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Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

#30 | Mexico to Canada... and Back to Mexico? A PCT Yo-Yo, and Much More with Austin Davis

Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

Kyle Hates Hiking

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness

4.9678 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Austin Davis caught the hiking bug in 2018, completing a yo-yo hike of the Pacific Crest Trail, before heading to South America in an effort to continue his adventures. In 2019, he thru-hiked the Te Araroa in New Zealand, and the Arizona Trail. That's a ton of hiking.  In our chat, we talk in depth about his PCT yo-yo, water sources on the Arizona Trail (which still disgust me), and do an info-session on the Te Araroa. I bet it won't be long before Austin continues his adventures and moves on the Appalachian Trail, and beyond. Go check out his website: http://notabadplacetopee.com/ Like what you hear? Want to talk some smack? You can contact me on Twitter, Instagram, or send me an email: [email protected] 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!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Yo ho! What is going on, everybody? Welcome to episode 30. I made it to 30 episodes episodes let's give myself a round of applause there

0:23.8

episode 30 of Trail Tales this is the podcast where I Kyle O'Grady a through hiker

0:30.3

peak bagger you know just big old hiking nerd chat with other through hikers and other

0:34.5

peakbaggers and other hiking nerds just like myself we have tons and tons of fun and this episode is no exception my guest today Austin Davis is a total badass he has not only hiked the PCT but he has yo-yoed the PCT that's right right. This dude went all the way from Mexico to Canada,

0:57.1

and then he was like, you know what? I'm going to go back. I'm going to do it all over again,

1:01.2

other direction. So he went back southbound, all the way back down to Mexico. So crazy. I'm pretty sure

1:06.8

he's definitely the first yo-yo guest I've had on the show, so that's pretty cool as well.

1:12.4

He did not stop there though.

1:14.4

He went down to South America, he did some hiking there.

1:17.6

He went over to New Zealand, he did some hiking there, and he even hiked the Arizona

1:22.9

Trail finishing just about a month ago, I believe believe which is just so crazy this dude just

1:28.0

lives for the trail and we talk about all that stuff plus a bunch of random stuff

1:32.7

we talk about food and a lot about like water sources and Arizona and all this

1:37.7

stuff like I'm telling you I had a blast with this one in Austin when you hear

1:42.1

this dude thank you so so much for coming on. I really,

1:45.0

really appreciate it. So now's the point where most of you are probably going to hit that skip

1:49.8

button, you know, skip forward 30 seconds, a minute, whatever it is. You want to get to the actual

1:54.2

conversation and like, I get it, trust me. I would be lying if I said I'd never done that during some podcast, but like hear me out just like like a minute

2:03.7

I'll try to I'll try to keep it under a minute. It's probably not gonna happen, but hey, I'm gonna try.

2:08.0

Anyways, I gotta say a couple things here first real quick if you like the show. I want to hear from you

2:13.6

I know like every podcast like host says the shit. I know I say it every single episode, but like I am dead ass I want to hear from you. I know like every podcast like host says the shit. I know I say it every single episode,

2:18.9

but like I am dead ass. I want to hear from you guys. If you like what I'm doing, tell me some of your

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