Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast.

My name is Ginny Urich, I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside.

And I have read a book and then I have another book about a man who is a wonderful adventurer

and who really gives us perspective on how to live the life we want to live.

The book I read is called Living While Dying, My Cancer Journey.

The author Tom Barrett is with us.

Welcome, Tom. Hey, thank you very much.

I'm so excited to be part of the show here. So I would love to just kick it off because you are

such an adventurer. I survived an avalanche in Alaska while helicopter skiing. Never heard of that.

Falling off a 20-foot cliff while ski mountaineering in Colorado, almost being drowned off the coast of Cape Cod when a riptide unexpectedly took me out to sea,

risked capsizing while solo kayaking off the coast of Newfoundland while trying to navigate 18-foot waves, hanging perilously on the side of a mountain at the base of Matterhorn,

rafting Class 4 Rapids out of South America, sea kayaking in Alaska,

living out of a truck camper, a Jeep, you made your own campers, and you're a craftsman.

You know, you do all this woodworking.

So kicking it off, most of us are just on our phones, where did this sense of adventure start? I mean, these are huge adventures,

Tom. That's a great question. And actually, I know the point in time when my, the penny dropped,

right, when the switch was flipped, so to speak, 1996 turned 40 years old. I'm a successful business person. I was a partner at Pricewater,

else Coupers, two daughters, teaching them, coaching them, doing all kinds of things that, you know,

parents do, loving every moment of it. But I needed to find a way where I could recharge myself.

Because we all need, you know know we work hard and you know

there are children we give all we can whenever we can but I I thought myself starting to drag

and I needed to be recharged and I'm a go big or go home kind of guy so I didn't just uh you

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