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North Cascades National Park | Monkeys in the mountains?!

North Cascades has more glaciers than any other national park in the lower 48... and almost nobody goes. This episode is about the strangest, most tangled national park

Mount Rainier National Park | Who carries the load?

In this episode, we interview Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa, who has stood on top of Mount Everest fifteen times and who in 2003 climbed it faster than any human being ever had. He

Crater Lake National Park | How do you save a lake — twice?

This episode explains how Mount Mazama collapsed into the bluest water in the world, and the native origin story of the lake. Then we tell the story of William Gladstone

Lassen Volcanic National Park | How many rules can one park break?

Lassen gets a fraction of the visitors Yosemite does, and we think that's because nobody knows what to make of it. This park is a rule breaker and in this episode we catc

[Detour] The Wave | We won the permit lottery. Now what?

There are 64 permits available per day to get to The Wave. During peak season, 300 people compete for them. We won! …and then we realized we had an 8-year-old who had nev

Redwood National and State Parks | How do the world’s tallest trees hold each other up?

Redwood trees have roots only ten feet deep. For a tree that grows as tall as the statue of liberty, that should be a problem…This episode is about why it isn't. We expl

[Detour] LIGO | If two black holes collide in the universe, do they make a sound?

This episode explains how scientists built a machine so sensitive that your heartbeat standing next to it would ruin the experiment...and why they put it in the middle of

Joshua Tree National Park | How does anything survive in a desert this dry?

Joshua Tree isn't just about weird trees and cool rocks. This episode tells you why those "trees" are not actually trees and what a rain shadow actually does to a landsc