ASP Stories Ep. 013: Off the Map - Excerpt 2 - Bryan Snyder
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2018
⏱️ 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 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 |
| 0:46.1 | by listening in while we hear more from ASP Stories. |
| 0:58.0 | Reading ASP Stories. Greetings Adventure Sports Podcast listeners. |
| 1:00.8 | This is Brian Snyder of Santa Barbara, California, getting ready to share with you |
| 1:04.1 | another tale from my Off-the-Map trilogy of Adventure Books. |
| 1:07.9 | Each collection showcases the best of the many bad decisions I have made in pursuit of the |
| 1:11.8 | most surreal and scenic outdoor experiences our planet has to offer. Today's story comes from |
| 1:17.0 | the second book, Further Off the Map, 53 tales of adventure along the rougher edges of American |
| 1:22.0 | Wilderness. Last week's tale is a bit traumatic, so this time let's head into California-Sierra Nevada |
| 1:28.5 | range for a bit of well-earned spectacle. Hope you enjoy. |
| 1:34.7 | Week 13, soaking in the sierras. |
| 1:39.2 | A moonbow. I couldn't believe it. I was staring at an actual moonbow. I stood awestruck in the rain and |
| 1:46.7 | moonlight beneath the span of lava cliffs, a mute witness to the pale, ghostly arc of light |
| 1:51.3 | that shimmered in the darkness at the foot of white mountain. At my back, a half moon shone through a break in |
| 1:56.7 | the storm clouds. Its light refracted by the raindrops falling above my head, creating the exceptionally |
| 2:01.8 | rare image I saw hovering before me, an albino rainbow. All too soon, though, the drizzle diminished |
| 2:08.1 | to nothing, and the moonbow dissolved away like a mirage. With a sigh, I watched it go. |
| 2:15.3 | Seeing the moonbow here in the Owens Valley helped diffuse my anxiety about what the storms were doing in the high reaches of the Sierra's, where the precipitation was undoubtedly falling to snow. |
| 2:24.3 | Once the massive stormfront moved aside, I planned to begin a six-day trek into the John Muir wilderness. |
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