A taste of things to come on 30 Minutes West, a new radio show about the outdoors.

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A love note put to music by the band Styve.

The Note

A short story about the small things we won't do for the people we love.

Is this an easy hike?

Rush Sturges spent two years helping Rafa Ortiz train to run Niagara Falls in a kayak. But on the big day, things didn't go as planned.

The upside of failure

A very short excerpt of "No End in Sight," the story of Brian Bushway and how he navigates the world.

The Psychedelic Picture Show

As a teenager, Brian Bushway’s optic nerve started playing tricks on him. It changed the colors he saw, blurred out details, and grew darker by the week. But as his vision loss set in, he began exploring his world through sound, and now scientists are studying him and his friends to find out how far they can push the limits of human perception.

No End in Sight

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Los Sindicate - California Outlaw

When plant researcher David Rhoades discovered in the early '80s that plants have a completely novel way of communicating, with each other, his timing couldn't have been worse. The scientific community had been busy debunking claims of plant telepathy, and Rhoades' discoveries sounded just a bit too fanciful. But now, three decades later, science is reconsidering.

Early Bloom

Tara's first canoe trip was... beautiful.

The First Canoe

30 Minutes West is a half-hour podcast and radio show about going outside and why it matters. Consisting of personal narratives, experimental storytelling and sometimes even straight up journalism, 30mw is a collection of tales from the mountains, forests, rivers, and deserts out west.

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