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Hello and welcome to another episode of Pop Bear Hikes.

Today's guest is going to share with us a very interesting article

that caught my eye in backpacker magazine called,

I don't want to hike the PCT and that's okay.

Our guest is vegan food and travel writer and photographer,

content creator and founder of Terror Drift.

Alicia McDars, welcome to Pop Bear Hikes.

Thank you.

It's a pleasure to be here.

Alicia, let's start off by telling us a little bit about you.

Absolutely.

I'm a, like you said, freelance writer and photographer,

I specialize in the outdoors, especially where sustainability in the outdoors is concerned.

I have a blog on YouTube channel that I run with my husband,

which is TerrorDrift.com.

And I write freelance for mostly outdoor and travel magazines, like backpacker.

I started backpacking.

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