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The Outpost
by Eric Pearson
Every great outdoor story has a part nobody told you. The Outpost finds it. A boot sole that changed climbing. A yak ranch that became a race. A mountain that started in a van. Real people. Real dates. One small thing sets off the next, and the next, until you are staring at something enormous. Each episode opens in a physical moment, follows the chain of consequences, and ends on a line that changes how you see the whole story. Short sentences. No filler. No lecture. Narrative journalism from the backcountry and the world that touches it, built on named, documented sources. Roosevelt in the Badlands. Walter Bonatti on K2. The people and the decisions behind the places you thought you knew. Print edition and more at ridehikeroam.com
Episodes
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The Yak Ranch That Became a Race
February 1982. It's 3 a.m. in Leadville, Colorado, at 10,152 feet. The furnace has shut off, the pipes have frozen again, and it's eleven below outside. A man sits at his kitchen table holding a pink slip. It's not the first one on his street, and it won't be the last. For thirty years, the…
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The Warden of the Sounding Stone
In March 1932, a 26-year-old government employee pulls up to the Belle Fourche River in a borrowed truck with a broken heater. He has a thermos, a notebook, and 1,152 acres of federal land to look after. The land holds America's first national monument, and Washington has forgotten it for 26…
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The Mountain That Started in a Van
He came to the California desert in 1984 with a balloon and one plan. Get it off the ground. It never flew. Leonard Knight stayed anyway. What he built next took nearly three decades, hundreds of thousands of gallons of donated paint, and one collapse he had to come back from. Today a U.S....
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Every great outdoor story has a part nobody told you.
The Outpost finds it. A boot sole that changed climbing. A yak ranch that became a race. A mountain that started in a van. Real people. Real dates. One small thing sets off the next, and the next, until you are staring at something enormous.
Each episode opens in a physical moment, follows the chain of consequences, and ends on a line that changes how you see the whole story. Short sentences. No filler. No lecture.
Narrative journalism from the backcountry and the world that touches it, built on named, documented sources. Roosevelt in the Badlands. Walter Bonatti on K2. The people and the decisions behind the places you thought you knew.
Print edition and more at ridehikeroam.com
HOSTED BY
Eric Pearson
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Every great outdoor story has a part nobody told you. The Outpost finds it. A boot sole that changed climbing. A yak ranch that became a race. A mountain that started in a van. Real people. Real dates. One small thing sets off the next, and the next, until you are staring at something enormous....
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The Outpost is created and hosted by Eric Pearson.
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