178: Two for One Special. Banff & Jasper National Park.

National Park After Dark

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True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Do you really think we could visit Banff and Jasper and NOT come back with some stories to share? Today we are switching it up to bring you two tales we were introduced to on our travels to the park. Get to know Grizzly 122 aka The Boss and learn about Operation Habbakuk an idea so crazy, it may just have worked - a prototype aircraft carrier for use against German U-boats … made out of ice(?).

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Sources Parks Canada, Parks Canada (2), Whyte Museum , National Geographic , CBC, CBC (2), National Wildlife Federation, Code Name Habbakuk

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. No intro today. Yeah, it's like kind of like a really, I feel aggressive
0:22.9	about this. And hi, there's a little music that they'll hear though. So it's not just
0:27.5	our voices stark. Yeah, that's true. I'm just out of the groove and it feels weird. But
0:33.6	yeah, we have a completely different type of episode for you everyone today. So hi,
0:38.0	welcome to National Park after dark. Danielle and I decided to do a collab episode today.
0:42.6	So we're both going to tell you some stories. We were inspired. We were a little too much,
0:47.4	actually. Yeah. We just got back from our BAMF trip where we went to BAMF Yoho Jasper.
0:55.0	It was our group trip. It was our MPAD group trip. And we had just such a wonderful time. And one
1:00.7	of the days we had off in the town, we like to run around and look for books that are for the
1:07.8	National Park, so the surrounding areas and low and behold, we went home with like four books
1:14.8	and decided, well, we have these stories. Let's do a combination episode and tell a couple of
1:21.1	them that we found. Yeah. And we had to, we limited ourselves. Let me just put in that a little
1:26.8	tidbit. Like we had to put books back on the shelf because we physically couldn't carry them
1:32.4	back in our carry ons. Like we're about to make a camera that bad. Yeah, like this and also who
1:38.5	is going to want to hear like 10 BAMF stories or Jasper, Yoho National Park stories in a row. So
1:45.7	we had to be a little bit selective. So there are more stories coming at some point when I have no
1:51.5	idea, but they'll be sitting on our bookshelf for when we're feeling inspired again to talk about
1:55.6	these parts. Yeah. So we have two different stories. One of them actually wasn't in any of the books
2:02.0	that I got. We were actually verbally told this story by one of our guides. Yeah. And we got
2:07.9	t-shirts to commemorate this this mascot. Is that the egg I'd turn for it? The mascot of BAMF,
2:15.3	the violent and I don't know aggressive and massive mascot of BAMF National Park. Yeah, we're
2:22.3	getting ahead of the king. Well, tell them about the king. Okay. Okay. Yeah. We're getting ahead
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