Ep. 981: Bladepacking Across New Mexico - Revisited - Caleb Smith
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Ultra blading and bladepacking: Caleb Smith's journey across New Mexico with his girlfriend, exploring the resurging sport of inline skating and the emerging adventure of bladepacking.
Originally aired December 9, 2019
Today we talk about the resurging sport of ultra blading/inline skating and the relatively new sport of bladepacking with Caleb Smith. He and his girlfriend recently bladepacked across the entire state of New Mexico with much bigger plans in the near future.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm your host, Mason Gravely. |
| 0:24.4 | Today is a throwback Thursday episode to an episode we did four years ago. |
| 0:28.8 | Holy cow, time flies. |
| 0:31.3 | With Caleb Smith, known as Kale Boston on Instagram. |
| 0:36.5 | I found myself telling stories about Caleb in his blade packing |
| 0:41.8 | and rollerblading, you know, cross-country rollerblading trips to some friends this weekend. We went and did |
| 0:47.3 | a paddle trip on this really cool, remote swampy river in Florida. It was incredible, camped out in the |
| 0:54.1 | woods. And I was telling stories and I'm like, you know what? I don't think we've ever revisited that episode. I think that'd be a perfect one to bring back up and show people just because it's such a cool twist on what we all know is rollerblading. But Caleb takes it to the extreme and basically backpacks or bike packs with rollerblades, blade packing, carry all your stuff on |
| 1:12.5 | your back and just rollerblade, you know, across the state, in this case, New Mexico. |
| 1:17.0 | So I thought it was a really cool idea. If you want to go with me next year on a trip to Yosemite, |
| 1:23.6 | we're looking at planning a backpacking trip to go see my favorite place in the whole world, |
| 1:28.7 | Yosemite Valley in the backcountry there. |
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| 1:37.6 | It's in the show notes. |
| 1:38.8 | And yeah, thanks so much to everybody checking it out. |
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| 1:43.5 | And let's go |
| 1:44.9 | ahead and dive into this really cool story |
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