Ep. 135: Day Hiking the American West - Bryan Snyder
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Bryan Snyder left upstate New York in 1995 and has spent two decades teaching natural sciences at various outdoor schools across the country, from Maine to Hawaii. He received his masters in Environmental Education and Administration from Prescott College and is the author of the outdoor adventure book, "Off the Map: Fifty-five Weeks of Adventuring in the Great American Wilderness and Beyond". Currently, he teaches at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and the Gaviota Tidepool School.
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| 0:00.0 | So I'm probably about like 20 feet away from this edge here of this cliff. |
| 0:04.3 | And with my feet pointing downhill, suddenly I feel my whole body stop and my whole body swings around. |
| 0:10.5 | And suddenly I'm facing towards the cliff and I come to a halt. |
| 0:15.1 | And the reason why I stopped was my toes had caught in some kind of little fissure in the ice there. |
| 0:20.5 | And that stopped me. And my body weight swung me around and gravity pulled me down, but I was able to stop. and This is the adventure sports podcast, brought to you by 180Tack. |
| 0:49.5 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:54.6 | Episode 135, day hiking across the American West with Brian Snyder. |
| 1:10.3 | Welcome back to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:13.4 | This is your host, Travis Parsons. |
| 1:15.5 | Today on the line with me is Brian Snyder. |
| 1:18.3 | Brian is a teacher and an author. |
| 1:21.0 | He grew up in upstate New York, and he found himself out here on the West Coast. |
| 1:26.8 | He currently resides in Santa Barbara. |
| 1:29.8 | And Brian sent me his book, which is an awesome book. |
| 1:34.6 | I just got done reading it. |
| 1:36.3 | This book is called Further Off the Map, 53 Tales of Adventureing Along Ruffer Edges of the American Wilderness. |
| 1:43.2 | That's the second book. |
| 1:44.5 | His first book is off the map, 55 weeks of adventuring in the Great American Wilderness |
| 1:50.3 | and Beyond. |
| 1:51.4 | So the idea behind Brian's books is he gets out and he does a ton of hiking and exploring. |
| 1:57.7 | And every chapter of his books is just another adventure. And I wanted to get him on |
| 2:03.6 | the show because his stories and his books read like our podcast do. So Brian, uh, welcome to the show. |
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