ASP Stories Ep. 005: 8240: One Family's Life Above the Clouds
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2017
⏱️ 25 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. Thank you for joining us again for the ASP Stories weekend bonus episode. |
| 0:24.3 | Join us on Mondays and Thursdays where we interview amazing guests where they share with us about their adventure sports and the amazing feats that they have done. |
| 0:34.0 | But ASP Stories is where we get to listen in as authors read their adventure stories to us. |
| 0:40.6 | So sit back with your hot cup of tea or coffee and kick off your adventure-filled weekend by listening in while we hear more from ASP Stories. |
| 0:59.0 | How far do you think we have to go? |
| 1:01.9 | Asked Dan, I had no idea. |
| 1:05.2 | It seemed we'd only covered a quarter of the return distance, |
| 1:07.7 | but under these conditions it was hard to estimate. |
| 1:12.8 | Finally, we found ourselves on a high shoulder, and the slope dropped on three sides ahead of us. We could see that the drops got steeper as they went down, but we could not see any more |
| 1:19.2 | detail. My stomach climbed into my throat as I considered our odds. We cannot go back up. Going down would |
| 1:26.3 | most certainly result in an uncontrolled slide. |
| 1:29.4 | In this terrain, there was probably a 50% chance that the high lip of a cliff weighted below us. |
| 1:35.9 | This does not look good, said Dan. Brian was silent. Too silent. |
| 1:41.2 | Brian, how are you holding up? I asked. He was shivering and stammered that he was not sure. |
| 1:46.9 | We don't have the gear to survive the night up here, I stated obviously. If we stop going, we'll soon be |
| 1:52.3 | hypothermic. Brian already looked hypothermic. What do you think, Dan? I don't know. There could be |
| 1:58.1 | cliffs down there. Yeah, there might be. This is more than a little scary. Can we go back up? asked Dan. Would we be any better off? I replied. No one answered. Brian remained silent. Guys, we're in over our heads. I suggest we pray and then we head down that slope. You know whether you're a religious person or not, in circumstances like these, you might |
| 2:21.5 | find that you are. |
| 2:23.4 | We gathered in a huddle of three, and we each prayed that God would supernaturally guide |
| 2:27.8 | our feet down this slope. |
| 2:29.6 | The wind bitted our faces as we stammered through numb lips. |
| 2:33.8 | We admitted our foolishness and we asked for |
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