Travis's Message for the Listeners:

• Don't follow my descent line.

Episode Description:

In this episode of the Trailblazing Texas Podcast, I sit down with Dan and Travis to unpack one of the more ambitious routes in the Guadalupe Mountains, the Bush, Bartlett, and Shumard traverse.

On paper, the idea sounds simple enough: link together three rugged peaks across some of the most remote terrain in the Guadalupes. But anyone who has spent time in these mountains knows that the Guads have a way of turning a plan into something far more complex once boots hit the ground.

Dan and Travis walk through how the idea for the traverse first came together, the expectations they each had going into it, and how past experiences in the Guadalupe Mountains shaped the way they approached t ...