Episodes

  • 103 | Starvation on Isle Royale
    Aug 20 2025

    In 1845, the Copper Rush brought a slew of opportunities to those in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It brought them life changing riches, incredibly hard work, and opportunities to better their families for generations.


    For Charlie and Angelique Mott, that same opportunity showed them betrayal, starvation, death, and a ghostly reckoning that keeps showing up.


    Welcome back to Tragedy with a View.


    The outdoors are a beautiful that can be filled with light and bliss and many different ways to bring yourself closer to those you love and yourself. But they can also be filled with terror and death, imminent and oppressive. Join me as we dig into these stories that inspire you to be just a little bit more careful while you’re in the outdoors. Please rate and subscribe from whatever listening platform you use.


    Merch is now available here!


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    And don’t forget to send us a Campfire Confessional to tragedywithaview@gmail.com - accepting all stories from the outdoors but especially looking for those that make us laugh to help lighten the heaviness that comes with tragedy.

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    24 mins
  • 102| When Wolves Attack
    Aug 13 2025

    The stories of attacks by wild wolves are few and far between. Between wolves natural instinct to avoid humans, and humans uncanny fear of them, contact between a wild wolf and a person rarely comes to love.


    but it does happen, and today’s episode focuses on one of the few who were not just attacked, but killed.


    Welcome back to Tragedy with a View.


    The outdoors are a beautiful that can be filled with light and bliss and many different ways to bring yourself closer to those you love and yourself. But they can also be filled with terror and death, imminent and oppressive. Join me as we dig into these stories that inspire you to be just a little bit more careful while you’re in the outdoors. Please rate and subscribe from whatever listening platform you use.


    Merch is now available here!


    Be sure to join us on Patreon for exclusive content, sneak peaks, and more!


    Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to get the most up to see photos and relevant episode information.


    And don’t forget to send us a Campfire Confessional to tragedywithaview@gmail.com - accepting all stories from the outdoors but especially looking for those that make us laugh to help lighten the heaviness that comes with tragedy.

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    26 mins
  • 100 | No Way Out: The Granite Mountain Hotshots
    Jul 30 2025

    Loss from fire is devastating at its best, and horrific at its worst. When the 20 man crew of the Granite Mountain Hotshots showed up to help combat the Yarnell Hill Fire, none of them had imagined it would be their last moments alive. Had they contemplated death? Absolutely, yet they had clawed their way out of its grips before.


    But as they found themselves suddenly surrounded by fire, in a thick cloud of smoke, temperatures becoming unbearable, the grim reality set in. There way no way out.


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    The outdoors are a beautiful that can be filled with light and bliss and many different ways to bring yourself closer to those you love and yourself. But they can also be filled with terror and death, imminent and oppressive. Join me as we dig into these stories that inspire you to be just a little bit more careful while you’re in the outdoors. Please rate and subscribe from whatever listening platform you use.


    Merch is now available here!


    Be sure to join us on Patreon for exclusive content, sneak peaks, and more!


    Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to get the most up to see photos and relevant episode information.


    And don’t forget to send us a Campfire Confessional to tragedywithaview@gmail.com - accepting all stories from the outdoors but especially looking for those that make us laugh to help lighten the heaviness that comes with tragedy.

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    39 mins
  • 99 | The Land of Thundering Snow
    Jul 23 2025

    In 1910 North America was experiencing a boom in industries, and a fight for public lands. Without the knowledge we have today, those two factors came to a head when the protected lands of the Cascade Mountains and Canadian Rocky Mountains were used to connect the west coast to the rest of the country via rail road. No one understood the effects of logging in the mountains and how that would combine with wildfires to create a devastating and deadly game of playing chicken with the train.


    But this chicken was the train, and the train was a wall of white. Listen now as this episode covers both the Wellington Avalanche Disaster and the Rodger Pass Disaster, which happened only days apart.


    The outdoors are a beautiful that can be filled with light and bliss and many different ways to bring yourself closer to those you love and yourself. But they can also be filled with terror and death, imminent and oppressive. Join me as we dig into these stories that inspire you to be just a little bit more careful while you’re in the outdoors. Please rate and subscribe from whatever listening platform you use.


    Merch is now available here!


    Be sure to join us on Patreon for exclusive content, sneak peaks, and more!


    Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to get the most up to see photos and relevant episode information.


    And don’t forget to send us a Campfire Confessional to tragedywithaview@gmail.com - accepting all stories from the outdoors but especially looking for those that make us laugh to help lighten the heaviness that comes with tragedy.

