247: Trail Tales 54
National Park After Dark
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4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hi everyone welcome back to National Park After Dark, Trail Tales Edition. |
| 0:23.2 | We have a lot of stories for you today. |
| 0:25.4 | And our first story, which you are going to be sharing, is the biggest throwback of anything |
| 0:32.0 | we've ever re-told on the show. |
| 0:34.2 | We have a really special story that originally aired on Trail Tales 3. |
| 0:40.6 | Yeah, and it's one of my favorite ones that we've ever told and it just aired so long ago that we wanted to bring it back because it's a really kind of special story and I think that it's a fun one for people who have been specifically to Arches and I'd like to know if other people have this experience as well. |
| 0:56.4 | Yeah, we've had a couple follow-up stories over the years kind of spurring off of this original story and there is a reason we are retelling it today and |
| 1:05.1 | we'll tell you that reason at the end. So go take it away. Take it away. |
| 1:10.1 | Okay. So my story is titled Spirit of the Arches. |
| 1:15.0 | Hi, Lovelies, I absolutely love your podcast. |
| 1:18.0 | I discovered it while searching for something to listen to while doing a solo cross-country trip |
| 1:22.0 | this past summer through 16 national parks |
| 1:24.3 | slash monuments in 25 states. I finished every single episode that was available |
| 1:28.9 | before the end of my journey and have been a weekly listener ever since. |
| 1:32.8 | Inspired by your Trail Tales episodes, |
| 1:35.2 | I began thinking back on an experience I had with the spirit at Arches National Park. |
| 1:40.4 | When I arrived at the park early in the morning, |
| 1:42.4 | I made my way through the front gate into the red rock beauty |
| 1:45.9 | Stopping basically every 10 minutes for the amazing photo opportunities |
| 1:49.8 | During one of my stops at the courthouse towers a woman gave me advice to hike the delicate arch trail. |
| 1:55.5 | I wasn't the most experienced hiker, but this woman assured me over and over that despite the high experience level, |
| 2:01.5 | it would be something I could do and that it would be worth it so I |
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