about how adventure can change people's lives. |
| 1:19.9 | And I hope that in 2017, you do carve out room for more adventure, for connecting with nature, for getting out there, getting healthy, getting stronger, |
| 1:28.5 | getting fit, meeting people, building community, doing the things that make life worth living. |
| 1:35.3 | That's what the Adventure Sports podcast is all about. |
| 1:38.6 | And Travis will be with you on Thursday with a brand new interview and a brand new show. |
| 1:44.5 | Looking forward to it and happy new year. |
| 1:54.7 | Today I have Tom Smith with us. |
| 1:57.6 | Tom is the executive director of an organization known as Summit Adventure, and Summit Adventures |
| 2:04.5 | is pretty darn cool. It allows people to get college credit for spending time interacting |
| 2:09.8 | in the woods. We're going to talk a lot more about that, but Tom grew up, I guess, falling in love |
| 2:16.6 | with adventure sports. And his biggest passion, he guess, falling in love with adventure sports. |
| 2:18.5 | And his biggest passion, he says, is snow skiing. |
| 2:22.3 | And he does tele skiing and cross-country skiing. |
| 2:25.0 | He also does a lot of alpine climbing. |
| 2:28.0 | He does some backpacking, and he also races mountain bikes. |
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