Ep. 994: How a Hike Can Change Your Life - Randy Brandt
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2024
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
This is our first episode of the year and I wanted to highlight a story that captures everything our show is about. Randy is a longtime listener and friend of the show. His story is amazing and showcases the power of adventure in our lives. It all started with a hike.
Several years ago, Randy Brandt and his then teenage son were out hiking when they ran into an older man who shared that he had just completed visiting all the National Parks. From that moment forward, Randy was inspired and made it a goal of doing more adventures and not simply waiting around for retirement to do the things he wanted to do.
He has now visited over 30 National Parks and participated in countless challenges, including bikepacking the Arizona Trail, Colorado Trail, and the Tour Divide in a calendar year, running an ultra marathon, and riding motorcycles through the Himalayas of India!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:25.4 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:27.0 | Happy New Year. |
| 0:28.1 | This is the first episode of 2024. |
| 0:31.0 | And this one's really unique. |
| 0:32.3 | This is not like our other episodes where I interview somebody that has done a big adventure that I've |
| 0:39.6 | never talked to. Oftentimes, don't have a relationship with a lot of the times. Randy here |
| 0:45.9 | has been, funny enough, a listener of Adventure Sports Podcasts for years, and we've talked on |
| 0:52.4 | Instagram and talked on the phone a few times for a handful of years now. |
| 0:57.4 | And he always thought, like, hey, I haven't done anything yet that could be on the show. And finally, |
| 1:03.0 | he retired as a cop and took a year and did some amazing adventures, the Tour Divide, the Colorado Trail, and the Arizona Trail. And I'm like, |
| 1:12.5 | dude, that is so worthy of an episode. You don't even understand. That's amazing. Let's definitely talk. |
| 1:18.3 | And this was one of the best interviews, the best conversations ever, because Randy's stories are |
| 1:25.5 | incredible. He tells so many. |
| 1:27.9 | We talked for almost two hours, and we didn't upload all of it, but we were on the phone over two hours. |
| 1:34.4 | And this was just such a special experience. |
| 1:37.6 | He's a huge inspiration to me and really shows that adventure can happen anywhere to anyone. And it really is a choice more than it is anything else. |
| 1:48.6 | It's a lifestyle. It's a mindset is what adventure is. You can fit adventure into small windows of time as you wait for big windows of time, like retirement. |
| 1:59.1 | And so he's going to start with how he got into this, |
| 2:02.1 | and it was just a chance encounter with someone he ran into while hiking with his son. And we talk |
| 2:07.1 | about all kinds of stuff. So just, you know, listen, enjoy. And Randy, there's not, there's so |
| 2:14.2 | much I could say about you. And this was just such a special experience and such a great way to start the year off. |
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