Ep. 827: Solo Winter Kayaking the Grand Canyon - Revisited - Liam Kirkham
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired on January 29, 2018
Whitewater kayaking instructor and guide Liam Kirkham talks about his solo kayaking trip on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon down during the winter. His 226-mile adventure took him 12 days to complete. Listen in as he and Curt discuss this fantastic journey as well as some fundamentals of kayaking as an adventure sport.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Gosh, I'm so sorry about not getting an episode up earlier this week. I just was, I was coming back from Portland, setting up in Seattle with our Journey to 100 film. If you don't know about that, I work at athletic brewing, non-alcoholic |
| 0:41.6 | craft brewery. We made a documentary about an alumni of Adventure Sports podcast, Jason Hardrath, |
| 0:47.6 | who was the first person to get to 100 fastest known times, which is doing a route faster than anybody. |
| 0:54.5 | And he did it in a really unique way. |
| 0:56.5 | So we made a film about it, and we've been taking it on tour. |
| 0:59.2 | But holy crap, it's been a lot of work and a lot of time away. |
| 1:02.7 | So I flew in late on Monday and just did not have the energy to finish the episode for Monday. |
| 1:09.8 | So I'm going to, or for Tuesday. |
| 1:12.1 | But so I'm going to release it next week. |
| 1:15.7 | And just decided to skip Monday. |
| 1:17.9 | I'm sorry, y'all. |
| 1:19.2 | But we have an awesome episode today. |
| 1:21.0 | And if you are in the Seattle area, |
| 1:23.3 | we are going to be showing the last stop of the film tour in Seattle this Saturday, May 7th. |
| 1:29.6 | I'm actually unfortunately not going to make it, but I've already heard from some Adventure |
| 1:33.6 | Sports podcast listeners that they're going to make it out. And also I wanted to give a shout |
| 1:37.4 | out to Sean who introduced himself after the Portland showing this past weekend. He's like, |
| 1:43.4 | hey man, I've been a big fan of the show for a while. |
| 1:45.5 | He had his partner there with him. |
| 1:46.8 | And, yeah, it was awesome. |
| 1:48.1 | So it's been great meeting some of y'all at some of these stops. |
| 1:51.9 | I met some people in Denver, Portland, of course, and then, unfortunately, not in Seattle. |
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