Hale: Trip leaders finished the summer season despite a vehicle rollover crash
Tom Hale · Backroads: Tom Hale. How a desk worker became a trailblazer in active travel · Nov 10, 2025 · at 27:52
Tom Hale, founder of Backroads, describes how his team persisted and led scheduled active travel trips despite surviving a severe van rollover in the Nevada desert.
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“But they Bill and Kathy went on to lead the next two trips. I went back to get another van to meet them, and we finished it was a pretty rigorous, because we had to keep moving the seats in the van in and out, and they were heavy, and we had to move big, heavy picnic tables around, so I, my ribs never got well.”
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