Hello, everyone and welcome back to National Park After Dark Trail Tales Edition. My name is Danielle.

I'm Cassie. And this is, if you're new here, hi, hello and welcome. Thank you so much for joining us.

This is a faction of National Park After Dark where we read your stories right on back to you. And it's thrilling and entertaining and amazing and funny and sad and all of the above.

And we love it because we don't have to research it and they're real stories. And if you're

interested in sending in your own stories, what? When you said, it's so great because we don't

have to research it. It's so true. Wormed my heart. It's so good. But if you want to send in your own, so we have more things we don't have to research, you can go to NPADpodcast.com and we have a submission link there. We'd love to hear from you. It does not have to take place in the outdoors or a national park if you just think that we'll like your story. just send it to us. Yeah. Shoot your shot.

You know? Yeah. Before we start, I actually have a shout out really quickly to one of our listeners.

If you notice my lovely hat, it says used canoe, we got a package in our PO box. Don't worry,

your gift is set aside for you out of this. This, I didn't take everything for myself, even though I could have, and you would have never known.

That's true. I would never do that to you.

So we have a PO box and we have listeners send in things like letters, notes, postcards, wedding invitations, things like that. And we got a really,

really nice postcard and kind of like gift package from a listener. And I just wanted to shout her out because I think it's really lovely. Dear Cassie and Danielle, I wanted to take a moment to

tell you how big of a fan I am of the podcast and the work you've been doing to get more people outside, especially the way you're creating

space, visibility, and opportunity for women in the outdoor industry.

What your building matters and it shows in every episode.

Almost three years ago, I left a job I loved and could ride my bike to every day to take

a pretty scary

leap of opening my own outdoor business called Teleco Goods and Gear, an outdoor store rooted

in the belief that access to the outdoors can change people's lives. I commute about an hour

every day to the shop and your podcast has become a go-to on my drive. There's something

incredibly grounding about

listening to stories, research, and conversations from y'all while driving through the very

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