Ep. 653: Backpacking Legend - Revisited - Andrew Skurka
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Backpacking: Andrew Skurka on Life After Record-Breaking Trips – Sustainable Career from Great Western Loop 6875 Miles, Sea-to-Sea Route 7778 Miles, Alaska Loop 4679 Miles, Future Adventures and Building Legacy Post-National Geographic Adventurer of the Year.
Originally aired March 8, 2019
Andrew is essentially a "professional backpacker" who is best known for his long-distance backpacking trips, many of which are firsts.
For instance, his 6,875-mile Great Western Loop, his 7,778-mile Sea-to-Sea Route and his 4,679-mile "loop" of Alaska on foot, raft, and ski. He also has completed a plethora of shorter adventurers that would be on anyone's bucket list.
He's been considered the John Muir and Henry David Thoreau of Generation Y, was Backpacker Magazine Person of the Year, and National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, among other awards.
However, today's episode is not specifically about those adventures, but about what life has been like after those achievements. How has he built a sustainable career from backpacking? What future adventures is he planning? Listen in to find out.
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| 1:00.1 | But I can like I can show you on the map probably out of like 224 miles on the Jomier Trail. |
| 1:06.1 | I can show you probably like 75 miles. |
| 1:08.0 | They're pretty like pretty mediocre. |
| 1:12.8 | This is the adventure sports podcast where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the |
| 1:18.0 | planet. We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around |
| 1:22.6 | them and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun. |
| 1:39.6 | So you know this is a revisited episode. |
| 1:43.0 | It was last year that I interviewed Andrew Skirka. |
| 1:45.0 | Huge inspiration to me. |
| 1:49.8 | I remember running across one of his National Geographic stories, the one about the Alaska circumnavigation, essentially. |
| 1:53.8 | But I wanted to replay this episode for today's revisited episode because I remember him saying something as to why he did his first |
| 2:05.8 | ever adventure, which was the Appalachian Trail. He did it because of 9-11 and the job market was |
| 2:13.1 | crazy. The economy was going nuts and obviously it was a huge tragedy, and the world |
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