Ep. 595: Bladepacking Across New Mexico - Caleb Smith
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Today we talk about the resurging sport of ultra blading/inline skating and the relatively new sport of bladepacking with Caleb Smith. He and his girlfriend recently bladepacked across the entire state of New Mexico with much bigger plans in the near future.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to us by Umbra's sunglasses. |
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| 0:21.6 | anywhere is a couple packs of CS Instant Coffee. If I can't drag along all my coffee equipment, |
| 0:27.6 | I do have that option to have incredible coffee in the backcountry or anywhere I go. Go to |
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| 0:40.6 | instant coffee you know i'm like 150 miles in i'm by myself i've been by myself for five hours |
| 0:49.0 | like i'm going through so much mental stuff and i'm like trying in my head to to ground myself and say like |
| 0:56.0 | hey remember what you're doing this for I keep going this is the adventure sports podcast trying |
| 1:04.3 | to help you find adventure every day in any stage of life you're going to hear from explorers |
| 1:09.4 | adventures business owners, and |
| 1:12.2 | anyone living their life a little more out of the box than usual. |
| 1:25.7 | Today's episode definitely reminds me of one of the classic adventure sports podcast episodes |
| 1:32.2 | where we talk about a sport that a lot of us may have never heard about or no |
| 1:37.2 | existed. And so it's really exciting episode because we really get to just talk about |
| 1:42.8 | kind of a new emerging adventure sport |
| 1:45.9 | that I think a lot of people, you know, will probably enjoy, but maybe you didn't know |
| 1:50.2 | existed. And today's guest is Caleb Smith, and he is a ultra-blader, inline skater, and |
| 1:58.0 | blade packer. And if you're confused by what that last term meant, I think you'll |
| 2:01.7 | know what rollerblading is. But, you know, I was pretty intrigued by his story. We talk about |
| 2:07.8 | everything from the sport itself, what equipment you need to his recent cross New Mexico literally |
| 2:14.6 | rollerblading tour. So imagine bike packing or backpacking, but on rollerblades across New Mexico, over mountain |
| 2:23.6 | passes through deserts, on dirt roads. |
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