Ep. 554: Squeezing in Epic Adventures between College Breaks - Sam Chaneles
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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From engineeredforadventure.com/about:
“Sam is an accomplished backpacker and mountaineer, as well as a current Mechanical Engineering student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. After his freshman year in school, Sam thru-hiked the John Muir trail (in 2017) in record, early-season snowpack with his father. Sam went on to lead a school-sponsored expedition to Alaska and New Zealand over the next year before his next big adventure: climbing Kilimanjaro (19,341′), the tallest peak in Africa. The summer after sophomore year, Sam set out on his first solo adventure, a 40-day cross-country jaunt across Colorado through the San Juan, Weminuche, Sawatch, and Rocky Mountain National Park areas of Colorado. That same summer, Sam went on to lead another school-sponsored expedition to Alaska and then to Corsica, France, to hike the infamous GR20 trail.
During his Junior year in school, Sam stayed busy adventuring, climbing Iztaccihuatl (17,159′) and Pico de Orizaba (18,491′) during long weekends off from classes. Sam’s next big adventure was down to South America for mountaineering in Ecuador with friends, as they climbed Cotopaxi (19,347′).
When on campus, Sam is a trip and expedition leader, as well as the student president, for Outdoor Recreation Georgia Tech, one of the nation’s largest college outdoor recreation programs.”
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| 0:00.0 | For me, the answer is, well, I love what I'm doing. |
| 0:03.3 | That's why I want to do so much of it. |
| 0:05.0 | And people always say, well, you're going to burn yourself out and you're going to get tired. |
| 0:10.0 | And my response is, I haven't yet. |
| 0:12.6 | And I don't think I will because this is my passion and it fuels me. |
| 0:19.8 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast, trying to help you find adventure every day in any stage of life. |
| 0:26.0 | You're going to hear from explorers, adventures, business owners, and anyone living their life a little more out of the box than usual. unusual. |
| 0:48.5 | Today we get to hear from somebody kind of on the younger side when it comes to a lot of our guests. |
| 0:51.1 | Sam Channels is 21. |
| 0:54.0 | He's got another year of school at Georgia Tech. He's getting a degree in mechanical |
| 0:55.8 | engineering. But the guy has an adventure resume that any one of us would be completely jealous of. |
| 1:03.6 | Here, I'm just going to read some of the things he's done. He hails from Miami Beach, Florida. |
| 1:09.4 | Not well known for producing mountaineers. |
| 1:11.9 | Sam is definitely an anomaly. |
| 1:13.8 | He's done what's called the Colorado Crest Trail, which was a 40-day self-supported solo trip along a self-created cross-country route in Colorado. |
| 1:23.3 | And if you've ever heard of the crazy difficult Nolan's 14 route, that was literally just |
| 1:28.4 | a piece right in the middle of his entire 40-day adventure. |
| 1:32.7 | He's done the John Muir Trail, Kilimanjaro, GR 20 in France, the Hayduke route, which |
| 1:38.7 | is through arches, Canyonlands, Grand Canyon National Park, which includes a lot of off-trail |
| 1:43.3 | navigation, the Tarmigan |
| 1:44.8 | Traverse, and Washington, trips in New Zealand, trips all over the world, South America. |
| 1:51.5 | This guy, man, any time he has a chance, even a weekend from school, he flies somewhere to |
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