ASP Stories Ep. 007: 8240: One Family's Life Above the Clouds
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2017
⏱️ 20 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 |
| 0:46.1 | by listening in while we hear more from ASP Stories. |
| 1:01.4 | We climb into the car this day to continue up this narrow, rocky road. |
| 1:04.9 | We pass through stands of Aspen with new leaves shaking in the wind. |
| 1:08.4 | The word Aspen means quake, and quake they do. |
| 1:12.3 | The slightest breeze causes the leaves of the trees to shimmer and shake. |
| 1:17.3 | This is due to the stems of the leaves that are flattened vertically. When the wind touches them, |
| 1:22.2 | instead of swooping randomly, they dance from side to side, creating shimmers and flashes, |
| 1:28.0 | as they duck in and out of the filtered light of the forest. The trunks of the aspen are smooth and white, |
| 1:33.6 | with dark markings placed here and there. Many of these markings are scars left by decades of survival. In the early summer, it's not uncommon to see fresh green and tan scars high on the |
| 1:39.2 | trees. I've seen these scars 20 feet above the ground. These are the teeth marks left by mule deer and elk. |
| 1:46.5 | I've been temporarily perplexed by this. How does a doe or a buck climb 20 feet up a smooth, |
| 1:52.1 | slender aspen trunk? I laughed at myself when I realized the answer. Deer don't climb trees. |
| 1:58.1 | They do, however, walk on 20 feet of consolidated snow. During the hungry, |
| 2:02.7 | lean months of winter, even aspen bark can be pretty tasty. I ponder the groves of |
| 2:07.7 | aspen. Some have speculated that the biggest living thing on earth is an old growth aspen grove. |
| 2:15.0 | Obviously, individual aspen trees are not that large. I've never seen one more |
| 2:19.5 | than a foot in diameter, but aspen grow up from horizontal roots that spread out from mature |
| 2:24.7 | trees. What appears to be two trees standing several feet apart is actually one organism. They |
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