Ep. 479: Using Nature to Navigate - Tristan Gooley
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Tristan Gooley is a New York Times-bestselling author and an avid outdoorsman. He has led expeditions on five continents, climbed mountains all over the world and is the only living person to have both flown and sailed solo across the Atlantic.
After realizing he doesn’t love talking about the gear and “stuff” of expeditions and adventures, he was curious as to why adventure called him so strongly to do these trips. Was it the thrill, the experience, or something else? He eventually realized he loved the act of “finding his way” through Nature using unconventional means, Nature itself. Thus began a lifelong passion for learning how Nature tells us where we are and how to get where we’re going.
In his books, you’ll learn how to “read” Nature to find your way. Things like locating north using puddles, finding your proximity to civilization using plants and using the behavior of animals to forecast the weather. Don’t tune out, because Tristan shares why these skills are important for the person who will never be lost in the outdoors.
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| 0:00.0 | So most of the time we're choosing to be outdoors because of the experience of natural navigation. |
| 0:10.6 | I honestly believe, you know, doubles, trebles, quadruples the intensity of that experience. |
| 0:19.5 | This is the adventure sports podcast where we talk to athletes, adventurers, and business owners from around the world of adventure sports. |
| 0:27.8 | Whether you're climbing Mount Everest, starting a bike shop, or getting up off your couch to take your kids hiking for the first time, |
| 0:34.5 | we want you to have the motivation and inspiration you need to chase that |
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| 1:02.7 | Before I knew better, I used to carry cans of food into the backcountry, like a doofus. |
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| 1:39.7 | stop by their store in Golden, Colorado. If you're like me, you have some pain and inflammation from |
| 1:45.1 | your adventure sport. Sometimes you don't sleep well and you can even deal with stress and anxiety. |
| 1:50.1 | We have a possible solution for you later on in the show. So keep listening if you deal with any of |
| 1:55.9 | those issues. Hey, everybody. Hope you had a pretty good weekend. |
| 2:02.1 | I definitely did. |
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