Ep. 092: Through Hiker Deep Dive - Liz Thomas
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2015
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Want a lighter pack? Need food planning advice? Want to hike for days without injury? Liz Thomas returns to the Adventure Sports Podcast and shares the tips and tricks of successful through hiking. And Liz ought to know. Recipient of the Triple Crown Award for through hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, and the Appalachian Trial, Liz is a leader in the sport of through hiking. Known for breaking the women’s unsupported speed record on the 2,181-mile long Appalachian Trail in 2011, Liz is among the most experienced women hikers in the country and specializes in hiking light and fast.
In addition to having a lot of experience hiking, Liz also received a Masters in Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the prestigious Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship for her research on long distance hiking trails, conservation, and trail town communities. Liz has been featured in Backpacker Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and LA Magazine and has given talks about her experiences at colleges, hiking clubs, and conferences across the country.
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| 0:00.0 | human, this office worker to someone who's one with nature is one of the most amazing |
| 0:07.1 | transformations that can happen while you're through hiking. |
| 0:32.9 | Thank you. This is the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:35.5 | Brought to you by 180 Tack. |
| 0:37.1 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:44.9 | Episode 92, Through Hiking Deep Dive with Liz Thomas. Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. This is your host, Kurt Lindville. |
| 0:58.4 | Today is a through hiking deep dive. Now, for those of you who have not heard what a deep dive is, |
| 1:04.5 | it's when we bring a previous guest back on to go into the details, the tips and the tricks, |
| 1:10.1 | the how-toes of a particular sport. |
| 1:12.9 | And we are really blessed today to have Liz Thomas rejoining us. Liz was originally on the podcast |
| 1:19.6 | back in episode 41. So if you want to hear the overview of all of the great feats that she's done, |
| 1:25.3 | you might want to jump back and listen to that episode. |
| 1:45.1 | But today, we're going to get into the nitty-gritty details of how to through hike. So, Liz, thank you very much for joining us today. Well, thank you for having me on, Curry. Oh, you bet. So just a little bit of information about you, Liz, and then I'll let you fill in the gaps. but Liz started through hiking a while back, and she is a recipient of the Triple Crown. The Triple Crown is what's |
| 1:51.3 | given to hikers who have hiked the Appalachian Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, and the Pacific |
| 1:57.1 | Crest Trail. And she has done all three, not only done all three, but sets women's speed records for the fastest |
| 2:04.6 | through hikes. |
| 2:05.9 | And so Elizabeth spends a lot of time traveling around and sharing information about through |
| 2:13.1 | hiking. |
| 2:13.6 | She's on lots of different trail committees that take care of these trails and a lot of things like that. |
| 2:18.3 | Liz, tell us the rest of that story. |
| 2:20.6 | Yeah, so I first started getting in the long-since hiking about 10 years ago, and I was really into day hiking and peak bagging. |
| 2:29.8 | And I always noticed on these day hikes and peak bags, these signs for the Pacific Crest Trail. |
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