WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:05:54" NOTE recognizability:0.777 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.812982528375 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.425 Inoculation has spent his life NOTE Confidence: 0.812982528375 00:00:02.425 --> 00:00:04.912 asking one question. How can I, NOTE Confidence: 0.812982528375 00:00:04.912 --> 00:00:07.320 with the help of a supportive community, NOTE Confidence: 0.812982528375 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:09.560 he's always been able to find the answer. NOTE Confidence: 0.812982528375 00:00:09.560 --> 00:00:13.193 Now he's working to help more Mainers NOTE Confidence: 0.812982528375 00:00:13.193 --> 00:00:16.100 find an answer as well. There are NOTE Confidence: 0.872145745 00:00:16.110 --> 00:00:18.798 a few places in the world where Enoch NOTE Confidence: 0.872145745 00:00:18.798 --> 00:00:21.597 Kallidin is more comfortable than outside. NOTE Confidence: 0.814150005555556 00:00:22.210 --> 00:00:27.034 The outdoors has been a place to relax and. NOTE Confidence: 0.814150005555556 00:00:27.040 --> 00:00:29.760 Be at peace and maybe push myself and NOTE Confidence: 0.814150005555556 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:32.609 not be relaxed once in a while but NOTE Confidence: 0.938626279230769 00:00:32.660 --> 00:00:34.652 born with spina bifida. He has NOTE Confidence: 0.938626279230769 00:00:34.652 --> 00:00:36.928 never been able to use his legs. NOTE Confidence: 0.850257059090909 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:40.528 I like to say that I probably had it NOTE Confidence: 0.850257059090909 00:00:40.528 --> 00:00:42.660 easier because. This is all I know NOTE Confidence: 0.915069355 00:00:42.710 --> 00:00:45.006 growing up in the rural town of Patton. NOTE Confidence: 0.915069355 00:00:45.010 --> 00:00:48.006 Enoch spent his youth exploring the woods. NOTE Confidence: 0.771296285 00:00:48.070 --> 00:00:49.449 I was the only kid in the NOTE Confidence: 0.771296285 00:00:49.449 --> 00:00:51.178 wheelchair, so everybody knew me NOTE Confidence: 0.8460279825 00:00:51.190 --> 00:00:53.098 and pushing the limits NOTE Confidence: 0.712247611666667 00:00:53.230 --> 00:00:56.030 that the story about when I decided to NOTE Confidence: 0.712247611666667 00:00:56.030 --> 00:00:58.190 just take off into the woods by myself NOTE Confidence: 0.712247611666667 00:00:58.246 --> 00:01:00.226 one day and see how far I could get, NOTE Confidence: 0.712247611666667 00:01:00.230 --> 00:01:02.450 I got stuck so I got out of my wheelchair NOTE Confidence: 0.712247611666667 00:01:02.507 --> 00:01:04.726 and crawled and just pulled my wheelchair NOTE Confidence: 0.712247611666667 00:01:04.730 --> 00:01:06.158 until I can start pushing again. NOTE Confidence: 0.781311886666667 00:01:06.170 --> 00:01:08.645 He was about seven years old at the time. NOTE Confidence: 0.781311886666667 00:01:08.650 --> 00:01:10.939 That's just how he's always done things. NOTE Confidence: 0.781311886666667 00:01:10.940 --> 00:01:13.284 With a smile on his face and an NOTE Confidence: 0.781311886666667 00:01:13.284 --> 00:01:15.500 optimism that everything will workout, NOTE Confidence: 0.817176999230769 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:18.146 I've always. Pushed my wheelchair past NOTE Confidence: 0.817176999230769 00:01:18.146 --> 00:01:21.310 the point of where it should go. Bob NOTE Confidence: 0.831106238823529 00:01:21.320 --> 00:01:23.450 Dyer Junior High School gym NOTE Confidence: 0.831106238823529 00:01:23.450 --> 00:01:25.580 teacher saw that tenacious spirit NOTE Confidence: 0.831106238823529 00:01:25.653 --> 00:01:27.886 and urged Enoch to do even more. NOTE Confidence: 0.809086264 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:28.940 