Hey, this is Outside End. I'm Nate Hedgy. I was just combing through our archives, and I realized

that in all of these years of making the show, rarely have we ever done a straight up love story.

So this week we've got the perfect romantic tale for outside in,

but it actually comes to us from another great podcast called

the Dirtbag Diaries. Now the Dirtbag Diaries has been around for a long time. I mean I'd call it

one of the O.G. outdoor pods. So if you haven't heard it you are in for a treat.

They've got conservation stories, episodes about epic adventures and harrowing rescues,

you name it. One thing.

We're big fans of the opening banter on this show,

but we're gonna cut it out and get right to the story

because we figured you didn't need two separate intros

saying the same stuff.

All you need to know is that this romance story was produced by

Lauren Delanoi Miller, and it's about a couple of friends of hers. All right, here it is. Oh, So, the, It was on the early

the early 1990s and a teenage Laura

Pileuski, then Laura Green,

was on her way to California during a road trip with her family.

My family, being from the East Coast, there were a few summers where they piled me and my two younger sisters in a station wagon,

Chevy Chase style, which may not be a reference

that many of your listeners know.

And one summer, we went to Yosemite Valley

and a guy was just beaming by the trailhead sign that said to John Meer Trail to Mount

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