Ep. 851: Paddling 250 Miles on the River Thames - Revisited - Krista Halling
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Paddling: Krista Halling and Glen Chilton Paddle 250 Miles Down River Thames – From Source to Kent Coast with Alfred the Kingfisher Mascot, Inspiring Kids' Outdoor Adventures.
Originally aired October 12, 2017
Krista Halling, Glen Chilton, and their mascot, Alfred the Kingfisher, paddle 250 miles from the source of the River Thames in rural England. They traveled through 44 locks, the city of London, and around the north coast of Kent to inspire school children and others to have outdoor adventures, big or small.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast, Kurt here. |
| 0:24.6 | I have Krista Holling with us, and she has a wonderful adventure to share. |
| 0:29.7 | Two years ago, 2015, she and Glenn Chilton went from the source to the sea on the River Thames, which sounds really fun. |
| 0:40.1 | Krista lives in Toronto, Canada, grew up in that area, and she is a veterinarian. |
| 0:46.9 | Glenn is an ornithologist, so a bird biologist, and they thoroughly enjoyed their trip from Source to Sea on the Thames, |
| 0:55.8 | and I'm excited to hear about this. |
| 0:57.9 | So this is about canoeing, it's about sea kayaking, it's about adventure travel, |
| 1:02.8 | and Krista, welcome to the program. |
| 1:05.5 | Thanks very much for having me, Kurt. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm excited to be on your podcast. |
| 1:09.1 | It's our pleasure. |
| 1:10.6 | You know, I love this idea of seeing |
| 1:13.2 | another country from the water, the way that you and Glenn did. And so when you mentioned that this |
| 1:19.6 | was an adventure you're willing to share, I was really excited about this. We have a lot of listeners |
| 1:23.6 | out there who love adventure travel, a lot who love paddling, whether it's kayaking or canoeing, |
| 1:29.2 | and they love water. But I think when you travel through a country on water, you get a different |
| 1:35.9 | perspective than you would get any other way. So I'm excited to hear about what Great Britain is like |
| 1:41.9 | from the Thames. |
| 1:51.3 | That's absolutely indeed a wonderful perspective, and one of the best parts about paddling a river is it's guaranteed to be a downhill trip. Yeah, but sometimes it gets to be a little bit |
| 1:58.1 | much, too much of a downhill trip, depending on the river. |
| 2:06.3 | I don't know that much about the Thames upstream. I think a lot of us get this vision of the Thames as it goes through London, right? But what is the river like? Just give us a brief overview. |
| 2:13.7 | What's it like at the source and how does it change and develop as you travel on down? |
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