Talk Travel with Glen

Season 3 of Talk Travel with Glen continues in Death Valley National Park. Glen opens with the 134 degree reading at Furnace Creek on July 10, 1913, then covers why the valley is so hot and so dry, the lowest point in North America at Badwater Basin, the salt flats and the lost lakes that left them, rocks nearly two billion years old, Ubehebe Crater, and the borax story of Harmony Borax Works and the 20-mule teams. It ends with practical tips for your own visit, including water, heat, flash floods and the rollover crashes behind most deaths in the park. Chapters 0:00 134 degrees 0:46 Welcome back 1:13 The hottest place 2:49 The lowest place 4:24 Salt and lost lakes 5:54 Old rock, young valley 6:54 Borax and mule teams 8:41 If you go 10:41 Close Watch the full episode with footage from the park free on the Travel With Glen channel on Roku (add code TQGKVJX). More at travelwithglen.com. About the narration: Glen's voice in this episode was generated with an AI voice model built from his own recordings. The script was researched from National Park Service sources. Music: Musopen recordings (CC0). Suk and Borodin.

Season 3 of Talk Travel with Glen continues in Yosemite.

Every summer night for decades, burning embers were pushed off Glacier Point while crowds in the valley shouted "Let the fire fall!" Glen tells the story of the Firefall and why it ended in 1968, how glaciers carved Yosemite Valley (just as a young John Muir said they did, against California's top geologist), the Ahwahneechee and the real meaning of the name Yosemite, the law Lincoln signed in the middle of the Civil War, Theodore Roosevelt's three nights camping with Muir, the loss of Hetch Hetchy, the first climb of El Capitan, the 1996 Happy Isles rockfall, and the park's black bears that mostly aren't black. It ends with practical tips for your own visit, including how to see the natural Firefall at Horsetail Fall in February.

Chapters

0:00 Let the fire fall

1:51 Welcome back

2:17 Granite and ice

4:56 The place of the big mouth

7:08 A gift in wartime

10:26 Three thousand feet of wall

12:28 Black bears that aren't black

13:38 If you go

15:42 Close

Watch the full episode with footage from the park free on the Travel With Glen channel on Roku (add code TQGKVJX). More at travelwithglen.com.

About the narration: Glen's voice in this episode was generated with an AI voice model built from his own recordings. The script was researched from National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey and Sierra Club sources.

Music: Musopen recordings (CC0). Borodin, Schubert and Haydn.

Season 3 of Talk Travel with Glen continues at the Grand Canyon. Glen tells the story of the 1956 midair collision over the canyon that led to the modern FAA, explains how a young river cut a mile into ancient rock and where 1.2 billion years of history went missing, follows John Wesley Powell's 1869 expedition into the Great Unknown, visits the people who have always lived here, including the Havasupai village that still gets its mail by mule, and tracks the comeback of the California condor. It ends with practical tips for planning your own visit, including what changed on the North Rim after the 2025 Dragon Bravo Fire.

Chapters

0:00 The crash that built the FAA

1:40 Welcome back

2:08 A mile of time

4:57 A young canyon in old rock

7:22 Into the Great Unknown

9:47 The people who were always here

11:55 Nine and a half feet of wing

13:20 If you go

15:27 Close

Watch the full episode with footage from the park free on the Travel With Glen Roku channel (add code TQGKVJX): https://travelwithglen.com/#roku

Narration in this episode uses a synthetic version of Glen's own voice, written and fact-checked by Glen and his team. Sources: National Park Service, USGS, FAA and Bureau of Land Management. Music: Musopen recordings (CC0).

Season 3 of Talk Travel with Glen travels through America's national parks, starting with the first national park in the world.

A hot spring microbe that ended up in COVID tests. A geyser that stopped keeping time after a 1959 earthquake. A volcano under the park, a canyon colored by rust, a bison herd that came back from about two dozen animals, and trout that changed their calendar to survive a river heated by geysers. The episode ends with practical tips for planning your own visit.

Chapters

0:00 The microbe that changed medicine

1:05 Welcome to Season 3

1:35 The ground that boils

5:06 The volcano underneath

7:08 The canyon and the painter

9:03 The herd that came back

10:55 The river that shouldn't have trout

12:08 If you go

14:06 Close

Watch the full episode with park footage free on the Travel With Glen channel on Roku: search Travel With Glen or add channel code TQGKVJX.

More travel guides: https://travelwithglen.com

Sources include the National Park Service (nps.gov/yell) and the Wyoming State Historical Society. Music: Musopen recordings (public domain, CC0).

Narration in this episode uses a synthetic version of Glen's own voice, written and fact-checked by Glen.

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