Delivering Adventure

Professional backcountry skier, athlete, explorer and guide Greg Hill continues sharing his perspective on what it takes to keep adventure sustainable. In this episode, Greg talks about the importance of physical sustainability, and how we can reduce our environmental foot print by practicing small things.

Key Takeaways

Look after your body: This means keeping on top of strength training stretching, taking breaks when needed, good nutrition and hydration, getting sleep, and addressing problems when they come up.

Do what you can: Small choices can make a real difference when it comes to reducing our impact on the environment.

You don’t have to travel far away: The adventures that we have closer to home – especially in the places that we can see regularly, can end up being remembered more often than ones that happen in far away places that we never see again.

No substitute for formal outdoor education: This can help us to be more efficient, save time and save energy.

Guest Links

You can find out more about Greg Hill by visiting greghill.ca

Check out one of Greg’s Electric Adventures: Here 

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Backcountry ski racer, athlete, and ski guide Greg Hill talks about what it takes to make adventure more sustainable for us. In this episode Greg Shares the secrets to how he was able to keep himself motivated so that he could climb 2 million vertical feet in a single year while backcountry skiing, and much more…

Key Takeaways

Being Sustainable Includes: Maintaining our mental, emotional, and physical well being. It also includes managing our time wisely and keeping our relationships healthy.

Protecting Relationships: To maintain relationships, everyone should adopt an Adventurer’s Pact. This is where everyone accepts that things can go wrong – even if they have someone guiding them.

Setting Attainable Goals: If our goals are not attainable, we will likely just give up.

We get what we measure: Setting goals and tracking our progress is a good way to keep us motivated.

Look back to keep you moving forward: It is helpful to look back at how far we have come and consider what we achieved instead of always looking forward at the obstacles that lay ahead of us.

Guest Links

You can find out more about Greg Hill by visiting greghill.ca

Watch Greg Hill talk about his 5 Rules: Here

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Master climber and ACMG Alpine Guide Sarah Hueniken talks about her path to becoming an adventurer, guide and guide examiner. Sarah shares how she got into climbing and you can too. She also reflects on her experiences and reveals some of the key principles to being able to deliver adventure like a pro.

Key Takeaways

Guided Discovery Approach: It is important to step back and let people learn from themselves.

Balancing being aware while appreciating the moment: When you are delivering adventure, you need to be switched on all of the time while balancing the need to appreciate the experience in the moment.

Balance honest feedback versus positive reinforcement: - Sometimes when people ask for feedback, they are just hoping for some praise.

Look after yourself first: 5 priorities, first 3 are me, me, me, and then the clients and then others. Safety to self before service for others. Your needs always come first, because it is hard to make other people happy if you are not happy.

Guest Links

You can find out more about Sarah Hueniken by visiting: sarahhueniken.com

Watch Sarah Hueniken climbing an M12: Here 

Watch Sarah ice climbing in the Ghost: Here 

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Mountain Bike Tour Company owner Sara Archer joins Chris and Jordy to talk about what it means to deliver adventure like a pro. Sara shares her experiences as the Managing Director of the RideHub in Squamish, BC. She shares some of the secrets of what it takes to deliver adventures that inspire people to keep coming back again and again.

Key Takeaways:

Attention to detail: What often separates a true pro from an amateur is their attention to every detail.

Making sure it is about them and not you: We need to ensure that we see the experience through the eyes of the people we are helping, instead of our own. This applies to their expectations, level of interest, skills, energy, and risk tolerance.

Pulling it all together: There are many organizations that play essential roles in the adventure industry that most people are not aware of.

Guest Links

You can find Sara Archer at RideHub in Squamish, BC:  ridehub.ca

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Krissy Montgomery from the Surf Sister Surf School in Tofino, BC joins Chris and Jordy to talk about what it means to deliver adventure like a pro. Krissy shares her experiences teaching surfing and running a world class surf school.

Key Takeaways

Making the experience fun: Krissy makes learning to surf sound like a lot of fun, this is an essential part of an adventure.

Giving people control where you can: When we don’t give people control, they can become resistant to our feedback. They can also feel pressured to do things that they may not feel comfortable or interested in. To avoid this, try to give people as much control as you can.

Being inclusive: It doesn’t matter who you are, adventure is for everyone. An inclusive environment is one that is free of judgement, and one where people feel supported and cared for. If you want to get the best out of people, they need to feel physically, mentally and emotionally safe.

Guest Links

You can find out more about Krissy Montgomery and Surf Sister Surf School by visiting surfsister.com.

