Ep. 729: How to Walk From a City to a National Park - Julia Oleksiak
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
When Julia wanted to express the difficulties that others go through to just “get out there”, she decided to make the most basic steps of experiencing the outdoors, getting there, an obstacle to overcome.
After thinking on her idea for a year and a half, she decided to start walking from the iconic downton Denver Union Station to the entrance of Rocky Mountain National Park, almost 70 miles away. Blisters, cars, and even animals were just some of the challenges she faced in the four-day journey.
Today Julia is here to tell us about the amazing experience. You can read a day-by-day report of the journey here.
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| 0:00.0 | a line of cars waiting to get into the park. So that was just kind of interesting, knowing that there was traffic to get into the park and me walking, having this walked four days to get there, was going to reach that sign before these cars were. |
| 0:39.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. You know, the show is all about getting out there and having fun. |
| 0:41.0 | We say that at the end of a lot of episodes. |
| 0:42.1 | Just get out there. |
| 0:46.5 | But getting out there can be really challenging for a lot of folks, |
| 0:51.8 | especially if they didn't grow up going outdoors or live in an area or in a family where the outdoors are not viewed as a safe and inviting |
| 0:55.8 | place. If it wasn't for my family taking me out at a young age, I know that I wouldn't feel |
| 1:00.6 | the same way about it, and I might not ever have the ability to overcome it through transportation |
| 1:05.1 | or having adequate sufficient funds. I know there are plenty of times where money's tight and even a trip |
| 1:11.4 | camping wasn't necessarily doable. And Julia recognizing that decided that she wanted to do some |
| 1:17.8 | sort of trip to exemplify and to show the barriers that a lot of people faced when getting out |
| 1:25.1 | and utilizing and experiencing the outdoors. |
| 1:28.1 | She decided to do that by walking literally from downtown Denver, right in the heart of the city. |
| 1:33.6 | I'm talking in the middle of the city, a big city too. Denver is by no means very small. |
| 1:38.3 | It's huge. |
| 1:39.5 | Walking from the center of downtown called Union Station, where all the buses are, where all the trains are, |
| 1:44.9 | where everything kind of converges |
| 1:46.8 | and walking all the way to the entrance |
| 1:48.9 | of Rocky Mountain National Park, |
| 1:50.7 | one of the most popular national parks in the country. |
| 1:54.0 | That was a four-day walk. |
| 1:55.2 | It's usually an hour and a half drive. |
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