Ep. 902: Kayaking The Inside Passage - Chris Whittaker
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
You may recognize Chris from episode 618, talking about being a full-time adventure guide. He’s back to chat about an epic 72-day sea kayak expedition of the Inside Passage, the 1,200-mile paddle trail from Seattle to Skagway, Alaska.
Chris said it was a logistical nightmare in terms of organization, especially due to covid disruptions. However, it paid off with truly wild animal encounters, humpbacks surfacing feet from their kayaks, being 'bumped' by killer whales, and camping in grizzly bear country.
On top of that, Chris has changed roles from guide to expedition business owner. Not long after coming home from this adventure, he turned around to guide groups to summited Kilimanjaro twice!
Chris’ first episode on Adventure Sports Podcast: https://www.adventuresportspodcast.com/2020/03/ep-618-epic-life-of-full-time-adventure.html
His other links:
For Fun’s Sake Expedition YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ffsexpedition
Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:27.4 | Today we are talking to Chris Whitaker. |
| 0:30.4 | Chris is a former guest of the show. |
| 0:32.8 | You might recognize his name from episode 618. |
| 0:36.4 | We had him on to talk about the epic life of an adventure guide. |
| 0:41.7 | Well, he has kind of gotten out of that world. Not really, though, because he's still doing |
| 0:46.6 | awesome guided trips of Kilimanjaro through his company Global Shenanagan's, which sounds really |
| 0:53.8 | fun. All that's linked in the show notes. |
| 0:57.0 | You can find them at Global-Shanagan's.com. |
| 1:00.3 | But anyway, we talked last time. |
| 1:03.5 | It was March 2020, like a week before the pandemic really kicked off. |
| 1:08.1 | And we had talked because I record these a couple months in advance a few |
| 1:11.9 | months before that and it was uh yeah it wasn't really on our radar yet but then all the sudden |
| 1:18.4 | the pandemic hit I know a ton changed in Chris's life from uh you know that that job was gone |
| 1:24.5 | you know basically just no one was traveling no one was traveling, no one was doing anything, |
| 1:28.1 | no one was definitely going on an adventure, a guided adventure trips. So Chris put together a plan |
| 1:33.9 | and it took a while to achieve, but he and a friend decided that they wanted to do the |
| 1:39.5 | inside passage, which is the 1,200 mile coast,, basically, of British Columbia, from Seattle, Washington |
| 1:47.1 | to Skagway, Alaska. And it is stunning. It is mountains and glaciers and whales and orcas |
| 1:56.5 | and, gosh, grizzly bears and forests and just beautiful islands. |
| 2:02.6 | It's an unbelievable paddle. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Curt Linville, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Curt Linville and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.