First day, I met him. NOTE Confidence: 0.809086264 00:01:28.940 --> 00:01:31.356 He walked out to me and asked me if I NOTE Confidence: 0.809086264 00:01:31.356 --> 00:01:33.080 could do 20 pushups in my wheelchair. NOTE Confidence: 0.809086264 00:01:33.080 --> 00:01:35.012 And of course, I said I can NOTE Confidence: 0.809086264 00:01:35.012 --> 00:01:37.372 do 40 and I don't think I'd NOTE Confidence: 0.809086264 00:01:37.372 --> 00:01:39.192 ever done 40 pushups ever. NOTE Confidence: 0.809086264 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:41.064 But I did it and after that he NOTE Confidence: 0.809086264 00:01:41.064 --> 00:01:42.410 didn't treat me differently. NOTE Confidence: 0.809086264 00:01:42.410 --> 00:01:44.348 He treated me like everybody else. NOTE Confidence: 0.680873670625 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:46.500 Dire encouraged Nick to join a NOTE Confidence: 0.680873670625 00:01:46.500 --> 00:01:48.373 basketball team. Took him hunting NOTE Confidence: 0.680873670625 00:01:48.373 --> 00:01:50.719 and got him into wheelchair racing. NOTE Confidence: 0.86399536 00:01:50.810 --> 00:01:53.436 He really set me on the path of NOTE Confidence: 0.86399536 00:01:53.436 --> 00:01:56.495 not saying I can't but asking. NOTE Confidence: 0.86399536 00:01:56.495 --> 00:02:00.170 How can I and answering that question NOTE Confidence: 0.86399536 00:02:00.170 --> 00:02:03.354 and I I don't think I've ever found. NOTE Confidence: 0.86399536 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:04.390 A moment when I couldn't NOTE Confidence: 0.86399536 00:02:04.390 --> 00:02:05.008 answer that question, NOTE Confidence: 0.811416718588889 00:02:05.260 --> 00:02:06.772 innox been doing things NOTE Confidence: 0.811416718588889 00:02:06.772 --> 00:02:08.662 his own way ever since. NOTE Confidence: 0.839627584545455 00:02:08.880 --> 00:02:11.016 I'm from Patton and there's this NOTE Confidence: 0.839627584545455 00:02:11.016 --> 00:02:12.840 huge hill coming into town, NOTE Confidence: 0.839627584545455 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:15.120 it's about maybe a mile long. NOTE Confidence: 0.839627584545455 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:17.032 It would take me 16 minutes to get NOTE Confidence: 0.839627584545455 00:02:17.032 --> 00:02:18.988 up the hill, but on the way back it NOTE Confidence: 0.839627584545455 00:02:18.988 --> 00:02:20.518 was about a minute and a half down. NOTE Confidence: 0.839627584545455 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:22.810 So one day I was. NOTE Confidence: 0.839627584545455 00:02:22.810 --> 00:02:24.190 I would sit at the top, NOTE Confidence: 0.839627584545455 00:02:24.190 --> 00:02:26.535 look both ways to make sure nothing NOTE Confidence: 0.839627584545455 00:02:26.535 --> 00:02:29.157 was coming and go and I passed 7 cars. NOTE Confidence: 0.911577494285714 00:02:31.170 --> 00:02:32.836 I was doing 57 miles an hour. NOTE Confidence: 0.8720148775 00:02:32.970 --> 00:02:35.196 He's been chasing that adrenaline rush NOTE Confidence: 0.8720148775 00:02:35.196 --> 00:02:37.690 ever since by taking flying lessons, NOTE Confidence: 0.8720148775 00:02:37.690 --> 00:02:41.150 paragliding, Hang Gliding and skydiving. NOTE Confidence: 0.8720148775 00:02:41.150 --> 00:02:45.380 He rock climbs and ice climbs. NOTE Confidence: 0.8720148775 00:02:45.380 --> 00:02:48.536 In 2016, after one failed attempt, NOTE Confidence: 0.8720148775 00:02:48.540 --> 00:02:50.836 this guy from Patton spent six days NOTE Confidence: 0.8720148775 00:02:50.836 --> 00:02:53.389 five nights on the granite face of NOTE Confidence: 0.8720148775 00:02:53.389 --> 00:02:55.633 El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, NOTE Confidence: 0.685082348 00:02:55.650 --> 00:02:57.868 