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Papa Bear Hikes

Unbelievable Utah: Exploring the Wonders of the Beehive State

Papa Bear Hikes

Papa Bear Hikes

Education, Health & Fitness, Leisure, #Hikes #Canoeing #Biking #Outdoors #Lifestyle #Backpacking #Nature #Diversity #Globalpodcast #Itunestop100 #Top100podcast #Access #Lifestylepodcast

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this inspiring episode of Papa Bear Hikes, host Martin welcomes Mark and Lisa, a dynamic duo who discovered their love for hiking later in life. Mark, a seasoned physical educator with over 30 years of experience, and Lisa, a former worship leader and music educator for over two decades, have embarked on an incredible journey to hike all 63 U.S. national parks—plus some of the country’s most notable state parks.Despite considering themselves novice hikers, their passion and determination h...

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0:00.0

Today's guests are a husband and wife who have a bucket list of hiking in all the national parks and some state parks.

0:12.6

Let's find out who they are.

0:19.1

Husband is a 30-plus year experience in physical education and his lovely wife has taught music.

0:26.8

I want to welcome Lisa and Mark Petco to Papa Bear Hikes.

0:31.0

I want to first say that I've seen some of your pictures, very impressive. And you guys are really out there enjoying what the

0:38.2

outdoors has the offer. Love it. Yeah. We started about two years ago and just absolutely something

0:45.6

that we like to do together now. And it was just something that we look forward to now,

0:50.3

planning trips and things like that. So, You know, Mark, you teach physical education.

0:55.4

Yes.

0:56.5

Was that like an influence on trying to get into the outdoors, finding it a fun activity

1:00.7

for you and Lisa to both participate in, or was it just, I just want to go out and explore

1:06.4

the outdoors?

1:07.9

I don't think it was an influence.

1:09.4

I think it was more just trying to find something that she and I like to do together.

1:13.6

Being married over 30 years, we just never had anything that we really did together.

1:17.6

I did things that I liked and she did things that she liked.

1:20.6

But this is something that both of us enjoy to do.

1:23.6

And I think that's kind of where it started.

1:26.6

It's just finding something that the two of us can do together.

1:29.9

And we enjoy it and we love it.

1:31.6

And we just want to continue doing it, even though we're very novice.

1:35.1

We're very newbies into it.

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