Ep. 784: The Kungsleden Trail & Urban Repelling - Revisited - Todd Medeiros
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Kungsleden winter expedition: Todd Medeiros and A.J.'s 270-mile snowshoe, crampon, and sled trek along Sweden's King's Trail from Abisko to Hemavan in 2017, choosing wild camping over huts, plus insights into Over the Edge Global's urban rappelling fundraiser events from building rooftops.
Originally aired April 26, 2018
In 2017, Todd Medeiros and girlfriend A.J. hiked the 270-mile Kungsleden Trail in Sweden using snowshoes, crampons and sleds. The Kungsleden or "King's Trail" runs from Abisko to Hemavan in northern Sweden. Even though the trail is a hut trail, the pair decided to do it by camping outdoors. Todd also fills us in on an organization called Over the Edge Global who holds urban repelling events for fundraisers. In urban repelling, people repel from the rooftops of tall buildings. Listen in for another dose of adventure inspiration!
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| 0:00.0 | We had a spot tracker with us and I was figuratively eyeing that emergency button the entire, |
| 0:09.0 | the entire night, like just in my head, like, what have I done? What have I done to AJ? What have I gotten us into? Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm usually the host, Mason Gravely, but today we're doing a throwback. |
| 0:38.8 | Kurt was hosting this one back in 2018. Talking about hiking, snowshoeing and all that in Sweden |
| 0:45.9 | on Kung Sleddin Trail. It's going to be awesome. And then we're going to talk about urban |
| 0:50.8 | repelling. So two very different worlds coming together with Todd here. So |
| 0:55.4 | hope you enjoy. Happy Thanksgiving. Hope you're enjoying it with family or with folks. You enjoy |
| 1:02.0 | being around. If not, use the podcast as an escape. That's what I do with it in a good way. |
| 1:10.2 | But anyway, let's go ahead and jump in. |
| 1:23.8 | Today's show is about several things. |
| 1:26.6 | We're going to talk about using repelling off of high-rise buildings for charity events. |
| 1:33.5 | Cool idea. |
| 1:34.6 | We're also going to talk about huge winter Arctic trips in Sweden. |
| 1:40.2 | And we're going to talk about these things with Todd Maderos. |
| 1:44.0 | Todd, welcome to the program. Thanks for having me, Kurt. Pleasure to be here. Well, Todd, I've been looking over the little bit of information you gave me about these things, and it sounds really exciting, but I don't know much, and that's the way I like it. So I can ask the questions. You can fill in the details. But you're in Brooklyn now, right? |
| 2:07.2 | Yep. Most of the time I work remotely from Brooklyn when I'm not working abroad. |
| 2:17.6 | Cool. And so I have to ask how you got involved in rappelling and climbing and things like that from Brooklyn? What's that story? |
| 2:22.4 | I mean, it's some of the best accidents, really, of my life. |
| 2:26.7 | I just mean, quirks of happenstance, not actual accidents. |
| 2:36.2 | But with climbing, really, oddly enough, I grew up in New Paltz, New York, which is, you know, home of the gunks, which is a trad climbing, really, oddly enough, I grew up in New Paltz, New York, which is home of the gunks, which is a trad climbing kind of mecca, and didn't climb. |
| 2:42.0 | Growing up as a youth, my parents didn't climb. |
| 2:45.2 | They were actually like marathon runner types, like to do the fun runs of the marathons and the blizzard of 96 came and we |
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