252: Death, She Wrote ft. Randi Minetor

National Park After Dark

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True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

What started off as a 1990’s National Park roadtrip across the West turned into a successful series of books. Randi Minetor joins us to speak about her journey with death in the US National Parks and highlights the importance on mindful recreation. Author of over 90 books, Randi is renowned for her “Death in” works that focus on the stories of visitors who perished in the parks.

You can find Randi Minetor’s books in National Park visitor’s centers, your local bookshops or on Amazon.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Welcome back to National Park After Dark. Welcome back. We have another interview for you today and it's a really cool one. It's very exciting. It's another book recommendation interview. We love having authors on our podcast and today is really exciting because she is not only an incredible author but she is someone that you probably know her books.
0:21.0	Here, oh, oh, do you want to? Oh, if you're on YouTube, you can see Danielle is holding
0:27.7	up Death in Zion National Park and Death in Rocky Mountain National Park.
0:32.7	And you also might recognize these titles of books
0:36.3	because I think they've both been referenced in our podcast before
0:39.4	and we've had these on a recommendation lists
0:41.8	on our website before and she is someone that we're pretty familiar with for the podcast.
0:47.0	Yeah, and I've seen her works before we even started the show in National Park Visitor Center bookshops and all over the place and her name is Randy Minator.
1:00.4	So you may be familiar with her already.
1:03.0	Yeah, and she's here today to speak with us.
1:06.0	She is born and raised in Rochester, New York,
1:09.0	but her and her husband went off on a adventure to visit the national parks in 1992.
1:16.0	And while they were there, her husband,
1:19.0	who's a photographer, was traveling with her,
1:21.6	and they decided eventually that these trips were so
1:25.2	inspiring that they wanted to travel to every single national park and
1:29.2	eventually it created this idea to start writing about them.
1:34.0	Yeah, and I think she said she started with birding,
1:37.0	which I think a lot of us can relate to just as...
1:41.0	After my own heart.
1:42.0	Yeah, it's like a gateway drug, I think.
1:44.3	So yeah, it's a birding, yeah.
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