Never Enough
Out There
Willow Belden
4.6 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
When we lose a loved one, many of us seek healing from the outdoors. But what happens when the weather is bad, and your happy place is miserable?
Today's story takes us to "the most beautiful beach in Washington State" and explores what can we learn about grief and acceptance when nature is at its ugliest.
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| 0:00.0 | So to start things off today, I want to share a recording that my colleague Jessica made while she was on a road trip in the Blue Ridge Mountains. |
| 0:10.9 | To set the scene, she made this recording from her travel trailer, and she was looking out at the highest peak east of the Mississippi, Mount Mitchell. |
| 0:20.4 | I wanted to make this recording actually on the day I hiked Mount Mitchell, but it was 18 degrees. |
| 0:25.9 | And mind you, this is the end of April. |
| 0:27.4 | It was 18 degrees. |
| 0:29.2 | And the wind was so terrible. |
| 0:31.6 | There was no way I was going to be able to get a good recording. |
| 0:35.7 | But I wanted to share with you as I'm on this trip I have really been |
| 0:39.8 | loving using the app peak fizer, which allows me to pull up my phone, use AR augmented reality, |
| 0:49.2 | to be able to see what the title is of all the peaks, what their height is. There's a free option. You can use |
| 0:56.8 | one location a day and it will show you things about mountains in the area you're in that you |
| 1:02.1 | never knew. PeakVisor is one of our sponsors. Their app is like your own personal mountain guide. |
| 1:09.6 | If you're a map lover like Jessica and I are, |
| 1:12.8 | check out PeakVisor in the app store. |
| 1:15.2 | You just might love it. |
| 1:22.1 | Hi, I'm Willow Belden, and you're listening to Out There, |
| 1:26.2 | the podcast that explores big questions through intimate stories outdoors. |
| 1:32.3 | I have some wonderful news. Out There received three awards from the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. |
| 1:42.2 | We took first place for best podcast in our division. |
| 1:46.3 | We got first place for mental health reporting for an episode called Outskating Your Demons, |
| 1:52.2 | which was about this woman who goes on a long-distance skateboard trip. |
| 1:56.4 | And our episode about exclusion in sports took second place for social justice reporting. |
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