Ep. 505: Dog Sledding and Life in Alaska - Iditarod Racer, Kristin Knight Pace
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Kristin Knight Pace is one tough person. Not many people would go to Alaska during the winter, completely alone, to take care of a team of sled dogs to get over a recent divorce. However, that's exactly what she did. That toughness has also led her to become one of only 29 women to complete both the Iditarod and the Yukon Question 1000-mile sled dog races.
Kristin is now remarried and has started a new journey, motherhood. She also works as a wilderness planner for Denali National Park and has recently written a book about her experiences, This Much Country. It can be found following the link below or pretty much anywhere else you buy books.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The dogs started howling, and they were all looking in the same direction. |
| 0:04.4 | They were howling, howling. |
| 0:05.8 | And then they stopped and all their ears were perked up like 10 seconds later. |
| 0:11.3 | Here come this eruption of howls from like a quarter mile away. |
| 0:15.8 | That was a pack of wolves. |
| 0:21.1 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast where we talk to athletes, |
| 0:25.1 | adventurers, and business owners from around the world of adventure sports. |
| 0:29.5 | Whether you're climbing Mount Everest, starting a bike shop, |
| 0:32.7 | or getting up off your couch to take your kids hiking for the first time, |
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| 1:04.1 | Hey folks, Mason here. Welcome to the show. Hope you're having a good week so far. |
| 1:09.9 | Today's life outside the box episode is coming from Kristen Knight Pace. The book is called This Much Country and it's her story about getting in a dog sledding and racing the Iditarod and the Yukon Quest and also being a park ranger in Denali in just a really remote area. |
| 1:29.7 | It's really just fantastic story. |
| 1:32.1 | She's just a really fun guest, super energetic. |
| 1:36.6 | It was a great conversation. |
| 1:38.3 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:39.0 | I didn't know anything about dog sledding. |
| 1:41.6 | Remember, I'm from Florida, and if you've ever been to Florida, even the international listeners, you know, it's just beaches and flat. There is no snow, |
| 1:49.8 | no hardly ever any cold, so I don't know a whole lot about this world. So I was pretty |
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