Ep. 24 - Kurt Refsnider
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2019
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Getting to talk to Kurt Refsnider was a true pleasure. His achievements on and off the bike are quite impressive and my conversation with him left me feeling inspired, hopeful for the future of our public lands, and also a little like I could be doing more!
I caught up with Kurt after his win at the Colorado Trail Race. This is a race that he hasn't had good luck with in the past, but this year everything came together for him to claim first place. In doing so, he became the first person to achieve the Triple Crown of Bikepacking, which means that he is the first person to win the Tour Divide, AZT, and CTR. Let that sink in for a second.
In addition to his accomplishments on the bike he is also running Bikepacking Roots, a non-profit focusing on important issues that can and will impact land use and access among other things. The work he and his team are doing is invaluable to us as a community and I encourage you to listen to the podcast and then go to BikepackingRoots.org to become a member and take action on the items they present to the members.
Kurt is a leader on and off the bike and I truly enjoyed his time and what he was able to share.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome to the Bikes or Death podcast. My name is Patrick, and I'm your host, |
| 0:05.1 | and this is a show that talks about bikepacking, adventuring, and the cool people who participate. |
| 0:10.9 | And if you read the title, you know that today's guest is none other than Kurt Reff Snyder. |
| 0:16.1 | I caught up to him after the Colorado Trail Race, which he won this year. And by winning that, he actually |
| 0:23.3 | became the first person to win the Triple Crown of Bikepacking. And if you don't know what that |
| 0:28.9 | is, we're going to go into detail. We're going to talk about that. Yeah, when I caught up to him, |
| 0:33.7 | he was just off of the Colorado Trail Race and he was camping and about to head out on a |
| 0:38.9 | bike packing trip, but he was gracious enough to give me some of his time. And I genuinely |
| 0:43.8 | appreciated that and really enjoyed the conversation. He is quite an impressive human and athlete. |
| 0:50.5 | I left the conversation feeling very inspired, very grateful for the work that he's doing |
| 0:56.9 | with bikepacking routes. He has just done so much for bikepackers and the community and |
| 1:05.2 | is continuing to do so. And this is just a great episode. I really enjoy the opportunity to get to know Kurt a little bit better. |
| 1:14.8 | And I really enjoyed our conversation about bikepacking routes. |
| 1:19.5 | Public lands is something that is near and dear to my heart. |
| 1:23.0 | Being from Texas, only like 3% of our land is public. |
| 1:31.7 | So it's something that I'm very aware of and very grateful for and really excited for the things that he's doing and grateful that he's championing |
| 1:37.4 | that over at backpacking routes with his great team. So yeah, I think we have a really great |
| 1:43.1 | conversation and I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did. |
| 1:46.5 | Well, this is episode 25 of the Bikes for Death podcast and I just wanted to take a moment and |
| 1:53.3 | express my gratitude to everyone for listening, for supporting the show, for sending me messages |
| 2:00.4 | and just everything. I mean, when I started |
| 2:02.9 | this, man, I started it in November of last year. So it hasn't even been a year yet. And when I |
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