Trail Tales 13

National Park After Dark

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True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Today’s tales include uninvited house guests, strange sights, and sounds & backpacking baptisms! All stories shared with consent.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to National Park. After dark we have another trail
0:17.7	tails today. Yes we do and I am so excited to share mine because I have a little
0:23.3	something sweet. You have a nice trail tails? I do. Well yeah I think I don't know. Last
0:31.0	time I totally messed it up and I was like falsely promising that I had happy ones but I do
0:37.6	really have something like a surprise one. Okay do you want to go first then? Yeah. Yeah,
0:44.2	sure. I'll start off with a super confident in that. No yeah sure. I'll go first and I'll
0:51.3	start off with the something sweet. So and this is titled Sleeping with the Giants. Hi Danielle
1:00.1	and Cassie, I know this is a little weird as I am Danielle's mom but after listening to all
1:05.4	the trail tail episodes over the last year and a half I figured it was my time to share a
1:10.0	tail of my own. So this is my mom's trail tail and I am so excited to share it. It is short
1:17.0	and lighthearted but here it is. I want to preface this story by saying I am not a camper.
1:24.3	Although my husband and I enjoy the outdoors and have had our fair share of national park
1:28.6	adventures we have always spent our nights in some type of lodging that included four
1:33.4	walls and a roof over our heads. However for his 50th birthday I decided to go outside
1:39.8	my comfort zone to give him a really memorable gift. My husband did a fair amount of
1:45.0	camping when he was younger and always talked about the great times he had so that was my
1:50.2	inspiration. We had always talked about a trip to Alaska and although we usually create
1:56.0	and travel on our own I decided to book this trip with a small adventure company. Our
2:01.0	group consisted of six other travelers with two guides and the itinerary included exploring
2:06.7	Glacier Bay National Park kayaking on the icy straight and camping on Chick-a-Goff Island.
2:13.3	We spent the first two nights at Glacier Bay Lodge and enjoyed a catamaran cruise through
2:18.0	Glacier Bay where we saw several glaciers plus lots of marine and land mammals including
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