Ep. 66 - Aventure Media 2021, Part 1
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
On March 6th, 2021 twelve college students in the Adventure Media class at Texas Tech University set off on a bikepacking trip as part of their course curriculum. This year the classes challenge was the Caprock Canyon State Park and Trailway, which in total was 66 miles with very little climbing, but the wind made up for what the elevation profile lacked! This course is the brainchild of Dr. Jerod Foster who somehow convinced a University to allow him to take students bikepacking in remote places as part of a college course he created and teaches called Adventure Media.
To be honest, when you read the words, or hear someone tell you about this Adventure Media course it doesn't click immediately. At least, it didn't for me. When Jerod originally laid out the course in Episode 3 I kinda got it, but I didn't really get it until I went on their class trip in 2019 to Big Bend Ranch State Park. The Terrior film was produced from that 2019 trip and it's a visual introduction into what this class is all about.
When you show up in a remote destination with rugged terrain, hours away from any medical assistance, and you look around at the 16 college students assembled ready to tackle whatever comes. And their gear is a mess, and they are wrecking, and bags are falling off, but I can promise you none of that is what defines this or any of the other trips like this.
This episode is different from anything we have ever done before. It takes place in an Arroyo in the Caprock Canyon State Park at dusk. It was a beautiful setting to have a discussion about the experiences and feelings that were had and shared throughout the day.
This will be part one in a two part series from this trip. In the next one I will be following Elysa and Tom on their personal journeys during this trip, with narration and commentary by Jerod Foster and I.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Bikes for Death podcast. My name is Patrick, and I am your audio tour guide, |
| 0:06.4 | taking you on conversational journeys with radical people who recreate on bikes and love the outdoors. |
| 0:13.4 | Join me, won't you? All right, well, first, I'd like to give a shout out to our newest patrons. |
| 0:19.0 | Y'all help keep the lights on, keep gas in the van and batteries in the recorder. |
| 0:23.6 | I literally can't do it without y'all and all the other patrons. |
| 0:27.8 | So this week, let's give a shout out to Jeff Corey, Stephen Young, Robert Crawford. |
| 0:34.6 | And I got to give a little bit of a special shout out to Robert because he |
| 0:38.4 | showed up to the recent Bikster Death Spring Camp Out trip that we went on in the same Houston |
| 0:44.9 | National Forest on the restaurant tour loop that I created. And it was really designed as a way |
| 0:50.7 | to introduce people to bikepacking and the outdoors. And so it was really cool to have a |
| 0:56.4 | first time or show up. And, you know, Robert was a very accomplished cyclist. It was his first time |
| 1:02.4 | bikepacking. And it was really great to have them out there. So thank you, Robert. Congrats on |
| 1:07.4 | your first bikepacking camp out for to seeing you out there and doing a lot more of them, honestly. |
| 1:14.3 | And also thank you for being a Patreon. |
| 1:16.3 | We also got to thank Paul Fallon, Tyrell Lewis, and Aaron Huey. |
| 1:22.1 | Seriously, thank you all so much for stepping up. |
| 1:24.3 | I can't do it without y'all. |
| 1:26.1 | It is never too late to sign up to be a patron. |
| 1:29.2 | We've got a lot of new perks coming for patrons. And actually, if you head over to patreon.com |
| 1:35.6 | forward slash bikes or death, you're going to see some changes that we've made to, let's say, |
| 1:40.7 | sweeten the pot a little bit, shall we? Entice you a little bit? I mean, really, it's only a dollar a month. We're already bringing the hot fire content that you love. You could just give a dollar for that, but we're also throwing in a little bit more. Discounts to the store, discounts to other brands, other businesses that you know and love, lots of good things. So if you want to head over, |
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