#6 - Steven "Twinkle" Shattuck on Dirt-Bagging for a Year, The Best Headlamps for Thru-Hiking, and Curing Anxiety on Trail
Backpacker Radio
Zach Davis
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🗓️ 20 March 2018
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
For most, disappearing to the trail for a month or two is a dream vacation. Serial thru-hiker and peak bagger Steven "Twinkle" Shattuck and his wife Grace are about to travel the world, while living out of their backpacks for the next year. We snagged Twinkle during his last night in town to learn how he saved for this epic adventure, what gear he'll be taking, and advice to those who want to follow in his footsteps. We also talk about the best headlamps for a thru-hike and how thru-hiking can remedy anxiety.
Topics discussed in this episode include:
- Twinkle's upcoming, year-plus long adventure
- The Hayduke Trail
- Twinkle's money-saving advice
- Twinkle's Instagram account
- Why you should treat your water in the backcountry
- Giant Desert Centipede
- Twinkle's Gear
- Backpack: Gossamer Gear Gorilla
- Tent: Gossamer Gear The Two
- Quilt: Katabatic Flex
- Sleeping Pad: Therm-a-Rest NeoAir Xtherm
- Google Pixel 2
- Camera: Sony RX100 M2 + Sony A6300
- How the Trail Helped with My Anxiety by Tess Mulaney
- The Best Headlamps for Thru-Hiking
- Anker 26800 External Battery
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This episode was recorded at Wayfinder in Denver, CO.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Welcome to Backpacker Radio, episode to Number Six. We are recording here at Wayfinder in the Santa Fe District of Denver. |
| 0:27.0 | To my right, I am joined by... |
| 0:30.0 | Oh, hello, I'm Juliana Chaunce. Hey Chaunce. I'm I should introduce myself. I'm |
| 0:35.2 | Zach Bager. I keep doing it the second time. I know. Maybe I should just get a new |
| 0:39.8 | trail name because this is this is my my Freudian slip saying that it's not working. This is the |
| 0:44.9 | curse of picking your own trail name. The good bager. Good bager. I did go to |
| 0:48.6 | school in Wisconsin for four years so that would explain why I talk strange but I just want to jump right |
| 0:55.1 | into the episode today. |
| 0:56.2 | All right jump on it. We're here joined by our guest a fellow goldenite a |
| 1:02.1 | serial through hiker, a mountaineer, and he's about to leave for a kick-ass adventure. |
| 1:10.0 | Stephen Twinkle Shaduck, is that? Yeah, Shaddok? Shadok? |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, Shadik. |
| 1:14.0 | Shadok. |
| 1:15.0 | Just jump right into it. |
| 1:17.0 | Tell us, give us the backpacking resume. |
| 1:19.0 | All right, started young. |
| 1:21.0 | My parents took me out a lot, moved to Colorado right after college and |
| 1:25.9 | started hitting the long trails, did some of the smaller ones to start like most people long trail |
| 1:31.0 | John Meer Trail, Colorado Trail, and then worked my way up to the bigger |
| 1:34.9 | three, the Triple Crown. |
| 1:37.1 | Long trails 300 miles? |
| 1:38.1 | Yeah, roughly, yeah, through the one. |
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