Winter Treks with Emily Ford

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🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Emily Ford loves winter. In March of 2021, Emily became the first woman and the first Black person on record to complete the Ice Age Trail, a 1,200 mile trek that winds through the state of Wisconsin. In March of 2022, she completed a 28 day trek where she skied 180 miles with her dog Diggins.

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0:00.0	So winter, here's a thing, there's not as many people on the trails, and it's awesome.
0:08.8	It's a fun way to move across the earth, so skiing, cross country skiing, or moving
0:13.7	your body that way, dog sledding, you can walk on water.
0:16.9	So this past one time, I just skied across lakes, you get to fish in it, you can skate
0:20.4	on it.
0:21.4	There's so many good things.
0:22.4	There's sledding, there's tubing, there's snowboarding, there's fat tire biking,
0:26.3	and then you can live in the snow, you can build a shelter out of snow, you can bring
0:31.0	so many different foods with you on your expeditions because they never go bad, and it's awesome.
0:37.5	And then you can build fires on the eyes, look, the list goes on forever.
0:45.5	There are plenty of people who would do pretty much anything to escape the winter, and I get
0:50.4	it.
0:51.4	As a California girl, I'm all about sunny warm temperatures.
0:55.0	With the weather drops below 60 degrees, I'm getting out my puffy coat.
0:59.9	But Expeditioner Emily Ford doesn't shy away from the cold.
1:04.0	In 2021, Emily spent January and February hiking the 1200 mile Ice Age Trail in Wisconsin.
1:12.2	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is wild ideas worth living, an REI co-op studios production.
1:24.2	Emily Ford loves winter more than anyone I've ever talked to.
1:28.4	She lives in Northern Minnesota where she embraces the ice, the frigid air, and the absolute
1:34.6	quiet of the landscape coated in snow.
1:38.0	Emily takes on massive winter adventures because she legitimately enjoys being out in the
1:43.5	freezing wilderness.
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