In honor of April Fools Day, stories in this episode are gut wrenchingly hilarious about a terrible sunburn after snorkeling in Cambodia and the unexpected risks and rewards of inviting a stranger from Craigslist along on a road trip from Los Angeles to Tahoe, California.

Adventure Storytellers: Shane MacIntosh, Ben Oberhand
From: Moab, UT

Music: Maricz
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This episode was released on April Fools Day. All stories are true and lessons are foolish.

Shane Macintosh's Adventure Story:
Snorkeling in Cambodia

Shane MacIntosh 

• Backcountry River Ranger at Canyonlands National Park
  
• Previous biological technician with U.S. Fish and Wildlife on the Colorado River Fish Recovery Project, helping with Pikeminnow population surveys
  
• Experienced raft guide on most of the southwest rivers and backpacking guide
  
• Furniture builder in the off-season
  
• Very tall
  
• Very pale
  
• So pale​

Ben Oberhand's Adventure Story:
Hitching for Jerky

Ben grew up in urban Los Angeles, CA and was quickly swayed to a life of outdoor adventure during his undergrad years at University of California, Santa Cruz. Between 2013-2017, he spent over 500 nights sleeping under the stars between personal and work trips across Alaska, California, Colorado and Utah. His favorite moments in life are laughing and sharing stories with his wife, Meg, and best friend, Shane, yes pale Shane, around a game of Catan.

Check out this episode with another wild and crazy told by Ben. 
Field Notes 53: You're Going To Be Scared. Ben Oberhand, Sara Vanderwaal. PCT Thru-Hikers

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​Stop bragging about not getting sunburned you April Fool
​Nurse Practitioner Tips for Dirtbags from Boldly Went Host, Angel Mathis, MN, MPH, ARNP, FNP-BC

I cannot count how many of my patients and fellow outdoorists talk (brag) to me about how they don’t get sunburned or get skin cancer.

First, I want to say congratulations.

But buddies, I’m here to tell you that skin cancer doesn’t manifest immediately like a sunburn does. If you don’t get sunburn, do not be fooled into thinking that you aren’t doing damage to your skin. You are.

Think of it this way...the sun is a ball of radiation in the sky and it’s giving you a good dose of skin radiation every time you expose yourself to it. The cells in your skin that are exposed to the sun’s radiation are getting damaged with each and every exposure and those exposures and the associated damages accumulate over a lifetime. When you don’t take precautions you are willfully increasing your chances for developing skin cancer...also wrinkly skin.

So PSA - Please consider that most cases of skin cancer develop after YEARS of exposure. You shouldn’t expect to see the results of your sun exposure until your advanced years. Skin cancer occurs mostly on places that are exposed regularly to the sun like your face and forearms. And when you get it, you have to have it burned out, cut off, and sometimes radiated and worse. Skin cancer treatment frequently leads to plastic surgery because, turns out, people don’t like having their noses and ears cut off, then walking around like that. That’s not a very funny April Fool’s Day Joke, is it?

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