Helping us close out the first season of The High Route Podcast, Billy Haas (left) and Adam Fabrikant (right) debrief their 2023 expedition to the Chilean Andes.
The show must go on. It will go on when we bust into September. But it’s a wrap for season one of The High Route Podcast. Lucky number episode 13, we’ll call it good right there.
In this episode, Adam Fabrikant and Billy Haas bring some closure to their fall trip to the Chilean Andes. Just before Fabrikant’s and Haas’ departure in October, we ran The “No Excess” Ski Expedition Packing Mantra episode, which mainly focused on their gear choices. If you haven’t had a chance, now might be a good time to take that episode in.
Consider this 13th episode their Chile debrief. We learn how a seasoned team pivots objectives and envisions what Fabrikant calls the 5×5: ascents and ski descents of five different 5,000m peaks. As South America builds into what we hope is a robust winter, let Fabrikant and Haas plant an adventure seed.
Fabrikant making some chalky Andean turns. Photo: Billy Haas
In the meantime, we also will assert that Fabrikant claiming the “cat is in the bag” during this episode is an appropriate twist on the colloquialism “the cat is out of the bag.” We are not going full-blown quantum physics and Schrödinger’s cat, but it remains true: a cat must have once been in the bag to be out of a bag.
Thanks for listening to our first season of The High Route Podcast—we appreciate the support.
A tidy mid and out the door an expansive Andes view. Photo: Billy Haas
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