ASP Stories Ep. 004: 8240: One Family's Life Above the Clouds
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another ASP Stories bonus episode. We will be having authors read from their books featuring each chapter as a new episode. Think of these bonus episodes as an ongoing audiobook for free. So sit back, relax and enjoy our first book "8240: One Family's Life Above the Clouds" written and recorded by Curt Linville, host of the Adventure Sports Podcast. "8240: One Family's Life Above the Clouds" is the story of a couple, and their infant, escaping the city and relocating to the front range foothills of Colorado as they grow their family and raise children at an elevation of 8240'.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, Kurt here. Thank you so much for listening to ASP Stories. Remember, this is not the |
| 0:24.7 | standard adventure sports podcast episode where we interview amazing guests about adventure sports |
| 0:30.2 | and amazing feats that they've done. But instead, this is the bonus weekend edition. It comes out on |
| 0:36.9 | Saturdays and this is where we share adventure-related readings from authors. |
| 0:42.3 | Right now, we're in the middle of 8241 Family's Life Above the Clouds. |
| 0:47.1 | But the good news is we have several more authors that have signed up to read segments from their books for your entertainment on Saturday morning. |
| 0:56.4 | So we envision this as a little bonus episode that helps you kick off your adventure-filled weekend. |
| 1:03.2 | In the reading so far, we've heard a lot about what it's like to live at altitude at 8,240 feet |
| 1:09.3 | above sea level, about the lifestyle, about the scenery, about the |
| 1:12.9 | weather, about the seasons. But now the book starts to transition into high altitude adventure |
| 1:18.6 | stories, mostly about mountaineering and things like that. So sit back and enjoy today's |
| 1:24.2 | ASP stories. Today is September 8th. Fall begins in roughly two weeks. It's still summer, |
| 1:32.7 | but yesterday I awoke to a dusting of snow on our deck. Our thermometer read 28 degrees. The day |
| 1:39.7 | before that was warm and pleasant. Yesterday's cold front was followed by a more virulent one. This morning |
| 1:46.6 | there are six inches of powdery snow covering everything. The temperatures are in the 20s. I'm a little |
| 1:52.9 | shocked. The aspen are still green. This early storm has bent them to odd angles under their |
| 1:59.4 | unexpected burden of snow. Usually they've scattered |
| 2:02.7 | their leaves before the snow comes. Not this year. I wonder what the fall and winter have in |
| 2:08.6 | store for us. Will the snow blow off the aspen trees allowing them to follow their normal |
| 2:13.4 | ritual of color changes? Or will the snow leave them brown and crusty? Are we to skip fall altogether |
| 2:19.3 | this year? Will there be more snow next week? And the next? Does the early storm warn of record winter |
| 2:26.4 | snows and cold winds? All I know for certain is that this is absolutely beautiful. My son, now four, awoke full of smiles. He declared that Christmas |
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