37: Funny National Park Stories (Vol. 2)

Exploring the National Parks

Dirt In My Shoes

Science, Society & Culture:places & Travel, Nature, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

There’s never a dull moment when you’re hiking out in the national parks! In this episode, we are sharing Volume Two of our funny stories in the national parks, and this one centers around our most hilarious moments while hiking! Let’s dive into some of our funny and embarrassing moments from the trails. Join us as we cover: The time we got punked while whale-watching The lengths we went to in order to find a “hair carrot” in Theodore Roosevelt National Park The muddy puddle that was actually the lake we were looking for We hope you enjoyed these funny stories! It’s so fun to look back on our adventures and misadventures in the parks. And hopefully, this summer, you’ll be able to go out on some hiking trails in the national parks and have some of your own adventures! If you need help planning your next trip, head over to DirtInMyShoes.com. Check out the full show notes here.

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0:00.0	It is my firm opinion that this is the longest continuously running practical joke in North America that the sea has ever pulled.
0:08.9	It was awesome. Such an epic prank.
0:16.0	This is the Exploring the National Parks podcast with Dirt in My Shoes.
0:21.1	My name is Ash and I'm a former park ranger and the founder of Dirt in My Shoes.
0:25.4	I think that the parks are best seen from the trail and I'm here to make National Park
0:30.1	Trip Planning easy.
0:31.7	And I'm John.
0:32.6	I carry the kids on the trails, tell stories, and notice all the things that Ash doesn't
0:36.7	care about much,
0:38.7	like birds.
0:44.2	Join us as we show you around America's spectacular national parks.
0:48.3	We're sharing our favorite places, fun facts, adventures, and misadventures.
0:51.0	And we'll even throw in a little trip planning.
0:52.2	Let's start exploring. I feel like there's never a dull moment when we're
1:00.3	hiking in the national parks. And I also feel like I've shared some pretty embarrassing stories
1:05.5	over the last six months that we've been running this podcast of me hiking. But I think the stories today don't really center around me. No, they don't. Yeah. You come off pretty good on these stories. Do I? Do I look pretty good in these ones? Today we wanted to do funny stories, volume two. This is the hiking edition. We are talking about funny things that have happened to us as we've been hiking through the national parks.
1:30.8	Yes.
1:31.3	We are going to limit ourselves to three stories, but future additions may pop up as we, you know, want to share more.
1:40.8	I'm really excited.
1:42.4	I feel like this first one is probably one of my all-time favorite stories from any of our national park visits.
1:48.4	I'll set the stage.
1:49.4	This story takes us to Acadia National Park.
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