ep160 Chinook: Ranger Bill

“ep160 Chinook” is an episode of Ranger Bill, the old-time radio show. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Ranger Bill and his rangers respond to a warm winter wind called a Chinook that is melting snow and ice in the mountains above Naughty Pine. Jack Kimball and Cole Nason, who run Mid-Mountain Dam, fear that a slide of moving ice could destroy the dam and flood the town below. Bill and his men travel up through the mountains to the ice fields in Deep Valley to see the danger for themselves. The rangers find massive blocks of ice grinding down the valley, and Bill begins to devise a plan to stop them at Bottleneck Canyon.

The mountains above Naughty Pine, including Mid-Mountain Dam, Deep Valley and Bottleneck Canyon, during an off-season Chinook in winter.

Characters: Ranger Bill, Henry, Stumpy Jenkins, Grey Wolf, Jack Kimball, Cole Nason, Frenchie Dussau

Listen for: Bill's plan to build a log jam in Bottleneck Canyon, and whether the ice blocks can be stopped.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.