287: Trail Tales 66

National Park After Dark

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Hi, everyone back to National Park After Dark. I'm Cassie. And I'm Danielle and welcome to National Park After Dark. I'm Cassie. And I'm Danielle and welcome to
0:24.6	Trail Tales. This is an edition of National Park After Dark where we share stories that you write us.
0:30.7	Yeah, and we have a lot of them today. So let's dive into it. Would you like to go first or
0:35.2	would you like me to go first? I want you to go first.
0:38.1	Oh, okay. My first story is titled, Camping Catastrophe with a Happy Ending. What kind of happy ending?
0:45.1	I'm interested. We're about to find out. Hi, Cassie and Danielle. I've been a big fan of your
0:53.4	podcast for years now and have been
0:55.1	racking my brain for a trail tale to send you. I am an avid hiker, camper, and traveler, but
1:00.2	surprisingly, I haven't experienced any scary or creepy situations, or at least ones that I don't
1:06.0	think are worthy of a trail tale episode. So I will provide you with an embarrassing one. I went to Northern Arizona
1:12.0	University in Flagstaff, Arizona, and my friend group and I took advantage of the beautiful
1:16.8	northern Arizona outdoors by hiking and camping often. We continued these trips when some of my
1:22.1	friends moved to Phoenix for work. This story takes place in Goldkin Canyon, which is east of Phoenix and at the foothills
1:28.6	of the superstition mountains. We have been camping as a group together for years and pretty
1:33.4	much followed the same schedule every time. Everyone arrives Friday. Saturdays are for exploring.
1:38.6	Saturday nights are for partying and everyone drives home hungover on Sunday. Everyone sleeps in
1:43.6	either tents or their cars,
1:45.3	and this trip I chose to sleep in the back of my 2015 Subaru Forrester named Sheila.
1:50.9	She's fitted out with an air mattress, pillows, and blankets,
1:54.3	and protects me from the free-range cows and longhorns in the area.
1:57.6	You could say she is my safe haven.
1:59.7	For the most part, this was a great camping
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