#11 | Thru-Hiking Nutrition with Katie Gerber and the Best Sleeping Bags for Thru-Hiking
Backpacker Radio
Zach Davis
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2018
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is all about how to eat right on and off trail. We are joined by thru-hiker and soon-to-be certified holistic nutritionist, Katie "Salty" Gerber, to go way down the rabbit hole about how hikers can improve their on-trail nutrition game. We also touch upon some of the best sleeping bags and quilts for thru-hiking, learn a bit about the Wind River High Route, and are unexpectedly joined by a homeless person.
Subjects discussed in this episode include:
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- The Tahoe Rim Trail
- Katie Gerber's Nutrition Articles
- The Wind River High Route
- Sweetwood Fatty!
- KatieGerber.com
- Chris Kresser
- Curcumin Supplement
- The Top Sleeping Bags and Quilts for Thru-Hikers
- Walking Slow by Animal Years
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| 0:30.0 | Sawyer.com slash dogs because Lyme disease is a motherfucker. Welcome to Backpacker Radio presented by the trek. I never mentioned that. I feel like I should give |
| 0:56.3 | more props to the wonderful website that makes this whole thing possible. You don't even bring |
| 0:59.8 | it up at all in any of the episodes, so I'm surprised. I don't think I've ever talked about the trek before. |
| 1:04.4 | It's not like we have an entire segment dedicated to propaganda on the trek. |
| 1:07.6 | Our shameful blog segment? |
| 1:09.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.6 | But I feel like if you love something, |
| 1:12.1 | mention it in the first five minutes because people usually turn this thing off within minute six. |
| 1:16.6 | So. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.6 | Minute six, that's long. |
| 1:20.3 | They get much further than neither you or I do. |
| 1:23.0 | I am your co-host, Zach Badger Davis, joined by my fellow co-host. |
| 1:30.0 | Hello, I'm Juliana Chaunce, aka Champs. |
| 1:34.0 | So Chaunts, what did you, what's, we, |
| 1:36.2 | our last recording was the Bonus Show. |
| 1:38.9 | Yes, it was. |
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