Ep. 943: Using Nature to Navigate - Revisited - Tristan Gooley
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired Feb 11, 2019
Tristan Gooley is a New York Times-bestselling author and an avid outdoorsman. He has led expeditions on five continents, climbed mountains all over the world and is the only living person to have both flown and sailed solo across the Atlantic.
After realizing he doesn’t love talking about the gear and “stuff” of expeditions and adventures, he was curious as to why adventure called him so strongly to do these trips. Was it the thrill, the experience, or something else? He eventually realized he loved the act of “finding his way” through Nature using unconventional means, Nature itself. Thus began a lifelong passion for learning how Nature tells us where we are and how to get where we’re going.
In his books, you’ll learn how to “read” Nature to find your way. Things like locating north using puddles, finding your proximity to civilization using plants and using the behavior of animals to forecast the weather. Don’t tune out, because Tristan shares why these skills are important for the person who will never be lost in the outdoors.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host Mason, and today is a throwback |
| 0:25.0 | episode. We're talking to Tristan Gully. And Tristan was really cool about this episode is Tristan's |
| 0:32.7 | just super unique skill of using nature to navigate. So that's obviously the title of this episode, |
| 0:39.5 | but that's what he does. He realized as he led adventures and did adventures, he didn't really |
| 0:46.0 | like talking about gear and all the stuff that goes along with a lot of trips. And I know we |
| 0:50.9 | don't talk about that a lot on the show. And he realized he loved to read nature. |
| 0:56.2 | Look at what's going on, you know, with the clouds and the sun and the trees and the stars and the |
| 1:02.1 | grass and just start picking up on the clues that nature tells us on which way is which. |
| 1:09.7 | And he's going to share a little bit of that. It's obviously |
| 1:13.1 | like a lifelong pursuit for him. So there's so much more to know than just this conversation. |
| 1:18.9 | But Tristan's been on a couple other podcast too. And this episode, by the way, is from 2019. |
| 1:24.1 | He's going to tell you everything from, you know, how to locate north using puddles, |
| 1:29.0 | finding your proximity to civilization using plants and using even the behavior of animals to |
| 1:35.2 | forecast weather and direction. |
| 1:38.0 | And he has so much more to learn. |
| 1:40.0 | He has books out. |
| 1:41.3 | I really encourage you to check out natural navigator.com. |
| 1:44.9 | He has a Twitter. |
| 1:46.2 | And the book that we went over is called The Nature Instinct. |
| 1:49.3 | I have that on my shelf and I have read a lot of it and it is incredibly insightful. |
| 1:54.1 | And it's good information to know because on any adventure, as we know, things might not always go to plan. |
| 1:59.7 | And it is very helpful and probably wise to have |
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