Ep. 979: Over 10,000 Miles of Off-Trail Adventures in Alaska - Revisited - Luc Mehl
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Alaska wilderness travel: Luc's thousands of miles exploring The Last Frontier after growing up in rural Alaska, first-hand experiences, highs, lows, meticulous planning, and countless unforgettable stories from the ground.
Originally aired November 15, 2021
After growing up in a very small community in rural Alaska, Luc was eager to see more of his home state... a lot more!
Luc is joining us today to talk about his thousands of miles of first-hand on-the-ground experience with The Last Frontier. The highs, the lows, and all the planning that goes into it have been more than worth it for the sheer amount of stories he’s able to tell.
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:24.5 | We're doing a throwback today to two years ago when we talked to Luke Mail about traveling |
| 0:30.8 | his hundreds and hundreds of adventures all off trail in Alaska, over 10,000 miles, |
| 0:40.6 | as you probably saw in the title of this episode. |
| 0:45.3 | It's kind of mind-boggling to even try to wrap your head around 10,000 miles of foot travel off-trail in Alaska. |
| 0:53.8 | You talk about somebody that's seen some of the most |
| 0:57.4 | remote and untouched places in the world and beautiful on top of all that is Luke here. So if you |
| 1:07.5 | want to learn more about him, obviously listen to the show, you can follow him. |
| 1:12.3 | He has an awesome social media. |
| 1:14.6 | You know, I'm not a huge advocate for telling people like follow people on social, but |
| 1:18.6 | Luke's stuff is really awesome. |
| 1:20.5 | He's got a lot of ice skating stuff up right now, which he mentioned being kind of really |
| 1:25.7 | excited about that and some just really cool stuff he has |
| 1:29.5 | going on. So follow his story. You can learn about him at his website. That's all linked in the show |
| 1:36.2 | notes. And if you are wanting to go on an adventure with me, we are potentially putting together |
| 1:42.3 | a trip to Yosemite next year. |
| 1:44.6 | Link in the show notes, again, for a survey. |
| 1:47.7 | Fill out the survey and we're going to see who might be interested in going to Yosemite, |
| 1:53.0 | backpacking with me in some of the places that have changed my life. |
| 1:57.6 | And, you know, if you're interested to go to Alaska, let me know that too. |
| 2:41.1 | You know, I'm not dead set on Yosemite. I want to go to Yosemite, but if enough people are like, you know what, let's go to Alaska. Let's do that. It's about dang time we got together and did something with the thousands of listeners here around the road. Now, now of course, thousands of people ain't going to be on the trail. We might cap it at a dozen or so. But let me know. Fill out the survey. Maybe we can go have an experience like Luke here. All right. Let's dive in. I mean, Alaska is always an amazing topic. |
| 2:46.4 | That's like, you know, that's like the promised land to so many of us in the adventure world. |
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