From Carson City to Canada: Audrey "Glowstick" Payne's PCT Adventure

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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Host Martin welcomes back fan favorite Audrey “Glowstick” Payne, a seasoned thru hiker, blogger, and author, for an inspiring update on her latest long distance journey: trekking from Carson City to Canada along the Pacific Crest Trail. Audrey shares vivid stories of dusty switchbacks, high desert ridgelines, and the ever changing terrain that defines the northern stretch of the PCT. She also dishes on the quirky, welcoming small towns she stops in along the way, places full of character, kin...

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0:00.0	Carson City to Canada.
0:02.7	Walking it.
0:04.0	What is that all about?
0:05.4	Let's find out.
0:10.3	I want to welcome back.
0:17.0	Author, Avid Hiker, Audrey, Gloucstick, Payne.
0:20.6	Audrey, welcome back.
0:22.6	Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here. I just want to also mention the name of the book
0:28.4	because the book is available on Amazon. We're the rhododondondrum bloom. And how's the book going
0:34.3	before we get started on here with your questions about this most
0:37.9	recent invention you're on?
0:40.9	Thanks for the shout out for the book.
0:43.6	It's been out for about a year and two months now.
0:48.4	And I think it's going well.
0:51.9	You know, I had a lot of fun writing it and kind of reliving my Appalachian Trail experience
0:57.3	through the writing. And I, you know, I get Instagram messages fairly often of people just saying,
1:04.5	like, hey, thank you so much for this. I'm about to go on my own AT journey. And I just found
1:10.7	this really helpful in prepping and really
1:12.9	fun and interesting and it's made me excited for my adventure.
1:16.6	So, you know, that's what I really wanted.
1:18.7	I just loved my AT experience so much.
1:22.1	And I just felt like it was an experience of our sharing.
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