Episode 105 | Expedition Kite Skiing Across Greenland with Jesse Crocker
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In today’s episode of the Backpacking Light podcast we’re going to learn about {traveling off-trail responsibly, a rain jacket that defines new standards for durability and performance, and a kite skiing expedition across greenland with Jesse Crocker}.
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Interview with Jesse Crocker
Our guest on this episode of the Backpacking Light Podcast is Jesse Crocker, a co-founder of Gaia GPS, and today we’re going to chat with Jesse about his recent kite skiing expedition across Greenland and his newest venture, GOAT Maps. In the interview we discuss:
- a summary of Jesse’s life and professional journey that led him to want to kite ski across Greenland
- how the team was built and what the group dynamic was
- the journey and its challenges, including terrain, weather conditions, and ice conditions
- the gear – kites, skis, sleds, food, cold weather gear, etc – did you use for the expedition?
- the skills needed for a kite skiing traverse of this magnitude
- what is the next big project for Jesse – Goatmaps!
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In today’s episode of the Backpacking Light podcast we’re going to learn about traveling off-trail responsibly, a rain jacket that defines new standards for durability and performance, and a kite skiing expedition across greenland with Jesse Crocker.
It will be interesting to see these mapping apps evolve, especially if they can accomplish what Gaia (almost) was able to do – which is sort of “get out of the way” so we can have a mapping app that is easy, fast, topographically accurate, and aesthetically nice to look at. Base maps are getting better and better, and the auto-scaling features they offer are a nice break from having to deal with the business of USGS quads on a phone screen. But, I still don’t find most app base maps (incl Caltopo, OnX BC) to be accurate enough for challenging off-trail travel.
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