Ep. 706: Crossing Death Valley on Foot - Ashly Winchester
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Ashly is no stranger to going out on a limb to follow a crazy idea. From driving 15+ hours through the night to climb a mountain, to leaving her stable career to become a freelance writer, she’s at home in the world of taking chances.
This love of adventure has led her to be the world’s leading women for total ‘fastest known times’, or FKTs, a challenge to do an outdoor route or trail faster than anyone has done it before. To date, she has 39 of these records with no other woman in the world having more.
Her most recent FKT attempt was to cross, on foot, 165-miles of the arid moonscape that is Death Valley. The journey was treacherous and beautiful. It was everything in one. The challenges she faced out there were not what you would expect from a desert either.
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| 0:00.0 | There's like these little plants that are popping up after the rain. |
| 0:02.6 | It was really amazing because the rain just brought the valley to life. |
| 0:05.9 | I saw scorpions and birds were suddenly everywhere. |
| 0:09.7 | Bugs and grasshoppers. |
| 0:11.2 | It was so weird. |
| 0:12.6 | And all these little plants that were suddenly green everywhere. |
| 0:15.7 | And I just kind of went, I don't feel good about leading my path through here. |
| 0:40.6 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:42.6 | I'm your host, Mason Gravely. |
| 0:46.9 | I did something a little goofy on Monday's episode, if you noticed. |
| 0:50.6 | It didn't come out until pretty late on Monday night, |
| 0:56.7 | and that's because I usually said it ahead of time to come out the day of it really early in the morning like at one in the morning just for our folks around the world and |
| 1:01.1 | that's just how we do it. And I said it for some reason to come out like at midnight Monday night |
| 1:09.1 | or like 11.50 p.m. |
| 1:11.2 | So I go to check the stats on Monday evening, and I'm like, what the heck? |
| 1:16.8 | We got barely any downloads. |
| 1:19.8 | And it was because the episode hadn't come out yet. |
| 1:22.5 | So my apologies on that. |
| 1:24.0 | You might have seen it post pretty late in the day on Monday. |
| 1:29.0 | But I don't know how I miss that. |
| 1:35.4 | But anyway, that hasn't happened very much, thankfully. This show, hopefully, is coming out Thursday morning. You're seeing it first thing in the morning. You might not be listening to it then, |
| 1:40.2 | but that's when it should be coming out. And it's with Ashley Winchester, who is pretty well known |
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