Ep. 327: Triple-Triple Crown Thru Hiker with 30,000 Miles to His Name - Lint Bunting
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2017
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Thru Hiking any one of the Triple Crown trails is a mighty feat in and of its own. Then you have the Triple Crown itself once you've successfully thru hiked all three trails. Now, imagine having completed all three Triple Crown trails three times each! Clint "Lint" Bunting is one of three people in the world known to have accomplished this monumental goal and he is on the show today to give us a taste of his 30,000 miles on the trail.
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| 0:00.0 | I'll never forget sitting in my living room looking at this map and going, I could hike that whole trail. Like, I could just connect the dots. It wasn't all established trail tread. There was some road walking, but I could just go out for who knows how long it was going to take me, and I could walk the whole length of this trail. And I didn't know people did that. I didn't know that was a term. I didn't know that was through hiking. I just thought I was going to be setting off and doing this really unique thing. |
| 0:24.8 | So. and I didn't know people did that. I didn't know that was a term. I didn't know that was through hiking. I just thought I was going to be setting off and doing this really unique thing. |
| 0:24.5 | So that was the start of it all. |
| 0:27.3 | Episode 327, Lint Bunting is a triple-triple-crowdhrown through hiker with 30,000 miles to his name. |
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| 0:55.5 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation |
| 0:59.6 | you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 1:04.0 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 1:09.0 | Hi friends. |
| 1:10.0 | Thanks again so much for listening to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:13.4 | You know, it's just amazing every time I do a show to think about all of you that are out there, |
| 1:18.6 | hopefully benefiting from what our wonderful guests bring to us, you know, week after week, |
| 1:23.7 | episode after episode of people sharing what they've learned in their lives about adventure |
| 1:28.8 | and about perspective and all those things. It's just an honor for me to be able to be a part of that |
| 1:34.9 | dynamic. And I've got a great one for you today. Today I have Clint Bunting, better known as |
| 1:41.9 | Lent Bunting by, you know, the hiking community. |
| 1:46.0 | Lent is one of the best known through hikers of our time, is a good way to say it. |
| 1:52.7 | He was the third person to complete the Triple Crown, which means that he hiked the Appalachian Trail, |
| 1:59.7 | the Pacific Crest Trail, and the Continental Divide Trail, end-to-end. |
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