200: I Escaped: A Sit Down With a Wilderness Therapy Program Participant

National Park After Dark

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

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

As a follow up to last episode, we sit down for a chat with one of Danielle’s oldest friends - Tyler, who has first hand experience with a wilderness therapy program in Utah. He was blindfolded and taken out into the desert, where he became the first to “escape” the program.

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0:00.0	And the Hello everyone. Welcome back to National Park After Dark. We are back with a it's not
0:24.7	Trail Tales today but but regardless we have a very exciting episode.
0:28.7	Yeah we're switching it up a little bit. This is our first guest and interview that we've done with someone that we or at least I have known personally.
0:38.2	Is that true? Al was on the show.
0:40.2	Oh yeah true. Oh my God sorry Sorry, Al. Oh, sorry.
0:45.0	Sorry. He'd be so sad. Don't tell him. Don't tell him.
0:48.0	Okay, Al, I'm sorry if you ever hear that. But today we have my friend Tyler Ford on the show to talk about his experience with wilderness Therapy School and programs out in Utah.
1:05.0	So if you listen to our episode on Monday, if you didn't, you should pause and
1:10.4	go back and listen to that one because it's going to bring a lot of context to our
1:15.4	conversation. But we discussed the Challenger Foundation and the story of Steve
1:20.9	Cardizano that was based off of the documentary Hell Camp that's on
1:25.2	Netflix right now. So we had a big lot that was one of our longest episodes we've
1:29.2	ever done. There's a lot to unpack there and at the end we were kind of talking about our feelings of where we stood with wilderness therapy programs both in the past and currently and Tyler like I said is one of my oldest friends
1:46.1	and he had a personal experience with one in the early 2000s when his mom sent
1:50.9	him there he came on to talk to us all about it.
1:53.4	So without further ado, let's welcome Tyler.
1:59.5	Okay, welcome Tyler Ford. So weird to call you by your full name,
2:04.3	but Tyler Ford, welcome to National Park After Dark.
2:07.1	Happy to be here.
2:08.0	Yeah, we're excited.
2:08.9	Danielle just told a really interesting story
2:11.4	about a lot of the wilderness therapy camps that are going on and then she later
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