Ep. 377: Thru-Hiking Replay of Ep 041 - Liz Thomas
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Liz Thomas is a well-traveled adventure athlete most known for breaking the women’s unsupported speed record on the 2,181-mile long Appalachian Trail in 2011. She has completed the Triple Crown of Hiking–the Appalachian Trail, the 2,650 mile Pacific Crest Trail, and 3,100 mile Continental Divide Trail–and has backpacked over 10,000 miles across the United States on long distance hiking trails. Liz is among the most experienced woman hikers in the country and is known for hiking light and fast. In addition to having a lot of experience hiking, Liz also received a Masters in Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the prestigious Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship for her research on long distance hiking trails, conservation, and trail town communities. Liz has been featured in Backpacker Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and LA Magazine and has given talks about her experiences at colleges, hiking clubs, and conferences across the country.
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| 0:00.0 | and I had to go this cross-country route of this thing called Avalanche Gulch. |
| 0:10.3 | I was just thinking, man, I wish I had someone else with me. |
| 0:13.8 | You know, I called it, and it was one of those things where if I had another person with me, |
| 0:17.2 | I would have felt a lot safer. But, I mean, there was nobody out there at all. |
| 0:22.8 | You know, sometimes you have to take the lame but safe route out. |
| 0:28.6 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180 Tech. |
| 0:32.9 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get |
| 0:37.7 | started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. This episode is sponsored |
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| 1:05.2 | Hey guys, thanks for listening to the Adventure Sports Podcast. As we mentioned previously, we're going to be |
| 1:10.2 | making some show changes, and one of those |
| 1:12.2 | changes is that we are going to start replaying episodes from our back catalog. |
| 1:17.1 | Those replay episodes will be on Thursdays each week now. |
| 1:20.9 | Today's show will be a replay of Liz Thomas's first appearance on the Adventure Sports |
| 1:25.3 | podcast from May 29th in 2015. Liz, of course, stopped by |
| 1:30.0 | to talk about through hiking and to fill us in on what through hiking entails. Make sure you get |
| 1:35.0 | signed up as a patron over at patreon.com slash adventure sports podcast because next week we're going to start |
| 1:40.8 | putting up our patron-only episodes. So Fridays will be the days that we're |
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