ASP Stories Ep. 008: 8240: One Family's Life Above the Clouds
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2018
⏱️ 27 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. Of the M.S.P. Stories |
| 1:02.5 | Of the moon, stars, planets, and flying debris. |
| 1:07.8 | The seven years that I lived in Denver, before moving to the mountains, |
| 1:10.4 | dulled my senses to the glory of the night sky. |
| 1:14.4 | Light pollution guaranteed that I would only see the brightest stars. |
| 1:18.4 | Under this umbrella of glare, the night sky seems dull. |
| 1:21.6 | It needs some cleaning and polish to make it sparkle. |
| 1:26.1 | In Denver, I could see major constellations, but the Milky Way, |
| 1:31.2 | Andromeda, and even the Pleiades were difficult, if not impossible, to see on almost all nights. |
| 1:37.1 | The move to 8240 was not only a move above the smog, it was a move to the stars. |
| 1:44.8 | One clear night at 8240 is all it takes to stoke the fires of enthusiasm toward the cosmos around us. |
| 1:51.0 | From here, one can see thousands upon thousands more stars than can be viewed from the city. |
| 1:57.0 | The night sky sparkles. The sky here has depth, definition, and character. |
| 2:20.0 | When I saw the stars again, I was amazed and given a healthy dose of curiosity. I could see things that were unfamiliar. What is that fuzzy spot in Orion's belt? Wow, where did that cluster of stars come from? The band of our galaxy really does look milky. How far is it to the nearest star? Is that a planet over there? But it's the moonlight that's the most striking. On a crystal clear, crisp winter night after a fresh snow, |
| 2:26.4 | the night world is completely transformed by the moonlight. It's surreal, otherworldly. Down on |
| 2:33.2 | Oklahoma, where I spent my youth, |
| 2:35.4 | friends and I would go for hikes in the woods at night when the moon was full. |
| 2:39.5 | It's really fun to see what one can actually see on such nights. |
| 2:43.2 | We would hike for hours. |
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