As I'm a solo hiker now going up the trail when people see me they kind of get freaked out wondering

Is there 19 people behind you? Right, right. Right. Welcome to Back Packer Radio, presented by the Trek. I am your host, Zach Badger Davis. This is episode number 14 of our

trail correspondence series. In today's show, our hikers discuss the evolution of their

hiking groups over the course of their journeys.

Injuries occur, people grow apart, paces differ, life happens.

You get to learn the ins and outs of how and why this happens directly from the mouths of our hikers.

Also, we say farewell to another of our trail correspondence.

For the element of surprise, I'll let you wait to learn who this is and why

they got off at the end of the show.

Let's get right into it.

Enjoy. Hey everyone, Floss here. Just hiked out of Front Royal today's July 14th. So I've been out here somewhere around 75 days, 76 days. I left on April 30th. Can be finishing

the day somewhere around 980. So this recording is going to be about how the group has developed, how the trail families changed and evolved and

it's actually come in a really interesting time for me.

I just hiked out of Front Royal like I said, but I've left on my own

and I'm going to be getting off trail not for that long but just going into

Winchester to hang out with some college friends and then get back on the next

day but next week on Wednesday I'm going to

Chicago for a wedding which will entail four zeros for me. But before we get to

that But before we get to that early on you know I think it was almost in my first

recording for backpacker radio I talked about having trail family almost immediately and that was awesome.

I made some really great friends and I'm still hiking with one of those guys who watched me not be able to hang my bear bag at 10

in the evening.

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