When Everything Goes Wrong
Desert Oracle Radio
Ken Layne
4.9 • 852 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
What happens when the perfect solo day hike becomes the ultimate disaster? How do we arrange things better, so that we don't wind up feeding the vultures? Author Claire Nelson joins us to talk about her harrowing fall and long, long wait for help -- a story of fear and bravery and figuring out your life, told in her new memoir, Things I Learned From Falling.
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| 0:00.0 | Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, |
| 0:10.3 | now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert. |
| 0:15.3 | Night has fallen on the desert. |
| 0:19.2 | A good old American desert may it |
| 0:22.7 | forgive us of our sins. |
| 0:29.8 | On the |
| 0:30.9 | news for a good |
| 0:32.8 | chunk of the Southwest |
| 0:34.3 | this coming week |
| 0:36.0 | is the heat. |
| 0:38.8 | Just got this off the wire. |
| 0:41.1 | Might as well read it. |
| 0:43.9 | From the National Weather Service, |
| 0:46.7 | excessive heat warning remains in effect |
| 0:49.4 | from 10 a.m. Monday to 8 p.m. Friday. |
| 0:52.9 | Wow, that's all of next week. |
| 0:57.0 | Dangerously hot conditions with high temperatures of 108 to 116 in many locations on Monday. |
| 1:07.6 | Then increasing 2 to 3 degrees on both Tuesday and Wednesday and holding through |
| 1:13.4 | at least Friday. |
| 1:18.5 | Temperatures are likely to exceed 120 degrees by Wednesday in locations such as the Colorado |
| 1:26.2 | River Valley and Death Valley National Park. |
| 1:30.8 | The extreme heat will reach portions of northwest Arizona, southeast California, and southern Nevada. |
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