037: Questions for Newbies

The First 40 Miles: Hiking and Backpacking Podcast

Heather Legler

Hobbies, Leisure, Sports, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

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🗓️ 28 July 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Today on The First 40 Miles, the Top 5 Questions Every New Backpacker Should Ask. On the SUMMIT Gear Review, you’ll find a nice budget option for keeping your ten essentials in perfect order. Then, on the Backpack Hack of the Week, tenemos un pastel que es muy delicioso y es perfecto para mochileros! And we’ll wrap up the show with a little trail wisdom from the most quoted man in the woods.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 37 of the first 40 miles. If you're new to
0:05.9	backpacking or if you're hopelessly in love with someone who wants you to love
0:10.0	backpacking then this podcast is for you. We'll talk about the essentials,
0:14.7	how to lighten your load and how to make the most of your time on the trail. I'm
0:20.0	your host Heather Legler and I'm Josh Legler and this is the first 40 miles.
0:26.6	Today on the first 40 miles the top five questions every new backpacker should ask. On the summit gear review you'll find a nice
0:36.3	budget option for keeping your 10 essentials in perfect order. Then on the backpack hack of the week, we have a
0:44.9	pastel that is very delicious so
0:47.1	is perfect to mochilleros.
0:49.7	And we'll wrap up the show with a little trail wisdom from the most quoted man in the woods.
0:56.0	Toro iso and that is taro. Today on the first 40 miles.
1:09.0	So Heather, you just spent the past week at Girls Camp as a leader. And there's probably all kinds of fun stuff to share with our listeners. I was wondering if you could share an update what you did and how it went.
1:17.0	It was great. As we mentioned in past episodes, I was involved with leadership at this camp and there were about 150 girls.
1:25.0	20 of those girls were youth camp leaders and so I was involved with teaching them
1:30.4	some survival skills that they were going to in turn teach to the other girls at
1:36.5	camp and I don't know how Scout camp is but at girls camp we have kind of an overall theme for the week and our theme this year was
1:47.0	oh the places you'll go so kind of a Dr. Seuss theme and you know a lot of the skits and the camp decor and the clothing kind of
1:55.8	revolved around that theme so that was really fun to see you know the weather
2:00.7	hovered right around 100 degrees all week.
2:04.9	It has been super hot this summer in Oregon.
2:07.6	In fact, if you look at a wildfire risk map,
2:10.7	the whole state of Oregon pretty much is red. It's just been so hot and dry. And so, yeah, you did a good job and all the girls too, surviving that week of 100 degree temps. I mean, it been crazy. You know we did get a little bit of
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