Trail Correspondents #5: The Night Before the Trail (Pt. 2)

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Zach Davis

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🗓️ 3 May 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today we check in with the other half of our trail correspondents during a excitement and/or diarrhea-filled period of their journey- the night before starting their thru-hikes.

Today we hear from

Jake Beaver (AT)
Gwen Nitya (AT)
Miles to Go (PCT)
Kate Emmons (PCT)
Lukas Isaacson (PCT)
Madeline (PCT)
Rabbit (CDT)

You can hear part one here.

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0:00.0	Now if I were to try to describe the feeling the day before you start a through hike, if you've never done it before, I would say it's sort of like combining all of the emotions of starting your first day of high school,
0:16.0	moving to a new town where you know no one,
0:18.0	and starting a new job that you know nothing about.
0:21.0	And that is sort of what you're dealing with with a through hike. Welcome to Backpacker Radio presented by the Trek. I am your host
0:45.4	Zach Badger Davis. This is episode number five of our trail correspondence
0:50.8	series and in today's, this is the second part
0:54.0	of our night before the trail recordings
0:55.8	from our remaining Trail Correspondence.
0:58.8	You can hear the first part of this in episode number three.
1:01.9	Hopefully you're sufficiently confused. This update covers all three triple ground
1:06.4	trails including a pair of entries from the AT, 4 from the PCT, and last but not least,
1:12.0	Rabid's entry from the Continental Devai Trail.
1:14.4	We get to learn about their excitement, the nerves, the anticipation, the fears, the preparation
1:20.5	regret, and the tears. The range of emotions span the full spectrum in
1:25.0	today's update which I think you're really going to enjoy. So allow me to get out
1:29.1	of their way and here they are. Enjoy. Good evening, guys.
1:33.0	Good evening, guys.
1:35.0	Good evening, guys.
1:42.0	Good evening guys. This is Jake with The Backpacker Radio, and I'm here at the arch at the beginning of the approach trail.
1:50.0	It's 1102, the night before I start and so thought I'd record some thoughts about how I'm feeling right now.
2:00.0	I'd flew out of DC at 5 p.m.
2:04.0	So I'd spent a long time in the city
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