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Adventure Sports Podcast

Ep. 612: Family of 6 Thru-Hiking the PCT and More - Strawbridge Family

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Sports, Science, Fitness, Nature, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

4.6580 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

When a crippling amount of debt kept the Strawbridge family from going on family vacations, they quickly began looking for cheap ways to still enjoy an experience together. That necessity led them to camping and hiking.

After realizing that this type of “vacation” was more rewarding the refueling than a tradition trip, they decided to go all in for an experience of a lifetime to celebrate getting back on track financially. 

That led to the idea of thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail as a family. 

I hope you enjoy this amazing story of great risk, reward, love, and faith. 

Follow along their 2020 Continental Divide Trail adventure here: 

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0:00.0

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0:12.8

And she looked at me and she said, what do you do when you begin to feel despair coming on?

0:19.3

And I thought, my gosh, my 11-year-old just looked at me and said,

0:23.4

how do I do battle with despair when it's coming at me?

0:26.9

And I said, I don't know.

0:31.5

This is the Adventure Sports Podcast, where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the planet.

0:37.0

We interview all sorts of

0:38.3

folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them and give you the inspiration

0:42.8

you need to get out there and have some fun. Do you feel like you're in a place in life where you can't do an adventure for whatever reason,

1:02.0

whether, you know, your family's too big or, you know, you're married now?

1:06.1

I definitely had that feeling.

1:07.2

And even, you know, having our first kid, it does feel like it changed things,

1:11.3

changes things, but in all honesty, it really doesn't. And today we're talking to some

1:16.8

folks who kind of took all those excuses and threw them out the window and said, we're going to do it

1:21.0

anyway. They had four kids or have four kids, and all the way from 11 to 17 years old decided to figure out a way to do

1:29.8

schooling or postpone schooling on the road and through hike the entire Pacific Crest Trail.

1:35.2

And that's the Strawbridge family.

1:37.4

And what's cool about them is that, you know, it was an easy for them.

1:40.8

Of course, it's not going to be easy for any family of six to get out there and through

1:43.7

hike for six months. But they had to face a lot of financial hardship first and get

1:48.6

through some financial stuff. But one of the things they really talk about are really iterated,

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