Thru-Hiking, Canoeing, and Dehydrating Food with Renee Miller & Tim Beissinger

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Thruhikers, Tim Beissinger and Renee Miller started dating in college and have always been active people. Tim grew up hiking and camping with his family, and Renee was a runner. The two dragged each other along on their respective outdoor outings. Eventually they worked their way up to thru-hiking, a sport that they've fallen in love with and built a life around.

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0:00.0	Exciting news you guys, wild ideas worth living is now available on YouTube.
0:07.0	You can find our latest episodes uploaded their weekly, plus video clips with some of our guests that give you a peek behind the scenes.
0:14.1	Check out all the content at YouTube.com slash REI. For Renee and me it was a huge leap to quit our jobs and go hike our first trail
0:31.8	but it was so worth it.
0:34.0	And you hear that from so many people who are out there,
0:36.1	that they're in the midst of some reason
0:38.2	that they decided to give up their former life
0:41.3	and go hike for a little while, they just said why not now and I know
0:46.7	a very few people who regret that.
0:52.4	Through hikers Tim Bissinger and Renee Miller started dating in college.
0:57.0	They were both active people.
0:59.0	Tim grew up hiking and camping with his family and Renee was a runner. The two dragged each other along on their respective outdoor outings.
1:07.3	Eventually they worked their way up to through hiking, a sport that they've fallen in love with and built a life around.
1:14.0	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is wild ideas worth living,
1:18.0	an REI co-op studios production brought to you by Capital One. Renee Miller and Tim Bissinger got engaged
1:27.6	while running the Chicago Marathon. There was no getting down on one knee.
1:32.0	They just talked about their future life together as they ran
1:35.2	side by side and a decision was made. In 2013, the couple got married. Since then,
1:41.6	they've trekked thousands of miles together on epic hikes, like the Pacific
1:45.6	Crest Trail and the Continental Divide Trail.
1:48.8	They even invented their own route that they call the Pacific Northwest Circuit. Over the years, Tim and Renee have
1:55.1	come up with quite a few through hiking hacks and they share how-to videos on
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