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    26 mins
  • 98 | One of their Own: Ranger Randy
    Jul 16 2025

    James Randall Morgenson live a life outdoors. From a young age his live and draw to the wildest corners of California’s Sierra Nevada range prepared him for nearly 3 decades as a back country ranger in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.


    He was a legend for younger rangers and his ability to read the landscape and predict how people would respond to the terrain was unlike anyone else in the park system. But in the summer of 1996, Randy himself goes missing. The search for one of their own began and what information was found left the unanswered questions lingering in the dark.


    Welcome back to Tragedy with a View.


    The outdoors are a beautiful that can be filled with light and bliss and many different ways to bring yourself closer to those you love and yourself. But they can also be filled with terror and death, imminent and oppressive. Join me as we dig into these stories that inspire you to be just a little bit more careful while you’re in the outdoors. Please rate and subscribe from whatever listening platform you use.


    Merch is now available here!


    Be sure to join us on Patreon for exclusive content, sneak peaks, and more!


    Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to get the most up to see photos and relevant episode information.


    And don’t forget to send us a Campfire Confessional to tragedywithaview@gmail.com - accepting all stories from the outdoors but especially looking for those that make us laugh to help lighten the heaviness that comes with tragedy.

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    32 mins
  • 97| In the Relentless Heat: The Chung - Gerrish Family
    Jul 9 2025

    During the pandemic people behaved in ways they otherwise wouldn’t, from wearing multiple masks for safety, to wearing no mask inside a building as defiance, we behaved in ways that we never thought we would. But there was one place we could be wholly ourselves: in the wilderness. When Ellen and Jonathan head out on a hike with their baby, Miju, and dog Oski, they never imagined the day they had in store. And as avid adventurers, they made one big mistake: not bringing enough water.


    Welcome back to Tragedy with a View.


    The outdoors are a beautiful that can be filled with light and bliss and many different ways to bring yourself closer to those you love and yourself. But they can also be filled with terror and death, imminent and oppressive. Join me as we dig into these stories that inspire you to be just a little bit more careful while you’re in the outdoors. Please rate and subscribe from whatever listening platform you use.


    Merch is now available here!


    Be sure to join us on Patreon for exclusive content, sneak peaks, and more!


    Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to get the most up to see photos and relevant episode information.


    And don’t forget to send us a Campfire Confessional to tragedywithaview@gmail.com - accepting all stories from the outdoors but especially looking for those that make us laugh to help lighten the heaviness that comes with tragedy.


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    31 mins
  • 95 | Lost on a Mountain in Maine
    Jun 25 2025

    In 1939, while the World was on the cusp of World War 2, Donald Fendler took his 3 boys and 2 friends for a hike up to the summit of Mount Katahdin. What he didn’t expect was one of them going missing, and being found 9 days and 35 miles later.


    Welcome back to Tragedy with a View.


    The outdoors are a beautiful that can be filled with light and bliss and many different ways to bring yourself closer to those you love and yourself. But they can also be filled with terror and death, imminent and oppressive. Join me as we dig into these stories that inspire you to be just a little bit more careful while you’re in the outdoors. Please rate and subscribe from whatever listening platform you use.


    Merch is now available here!


    Be sure to join us on Patreon for exclusive content, sneak peaks, and more!


    Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to get the most up to see photos and relevant episode information.


    And don’t forget to send us a Campfire Confessional to tragedywithaview@gmail.com - accepting all stories from the outdoors but especially looking for those that make us laugh to help lighten the heaviness that comes with tragedy.

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    26 mins
  • 93 | A Deadly Mistake: Pete Absolon
    Jun 11 2025

    In 2007, two separate groups of people made thier way toward the Leg Lake Cirque in the Wind River Range in western Wyoming. The events that came next were unfathomable to either party, and a single decision would both bring them together and tear them apart.


    Welcome back to Tragedy with a View.


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    The outdoors are a beautiful that can be filled with light and bliss and many different ways to bring yourself closer to those you love and yourself. But they can also be filled with terror and death, imminent and oppressive. Join me as we dig into these stories that inspire you to be just a little bit more careful while you’re in the outdoors. Please rate and subscribe from whatever listening platform you use.


    Be sure to join us on Patreon for exclusive content, sneak peaks, and more!


    Be sure to follow us on Instagram and Facebook to get the most up to see photos and relevant episode information.


    And don’t forget to send us a Campfire Confessional to tragedywithaview@gmail.com - accepting all stories from the outdoors but especially looking for those that make us laugh to help lighten the heaviness that comes with tragedy.


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    48 mins