EP 500: One of the Greatest Endurance Feats In History

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🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In the winter of 1846-47 a group of pioneers were headed to California when they were trapped in the high Sierra Nevada Mountains. The snow was over 20 feet deep, they were running out of food, and the group wasn't working together. Three unsuccessful attempts were made to escape and get help from California.

On December 16, 1846 a small group began another attempt on homemade snowshoes with enough food for six days; hoping it would take around 10 days to make the 100 mile journey.

Tim Twietmeyer and Bob Crowley, have been trying to understand this story for over six years. This episode is an explanation of their findings and announcing their memorial trek 174 years later.

You can find out more about this heroic endurance feat and about the memorial event and how to track them at ForlornHope.org.

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0:00.0	You know, it's going to be pretty meaningful for us as a trek.
0:04.1	It's not a race, it's not an FKT.
0:07.2	It's a tribute.
0:08.3	It's a tribute to these very brave and courageous people.
0:13.9	Exo skin.
0:15.5	Scott, some of the things that make this sport easier,
0:19.0	because you know it's hard, is a good set of arm sleeves.
0:22.8	And we've run in a lot of them.
0:24.5	I mean, we've even produced some ourselves,
0:26.6	but the very best, the very best arm sleeves
0:29.3	I've ever put on are exo skins.
0:32.0	And no, I haven't stretched out a pair of socks.
0:34.6	They actually make arm sleeves.
0:36.8	They are great.
0:37.7	They're great feeling.
0:38.6	They stay up.
0:39.7	I don't know how many arm sleeves I've had
0:41.3	that just kind of creep down my large biceps.
0:44.4	These actually stay up.
0:46.0	And they have them on sale now.
0:50.3	They also have a deal going between now and December 15th.
0:53.4	You can get 25% off with TRN code
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