One of the great things about Summit Up is it gives me a chance to talk with some other adventurers who really cool. In my experience, and from what I have read on other adventurers, we all seem to feed off of each others successes. Each person is motivated by the others, and that keeps everyone pushing.
Most recently, I have exchanged emails with Andrew Skurka. In case you are not familiar with who Andy is, he is a young guy who walks a lot. Okay, that does sound pretty lame so I will have to expand a little.
Andy is a leader in the field of fast hiking. Fast hiking is basically reducing everything you carry to an over sized fanny pack, and then walking way too fast for way too far. Andy is famous for his two monumental long-distance hiking firsts -– the 6,875-mile Great Western Loop and the 7,778-mile Sea-to-Sea Route.
He was named the 2007 “Adventurer of the Year” by National Geographic Adventure and the 2005 “Person of the Year” by Backpacker. I have been following what he does for a while, and I finally got to talk with him, which makes me basically famous, right?
His site can be viewed here
Life is good,
Mark
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