85: Mail from the Trail: Rim-to-Rim Trail + Hiking Essentials

Exploring the National Parks

Dirt In My Shoes

Science, Society & Culture:places & Travel, Nature, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Exploring the National Parks, we are back with another Mail from the Trail episode! We are diving into your burning questions about the national parks. Join us as we discuss hiking the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim, hiking trip necessities, how we decide which parks to visit, and more! In this episode, we discuss: How to hike Rim to Rim in the Grand Canyon and the best time to do it The must-have necessities for safe and fun hiking trips The national parks we haven’t been to yet and why Thank you so much for all of your questions today! We really appreciate hearing from you. If you have any questions, send us some mail from the trail by going to our podcast page. We would love to hear from you and answer your questions! In this episode, we mentioned a couple of things that you might want to look at: The 10 Essentials for Hiking and the Master Reservation List. Check out the full show notes here.

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0:00.0	It's like you just came back from Narnia. You've just spent all this time in Narnia that you
0:05.5	tumble out of the wardrobe and you're super disheveled and everything like that. And you're
0:10.1	like looking around and nothing has changed. The world moved on without you. And then it's
0:15.4	just like you're back to regular life for a second. This is the Exploring the National Parks podcast with Dirt in My Shoes.
0:23.6	My Name is Ash and I'm a former park ranger and the founder of Dirt in My Shoes.
0:27.8	I think that the parks are best seen from the trail and I'm here to make National Park
0:32.6	trip planning easy.
0:34.1	And I'm John.
0:35.1	I carry the kids on the trails.
0:36.7	I tell stories and notice all the things
0:38.6	that Ash doesn't care about much, like birds. Join us as we show you around America's
0:44.8	spectacular national parks. We're sharing our favorite places, fun facts, adventures,
0:49.6	and misadventures. And we'll even throw in a little trip planning. Let's start exploring.
1:00.8	We are joining you today for our second what was called a mailbag episode, but is now called Mail from the Trail, thanks to Candy and her recommendation for us.
1:15.6	So last time when we recorded our first mailbag episode, we said, you know, we don't love the name,
1:21.3	but that's what everybody calls it.
1:22.6	But if you have any suggestions, let us know.
1:25.0	And we got some great suggestions.
1:27.0	Yes, and we needed a little bit of your
1:29.8	creative genius so thank you candy and i love it because it reminds me of the pony express i think
1:35.7	that's really cool we're getting mail from across the country by horse our our website is called
1:41.8	dirt in my shoes so that's a nod to that as well.
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