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Adventure Sports Podcast

Ep. 626: Stories From 34 Years as a National Park Ranger - Dallas Koehn

Adventure Sports Podcast

Curt Linville

Science, Health & Fitness, Sports, Nature, Fitness, Wilderness

4.6579 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Dallas Koehn is a retired US Park Ranger having worked for the National Park Service from 1964 to 1998. His duties consisted of visitor and resource protection, structural and wildland fire protection, law enforcement, emergency medical services, search and rescue, and supervision. During his career he worked at Yosemite, Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Grand Tetons, Shenandoah, Yellowstone, Lassen Volcanic, and Glacier National Parks.


Since he retired in 1998 he has been doing volunteer backcountry hiking patrols at Glacier NP every September. For the last four years, after moving to Breckenridge, he has also been doing volunteer backcountry patrols in Summit County for the USFS (through Friends of the Dillon Ranger District) during the summer months, and cross-country skiing during the winter months.


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0:00.0

If you love the Adventure Sports podcast, I'm confident that you're going to love Armchair Explorer.

0:04.7

It's a new podcast by a recent guest, Aaron Miller, who is an award-winning London Times and

0:09.6

National Geographic Travel Rider, who basically sits down with some of the world's biggest

0:14.8

explorers and adventurers and lets them tell their favorite story of all time.

0:19.8

We're talking Olympic gold medalists,

0:21.7

who's backcountry ski in Alaska, to award-winning travel riders who walk across Antarctica

0:27.2

in the footsteps of Shackleton, guerrilla trekking with leading conservationists, great white shark

0:33.1

diving with some of the best in the industry, as well as interviewing astronauts about spacewalking

0:39.2

above Earth. It's honestly a condensed version of our show taking the best of the best stories

0:45.1

and letting those explorers tell them. If you're interested to hear more, I highly encourage you

0:50.9

check out armchair-explorer.com or just looking up armchair explorer

0:56.5

anywhere you find podcasts and let it inspire you to get out there and do something fun and do

1:01.8

something epic and i would just look at the surrounding nobody was around and i would look around at the surrounding, nobody was around, and I would look around at the surrounding

1:12.6

mountains and it would be so pristine. And it'd say, yes, this is why I'm in the park service.

1:22.3

This is the Adventure Sports podcast, where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the planet.

1:28.1

We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them

1:32.4

and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun.

1:55.2

Hey, Colorado. He's 78 years old,

2:04.6

worked in the park service for 34 years, and that was from 1964 to 1998. So he's been out of it for a while now,

2:13.9

but started way back when I'm sure being a park ranger was like being a cowboy in the

2:18.9

wild west in a lot of ways. So he's going to tell us some stories, tell us how he got into it,

2:24.2

give you some advice, and also just share some of the most unique experiences from his entire

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