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How Dangerous is Backpacking, Paka Sun Hoodie Review, the Worst Gifts for Young Kids, and the Boy Who Cried Wolf Gone Wrong

Backpacker Radio

Zach Davis

Sports, Wilderness

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Segments

Ways to Die

Trek Propaganda: Hikers Discover Human Remains Near Vermont Appalachian Trail by Kelly Floro

QOTD:  What celebrity names can you never remember? 

Triple Crown of the worst gifts to give young kids

Parenting Thing of the Week

Sun Hoodie Review

Mail Bag

5 Star Review

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0:00.0

I've been walking slow many miles I've been walking so many miles I've yet to the bonus segment

0:27.4

Yay, hi guys.

0:29.8

This is our bonus segment.

0:32.4

And it is, this week is Ways to, well, ways, ways to die.

1:00.4

So maybe we'll put a death trigger warning here. But this is like a- Have we done a triple crown of ways to die? I don't think so. That's one that we should do. We should do that. I had that thought recently, I'm like, I feel like we've done that, but maybe not. Yeah. This will definitely give some ideas for it. but this is more of a statistics on how you might die rather than a ways you could choose to die type of thing.

1:01.4

So not morbid.

1:04.5

Well, morbid, but not in a sad.

1:05.7

Well, it's still sad.

1:06.9

Anyway, ways to die.

1:20.7

So I went into recent statistics on ways that people die. And this is a ranking of what is the highest amount of estimated annual U.S. deaths to lowest in terms of ones that are exciting to say.

1:30.4

And then we will jump into the hiking one a little bit.

1:32.7

Yeah.

1:33.3

So I mean, it's like heart disease and cancer, right?

1:36.1

Well, you're right.

1:36.6

Heart disease is number one.

1:37.6

Yeah.

1:37.9

That one's 695,000 annual U.S. deaths per year. And the leading cause.

1:45.5

Number two is actually car crashes.

1:48.4

That one's got 43,000.

1:50.4

Yeah.

1:50.8

But that's way less than 695,000.

1:53.1

That's like a big jump down.

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