#33 | Evacuated by a Helicopter on the Great Divide Trail with Jake Pickering

Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

Kyle Hates Hiking

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness

4.9 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Jake Pickering thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail in 2016, and headed back into the woods again in 2018. The second time around he thru-hiked the Great Divide Trail in Western Canada, which is a relatively unknown trail compared to more popular hikes like the Appalachian Trail and PCT. In this episode we learn about how a Wikipedia article exposed him to the world of long-distance hiking, and all about the logistics of hiking the Great Divide Trail. Make sure you stay tuned until the end of the episode to hear his crazy story about being evacuated from the GDT by helicopter, a good reminder for everyone to renew their SPOT subscriptions! If you are interested in learning more about the Great Divide Trail, head to http://www.greatdividetrail.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!

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0:00.0	What's going on everybody? My name is Kyle O'Grady and welcome to episode 33 of Trail Tales. This is the podcast where I, a through hiker, and peak bagger, chat with other
0:23.0	people that do through hikes and other people that bag peaks and love to hike as much as I do.
0:29.2	If any of that sounds interesting to you or you fall into any of those categories, I would
0:34.1	really appreciate it if you subscribe to the show and tune in every single Wednesday except for last Wednesday
0:41.3	So I should probably say something about that. Yeah, I'm sorry I missed last week everybody
0:46.0	Honestly, it was really nice out and I just didn't really feel like editing all day and I just wanted to take a little break
0:52.8	But I'm back. I'm back. That's gonna happen every every now and then but you can you can still plan on an episode every Wednesday
0:59.0	Don't worry. I'm not going anywhere
1:01.0	This week's guest is a man named Jake Pickering. He hiked the PCT in 2016 and hiked the Great Divide Trail in 2018 Now I'm guessing a lot of you probably don't know what the Great Divide Trail in 2018.
1:11.6	Now I'm guessing a lot of you probably don't know what the Great Divide Trail is.
1:15.6	I really didn't before this episode honestly.
1:17.6	So you're going to learn a lot hopefully and if you're thinking about doing this trail, if you do know what it is,
1:23.6	then hopefully you'll get some good information out of it.
1:26.6	There's a lot that goes
1:29.0	into planning a through hike of the Great Divide Trail. It's much different than the AT and even the
1:34.6	PCT. There's a ton of research and homework that you have to do beforehand concerning permits and
1:40.1	campsites and all this stuff. But if you're looking for a through hike that is not done by
1:45.8	very many people, if you're looking to really be out there by yourself, you know, the Great
1:50.4	Divide Trail might be the trail for you. So I hope you enjoy it. Jake, when you hear this, dude,
1:56.0	I really, really appreciate it. Thank you so much for coming on the show. And I also got to give
2:00.3	a shout out to Effie Drew, one of my previous guests, because she hooked me up with Jake's
2:05.3	info and made all this happen. So yeah, thank you both very, very much. At the beginning of the
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