Ep. 731: Solo Crossing of Yellowstone National Park in Winter - Branden Joy
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Brandon is back with us again today to talk about his most recent adventure of solo crossing Yellowstone National Park this past winter. The trip was to set off alone for up to 12 days in the wild, traversing both Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks, solo, and unsupported. Branden’s gear was chosen to withstand heavy snows, gale-force winds, and temperatures of -40 Fahrenheit!
You can hear Branden on Ep. 687, talking about climbing Montana’s 50 highest peaks here.
Find Branden on Instagram at @the_wild_ned
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| 0:00.0 | and the temperatures dropped, I think, day seven, you know, the second half was a cold snap, |
| 0:05.3 | but day seven was the coldest and it got to about 20 below ambient temperature. |
| 0:10.0 | It was pretty still, but any breeze then was just, you know, cuts you that much more. Hey folks, I'm your host, Mason Gravely. |
| 0:31.5 | Welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:33.9 | Today we're talking to a veteran of the podcast, and that is Brandon Joy. |
| 0:38.5 | He was on the show back in, what was it, episode 687. |
| 0:42.2 | He was climbing the highest peaks in Montana, the 50 highest peaks all in one trip, which was wild, literally piecing together 50 different mountains, all foot all in one big effort it was it was |
| 0:57.6 | wild go back and listen to that episode to get a to get another sense of how how crazy brandon's |
| 1:03.7 | trips are but this most recent one is wild it was over the winter it was it was a handful of months ago |
| 1:09.2 | right at the peak of winter. And if you know anything about |
| 1:12.4 | Yellowstone and Grand Teton, where this trip took place, oh my gosh, it can get so cold there in the |
| 1:18.5 | winter. It is brutal. It is winter there well after it should be winter, if you know what I mean. Like, |
| 1:25.4 | it is just freezing there so much of the time. |
| 1:28.5 | And so when Brandon, when I heard Brandon crossed it on foot, solo in the middle of winter, |
| 1:34.5 | I was absolutely mind-blown. |
| 1:36.1 | The most miraculous thing is he didn't die because that would have been the first thing |
| 1:39.7 | that happened to me. |
| 1:40.5 | I would have just shriveled and withered away and frozen to death because I don't |
| 1:45.7 | handle the cold well. So something that Brandon actually talks a lot about in this episode is just |
| 1:50.7 | what gear he brought on this trip. You know, gear is what makes trips possible. You can't just |
| 1:56.0 | cross Yellowstone on foot without anything. You need specialized gear. You need the right equipment. |
| 2:03.3 | But that doesn't mean that gear has to be brand new out of the box and the price of a home to |
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