In August of 2024, Alden raced in the Silk Road Mountain Race, a 1,200-mile, unsupported bikepacking race in Kyrgyzstan. With nearly 100,000ft of elevation gain, it's often touted as the toughest bike race in the world. A crash on Alden's 14th day of racing put him out of the general classification, but he was able to fix his bike and complete the ride, earning himself a finisher's stamp as the 100th rider to finish out of 101 finishers.

Alden Roth is a filmmaker, ultrarunner, and endurance bikepacker from West Virginia. He's the newest member of the Parks and Recreation Board in Charles Town, WV, his hometown and is also a co-owner of Rocketfuel Studios, a video production company that tells stories about food and the outdoors. Alden has completed several ultramarathons, including a sub-24-hour finish at Rim to River 100 and several multi-day bike tours and races.

All of Alden’s links:

• Video Production Company, Rocketfuel Studios - https://www.rocketfuelstudios.com/
• Film Festival, Filmed By Bike - https://filmedbybike.org/
• would love to encourage people to submit to Filmed by Bike, if that's okay with you - https://filmfreeway.com/FilmedbyBikeFilmFestival
• Instagram: @aldenroth2 - https://www.instagram.com/aldenroth2/
• Ascend WV - https://ascendwv.com

Curt Linville is an adventure lover, backpacker, fly fisher, skier, proud co-founder of the Adventure Sports Podcast, and now a published author.

Curt recently wrote and released 99 Words - Building a Better Life, a book about grabbing hold of life and to craft it into an adventure worth living. 99 Words is a tool kit meant to empower those who are ready to live meaningfully. Through hope, clarity, and love, 99 Words offers breakthroughs for relationships, candor, money, fun, sex, careers, health habits, authenticity, perception, and even for the meaning of life. What you believe and value changes your outcomes. Life can be better than it is because you can be better than you are.

Curt can generally be found on the trails of Colorado, mountain biking, hiking peaks, backpacking, backcountry skiing, or exploring on his 20-year-old dual sport motorcycle.

• You can be entered to win a copy of 99 Words by filling out this form in the next 48 hours: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1G6wYWztWlGu5CiHNqQgZm5IoFtmPBA_TXxLX2Lt6xuI/edit
• You can buy 99 Words: Building a Better Life on Amazon. https://a.co/d/0JYoywo
• Learn more about Curt here: https://www.curtlinville.com

Originally published July 5, 2021

Oftentimes the best adventures are not in the most well-known places or in the most dramatic of sceneries. Hidden gems of adventure are all around us. In fact, as we say on this show, adventure is anywhere you are.

Alexandre had his sights set on Turkey, a country he had longed to visit. Little did he know, the adjacent and lesser-traveled country of Georgia would quickly become one of his favorite places in his more than seven-year full-time travel adventure.

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• Learn more about Greg Wingo’s Albanian Alps trail running adventures at roamprojects.com
• Ed Roberson’s Mountain & Prairie Podcast episode about landing a job in the conservation world: https://mountainandprairie.com/shed-sesh/
• Find Fitz Cahall’s new book, States of Adventure here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/074409271X?tag=randohouseinc7986-20
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