and I just do pull-ups over and over and NOTE Confidence: 0.83896179 00:02:57.880 --> 00:02:58.768 over on that rope. NOTE Confidence: 0.763964071428571 00:02:58.900 --> 00:03:02.176 After more than 800 pull-ups a day, NOTE Confidence: 0.763964071428571 00:03:02.180 --> 00:03:04.915 Enoch successfully pulled himself 3000 NOTE Confidence: 0.763964071428571 00:03:04.915 --> 00:03:08.589 feet up the sheer granite rock face. NOTE Confidence: 0.614756555 00:03:09.780 --> 00:03:12.210 Me climb, they realized that there's NOTE Confidence: 0.958362222 00:03:12.220 --> 00:03:13.440 no such thing as impossible. NOTE Confidence: 0.940209148333333 00:03:13.600 --> 00:03:15.454 It's taken a community of people NOTE Confidence: 0.940209148333333 00:03:15.454 --> 00:03:17.380 to help him reach his goals, NOTE Confidence: 0.940209148333333 00:03:17.380 --> 00:03:18.853 including Paradox Sports, NOTE Confidence: 0.940209148333333 00:03:18.853 --> 00:03:20.817 which offers adaptive climbing NOTE Confidence: 0.940209148333333 00:03:20.817 --> 00:03:23.100 opportunities all over the country. NOTE Confidence: 0.940209148333333 00:03:23.100 --> 00:03:27.100 He serves as an ambassador for the company. NOTE Confidence: 0.940209148333333 00:03:27.100 --> 00:03:28.703 The goal is to share a love NOTE Confidence: 0.940209148333333 00:03:28.703 --> 00:03:29.830 of nature with people, NOTE Confidence: 0.940209148333333 00:03:29.830 --> 00:03:31.063 regardless of ability. NOTE Confidence: 0.940209148333333 00:03:31.063 --> 00:03:33.118 That's why Enochs been working NOTE Confidence: 0.940209148333333 00:03:33.118 --> 00:03:34.839 with Maine Trail Finder. NOTE Confidence: 0.940209148333333 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:36.925 A website with over 5,000,000 NOTE Confidence: 0.940209148333333 00:03:36.925 --> 00:03:39.010 users that lists more than NOTE Confidence: 0.940209148333333 00:03:39.090 --> 00:03:42.360 1000 trails for observation. NOTE Confidence: 0.5205944975 00:03:44.650 --> 00:03:45.618 How deep they are NOTE Confidence: 0.881809896 00:03:45.730 --> 00:03:46.822 assessing trails like NOTE Confidence: 0.881809896 00:03:46.822 --> 00:03:48.610 this one. In Scarborough NOTE Confidence: 0.682423122 00:03:48.690 --> 00:03:51.650 we had been hearing for. NOTE Confidence: 0.682423122 00:03:51.650 --> 00:03:54.752 A number of years about how NOTE Confidence: 0.682423122 00:03:54.752 --> 00:03:56.935 how there's not a very there NOTE Confidence: 0.682423122 00:03:56.935 --> 00:03:58.821 wasn't a very good compendium NOTE Confidence: 0.682423122 00:03:58.821 --> 00:04:01.576 of accessible trails in Maine. NOTE Confidence: 0.86363897 00:04:01.590 --> 00:04:03.186 The trails are reviewed in details, NOTE Confidence: 0.86363897 00:04:03.190 --> 00:04:06.190 so there's no surprises for hikers. NOTE Confidence: 0.86363897 00:04:06.190 --> 00:04:08.530 Rating scale from wheely NOTE Confidence: 0.86363897 00:04:08.530 --> 00:04:10.870 easy to wheely strenuous. NOTE Confidence: 0.86363897 00:04:10.870 --> 00:04:13.140 He knows what people who NOTE Confidence: 0.878953168666667 00:04:13.150 --> 00:04:14.340 are using a wheelchair are NOTE Confidence: 0.878953168666667 00:04:14.340 --> 00:04:15.897 looking for and what type of NOTE Confidence: 0.878953168666667 00:04:15.897 --> 00:04:17.177 information they're looking for. NOTE Confidence: 0.61187877 00:04:17.290 --> 00:04:18.628 I've flipped over a few times, NOTE Confidence: 0.61187877 00:04:18.630 --> 00:04:22.006 but that that's why I do it to. NOTE Confidence: 0.61187877 00:04:22.010 --> 00:04:24.482 Push myself to the absolute limits NOTE Confidence: 0.61187877 00:04:24.482 --> 00:04:26.800 of the people knowing exactly. NOTE Confidence: 0.61187877 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:27.672 What they're getting into NOTE