Ep. 709: Embracing Weakness in the Mountains - Wesley Trimble
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Our culture is geared to highlight our strengths. From our performances at work, in athletics, to the pictures that ultimately make it on Instagram. We thrive off our showing the world what we’re good at. But what if your weakness is unavoidably apparent and something you absolutely have to reckon with to live without compromise?
Meet Wesley. He was born with a mild form of cerebral palsy which affects his fine motor skills on the right side of his body. The only problem? He finds peace and joy climbing mountains and hiking trails in places that folks with cerebral palsy “aren’t supposed to go”.
He couldn’t let that stop him. His love for the outdoors has led him to climb every mountain in Colorado over 14,000 ft (54 of them), thru-hike the Pacific Crest Trail (2,653 miles) from Mexico to Canada, and has ultimately led to a career in the outdoors through working for the American Hiking Society.
Athletic Brewing is a proud supporter of AHS through our Two For The Trails program. We just launched a brand new Two For The Trails grant program where organizations all over the country can apply to get funding for trail-based projects. Athletic Brewing has committed to giving $500,000 worth of grants by June, so if you or anyone you know would like to apply, go here. Two For The Trails
To learn more about Welsey and to watch his films:
Film: Within Weakness
Instagram: @wesleytrimble
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| 0:00.0 | our experiences can be different, but we can still have very rich and fulfilling experiences. |
| 0:06.0 | And, you know, I think for my journey, and I know other people with disabilities that I've talked with would say the same thing, that in some ways, the disability has enriched our experience and our stories. |
| 0:19.0 | In my case, it's definitely something that has enriched my overall story. Hey folks, welcome to adventure sports podcast. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm your host, Mason Gravely. |
| 0:47.7 | Gosh, before we get into today's episode, which is actually from Without Compromise, my other show, |
| 0:52.8 | but I just wanted to share it because it has to do with our two-for-the-trail program at Athletic Brewing. |
| 0:59.3 | If you don't know, that's my day job working with athletic brewing. |
| 1:02.4 | We make non-alcoholic craft beer, and 2% of all of our sales get donated to park and trail cleanups, which is awesome because, you know, half the |
| 1:11.8 | stories from this show come from national parks and different outdoor, you know, |
| 1:18.1 | recreation areas, really. And so 2% of all our sales go to those places. And this year, |
| 1:23.6 | we are setting aside, we're already know that we're going to get at least half a million dollars |
| 1:28.1 | for that program and we're going to uh to do a grant with it so if you know of an organization out |
| 1:34.1 | there um in the u.s or in Canada that could use some money for a project they're doing something |
| 1:40.7 | that's trail based something that's outdoor access-based, please have them |
| 1:44.9 | go to athleticbrewing.com and apply. We're giving away half a million dollars between essentially |
| 1:51.7 | now and June with more money coming at the end of the year. So please send them there. It's called |
| 1:57.4 | our Two for the Trails program. And speaking speaking of athletic brewing i was able to go to |
| 2:03.3 | my very first spartan race this weekend it's an obstacle course race if you've ever heard of |
| 2:07.9 | spartan huge thing and the first one this year was in jacksonville not terribly far away so i decided |
| 2:14.2 | to go up and help hand out beer to people crossing the finish line. |
| 2:24.0 | And so many people were like, oh my gosh, athletic brewing, I heard about this on Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 2:25.6 | How cool is that? |
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