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🗓️ 20 May 2025
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New podcast from the COLD team: Eric Robinson wanted to hike the world’s greatest trails. He was happiest when spending weeks in the wild, and he often went out alone. Eric’s wife, Marilyn Koolstra, supported him in this goal. But the situation changed when Eric went missing on a solo trek to the Cascade Saddle in New Zealand. This episode traces the origins of Eric Robinson’s passion for trekking, the past traumas he tried to soothe in nature, and the midlife romance that brought Marilyn into his life.
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0:00.0 | Hey, this is Dave Colley, host of the Cold Podcast. You may be wondering what you into Triangle is. |
0:07.0 | Well, it's a standalone story. I have been wanting to tell for a very long time about a man from |
0:12.6 | Australia who disappeared while on a solo hike. And if you like cold, I think you will enjoy you |
0:18.1 | into Triangle as well. This is not season four of cold. |
0:22.2 | That project is still in the works. |
0:24.4 | I'm dropping each episode of You Into Triangle here in the cold feed, |
0:28.3 | but it would really help me out if you would follow you into Triangle as well. |
0:32.4 | You can find it by searching for you into Triangle. |
0:35.3 | That's U-I-N-T-A, or by using the link in the episode description. |
0:40.1 | Thank you so much for listening. Your support is the only reason I get to keep doing this, |
0:45.1 | and it means the world. |
0:50.9 | Driving rain has a beauty of shape and movement. But there is a kind of rain without beauty when air and ground are sodden, |
1:00.0 | sullen black rain that invades body and soul alike. |
1:05.0 | Then the desolation of these empty stretches strikes at one's heart. |
1:13.9 | The mountain becomes a monstrous place. |
1:17.5 | Nan Shepard, the living mountain. |
1:23.4 | Autumn arrived in Ataeuroa, carrying a gift of rain. |
1:26.2 | And when it rains in New Zealand, he rains. |
1:33.8 | Drought-busting storms descended on Taiwai Pohnamu, the South Island of New Zealand at the beginning of March 2008. |
1:38.4 | Oh, it rained, and it rained, and it was very wet. |
1:48.7 | Eric Robinson was a few days into what was supposed to be a month-long vacation trekking, or tramping, as the Kiwis would say, all across New Zealand. |
1:58.9 | He planned to tackle several ambitious routes. First on his list, Cascade Saddle, a long walk through some of the most beautiful terrain New Zealand has to offer. |
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