And the Welcome to Backpacker Radio. I am your host Zach Badger Davis. I am once again not joined by Chaunc today as this is the

second episode of our Trail Correspondence Series. What that is is we've selected a handful of hikers from the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail,

and the Continental to the Bight Trail who will be sharing their experiences of their through hike

from the trail through this podcast. The last episode was an

introduction to our Appalachian Trail hikers. This episode will feature our

PCT and CTT hikers. The first introduction up is our lone

CTT trail correspondent and then that will be followed by our PCT hikers.

So without further ado, here they are. Enjoy.

Hi, my name is Rachel Delano, and my trail name is Rabbit.

I currently live in New York City.

I've lived here for about five years, and I was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida.

I will be hiking the Continental Divide Trail this year,

starting in mid-April.

I am hiking because this will be the completion of my triple crown. I did the

Appalachian Trail in 2016 and I threw hike the Pacific Crest Trail in 2017. I started hiking because I was really

unhappy in my corporate life. I had you know a typical New York job I was an event planner for you know a major

company planning these big corporate events and I just took a look at my life and

I realized that I was completely miserable and

that this was not what I wanted to do and so I decided to just drop everything.

I quit my job, I left my home and I went out and started the AT and it was the best decision that I have ever made.

I'm so happy that I did that because it set me on this whole new

course in life. And so I did the AT and after I finished I came home and knew that

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