Hosted by Big Trail Adventures // Rob Savin · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 48 episodes
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Notes from Big Trails: Stories from Big Trail Adventures is a podcast about finding joy out on the trail.In each episode, we share stories from the people walking, running, and adventuring on the world's best long-distance trails.Sometimes it’s reflective, sometimes it’s funny — always grounded in the real highs and lows of life on the move.
Big Trail Adventures // Rob Savin hosts Notes from Big Trails, a society show with 48 episodes published.
What happens when a race stops feeling like competition and starts feeling like exploration? In this episode, Rob talks to trail runner and author Scott Williams about taking on the Swiss Peaks 360 — a multi-day ultra ac
In this episode, Rob speaks with Bodil Oudshoorn and Ross Brannigan about their seven-day journey on Peru’s Alpamayo Circuit in the Cordillera Blanca. Carrying around 16kg each — including a full week of food — they cros
Elise Downing ran 87 miles of the Ridgeway in three days in 2020, between lockdowns, with her friend Sophie. Their two friends, Ange and Oscar, walked the same daily distances - the same format the four had tried on the
Show notes Chris Townsend walked the Alpine section of the GR5 in autumn, as the mountain huts and village shops were closing for the season. He took about a month, slept under a tarp, and bought the food for his first w
Most people tackle the Cape Wrath Trail as a challenge of endurance — covering big miles through some of the wildest terrain in the UK. Stephen Passmore took a different approach. In spring 2023, Stephen spent 31 days wa
The Dales Way is often recommended as one of the best first long-distance walks in the UK — but that doesn’t mean it’s without challenge. In this episode of Notes From Big Trails, Rob speaks with Jessica Mather, who comp
Wayne Russell set out to run 5,000 miles around the coast of Britain with little more than a tent, £1,000, and a huge idea. What followed was ten months of sleeping in church porches, bus shelters, caves, strangers’ gard
Jess Day joins Notes From Big Trails to talk about walking the Te Araroa Trail — a 3,000km route stretching the full length of New Zealand. Walking solo over four and a half months, Jess shares what the experience actual
The GR5 is one of Europe’s great long-distance trails — stretching nearly 1,500 miles from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. In this episode of Notes From Big Trails, Rob speaks with Ryel Kestano about walking the trai
The South Hams Way is a newly launched 100-mile circular trail through South Devon — linking the South West Coast Path, Dartmoor, and a network of towns and countryside routes across the region. In this short episode of
The Western Front Way is a 500-mile route tracing the line of the First World War — running from the Swiss border to the North Sea through France and Belgium. In this episode we talk to Briana Gervat, who has published a
The Rob Roy Way cuts across the heart of Scotland — a quieter long-distance trail linking Drymen to Pitlochry through forests, glens, old railway lines, and the edges of big Highland lochs. In this episode of Notes From
The Anglesey Coast Path circles the entire Isle of Anglesey — a 130-mile trail that traces one of the most varied and quietly beautiful coastlines in Wales. In this episode of Notes from Big Trails, Rob speaks with Nicol
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path is one of Britain’s most dramatic long-distance walks, stretching along the wild Atlantic edge of West Wales. In this episode of Notes From Big Trails, Rob speaks with Sophie McCarthy about h
What does “solo adventure” really look like? In this episode, Rob speaks with Elise Downing and Kirsty Reade about hiking and running alone — not in remote wilderness for months on end, but in the more familiar, human sp
In this episode, Morgan shares his experience walking sections of the South West Coast Path — a 630-mile route tracing the coastline of south-west England. We cover: Why he chose the Coast Path during a difficult period
In this episode of Notes from Big Trails, Rob speaks to Jon Barton, founder of Vertebrate Publishing, about walking — and running — the Pennine Way. They explore why the Pennine Way divides opinion, what the early sectio
Martyn Howe talks to us about how he walked the coast of England - following what has become the King Charles III England Coast Path. Martyn shares: How the walk began with a single acorn waymarker in CromerWhat it’s lik
In this episode of Notes from Big Trails, Rob is joined by Peak District local and author Anna Paxton for a walk-and-talk on the Eastern Moors. Anna’s book, Peak Bagging Peak District, brings together 121 of the region’s
Janie Oates joins Notes from Big Trails to talk about a self-designed running adventure across the Canary Islands. Starting with a race trip to Gran Canaria, Janie and three friends came up with the idea of running acros
Ange
1 appearance on this show
Elise Downing
adventurer and writer
2 appearances on this show
Oscar
unclear · Tico Productions & Tico Sports
1 appearance on this show
Sophie
podiatrist · Hope and Homes for Children
1 appearance on this show
Chris Townsend
Global Vice President of Public Sector · Amalgamated Transit Union
1 appearance on this show
Claire
Gold Coast-based pain neuroscience physiotherapist · Stars Aligned Tarot
1 appearance on this show
Briana Gervat
author and photographer
1 appearance on this show
Nicola
Award Winning skin care expert · KIN
1 appearance on this show
Jon Barton
founder and managing director · Intregal Marketing Solutions Inc.
1 appearance on this show
Richard Ross
Author of Student Ministry and the Supremacy of Christ · Southwestern Seminary
1 appearance on this show
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