Bobbing at the Surface: Carrot Quinn

She Explores

Gale Straub

Road Trips, Sports, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Society & Culture, Creativity, Wilderness, Hiking, Places & Travel, Outdoor Women, Camping, Outdoors

4.6 • 914 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Carrot Quinn joins us on the show again to talk about her latest memoir: The Sunset Route. For those who read and loved Thru Hiking Will Break Your Heart, The Sunset Route fills in a lot of the backstory. Billed as an adventure memoir, (Carrot spent her early 20’s hopping freight trains and hitchhiking before discovering thru-hiking) the book really shines in telling the story of how Carrot found nurturing, forgiveness, and healing through nature during after a traumatic childhood.

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0:57.0	Yeah, no, I mean it's so beautiful and true and also I had to laugh because it's like sometimes things are so dark that the
1:07.4	truth is almost like funny in terms of wow that it's just intense like I was just thinking like oh we could that would be a really interesting lead quote for this
1:18.0	this episode just like grief is gonna get you in the. I always laugh when I'm talking about dark things. Yeah, it's it's so I feel like it's it's legit. It's a very legit way.
1:31.0	It's another coping mechanism.
1:33.0	Yeah, exactly.
1:34.0	It is.
1:35.0	And it is, I think the darkness of existence, I think one kind of humor is absurdity, and it is deeply absurd. Like it is like yeah just how
1:47.5	dark the shit we have to accept about embodiment it's just it's just a lot. It's kind of just a lot and it's absurd. It's absurd how much it is. So I think it's valid as like also being it's kind of funny in that way because it's like okay like this is it's too much it's absurd.
2:11.0	Over four years ago I tore through a book called Through Hiking Will Break Your Heart.
2:15.0	I read it like a lot of people rechear at Quinn's writing and how she walked her first through hike of the Pacific Crest Trail.
2:21.0	Each page or mile felt faster than the one before.
2:24.8	Carrot has this gift for immersive visceral writing that puts you
2:29.6	into their well-worn trail shoes.
2:31.5	And as escapist as the subject matter may seem, Carrot's memoir writing is introspective,
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