Ep. 937: How to Walk From a City to a National Park - Revisited - Julia Oleksiak
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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This episode originally aired May 10th, 2021
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 | Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:26.0 | Before we jump in, I want to tell you, we have a listener spotlight going now where if you're not ready to be interviewed or you have a story you want to tell or something you're doing |
| 0:38.2 | and you just want, you know, to be recognized as a listener of the show, feel free to fill out |
| 0:43.1 | our spotlight form. It's on our website. If you go to our website, adventure sportspodcast.com, |
| 0:51.3 | it's right there at the top. You'll see a couple options. You can suggest a guest, listen to each episode by category. And listener spot is right next to contact us. If you click on that, it'll take you to a form where you can upload some pictures, tell us a little bit about your adventure, any articles or anything you want to share, social media |
| 1:11.9 | links so that we can, yeah, showcase what our listeners are up to. We've already highlighted a few of |
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| 1:32.5 | another big part of it. So any questions, reach out to me, info atadventuresportspodcast.com. |
| 1:38.5 | But more about today's episode. Today we're throwing this one back julia alexiac from episode 729 when she walked |
| 1:47.9 | from denver all the way to to rocky mountain national park over a hundred miles away i'm sorry 70 |
| 1:54.0 | miles away not 100 miles away still it's uphill the entire way literally so it probably felt more like |
| 2:00.0 | 150 miles probably felt at least |
| 2:02.1 | double that. We're talking about Julia's project that she did through the Karen project, |
| 2:09.1 | which is to basically raise awareness about some of the challenges that folks in urban |
| 2:15.2 | settings have when going to a national park. |
| 2:20.7 | That's obviously an extreme to walk to a national park. |
| 2:24.7 | But think about if you don't have a ride, if you don't know how to access a national park, especially with like the entry lottery system that's in a lot of national parks. |
| 2:29.2 | Now, I know a lot of people are entering national park visitor summer season. Lots of folks are going on road trips, |
| 2:36.5 | going to see a lot of big, beautiful, wonderful national parks. I'm a huge fan of those parks, |
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