ASP Stories Ep. 012: Off the Map - Excerpt 1 - Bryan Snyder
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2018
⏱️ 18 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 an excerpt from Bryan Snyder's book "Off the Map: Fifty-Five Weeks of Adventuring in the Great American Wilderness and Beyond" where Bryan shares a few stories from his wonderful, and sometimes harrowing, escapades throughout the American West. If you missed episodes 135 and 302 with Bryan, be sure to go back and listen for more about Bryan's adventures!
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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. |
| 0:57.7 | Greetings. Asp Stories. Greetings, Adventure Sports Podcast listeners. |
| 1:00.6 | This is Brian Snyder of Santa Barbara, California, |
| 1:02.8 | getting ready to share with you a tale from my off-the-map trilogy of adventure books. |
| 1:07.6 | Each collection showcases the best of the many bad decisions I've made in pursuit of the most surreal and scenic outdoor experiences our planet has to offer. |
| 1:15.7 | Today's story comes from the first book, Off the Map, 55 weeks of adventuring in the great American wilderness and beyond. |
| 1:22.8 | Emphasis has to go to the beyond part of the title this week, for the tale takes place in the Norwegian High Country. I was attempting to climb the highest peak in northern Europe, but my enthusiasm |
| 1:32.5 | for fickle weather was definitely on the way by the time this story begins. Hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:39.7 | Week 5. An ill wind blows. Here we are, said the driver, and the feeling of dread that |
| 1:47.9 | had been building inside me for the last 10 miles consolidated into outright fear. I stepped out |
| 1:53.8 | into freezing rain at the road junction and gave the man a weak smile. As he drove away, I frantically |
| 1:59.4 | tried to search in my backpack for waterproof gear before I |
| 2:02.4 | was completely soaked. This had to be the worst place I'd ever try to hitchhike from. Just 30 minutes ago, |
| 2:09.3 | I was standing at ease in the warm sunlight. Here, a fierce wind was whipping across a gray, |
| 2:14.8 | lifeless lake, and there wasn't a single piece of vegetation |
| 2:17.5 | higher than a blade of grass that could stall its passage. I shivered beneath a road cut, |
| 2:22.9 | trying ineffectually to thumb down a ride, and feeling the wind steadily forced rainwater |
| 2:27.4 | through the fibers of my supposedly waterproof jacket. Under this dark, depressing sky, |
| 2:32.9 | the same thought kept repeating itself over and over in my head. |
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