Hidden Trails of Oregon: Crater Lake, Lava Tubes and Fly Fishing with a Native American Guide
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
What is Hidden Trails of Oregon and why is it playing on Adventure Sports Podcast’s feed?
Today we’re featuring a show created and hosted by previous Adventure Sports Podcast guest, Aaron Millar. In Hidden Trails of Oregon, Aaron takes listeners on an immersive first-person journey across America’s wild, weird, and wonder-filled state.
Recorded on-location in surround sound audio, this documentary style podcast is designed to put you in the heart of Oregon’s most spectacular travel experiences.
Led by expert guides and local characters, award-winning travel writer Aaron Millar will take you beyond the guidebook to reveal Oregon’s secrets and discover the places only locals know.
Join us on an adventure through one of America’s most awe-inspiring states and feel what it’s like to be there for real.
For more information visit www.traveloregon.com
Oregon Central Nature Trail Show Notes
“You really can't help but feel it when you put in a little effort to get a little higher, to get to another vantage point. It makes you feel a sense of being placed in this time and space in a different way. That’s the sublime, a timeless element that is beyond what we can conceive. It's so important for the soul of humankind in the future of this landscape, and the future of humanity.”
– Nathan Dwyer, Main Street Tours (from the top of Crater Lake National Park)
Join us on the Central Nature Trail for the third part of our documentary road trip, following award-winning travel writer Aaron Millar from the top of Crater Lake National Park to the Columbia River Gorge.
We begin snowshoeing to the top of Watchman Peak, for the best view over Crater Lake in the park – “like a sapphire embedded in the Earth”, as Aaron describes it. It’s exposed, it’s hair-raising and it’s worth every shaky step.
After that we head to Bend, one of Oregon’s premier adventure towns, for some sunset paddling along the Deschutes River surrounded by thousands of swallows, baby Ospreys and a surprise visit from Oregon’s state animal.
Then it’s time to head underground for a spine-chilling 1000-foot descent into a lava tube, formed by a “River of Fire” over 7,000 years ago. We crawl through 18-inch-wide cracks, turn off our head lamps to experience true darkness and marvel at the geologic forces that could create this uniquely beautiful landscape.
We finish at the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation for some “river therapy” and a fly-fishing lesson from a native guide. We learn of conserving native first foods, experience some river therapy and Aaron catches his first fish.
Through it all, we’re going to explore the wonder and awe of the natural world in all its forms, from mile-high views to quiet moments listening to birdsong on the river. We’ll discover why the natural world for Oregonians inspires more than just gasps and awe, it inspires care and stewardship of the land. It inspires the sublime and we’re going to find plenty of that.
Find out more at www.traveloregon.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to, well, not the Adventure Sports podcast today. Today, it's the Hidden Trails of Oregon. |
| 0:06.4 | This is a bonus episode that we are showing on our feed because our good friend of the show, Aaron Miller, he was our guest on episode 614, Adventures in Travel Riding. |
| 0:19.7 | He produces his own show called Armchair Explorer. Well, he has |
| 0:22.9 | expanded that and he is making more shows with more folks in all sorts of different places. |
| 0:28.5 | And this one specifically is in collaboration with Travel, Oregon, where he did a series of |
| 0:33.6 | in-person on the ground, on-location audio documentary experiences. And we're going to play |
| 0:40.1 | one of those episodes today. And this specific episode is all about his adventures around |
| 0:45.8 | crater lake, lava tubes, fly fishing with Native American guides. And it's a really amazing |
| 0:52.3 | experience, very different than what we typically have on this show. |
| 0:55.1 | So if you enjoy the show, you can find Hidden Trails of Oregon, anywhere you get podcasts, |
| 1:00.6 | as well as all the other shows that Aaron produces over at Armchair Productions. |
| 1:05.9 | You can search it up, armchair-productions.com. |
| 1:09.2 | They've got some absolutely incredible stuff over there. |
| 1:11.8 | So I'm a big fan of Oregon and the hidden trails. I'm a big fan of getting off the beaten |
| 1:15.9 | path and going for the places when you visit somewhere that not everyone is going. |
| 1:21.8 | So this show is for you if you're interested in those things. So check it out. Hidden Trails of |
| 1:26.4 | Oregon. Let's go ahead and |
| 1:28.0 | dive in. |
| 1:33.1 | From wild coasts and volcanic peaks to lush vineyards and streets bursting with creativity, |
| 1:41.2 | join me on the hidden trails of Oregon. We're going behind the travel veil to those secret places only locals know. In Oregon, the extraordinary is ordinary, and the adventure is about to begin. We have reached the final leg of our road trip around the state, |
| 2:19.0 | following the Central Nature Trail from Crater Lake National Park to the Columbia River Gorge. |
| 2:25.1 | We're going to hike to snowy peaks, crawl in rocky caves, float down rivers, |
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