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Now hello, welcome to another episode of Pop Bear Hikes.

Today's guest describes herself as a rock climber, trail runner, and backpacker.

She discovered backpacking while surfing the internet.

She has written several articles and essays about her outdoor adventures.

Today though, we want to talk to her about her most recently published book

called Alone in Wonderland, a story about backpacking.

Christine Reed, welcome to Pop Bear Hikes.

Hi, thank you so much for having me on.

So let's start off.

This sounds kind of interesting about how you found backpacking.

Some people do it through youth groups or with their family.

You found it by surfing the internet.

So I'd like to talk a little bit about here, your side of that.

Here you talk about that a little bit.

Sure, yeah.

I lovingly refer to my family as indoorsy people.

So I was not taken out to do things like camping and backpacking as a child.

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