Daniel Alarcón
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2,010 appearances
36 recordings
11 series
first heard Feb 2022
last heard 10 Jul
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We drove down to the Storm King Ranger Station and walked out to Marymere Falls, which is a pretty hike through old growth, big mossy hemlocks and cedars, the kind of forest that makes you feel small in a good way.
There were other people on the trail, families and retirees with hiking poles,
and being around other folks made the strangeness of the morning recede.
The falls were running high with the spring melt, and we stood at the overlook and felt the spray come up cold off the rocks.
Devin seemed more like himself out there, away from the cabin, away from the water.
I noticed that.
I didn't put it together yet, but I noticed it.
He was easier the farther we got from Lake Crescent, and he got quieter and slower the closer we came back to it, like something tightening.
we stopped at a tavern in the afternoon and had a long lunch and on the way back cole wanted to see lake crescent itself proper not just our little strip of beach so we drove around to the lake crescent lodge side where you can stand on the dock and look out across the whole length of it
that was where i first heard the story though i didn't know it was our story there was an old fellow on the dock a fisherman though he didn't have a line in the water just standing there looking out cole who could talk to anybody struck up a conversation with him about the lake and the old man was happy to talk
He told us about the trout, the beardsley, and the crescenti, two kinds that exist nowhere else in the world, cut off in that lake so long they became their own thing.
He told us about the depth, 600 feet and more in places, and about how cold it stayed at the bottom.
just a few degrees above freezing year-round.
And then he told us, in the easy way old men tell terrible things, about the people the lake had kept.
"'It doesn't give them back,' he said.
"'That's the thing about Crescent.
Water this cold, this deep.
A body goes down, and it doesn't come up.
Soap, they call it.
The fat turns to a kind of soap in the cold, and the thing just stays down there, perfect for years, decades.'"
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