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Ambient Colorado

Ambient Colorado

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 Escape to the great outdoors of Colorado, with a chill podcast that gently transports you to natural soundscapes across the Rocky Mountain state. Quickly immerse yourself in wilderness, and enjoy our high-fidelity recordings and short introductions. Take a half hour now, put on your headphones, and relax to our monthly episodes.All rights reserved. Biological Sciences Science Social Sciences Travel Writing & Commentary
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  • Dry Thunderstorm Bonus

    Dry Thunderstorm Bonus
    Feb 24 2024
    An interview with Jared Blake featuring a dry thunderstorm near Leadville, Colorado. Episode photograph: Rainbow over Mosquito Pass, Leadville, Colorado (Arek Nowak / Shutterstock) Transcript ANN MARIE AWAD: Today, we're featuring the stunning sounds of dry thunderstorms in Leadville, Colorado, with Jared Blake, the founder of AcousticNature.com. Blake made a special visit to Leadville in August 2022 to capture these sounds, and he's actually been all over the place in search of nature sounds. and joins us to talk a bit about his trip to Leadville. Jared, thanks for joining us. JARED BLAKE: Happy to be here. Thanks for having me. AMA: What is Acoustic Nature? JB: Acoustic Nature is a website where I provide advice and recommendations about everything field recording with a heavy focus on recording nature sounds. It started from me just wanting to record paying homage to one of my favorite hiking spots and being really unsatisfied with the audio quality. So I starte
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    27 mins
  • Wind

    Wind
    Jan 22 2024
    Let the many winds of Colorado carry you across the state. Hear more from Jared Blake at https://www.acousticnature.com/ and Jacob Job at https://www.jacobrjob.com/ Episode photograph: The state flag of Colorado blowing in a breeze under a blue sky (Darryl Brooks / Alamy Stock Photo) Series illustration: Mia Rincón Hear more from R. J. Fechter on https://rjfechter.bandcamp.com and https://www.twitch.tv/rjandj Hear more from Patrick McNameeKing on his podcast, Empty Clouds (Spotify, Apple, Google) Transcript Welcome to Ambient Colorado. I’m Sarah Vitak. Let the many winds of Colorado carry you across the state. We begin with the breeze whistling over the edge of Cucharas Canyon in the south. Rustling leaves of aspen trees create unique music in this canyon. We’ll add the rush of wind though spruce trees from the Fraser Experimental Forest … west of Denver. Then we visit the windswept prairies of Northern Colorado. On the Pawnee National Grassland … windmil
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    36 mins
  • Enduring Elk

    Enduring Elk
    Dec 11 2023
    Elk mating calls echo through the ages in what is now Colorado's largest national park. Hear more from Jacob Job at https://www.jacobrjob.com/ Series illustration: Mia Rincón Episode photograph: Mark Byzewski CC-BY (Landscapes and Elk in Rocky Mountain National Park. Estes Park, Colorado.) Hear more from R. J. Fechter on https://rjfechter.bandcamp.com and https://www.twitch.tv/rjandj Hear more from Patrick McNameeKing on his podcast, Empty Clouds (Spotify, Apple, Google) Transcript Welcome to Ambient Colorado. I’m Sarah Vitak. The echoes of elk bugling reveal the vast high-altitude meadows in Rocky Mountain National Park. From September through October, these male elk are calling for mates. We begin on a cold, rainy night in Moraine Park. The temperature is barely above freezing. A hundred thousand years ago this area’s evergreen-covered ridges … called moraines … were created by rocks left behind by a slow-moving river of ice. A little mor
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    32 mins
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