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Out There

Willow Belden

Wilderness, Sports, Nature, Science

4.6608 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Grand adventures often change us. They help us process complicated emotions and work through our problems.

But what if the forward progress is temporary? What if all the good vibes end, when you return to the "real world"?

On this episode, Paul Barach shares the story of his Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike, and explores the difficult process of going home to a life that looks bleak and broken.

If you like this story, check out "The Tools to Thrive." It's a story about a thru-hike on the Camino de Santiago, and it explores whether nature is actually necessary for an emotional reset.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, so I am out for a little afternoon ski and I've come to this spot that has a beautiful view of all these mountains.

0:17.0

This place is somewhere I come a lot. It's near my home in Wyoming.

0:22.6

But I never know what mountains I'm looking at,

0:26.6

because my trail maps only show the immediate vicinity,

0:30.6

and these mountains are far away.

0:32.6

If this scenario sounds familiar,

0:35.6

check out the PeakVisor app.

0:38.8

PeakVisor is one of our sponsors.

0:41.6

Their app will help you figure out what mountains you're looking at when you're out on adventures.

0:46.6

It provides mountain names, elevation, distance, and a ton of extra information on more than a million summits all over the world. Check out

0:57.4

PeakVisor in the App Store. You might love it. If you want to revel in the wonder of the

1:05.0

natural world, while still asking tough questions about our place in that world, I'd like to tell you about another podcast

1:12.6

you might enjoy. It's called Outside In. Hosted by Sam Evans Brown, Outside In tackles a broad

1:20.8

range of subjects, from the environmental movement's troubling links to the eugenics movement,

1:27.1

to the fraught history between hydropower

1:29.4

development and indigenous rights in Canada. Outside Inn tries to capture the joy that attracts so many

1:37.1

of us to the outdoors in the first place. The show has taken listeners under the ice of frozen lakes,

1:43.6

to peat bugs in the Arctic,

1:46.2

and up close to patches of moss in your own backyard.

1:51.2

Outside In features deeply investigated stories and the deliberately goofy.

1:57.1

It makes you think and makes you laugh.

1:59.8

You can find Outside In in your favorite podcast app and at outsideinradio.org.

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