Ep. 596: Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in Winter - Shawn Forry
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired March 06, 2017
Shawn Forry joins us today to recount how he and Justin Lichter thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail in the winter. This is no small feat and as far as records tell, no one has managed it before! There is a whole lot more than just the PCT in this show. Shawn has also hiked the AT, the CDT, the Colorado Trail, the Long Trail, and many, many more. All that to say, the epic thru-hiking trails are NOT off-limits in the winter with the right equipment and experience.
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| 0:42.6 | Our whole mentality when we start was just go, go, go. |
| 0:45.9 | We were trying to get down to the Sierra by January when it's generally more stable. |
| 0:51.4 | And so our whole mentality was just put the miles in, put the time in, and just get as far |
| 0:56.7 | south as possible. |
| 1:01.3 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 1:04.1 | Trying to help you find adventure every day in any stage of life, you're going to hear |
| 1:08.2 | from explorers, adventures, business owners, and anyone |
| 1:12.5 | living their life a little more out of the box than usual. |
| 1:24.4 | So it is pretty much winter now, and, you know, there's skiing, there's snowboarding, |
| 1:29.8 | there's all the winter sports for sure. But something we don't think about a lot is that, you know, |
| 1:34.5 | you can still hike and snowshoe and travel in the winter with the right equipment and with |
| 1:41.0 | the right amount of experience. And even the through hikes are not off limits at this time of year. |
| 1:47.6 | And I know a lot of you are probably, you know, concerned that the trails are overcrowded, |
| 1:52.4 | you know, especially the through hikes, the big three in the country, the triple crown. |
| 1:56.6 | It can be sometimes not really feel like a wilderness experience. |
| 2:01.3 | But today's guest, this is a throwback actually to 2017. |
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