#8 - Dirt Squirrel, the Best Restaurants on the Pacific Crest Trail, and Thru-Hiking as a Vegan

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Zach Davis

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🗓️ 17 April 2018

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, we sit down with 2017 PCT thru-hiker, Dirt Squirrel. Dirt Squirrel will destroy any notions you have about the Millennial generation. She is 23-years-old, well-spoken, doesn't like social media, journals in her notebook daily, and above all, loves hiking and the outdoors.

In this episode, topics include:

- Mesa Arch in Arches National Park

- The Narrows in Zion National Park

- Hiking in a group vs. hiking solo

- Utilizing school grants for thru-hiking.

- Hiking as a vegan

- Hiking solo as a female

- The best restaurants on the PCT

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Recorded at Wayfinder Co-op in Denver, Colorado.

A big thank you to our Cinnamon Connection Champions from Patreon: Kate Hurley

This show is brought to you by Sawyer Products.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone before we get into today's episode. I want to take a quick second to say thank you to our sponsor
0:05.8	That's right we have a sponsor and that is Sawyer products if you're a backpacker a hiker you're probably already familiar with the Sawyer Squeeze.
0:14.8	They have a lot of other really great products for hikers and backpackers as well.
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0:22.0	It comes in a lotion, which is effective up to 14 hours.
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0:28.7	mosquitoes, ticks and even biting flies. Safe to use on your gear, safe to use on your kids, at least as young as six months.
0:35.6	That's what it says here.
0:36.6	Don't spray your four-month-year-old in the face with this thing because I didn't give you permission
0:39.9	to do that.
0:41.0	And more importantly, it's not De D'Ete is a motherfucker on your nervous system.
0:47.1	To learn more, head to Sawyer's website at Sawyer.com. Okay, to the episode. Welcome to episode number 8 of backpack radio.
1:13.7	I am your co-host, Zach Badger Davis
1:17.6	and sitting across-ish from me.
1:20.5	That's somewhat diagonal.
1:21.5	So much diagonal-ish. Hello, I'm Champs. me. That's somewhat diagonal. Diagonal-
1:23.0	Hello, I'm Chants.
1:25.0	Uh, Chants.
1:26.0	Do I usually say Chants or do I say Juliana?
1:28.0	Did I say Juliana?
1:29.0	I don't, you didn't say anything.
1:30.0	But then I said Chants and I was like, what do I usually say?
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