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  • 292: The Conservation President and the Adventure That Almost Killed Him. Part 2.

    292: The Conservation President and the Adventure That Almost Killed Him. Part 2.
    Apr 14 2025
    After over a month of a long, arduous overland journey the Roosevelt-Rondon Expedition finally reaches the waters of the River of Doubt. Their troubles have just begun as they are about to face not only the beauty of the unknown, but its perils. Everyone will starve and suffer - but not everyone will survive.

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    Sources:

    Book - The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candace Millard

    Articles - NPS, Medium
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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • 291: Trail Tales 67

    291: Trail Tales 67
    Apr 10 2025
    Today’s stories include disrupting the natural order, shaming tourons, static ghosts, poop strap injuries, hauntings in Japan, Alaskan thank yous, pennies form heaven and cacti-microneedling Brazilian waxes. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers!

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    55 mins
  • Introducing: WATCH HER COOK

    Introducing: WATCH HER COOK
    Apr 9 2025
    Hosts Cassie and Danielle from National Park After Dark are launching a brand new podcast, Watch Her Cook!

    Watch Her Cook is a weekly podcast that highlights the incredible women throughout history who have shattered the glass ceiling on the expectations of what women "should" be. From trailblazing inventors and fierce activists to notorious outlaws and criminal masterminds, these women proved their capabilities far surpassed domestic duties.
    Every episode dives into the lives of these extraordinary women, some changed the world in groundbreaking ways, and others, in chilling ones.

    Tune in every Wednesday for new episodes on Apple and Spotify.



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  • 290: The Conservation President and the Adventure That Almost Killed Him. Part 1.

    290: The Conservation President and the Adventure That Almost Killed Him. Part 1.
    Apr 7 2025
    Following a crushing political defeat in 1913 former president Theodore Roosevelt turned to what soothed him the most - the wild and pushing his limits within it. Roosevelt is a complicated historical figure - one who is remembered in teddy bears, for his legacy of public land protection, as the country’s youngest and most influential politician as well as a man who held racist ideals - but not many remember him as a man who lived for adventure and pioneering exploration. When the opportunity presented itself to participate in an expedition into untouched Amazonian jungle to map an unexplored river - he was willing to die for it.

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • 289: The River Ladies of the Grand Canyon.

    289: The River Ladies of the Grand Canyon.
    Mar 31 2025
    Botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter changed the stereotype of women in botany when they found a love for not the delicate flowers, but the cacti with thorns and the vegetation that thrived in the most inhospitable environments. They set out to do something that had never been done before, to be the first women to boat the entirety of the Colorado River and map out the flora of the Grand Canyon. If successful, they would be the first women to ever survive the trip.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • 288: Oh, the Places You Won’t Go. Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park.

    288: Oh, the Places You Won’t Go. Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park.
    Mar 17 2025
    In July of 1897, three men were carried into the sky inside a hydrogen balloon with the goal of being the first to reach the North Pole. The fate of their ambitious expedition remained a mystery for decades until the 1930’s, when a chance discovery unveiled the location of their final camp. But that revelation only gave rise to more puzzling questions we are still trying to answer today.

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    Sources:     History, The New Yorker, Balloon Museum, Aurora Expeditions, National Geographic, Smithsonian

    Scary Interesting , A Nordic Heart

    Book – The Expedition: Solving a Polar Tragedy by Bea Uusma

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • 287: Trail Tales 66

    287: Trail Tales 66
    Mar 13 2025
    Today’s stories include slapping the bag, a mother’s intuition, geocaching gone wrong, being saved by spirits, synchronicities and sibling pranks. Outsiders Only bonus stories available for Patreon and Apple Subscribers!

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    57 mins
  • 286: Peak Danger with Cecilie Skog

    286: Peak Danger with Cecilie Skog
    Mar 10 2025
    In todays episode, we had the incredible opportunity to speak with Cecilie Skog. Cecilie has cemented her place in the world of extreme adventure sports as being the first person in the world to have skied across both the North and the South Poles and to have climbed all of The Seven Summits. She also completed the first unassisted and unsupported trek across the continent of Antarctica and has made several treks across Greenland. Cecilie was also among the 31 climbers who were on K2 on its deadliest day in August 2008. She survived one of the worst tragedies in Himalayan history, witnessed her husband lose his life on the mountain - and has persevered. This isn’t a conversation to miss.

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    54 mins
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