Trail Correspondents #10 | Trail Food, Changing Physiques, and Gear Sent Home

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Zach Davis

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🗓️ 17 July 2018

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode hits on some subjects that are often top of mind for thru-hikers and those curious about the undertaking. They are: food, how hikers' bodies change over the course of their hike, and gear. We learn more about the infamous hiker hunger, the "eat anything and everything and still lose weight diet", how their getup has evolved over the course of their hike, and what gear they've sent home. And lastly, we get an emotional goodbye from one of our correspondents- as the injuries have piled up and become too much to bear.

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0:00.0	Oh, it's the most amazing thing of the world.
0:03.0	And people will walk by and just be like,
0:05.0	oh my God, you have a grapefruit,
0:07.0	and you're like, oh yeah. So, Welcome to your backpacker radio presented by the trek. This is the 10th episode of our Trail Correspondence Series. Today's show features a grab bag of questions
0:35.8	across a variety of subjects including weather, food, their bodies, and gear. Specifically, we asked our correspondence the following. To describe the
0:46.0	weather they've encountered on their hikes thus far, how their relationship with food has
0:50.3	changed, what their favorite and least favorite trail foods are, how their bodies have
0:55.0	changed, if at all.
0:57.0	And of course we sprinkle in a few gear questions at the end, including what gear they have
1:00.8	sent home.
1:02.4	And at the end of today's show,
1:04.0	we get an emotional goodbye from one of our correspondence,
1:08.0	as the injuries just became too much to bear.
1:11.0	Okay, less of me and more of Arthur Eggers. Here they are. Enjoy. Hey everyone this is SAS Fast Reporting while I'm in town actually. I am a bit over 700 miles into this
1:37.8	journey and well into Virginia and definitely kind of battling the Virginia Blues a little bit in part
1:47.3	because the weather has been so confused and misleading I feel like I went from worrying about everything freezing to
1:56.2	roasting to death. Lots of sweating lately so struggling a little bit with that adjustment.
2:04.3	Currently my favorite and least favorite trail food.
2:09.3	Favorite trail food right now is I actually had a friend send me some Biskoff
2:18.3	cookie butter. This stuff is the most amazing thing ever.
2:22.6	Oh my goodness, I could eat it all day long.
2:25.8	And I don't think that the container I got of it is going to last very long.
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