006: Pipe Organs vs Harmonicas
The First 40 Miles: Hiking and Backpacking Podcast
Heather Legler
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2014
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Are you planning on bringing a musical instrument on your next backpacking trip? This episode may have you rethinking that “unitasker” harmonica. Next, backpackers grab an unusual piece of wood to burn to stay warm while they wait to be rescued. We'll review a women's pack, then end with the perfect calorie-dense trail dessert: chocolate!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode six of the first 40 miles. |
| 0:03.7 | If you're new to backpacking, or if you're hopelessly in love with someone who wants you to |
| 0:08.7 | love backpacking, then this podcast is for you. |
| 0:12.0 | We'll talk about the essentials, how to lighten your load, |
| 0:15.1 | and how to make the most of your time on the trail. I'm your host, Heather Legler. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm Josh Legler. And this is the first 40 miles. |
| 0:25.0 | Today on the first 40 miles, the top five Backpacking in the News stories from the past month, |
| 0:32.0 | the Summit Gear Review will review the 65 |
| 0:35.6 | leader Women's Osprey ARA Pack. The backpack hack of the week will show you an |
| 0:41.6 | end of the day no-cooked dessert. |
| 0:45.0 | And we'll wrap up the show with a little trail wisdom from our good friend on the |
| 0:49.3 | trail, Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
| 0:52.1 | All this, and that's about it, today on the first 40 miles. |
| 0:57.0 | So the other night at dinner we had a really interesting conversation. |
| 1:02.0 | Our 12-year-old old asked if you could have any |
| 1:05.2 | instrument with you on a backpacking trip what would it be? And of course the |
| 1:10.0 | family came up with the obvious answers. Right, the harmonica, the kazoo, you know, those small, easy |
| 1:16.7 | to pack instruments. Right, the ones that everyone has a little bit of extra room for in their pack. Well, then the conversation took a little bit of a twist and we started |
| 1:26.4 | talking about instruments from a survival standpoint and the question became what musical instrument has the most potential to be used in the wild as a survival tool. |
| 1:39.0 | So then we started coming up with instruments and ways that they could be used to survive. |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah, well, the constraints shifted drastically. |
| 1:48.8 | It wasn't, what would you carry on a backpacking trip? |
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