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Adventure Sports Podcast

Ep. 997: The Colorado Crest - Revisited - Sam Chaneles

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Science, Health & Fitness, Sports, Nature, Fitness, Wilderness

4.6579 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sam is an accomplished backpacker and mountaineer, as well as a current Mechanical Engineering student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. He joined us on episode 554 to talk about how he squeezes adventures into his busy schedule. Today, Sam joins us to talk about his epic 40-day, mostly solo hike piecing together the most epic alpine routes in all of Colorado in what he calls “The Colorado Crest”.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, welcome to the adventure Sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Today is a throwback

0:27.0

episode. We're throwing it back to 2019 when we had Sam channels on the show from Atlanta, Georgia.

0:34.7

He was in school at the time. He's graduated since. We've had Sam on, I think, like, three times. And this one was really cool. It's called the Colorado Crest. It's like a route he's put together. It's 40 days, mostly solo. Amazing epic alpine route through Colorado. And Sam's a really incredible young man, especially this time. This was like,

0:56.1

gosh, four or five years ago now, which is just crazy. I can't believe that much time's come by.

1:01.1

And this was one of my first episodes I ever did. And so the editing's a little different. I was not

1:06.4

as, you know, I'm not, I don't know if I'm good at this point, but I wasn't as good as I am now.

1:11.8

I'm not saying I'm very good now even,

1:13.9

but definitely not then.

1:15.3

So forgive any editing issues with the recording or whatnot

1:20.5

in just my interviewing style.

1:22.9

But yeah, this should be a fun throwback

1:25.5

and really inspiring and get the mind working for what you might want to do this year.

1:30.8

And for those of you who have signed up to be patrons recently, I really appreciate it.

1:34.9

Thank you so much for supporting the show for $5 a month.

1:38.4

That means a lot that goes a long way to covering our expenses to run the show.

1:42.5

And also, thanks for the folks who've been

1:44.4

leaving reviews lately. That's really awesome to see positive reviews and just folks sharing

1:50.1

how the show has impacted their life. I can't thank you enough. All right, let's go ahead and

1:54.6

dive in. What all have you done since we last talk?

2:10.4

You were in the middle of your Cascade experience.

2:13.7

So I finished out the Cascades.

2:16.4

I think we had talked just before Mount Rainier.

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