Trail Tales 87

National Park After Dark

Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, History, True Crime

4.6 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to National Park After Dark Trail Tales Edition. My name is Danielle.
0:25.0	I'm Cassie. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. I'm excited for today's episode. But before we dive into all of the
0:32.6	wonderful stories, you all have been sending in because you guys are so good at that.
0:39.3	We just wanted to take a moment and say that we have a new merch design.
0:43.8	Yeah.
0:44.1	And this one is so near and dear to our hearts because it has a little bit of a backstory.
0:49.0	And I crack up every time I think about it.
0:52.8	But in honor of, you know, the season of love and Valentine's Day coming up this weekend,
1:00.0	we wanted to do like a relationship love themed type of thing.
1:04.0	And Cassie had the idea for this merch design in 2022.
1:07.4	I personally went back in our Canva profile, scrolled all the way back to when you
1:15.0	tried to put this together. And I took a screenshot of it and I have it for safekeeping now. So it
1:21.1	never, ever goes away. We sold it. There's people walking around with this original merch design on.
1:26.6	Did we sell it?
1:27.7	Yes.
1:28.5	This exact one.
1:29.6	One of my friends, when I went to visit her, she pulled out of her drawer a sweatshirt with this design on it.
1:39.2	Okay.
1:40.0	I blacked that out.
1:41.4	I thought it never got out of Canva.
1:43.7	Oh, no, it did. Okay. Well, we're redoing it this time. Yeah, so for everyone on the edge of your seats, like, what the hell are you talking about? Years ago, Cassie had the idea to create a design that's kind of a play on the keeping your distance from wildlife when you're out in parks and nature and all of that.
2:04.4	And so she wanted, you know, sometimes the best relationships are long distance.
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