Trail Correspondents #9: The Wildcard Show

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Zach Davis

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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

This is a fun episode, as our hikers were tasked only to report on whatever subject was at the forefront of their minds. The instructions were loose and the results are broad, in the most entertaining way possible.

Topics discussed include the simultaneous love and disdain for ukuleles, the selflessness of the hiking community, the 24 x 24 x 24 challenge, why hikers complain, a comparison of the AT, PCT, and CDT from a pair of soon to be triple crowners, what it's like to go through a mental rut on trail and how to dig yourself out, and much, much more.

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0:00.0	I just got to listen to this girl play ukulele.
0:04.0	It really fucking made me very, very happy.
0:07.0	Oh, good.
0:08.0	And now every goddamn hippie with the ukulele on the trail
0:10.0	learned to play that song and I got to fucking listen to it in a shelter it's bad enough I had to stare there as is.
0:15.0	And I just started playing euke and I was just sitting there admiring how
0:20.5	beautiful it was. Welcome to Backpacker Radio, brought to you by The Shrek. I am your host,
0:43.2	Zach Badger Davis. This is the ninth episode of our Trail Correspondence
0:47.8	series and boy is this a fun action-packed show? Today's edition is our Wild Card episode,
0:53.9	whereby our hikers were given a blank canvas
0:56.3	in which they can paint whatever story or topic
0:58.9	was most interesting to them.
1:00.8	As you can probably imagine,
1:02.1	subject matter runs the gamut. We hear about the
1:05.1	overwhelming kindness of strangers, how much easier it is to be present on trail
1:09.5	compared to our typical daily grind. We hear from someone attempting the 24 by 24 challenge.
1:17.0	You will learn what this is later in the episode, but if you don't already know, let me just add this one disclaimer.
1:23.2	Do not do this yourself.
1:25.2	It's just a bad idea.
1:26.8	That's all I'm going to say.
1:28.8	We get a rather ordinary update from IBTAT.
1:31.8	Hangriness is a very real thing on trail and similarly Tunes
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