Ep. 980: A Life of Bikepacking - Kait Boyle
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Bikepacking: Kait's journey from outdoor education to world-champion 24-hour mountain bike racing, self-supported ultra records, overcoming a traumatic car accident, and passionate backcountry riding to connect deeply with place, people, and her unlimited potential in the Tetons.
Kait loves moving up and down mountains, through canyons, across deserts, down rivers and sleeping outside. She discovered the mountain bike amidst a career in outdoor education and quickly fell in love with bikepacking which dominoed into pursuing long bikepacking expeditions around the world.
That led to racing to see if she could, which turned into wondering what her best looked like. Kait then won a 24-hr World Championship, set records in self- supported ultras that rival the strongest men.
One day, after leaving the grocery story, she was struck by an oncoming vehicle that lost traction in the snow. She survived and overcome the traumatic car accident which has ultimately led her to where she is now - a passionate and dedicated backcountry mountain biker who rides to go deeper, connect to place and people, and expand her limits. Beyond the bike, Kait loves time at home in the Tetons with her husband, Will and their dog Hank. Dog rides, powder-filled backcountry ski days with Will, and strong coffee balance her pursuit of her mantra, “you are unlimited.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:24.7 | Today we're talking to Kate Boyle. |
| 0:27.3 | Kate is joining us from the mountains of Idaho just on the other side of the Grand Teton's in Victor, Idaho. |
| 0:37.3 | And what's so cool about Kate's story is her |
| 0:40.7 | intro to bikepacking. We're going to be talking a lot about bikepacking, bike racing, |
| 0:45.1 | and backcountry adventure bikepacking specifically, and how she's working really hard with |
| 0:51.9 | another upcoming guest, Kurt Ref Snyder, on bikepacking roots.org. |
| 0:57.2 | They are all about helping lower the barrier to get into bikepacking because, you know, |
| 1:03.1 | there's, it's a lot of money. It's, it's the bike can be very expensive, the gear. But once you |
| 1:07.7 | have it, it lasts a really long time time so getting into it is the hardest part and |
| 1:12.5 | another thing is you know route finding and knowing where to go and what to try they're going to |
| 1:17.6 | start planning her and kirtar actually planning a few free bike packing adventures for anybody to join |
| 1:23.7 | like a couple days a lot like my trips that are paddle trips where you do a weekend. |
| 1:29.8 | It's free. |
| 1:30.4 | Anybody can show up. |
| 1:32.7 | You know, some foods included, you bring a little bit. |
| 1:35.0 | If you don't have gear, we've got extra. |
| 1:36.9 | They are doing that for bike packing, more details to come, but follow along on her |
| 1:42.5 | Instagram to learn more when those are happening. |
| 1:45.7 | Really cool. |
| 1:46.6 | And I love that. |
| 1:47.3 | I love when folks who are experts who are so accomplished like Kate who have won tons of races |
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