{"podcast":{"title":"Mind the Track","slug":"mind-the-track-6307658","podcast_index_feed_id":6307658,"rss_url":"https://mindthetrack.squarespace.com/podcast?format=rss","website_url":"https://www.mindthetrack.com/podcast/","image_url":"https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63f8426bda84740f0b905bf3/1681491239622-ZZZFGSKHQ2PFIMSL46PD/IMG_2786.jpg?format=1500w","author":"@Pow_Bot and @trail_whisperer","episode_count":90,"summary":"An adventure podcast about chasing powder on skis and snowboards in winter, hunting singletrack loam on mountain bikes in summer, profiling the “core lords” of the outdoors in the Lake Tahoe region and fostering the culture of mountain life through education and experience in the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-30T06:18:50.824997+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mind-the-track-6307658"},"episode":{"title":"On Hallowed Ground | E84","slug":"on-hallowed-ground-e84","published_at":"2026-04-23T14:12:04+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mind-the-track-6307658/on-hallowed-ground-e84","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mind-the-track-6307658","url":"https://www.mindthetrack.com/podcast/on-hallowed-ground-e84","audio_url":"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/63f8426bda84740f0b905bf3/t/69ea2a57e110ee01e67e3ee3/1776954226204/E84+-+On+Hallowed+Ground+.mp3","summary":"With five feet of new snow on the Sierra Crest in April, Tahoe is finally getting the snow we should have gotten in March. As a result, the boys are back to skiing, with a couple days at the resort and a backcountry mission to the Eastern Sierra for the annual Green Creek Chute-Out. The boys talk about the concept of hallowed ground – places with spiritual significance and importance, and how social media has led the charge in exploiting these places, resulting in “hollowed ground”. The concept of gatekeeping is also discussed, and asking, is gatekeeping actually a bad thing when you are trying to protect hallowed ground from abuse of the masses? Other topics include new ebikes launched at Sea Otter, lift line DOPE or DERPs, is AI music a plague that should be resisted, upcoming events to check out, discovering the original ice cream man song has racist affilations, and CALL US BACK, GORDO!     2:30 – Winter isn’t over yet – recapping a busy late season Palisades pow day 11:25 – DOPE or DERP – The Rogue Single in the lift line 16:20 – DOPE or DERP – Smacking your snowboard off the ground to remove snow 18:08 – Pow Bot went wing foiling and Trail Whisperer got some hero dirt 19:28 – Skiing the east side of the Sierra Nevada – Green Creek Chute-Out 29:20 – The concept of hallowed ground and respecting special places 35:45 – The Jackson Hole Air Force – the first JH skiers to ski out of bounds 39:00 – White Man Hallowed Ground vs Native American Hallowed Ground 42:40 – Gatekeeping and protecting Hallowed Ground 44:50 – Hallowed Ground vs Hollowed Ground 49:20 – Downhill Phil calls in – POP-CORN was the phone number, prefers the original theme 52:44 – Colin says AI music is DERP. AI is a plague 54:15 – Seeing the band DEVO in RENO – the importance of the band and…","meta_description":"With five feet of new snow on the Sierra Crest in April, Tahoe is finally getting the snow we should have gotten in March. As a result, the boys are back…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6087,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mind-the-track-6307658/episodes/on-hallowed-ground-e84/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mind-the-track-6307658/on-hallowed-ground-e84.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}