Ep. 819: Solo Circumnavigation of Lake Winnipeg at 18 Years Old - Revisited - Alex Martin
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired on October 29, 2018
Alex is not your typical 18 years old. Instead of setting out to trade school, college, or hanging out at home after the summer of high school graduation, Alex decided he wanted to do something adventurous to transition into this new phase of life called adulthood. That desire led him to kayak 1,750 km around the edges of Lake Winnipeg, something incredibly daunting considering the remoteness of much of the lake as well as the unpredictable weather.
Alex is incredibly articulate for his age and understands that this trip was an amazing opportunity to show the world the importance of keeping resources like Lake Winnipeg free of pollution, invasive species, and a refuge for the human soul. He’s already an experienced adventurer and we’re super excited that Alex joined us for this interview as we’re sure he’ll be an even bigger name in the outdoor community very soon.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:24.9 | Today's throwback Thursday episode is going back to 2018 talking to Alex Martin. |
| 0:31.3 | This was not hosted by me. |
| 0:33.1 | I think I took over the show like right after this episode aired. |
| 0:38.8 | I think this might have been the last episode done by Kurt. |
| 0:42.5 | But I did edit this episode and that was one of my first. |
| 0:45.6 | So hopefully it sounds okay. |
| 0:47.5 | But anyway, Alex was 18 years old when he did this trip, |
| 0:52.1 | 1,750 miles around the edge of Lake Winnipeg. It sounds |
| 0:56.8 | incredible. Sounds absolutely incredible. I love the thought of doing something like that. I've |
| 1:03.1 | done stuff like this before on very small lakes, you know, compared to this, you know, day trips. |
| 1:08.6 | And I also love when people of this age do trips. I did a lot of |
| 1:13.0 | my big trips at a pretty young age, early 20s, so a little older than Alex here. Well, probably the age |
| 1:19.9 | Alex is now, because this was almost five years ago now, four years ago, I'm sorry. And gosh, I love it. You know, he didn't have an idea for what he |
| 1:29.8 | wanted to do after school and decided to do this. And I remember when I graduated college, I didn't |
| 1:35.0 | have a plan either. I didn't have internships or a job or anything. All I wanted to do was bike |
| 1:40.6 | tour. And so I spent the next, you know know I planned on the next six months being out on the |
| 1:45.3 | road on and off road doing different routes across the country and visiting like 30 national parks |
| 1:53.1 | and honestly for not having a plan I think I landed pretty well you know took took took some time |
| 2:00.1 | definitely took a lot more time than my peers but I think I landed on well, you know, took, took some time. Definitely took a lot more time than my |
| 2:01.7 | peers, but I think I landed on my feet. And after hosting this show a while, led to some other things. |
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