Ep. 521: Kayaking the 1,200-Mile Inside Passage - Susan Marie Conrad
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
After spending 20 years in the kayaking industry, Susan was ready for a new challenge. Having the experience, the opportunity in life, as well as much of the gear from years of guiding, the Inside Passage along the western coast of Washington, British Colombia, and Alaska seemed like an adequate way to shake her life up.
Susan is a wonderful storyteller and we get a first-hand account of the life-changing expedition that only few can ever dream of achieving. From bears to storms to the friendliest of people, this adventure has it all.
Enjoy!
Her book: Inside: One Woman's Journey Through the Inside Passage
Facebook: @susanmarieconrad
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Twitter: @SusanMConrad
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm fumbling, you know, the beginning stages of hypothermia. I'm really struggling, trying to |
| 0:04.7 | secure the corners and tie the knots. At that point, I mean, I literally had my finger hovering over |
| 0:11.1 | the button, the call button on my VHF radio so I could call for help. |
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| 1:12.2 | So I know a few weeks ago we had Brett Friedman kind of giving an overview of how to sea kayak and what sea kayaking is. |
| 1:17.6 | And he mentioned he did the inside passage, but we didn't get too far into it. |
| 1:24.0 | Today we have Susan Marie Conrad talking about the inside passage and her crazy, awesome expedition doing the whole 1,200-mile waterway route. It is awesome. It's along the |
| 1:29.8 | entire western coast of British Columbia. It starts in Washington and finishes in Alaska. |
| 1:36.0 | And you're going through these fjords and these islands. It's wild. There's moose. There's |
| 1:42.0 | grizzly bears. There's ships to watch out for. There's killer whales and all kinds of crazy. |
| 1:48.7 | Just an amazing juxtaposition between land adventure and sea adventure and all the animals that that involves. |
| 1:55.8 | And she's a great storyteller. And you can check out her book. It's called Inside One Woman's Journey through the Inside |
| 2:01.9 | Passage. And, you know, there were great times and hard times and we'll get into it more |
| 2:07.1 | in the episode. But I wanted to thank you guys first for making this looking like one of the |
| 2:13.2 | best months we've ever had. Keep sharing the show. Keep telling your friends about it. Keep using it for |
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