017: How to Find Awesome Trails
The First 40 Miles: Hiking and Backpacking Podcast
Heather Legler
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2015
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Today we celebrate International Day of Awesomeness! We talk about finding awesome "backpackable" trails. Next, Heather shares her current bucket list of hikes. Then, learn about an ultralight food prep bag, and get a recipe to go with it. Fictitious listener, Dale in Oklahoma sends in a question about water filtering.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 17 of the first 40 miles. |
| 0:05.0 | If you're new to backpacking, or if you're hopelessly in love with someone who wants you to love |
| 0:10.6 | backpacking, then this podcast is for you. We'll talk about the |
| 0:14.8 | essentials, how to lighten your load, and how to make the most of your time on the |
| 0:19.8 | trail. I'm your host Heather Legler. And'm Josh Legler and this is the first 40 miles |
| 0:27.0 | Today on the first 40 miles Chuck Norris all this and that's about it. Wait, wait, what? |
| 0:34.0 | You think you can just say Chuck Norris and you're going to have an awesome show? |
| 0:38.0 | Today is going to be awesome. |
| 0:40.0 | But if you want to know what else is on this show, we will have information on |
| 0:44.1 | trail reports. The top five list will feature our bucket list. The summit |
| 0:48.9 | gear review will feature a 10-gram way to rehydrate your own do-it-yourself meals. |
| 0:54.8 | Backpack hack of the week, you'll learn how to make your own dehydrated meal |
| 0:59.2 | without a dehydrator. |
| 1:00.8 | For the backpackers, Q&A, we'll show you an easy way to take care of water on the trail, |
| 1:06.0 | and we'll wrap up the show with a little trail wisdom from someone who always thinks things through very thoroughly. |
| 1:14.4 | All this, and that's about it. |
| 1:17.7 | Today on the first 40 miles. |
| 1:20.7 | Okay, so what about Chuck Norris? |
| 1:23.0 | Today is his 75th birthday and not only that but his birthday also happens to coincide |
| 1:30.6 | with International Day ofesomeness. |
| 1:34.0 | What a coincidence. |
| 1:35.0 | Extreme coincidence. |
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