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Snake Island, Potato Foods, and Why The Trail Won't Always Be There

Backpacker Radio

Zach Davis

Sports, Wilderness

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Segments

Snake Island

Trek Propaganda: Actually No, the Trail Won't Always Be There: Why You Should Thru-Hike Now by Claire Dumont

QOTD:  Fuck marry kill: rain, wind, snow

Triple Crown of potato foods

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I've been walking slow many miles I've yet To our magical bonus

0:24.0

I've yet to go

0:25.8

To our magical bonus segment

0:28.8

Chants is leading us this time

0:31.5

Oh, this is the start of it all

0:33.4

Yeah

0:33.8

We start it with this

0:34.7

We're starting with it

0:35.4

Okay

0:35.8

Then I'm kicking it off

0:37.1

And now I get why

0:37.7

you asked if I was ready. It's like I'm ready. I just doze off during track propaganda anyway. Johns wake up. It's your turn. Truck propaganda's over already. Okay. Are we going to say what this is? Or we just going to dive? This is your thing. I don't I mean it's my thing. Okay, fine, my thing. This is your segment. This is my, this is

0:55.6

my, this is a blank canvas in which. This is your thing. I don't know. I mean, it's my thing. Okay, fine, my thing.

0:54.3

This is your segment. This is my. This is my. This is a blank canvas in which you get to paint. I'm talking about the skeleton of it. Do we want to explain why this is here? Yeah. This is now, I think the second episode we've done this is, uh, we are breaking off segments as a separate entity that we're putting out a little bit later in the week. I think we decided Wednesday. This is probably

1:13.6

coming on on a Wednesday. You said there's are breaking off segments as a separate entity that we're putting out a little bit later in the week.

1:12.2

I think we just added Wednesday. This is probably coming out on Wednesday.

1:14.4

You said Thursday last time I was here. I don't know. Let's say Wednesday.

1:17.1

Sure. But yeah, we've gotten enough feedback from folks that like the interviews are so long.

1:22.2

Like I never get to the segments. Well, here's an opportunity to get to the segments on its own

1:27.3

nice individual serving packet.

1:29.5

So, again, the original version of the episode will be entirely intact. Aside from this part,

1:35.7

this is the bonus part. So if you're listening to the Wednesday version of it, you're getting this.

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