Welcome to episode 83 of the first 40 miles.

If you're new to backpacking, or if you're hopelessly in love with someone who wants you to love

backpacking, then this podcast is for you. We'll talk about the essentials, how to lighten your load, and how to make the most of your time on the trail. I'm your host Heather Legler. And'm Josh Legler and this is the first 40 miles today on the first 40 miles

Father's plays such a critical role in helping their children discover and love the outdoors.

And today we celebrate and honor fathers for their role in Family Adventures.

Then on today's top five list we spotlight the father of our

national parks. Next on Ready for Adventure we plan a backpacking trip along the

Batona Trail in New Jersey.

For today's backpack Hack of the Week, we'll share a hack that is totally gross,

but it works. And we'll wrap up the show with a little trail wisdom from

not John Muir. He already gets a turn on the top five list. All this and that's

about it. today on the first 40 miles.

As our first 40 milers know, Josh and I have been wanting to dabble in the world of interviews a little bit and include more stories from other people.

Kind of get their voices on the show.

So today we've invited one of our Twitter friends.

His name is Hiking Dad and his Twitter handle is at Dad Hikes.

And he does have a real name too, but we'll get to that. Anyway, we wanted to include him on the show today because we wanted to focus on fathers and someone with that Twitter handle, dad hikes, we got to include him. So here we go.

So welcome to the show Sean.

Hi guys, thanks for having me.

Yeah, thanks for getting with us today.

So you are Hiking Dad on Twitter.

You want to kind of explain to us how you chose that Twitter name and you know what your

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