Confidence: 0.61187877 00:04:27.672 --> 00:04:28.762 when they do a trail. NOTE Confidence: 0.731605971428572 00:04:28.810 --> 00:04:31.379 Enoch already rated over three dozen trails. NOTE Confidence: 0.731605971428572 00:04:31.380 --> 00:04:33.115 The assessments aren't just for NOTE Confidence: 0.731605971428572 00:04:33.115 --> 00:04:35.273 those in wheelchairs, but for seniors NOTE Confidence: 0.731605971428572 00:04:35.273 --> 00:04:37.128 and people of varying abilities. NOTE Confidence: 0.4900739425 00:04:37.220 --> 00:04:40.430 He is obviously an extreme adventurer NOTE Confidence: 0.4900739425 00:04:40.430 --> 00:04:43.660 with having summited El Cap in Yosemite, NOTE Confidence: 0.4900739425 00:04:43.660 --> 00:04:48.392 but he also is very good at saying a, NOTE Confidence: 0.4900739425 00:04:48.392 --> 00:04:50.228 you know, a quarter mile trail NOTE Confidence: 0.4900739425 00:04:50.228 --> 00:04:52.040 and seeing the beauty in that, NOTE Confidence: 0.4900739425 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:53.853 and I think that is almost what NOTE Confidence: 0.4900739425 00:04:53.853 --> 00:04:55.667 I find most inspiring about iMac NOTE Confidence: 0.4900739425 00:04:55.667 --> 00:04:57.604 is his love for the outdoors. NOTE Confidence: 0.4900739425 00:04:57.604 --> 00:04:59.940 And sharing that with many other people NOTE Confidence: 0.92374914875 00:05:00.020 --> 00:05:02.225 on his website, it reads the scenery NOTE Confidence: 0.92374914875 00:05:02.225 --> 00:05:04.529 is better when you are a part of it. NOTE Confidence: 0.92374914875 00:05:04.530 --> 00:05:06.770 Enoch is hoping his reviews will inspire NOTE Confidence: 0.92374914875 00:05:06.770 --> 00:05:09.019 others to take part of the outdoors. NOTE Confidence: 0.5280131256 00:05:09.270 --> 00:05:11.358 I think if people push themselves NOTE Confidence: 0.5280131256 00:05:11.358 --> 00:05:13.137 more through that edge they'd NOTE Confidence: 0.5280131256 00:05:13.137 --> 00:05:15.459 have a lot more confidence of. NOTE Confidence: 0.5280131256 00:05:15.460 --> 00:05:17.296 What they can and can't do, NOTE Confidence: 0.5280131256 00:05:17.300 --> 00:05:18.735 and they'd realize that they NOTE Confidence: 0.5280131256 00:05:18.735 --> 00:05:19.883 probably can do everything. NOTE Confidence: 0.72600910775 00:05:21.580 --> 00:05:23.704 20 Sevens, Beth McAvoy, NOTE Confidence: 0.72600910775 00:05:23.704 --> 00:05:26.210 with that powerful story, wow, NOTE Confidence: 0.72600910775 00:05:26.210 --> 00:05:30.090 all I can say is live live like Enoch Man. NOTE Confidence: 0.72600910775 00:05:30.090 --> 00:05:32.050 Most of the trails that Enoch has NOTE Confidence: 0.72600910775 00:05:32.050 --> 00:05:33.553 assessed for Maine Trail Finder NOTE Confidence: 0.72600910775 00:05:33.553 --> 00:05:35.365 have been in southern and western NOTE Confidence: 0.72600910775 00:05:35.365 --> 00:05:37.208 Maine for the rest of this year. NOTE Confidence: 0.72600910775 00:05:37.210 --> 00:05:39.030 He's working on trails from Fort Kent NOTE Confidence: 0.72600910775 00:05:39.030 --> 00:05:41.275 down to Bangor on top of Enochs work for NOTE Confidence: 0.72600910775 00:05:41.275 --> 00:05:43.019 Main trail finders in Paradox Sports. NOTE Confidence: 0.72600910775 00:05:43.020 --> 00:05:45.066 You also travels doing public speaking. NOTE Confidence: 0.72600910775 00:05:45.070 --> 00:05:46.063 Among other things. NOTE Confidence: 0.72600910775 00:05:46.063 --> 00:05:48.049 He talks about climbing El Capitan. NOTE Confidence: 0.72600910775 00:05:48.050 --> 00:05:49.652 In fact a short film was NOTE Confidence: 0.72600910775 00:05:49.652 --> 00:05:50.720 made about that experience. NOTE Confidence: 0.72600910775 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:53.996 Some of that film you saw in Beth's story.