#14 | How to Hike In The Desert, Navigate the Pacific Crest Trail Permit System, and Much More with Russell Corfman

Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

Kyle Hates Hiking

Wilderness, Sports:wilderness, Sports

4.9 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Russell Corfman joins Trail Tales for episode 14, woo! Russell thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail in 2018, making him the show's first (but certainly not last) PCT guest. He answer's many of my questions about hiking the PCT, including how the permit system works, how to not die when hiking the desert, and what gear he picked up when he entered the Sierra's. Check out his You-tube channel, Russell in the Bush! Like what you hear? Want to talk some smack? You can contact me on Twitter, Instagram, or send me an email: trailtalespod@gmail.com If you're really into Trail Tales and want to receive some bonus content, please consider supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trailtales. Feel free to leave me a five-star review on iTunes (I read every one at the beginning of the next episode), and subscribe if you like the show! My personal Instagram is @kylehateshiking, so feel free to follow me on there as well. Subscribe on iTunes, and listen on Google Play and Stitcher!

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, hello, can you hear me?
0:14.3	I hope you can because it's Trail Tales time.
0:17.8	You're listening to episode number 14 of the podcast where I, Kyle O'Grady, a
0:23.3	throughhiker and peak bagger, chat with other like-minded hikers who share their experiences
0:29.0	on the trail and their insight into all things hiking. This week's episode is all about
0:35.8	the Pacific Crest Trail.
0:37.7	It's my first PCT episode.
0:39.4	I'm stoked.
0:40.4	I chat with Russell Corfman, who completed the walk from Mexico to Canada this past summer.
0:46.0	That is the summer of 2018.
0:48.3	Now, I've never hiked on the PCT before, so I thought it would be fitting to have my first
0:53.7	PCT guests kind of helped me get
0:56.3	up to speed on some of the general information about the trail. We talk about the permit system
1:02.5	that through hikers are required to participate in. We talk about some of the odds and ends of
1:07.8	hiking in the desert, which is something I have no experience doing.
1:12.2	And of course, we get to a bunch of Russell's stories about his through hike and some of
1:16.6	the other adventures in the backcountry that he has gone on. It was a great chat. Russell,
1:22.9	when you hear this, thank you so much for coming on. I'm going to stop blabbing here in just a second, but first,
1:28.2	I want to say a couple things to everybody listening. First of all, if you hearing this right now
1:33.0	are planning on hiking the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail or the Continental Divide Trail,
1:39.5	this upcoming summer that is the summer of 2019, I guess it wouldn't be just the summer, but yeah,
1:45.4	the year of 2019, I want to hear from you. I think it would be pretty cool to kind of set up a
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