Watch Krissy teach Rick Mercer how to surf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvosJJPfFPU

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Pro athlete, ACMG Alpine Guide and adventure influencer Will Gadd continues to share his philosophies risk taking. Will reflects on experiences from climbing Niagara Falls, a near misadventure with Sara Hueniken and a funny story from an adventure in the Cirque of the Unclimbables.

Key Takeaways

Reflecting on the decision-making process: Focus on the quality of the decision-making process instead of solely focussing on the outcomes. A good outcome is not always the result of a good decision.

Gaining experience by learning from mistakes: Every situation we experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. Experience is only good if you can learn from it.

Managing risk by lowering the consequences: One of the keys to avoiding misadventure is to take steps to lower the consequences if something were to go wrong.

Identifying risk tolerance beforehand: Everyone needs to determine in advance the level of risk they are comfortable taking. Helping people through this process is extremely important for anyone that finds themselves guiding others.

Guest Links

You can find out more about Will Gadd at willgadd.com

Watch Will Gadd talk about climate change: Here

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Pro athlete, ACMG Alpine Guide and adventure influencer Will Gadd shares his thoughts on adventure, misadventure and the line in between. Will has ice climbed Niagara Falls and Helmcken Falls, the last glacier on Mt Kilamjaro, as well as icebergs and many other places.

Key Takeaways

Avoiding misadventure takes preparation: High risk-taking endeavors like ice climbing Niagara Falls can look reckless, but there is actually a lot of preparation that true professionals put into doing them that makes them much safer than many people may realize.

Harnessing the positive power of negative thinking: Another way to avoid misadventure is to always ask ourselves; What can go wrong and can we deal with that or not?

Listening to your fear: It is normal for a client to be stressed, but the guide / leader shouldn’t be that stressed. If they are, they may be taking too much risk, they may have missed something or they haven’t prepared enough.

Guest Links

You can find more about Will Gadd at willgadd.com

Watch Will Gadd climbing Niagara Falls: Here 

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ACMG / IFMGA Mountain Guide Barry Blanchard continues sharing what it takes to deliver adventure to others and achieve it for ourselves. Barry recounts some tough guiding situations, close calls with bears, how to balance risk taking and his hopes for his legacy.

Key Takeaways

Respecting Bears: Bears generally avoid people. However, they are wild animals and they can be unpredictable. Managing this hazard safely requires awareness, preparation, and respect.

Managing Breaking Points: Everyone has a point where the adversity in a given situation can become too much. Coaching people forward when they have hit this point may require a firm hand or a soft touch, depending on the person and the situation.

Respecting risk: Risk taking can become normalized the more we are exposed to it. This can cause us to become complacent in the face of situations that have high amounts of risk taking. When it comes to taking risks, we need to tread lightly.

 Guest Links

You can hire Barry Blanchard to be your guide by contacting Yamnuska Mountain Adventures

Check out Barry’s book: The Calling, a Life Rocked by Mountains

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What does it take to deliver adventure to yourself? Barry Blanchard talks about what it takes to achieve adventure. Listen as he shares his views on adventure, testing your metal, and climbing some of the world’s highest peaks. Barry is a world-renowned alpine climber, IMFGA Mountain Guide, author and brilliant storyteller.

Key Takeaways:

Adventure has discomfort and involves risk: You can’t achieve an adventure without pushing through some level of discomfort, risk or challenge.

Personal evolution: Experiencing and overcoming discomfort and challenge leads to personal evolution. Testing our metal allows us to see what we are capable of.

We all need help: While adventure is often a personal thing, we all need help to achieve it. This help can be inspiration, coaching, guiding, instruction or simply following someone.

Guest Links

You can hire Barry Blanchard to be your guide by contacting Yamnuska Mountain Adventures

Check out Barry’s book: The Calling, a Life Rocked by Mountains

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Pro freestyle and big mountain skier Lynsey Dyer shares her perspective on adventure as an athlete, adventurer, podcaster and soon to be mother. Hear her talk about what it’s like to ski off a seventy-five-foot cliff, the mindset that is required to overcome big challenges, and where she hopes adventure will take us.

Key Takeaways

Adventure personality: Mix of humility, determination, perseverance, preparation and assertiveness. You have to see yourself succeeding.

Assertive mindset: If you want to overcome big challenges, you need to adopt an attack mindset.

Power of high-end awareness: One trait of high-end athletes is their ability to process their environment and make good decisions quickly.

Adventure is for everyone: You don’t have to be jumping off of huge cliffs and be taking on super high-risk situations to have an adventure. Adventure is a state that any of us can experience.

Guest Links

You can find Lynsey Dyer at lynseydyer.com

Check out her Podcast: Showing UP with Lynsey Dyer

Check out: Unicorn Picnic and She Jumps

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