Long Trail Trivia, the Best Town Food to Hike Out with, REI Flash Shade Review, and the Future of AI
Backpacker Radio
Zach Davis
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Long Trail Trivia
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QOTD: Everyone on earth takes a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
Sun Hoodie Review - REI Flash Shade
Triple Crown of town food to hike out with
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5 Star Review
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| 0:00.0 | I've been walking so many miles I've been walking so many miles I've been out walking so many miles I've yet to go |
| 0:25.8 | All right, it's my turn for the bonus segment |
| 0:28.3 | because we have other segments tomorrow that are yours. |
| 0:33.5 | Are you ready for it? |
| 0:34.8 | For yours? |
| 0:35.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.1 | Sure. |
| 0:37.0 | This involves Tom too. |
| 0:38.5 | Great. |
| 0:38.7 | Oh, shit. |
| 0:40.2 | Also, I want to preface this segment. |
| 0:42.9 | This is a really important part to the segment is the first bonus segment that we've done under |
| 0:48.6 | this new format on a Thursday release was Long Trail Trivia. |
| 0:53.0 | And because the world of through hiking is such a niche place, |
| 0:56.6 | it's kind of tough to pull these facts together. Like there's no encyclopedia for these facts. |
| 1:01.7 | I'm trying to actually suss them out myself. So I'm going to ask these questions. I'm also going |
| 1:06.8 | to look for your feedback a little bit, both of your guys' feedback, especially Tom's, because I think |
| 1:10.1 | he's been on more of these trails. But I do have some trail trivia. I think the questions and answers are pretty spot on, but I would, I'm open to feedback to them being wrong. I'm intrigued. Okay. This will be a fun game for people listening along. If you're still listening, you're probably not. By the way, if you are, congratulations. God bless. This has been some episode. This is the Thursday release. So we could be starting with a whole new audience. So welcome. This is the bonus segment. Those only come out Thursdays. What a, what a ride with it on. All right. This is long trail trivia. I have a few questions this time. This first one especially is one that I'm the least certain about, but we can talk about it. |
| 1:49.1 | I think we'll get to the right answer. |
| 1:50.8 | How many U.S. long trails are over 300 miles and are 90% plus on single track. |
| 2:01.6 | Okay, so real quick, when you say U.S. long trails, do you mean scenic trails? |
| 2:09.6 | So I think this one doesn't actually need the definition because there's a lot of... |
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