Ep. 361: Bikepacking Across New Zealand on the 2018 Tour Aotearoa - Luke Garten
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Let's talk bikepacking! Spring is nearly upon us and it's time to think about those long days in the saddle pedaling down some singletrack with everything you need strapped onto your trusty steed along with you. Luke Garten joins us on today's show to fill us in on the Tour Aotearoa bikepacking ride. Luke just got back from this 1800 mile ride in New Zealand and inspires the rest of us to get out and have some fun!
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| 0:00.0 | So the wind's howling and I put my bivie inside this three-sided shelter. |
| 0:07.0 | And it was probably the scariest night of sleeping I've ever had. |
| 0:11.0 | I wasn't obviously worried about rain, but the wind, there was these giant trees all around it. |
| 0:16.0 | And I was just constantly worried that one of these trees was going to break down and fall on me. |
| 0:20.0 | Or one of these branches were going to snap down and fall on me or one of these |
| 0:20.9 | branches were going to snap. It was a, God, it was a scary night. |
| 0:25.8 | Episode 361, bikepacking across New Zealand on the Tour Aoutaroa. |
| 0:32.0 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180 Tech. |
| 0:36.3 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe |
| 0:38.4 | to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you |
| 0:43.1 | moving if you're already there now here's your host kurt linville hi friends man i've got a fun show today. Luke Garten is with us, and Luke just returned from |
| 0:58.7 | New Zealand, where he completed the Altiroa tour, and that is a self-supported bikepacking tour. |
| 1:07.3 | It's the full length of New Zealand, 3,000 kilometers, and man, does he have a lot of great |
| 1:11.7 | stories to share with us. So Luke is a fleet mechanic, and it lives in Northern California. |
| 1:18.1 | He started doing adventure sports some while back and has a long adventure sport resume |
| 1:23.1 | that describes all the different things he stried. So maybe we'll start with that. Luke, welcome to the program. Hey, Kurt. Thanks for having me on the show. Yeah, I'm really excited, Luke, to hear about biking in New Zealand and what this tour is like. But let's get the background story first. You told me before I hit record about some of the adventure sports that you did over the years. Could you just give us a |
| 1:45.0 | little recap of that adventure sport resume? It's impressive. Yeah, I started snowboarding when I was |
| 1:50.4 | probably 12 years old. And then when I was in high school, I was competing for the high school |
| 1:56.5 | team, racing snowboarding. And then I also did competing of freestyle and half pipe. |
| 2:03.1 | I had a few injuries that kind of took me away from the sport. |
| 2:06.5 | I had dislocated both of my shoulders eventually, and then had surgery on one of my |
| 2:11.0 | shoulders. |
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