Welcome to episode 2006 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 I'm Josh Legler.

And this is the first 40 miles.

Today on the first 40 miles we're recording here in our

bucket of bucket of backpacking food,

affectionately labeled our bucket of calories.

All of this for a friendly competition.

Josh and I will battle it out civilly for the

backpacking dinner challenge. Can we create a unique meal with just the

pile of ingredients in front of us? We'll find out.

Then we'll eat dinner in front of our guests. Very rude. All this and that's about it today on the first 40 miles

couple episodes ago we mentioned that we've moved to a hundred and eight-old house that we're remodeling. Today the

electrician has been working on the electrical panel, the new

electrical panel in the house and so we decided to go out to the

pole barn for this challenge so our audio quality is going to be a little different.

We're still just working through the house renovations and in a few weeks we will

probably be back to normal.

But for today... back to normal. But for today.

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