74: Five Fun Facts About Glacier Bay National Park

Exploring the National Parks

Dirt In My Shoes

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

4.8 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Join us as we journey back to Alaska for some fascinating Glacier Bay fun facts! Ash, who worked as a park ranger in Glacier Bay National Park, and John, who loves Glacier Bay and enjoys learning and sharing his discoveries, are here to share our unique experiences and surprise you with facts that make this park so extraordinary! From advancing glaciers, tidal waves, scientific research, rebounding land, and fascinating wildlife, Glacier Bay National Park is sure to be on your bucket list after this podcast episode. In this episode, we discuss: What makes these the fastest-moving glaciers in the world The location of the largest tidal wave recorded in history Why this park was claimed by the government… for science How Glacier Bay went from a rocky landscape to a rainforest in record time The coolest thing about the wildlife in this park We hope you enjoyed learning more about why Glacier Bay is such an unbelievable park. We also hope you can visit Glacier Bay and see it all for yourself sometime soon! Don’t forget to complete your task for this week! Which one of these fun facts surprised you the most? Head over to our Facebook or Instagram page and let us know! Check out the full show notes here.

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0:00.0	This park is literally trying to kill you.
0:05.5	That's why I loved it so much, though.
0:09.6	This is the Exploring the National Parks podcast with Dirt in My Shoes.
0:14.7	My name is Ash and I'm a former park ranger and the founder of Dirt in My Shoes.
0:18.8	I think that the parks are best seen from the trail,
0:21.9	and I'm here to make National Park Trip Planning easy.
0:25.3	And I'm John. I carry the kids on the trails, tell stories, and notice all the things
0:29.8	that Ash doesn't care about much, like flowers.
0:33.6	Join us as we show you around America's spectacular national parks.
0:38.1	We're sharing our favorite places, fun facts, adventures, and misadventures.
0:42.1	And we'll even throw in a little trip planning.
0:44.9	Let's start exploring.
0:49.9	Well, we have some great news. I think it's great news. Did you know that you can now get the podcast on YouTube?
1:01.8	Yeah. And YouTube music. That's mainly why we did it because they want us to be on YouTube music. So it's not the podcast on YouTube doesn't have our faces. It's not
1:13.9	like a, it's not a video podcast, but it does have video. It does. It does. But so you can get
1:21.7	all of our episodes on YouTube now, which was just a massive project, by the way. I'm so glad that's done.
1:29.5	Going forward, it'll be much easier instead of moving an entire database of podcast episodes over in one fell swoop.
1:37.5	Yeah. So anyway, we just wanted to let you guys know if you prefer to get, I know John listens to his podcast on YouTube music.
1:45.7	So now you can find us there. So go check it out. I'm really excited to talk about Glacier
1:52.8	Bay today. Yes, me too. I'm even wearing my Glacier Bay sweatshirt. I'm a little nervous because
1:59.2	although I worked as a park ranger at Glacier Bay,
2:02.7	John always teases me that I was probably like the worst park ranger ever because I don't
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