Ep. 916: Kite Skiing Across Greenland - Katie Crafts
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Katie left her day job in 2014 with the goal of becoming her inner wonder woman. Within a month of accepting work onboard a tourist vessel in Antarctica, she sold her home, quit her job, and devoured all the cliff notes of known and unknown polar explorers. Over the course of many years, embracing a "let's do this!" mindset, she drove to Alaska with her dog, led polar bear tours in the Canadian Arctic, guided camping and hiking trips in Greenland, and lectured aboard the National Geographic Explorer in Antarctica. After many years of big living, she ultimately decided to reroot back home in Oregon... but not before crossing Greenland with a friend as a swan song to these years well spent. Join us as Katie takes us on a journey across the planet's 2nd largest ice sheet, learning through hardship and driven by discovery.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, y'all, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Today we're talking to Katie Crafts, and we're going to discover with her again how she |
| 0:22.4 | found her love of ice ice sheets, the Antarctic and Arctic regions through guiding trips in |
| 0:31.1 | those areas for years, through cruises and exploring those areas and then how she ended up kiteskiing across Greenland as a way |
| 0:41.2 | to close that chapter of her life and start a new one. So we find a lot on this show and I see it all |
| 0:48.4 | the time in my personal life and just with friends and obviously through the guests here that adventures are such an |
| 0:56.0 | amazing way to punctuate a chapter of your life whether that is opening a chapter the peak |
| 1:02.6 | of a chapter or closing a chapter as you'll hear many folks go on adventures because something happened |
| 1:10.1 | or something's getting ready to happen. |
| 1:12.2 | And it's just a great reason. So if you find yourself getting ready to transition into something |
| 1:17.7 | different in life, I would encourage you plan an adventure to help bring conclusion or to help |
| 1:22.8 | bring newness to that phase of your life. I use that method, and I think adventure is just such a great way to |
| 1:30.1 | make it really stand out in your mind. We talk a little bit, a lot about that, too, just doing things |
| 1:35.2 | differently. Adventures in a lot of ways, just these anchoring points in your life where memories can |
| 1:40.6 | attach to. The adventure itself is an anchor, and memories are connected to it. For instance, |
| 1:46.3 | you know, I can remember, I forget the countless nights that I sleep in my own bed. I can't |
| 1:51.2 | remember one from the other necessarily, but I remember that one night last year I slept on my |
| 1:56.5 | back porch or the night that I just put up a hammock and stayed right there right on the side of my yard |
| 2:02.2 | or just the things that are different. And adventure provides that for us. I'm kind of getting in the |
| 2:07.6 | weeds here. But anyway, Katie's story, we're kind of diving into that theme a little bit. So if you want to |
| 2:14.5 | learn more about Katie, she does have a career acceleration program that she |
| 2:20.0 | runs, and that's what she does. You can find out more about that at the kC approach.com. |
| 2:28.1 | And we're going to talk about a little bit of that too, but some links to follow her in the show |
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