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How does the average person value getting into the wilderness? These are the candid thoughts of six random, first-time backpackers the producer encountered on a wilderness trail near Big Sur, California. It shows an evolution in their attitudes as their experience unfolds.
How does the average person value getting into the wilderness? These are the candid thoughts of six random, first-time backpackers the producer encountered on a wilderness trail near Big Sur, California. It shows an evolution in their attitudes as their experience unfolds.
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How does the average person value getting into the wilderness? These are the candid thoughts of six random, first-time backpackers the producer encountered on a wilderness trail near Big Sur, California. It shows an evolution in their attitudes as their experience unfolds.
Broadcast History
An earlier version was posted on my PODcast: "The WildeBeat: The audio journal about getting into the wilderness." < http://www.wildebeat.net/index.cgi/2005/09/29 >
Transcript
STEPHANIE KINGDON: We're hiking in to Sykes Hot Springs! We're hikin' in, we're going to spend the night, we brought some box wine. We're going to enjoy that in the hot springs. And then we're getting up really early to hike out.
IGNETAY PADUA: This is my first time! [laughs] But I hardly go. I'm not an outdoors person.
ALECIA FORSTER: It will be difficult. I teach middle school P.E, so I've been running with my students, but I don't think I'm prepared to do this hike with this heavy backpack so it'll be... I'll be hurtin'. I have a little bit of Advil in there, and some MSM for my joints.
MATHEW WYMAN: Well we get out to skiing and things like that, but to do things like this where you're really in the back country, hiking, you know like this. Like this is my first time really to get this far back and camp overnight.
IGNETAY PADUA: Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! [laughs]...
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Timing and Cues
SUGGESTED INTRO:
What do first-time backpackers feel about their experience deep in the wilderness? Producer Steve Sergeant interviewed these six on the Pine Ridge Tail, in the Big Sur River Canyon of California's Ventana Wilderness.
SUGGESTED OUTRO:
The hikers you heard in this piece, in order of appearance, were Stephanie Kingdon, Ignetay Padua, Alecia Forster, Mathew Wyman, Jackie Lopez, and Ramsey Shanbaky.
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Elizabeth Yeoman
Posted on October 23, 2005 at 08:50 AM | Permalink
Review of Ventana Backpacker Vox Pop
An urgent message conveyed in a cheerful understated way. This short unpretentious piece features the voices of novice wilderness hikers. They sound friendly, laid back, not at all earnest, yet they talk about the loss of wilderness very convincingly. Perhaps that topic is almost too big and complex for such a simple piece, but it would be excellent as part of a series of short pieces on related topics, which, I think, is what its producer is working on.