Ep. 919: Alaska to Florida by Bike - Revisited - Mason Gravley
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired July 3, 2017
Mason Gravley has raced the 540-mile Colorado Trail Race, as well as the 2,750 miles Tour Divide. He has pedaled 20,000 miles across the US 6 times and is now planning on completing the Tour de 14ers in August 2017 where he will bike to and hike each of the peaks over 14,000 ft.
However, all this adventure started when he and his best friend decided to ride bikes from Alaska to Florida, on a whim.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:27.4 | Today's episode is a throwback, but also it's kind of a weird episode. |
| 0:32.5 | We're replaying the first episode I was ever on with this podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | If you don't know the backstory, I was first |
| 0:39.9 | guest on the Adventure Sports podcast back when Travis and Kurt hosted the show. And yeah, I was a guest |
| 0:47.2 | just like any other guests. And then, you know, I happened to live near Kurt and Travis. So we kind of |
| 0:52.0 | became friends. They were wanting some help to be |
| 0:55.9 | hosting, and I was interested in figuring out how to host a podcast. So they gave me this |
| 1:01.2 | opportunity. And after a few months, they were like, you know what, why don't you go ahead and |
| 1:05.3 | take it over? And we're going to go on and do some big adventures, because one of the reasons |
| 1:10.6 | they wanted to stop hosting |
| 1:12.5 | was because the show had had such a big impact |
| 1:16.1 | on their own lives that they were ready to take |
| 1:19.9 | an adventure for themselves. |
| 1:21.4 | But if they did, that would prevent them |
| 1:23.5 | from also hosting the show. |
| 1:24.9 | So they needed someone to come in |
| 1:26.4 | who was entering a different phase of |
| 1:28.1 | life. I was almost starting to get more of an in a routine. I was in my mid-20s and getting ready to |
| 1:35.6 | pretty much settle in a little bit, start a family and whatnot. So it was perfect timing. The transition |
| 1:43.2 | went so great. They made it so easy for me, and I've been hosting |
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