Ep. 687: Climbing Montana’s 50 Highest Peaks - Branden Joy
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Mountaineering: Follow one climber's grueling 18-day journey tackling Montana's 50 highest peaks above tree line with minimal gear.
From enduring injuries, to hunger, to all sorts of mental toughness, Branden gives us a very fresh deep dive of his recent climb of Montana’s 50 highest peaks. The journey was mostly above tree line which added some interesting challenges to the 18-day journey. Branden was also traveling pretty light so his challenges and achievement are that much greater. There's so much to unpack so let's get moving!
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| 0:00.0 | several days of of scrambling i got adjusted with the pack in the terrain and i was i was |
| 0:08.0 | just comfortable i mean i had exposed class four or low class five terrain every day there was |
| 0:15.5 | terrain every day that you that you can't you cannot make a mistake. |
| 0:41.3 | Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason Gravely, and you probably notice we didn't have an episode on Thursday, and that's because it was Thanksgiving. I hope you |
| 0:46.2 | had a wonderful Thanksgiving. There's a lot to be thankful for. You know, it is good to keep our |
| 0:53.2 | lives and even this year in perspective that by all accounts, we, you know it it is good to keep our lives and even this year in perspective that by all accounts |
| 0:57.8 | we you know we for the most part we have food to eat we have a shelter and a place to to lay our |
| 1:04.0 | head at night and by many accounts we're very very blessed so I hope you realize that and I hope you |
| 1:09.9 | take you don't take |
| 1:10.9 | that for granted. Today's episode is someone who learns the, who had definitely learned the |
| 1:18.5 | value of those small little luxuries and small little things to be thankful for. Brandon Joy |
| 1:26.3 | recently, we recorded this a few months ago actually but he had just |
| 1:30.9 | gotten off the trail five weeks prior so he's still processing this really incredible adventure |
| 1:38.1 | of climbing Montana's highest 50 mountains all in one single trip they happened to to all be in the same area, so it kind of |
| 1:46.0 | worked out for him. But if you'd like to find out more about Brandon, you can find some links to |
| 1:51.7 | his social media and some articles he was done in the show notes. But yeah, he's super |
| 1:58.1 | reflective. You can tell he's a deep thinker, had a lot of time to think out there. |
| 2:02.5 | And definitely excited, definitely a great reflection. |
| 2:07.8 | So you're going to learn a lot. |
| 2:09.4 | We also talk about some practical stuff around gear and whatnot. |
| 2:13.1 | But yeah, I'll let him tell his story and quit trying to tell you here. |
| 2:16.8 | So enjoy the episode and you'll be hearing from us again on Thursday. |
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