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Hiker Trash Radio

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Join Doc and his guests on Hiker Trash Radio, the outdoor adventure podcast that takes you on a myriad of trails. With interviews from thru hikers, skydivers, adventure athletes, big wall climbers, and more, each episode is packed with trail talk, gear tips, and hilarious misadventures. And if you thought the great outdoors was all sunshine and rainbows, think again! Tune in for tales of blistered feet, helicopter evacuations, and Type II Fun that will make you appreciate the comforts of home. Settle in and get ready to trade the city for the wilderness. It's time to embrace the suck!

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S12 · E6
Today · 34 min
Trail Stories - "Kevin, What Are You Doing Here?" with Dr. Caroline "Earthcake" Himbert
Dr. Caroline "Earthcake" Himbert held the unsupported women's John Muir Trail record by eight minutes, and then she woke up on the wrong side of the trail with no idea where she was. In this Trail Stories episode, the German-born cancer researcher tells the story of the fourth night of her 2025 JMT FKT, when her own brain started handing out nap invitations, party invitations, and bad directions, and of the 2026 return trip that ended in 3 days, 16 hours, and 36 minutes, more than 12 hours faste
Yesterday · 8 min
The Cottage - Episode 5: Work Hard. Stay Curious.
In the finale of The Cottage, we step back from the how and ask the why. Whitney "Allgood" LaRuffa explains that he'll hike the PCT when his life requires a walk of that magnitude, and that the best advice he can give any young hiker is to turn the phone off for a week. Glenn Van Peski describes his life's purpose as "creating margin" — making space so opportunities can find you — and washes dishes at a local bakery to meet people outside his usual world. Bus says he'd give up his days in Hollyw
S12 · E5
Wednesday · 38 min
The Trail Name That Got Away - Bee Corrado (Part II)
In Part 2, the depth behind the content. Bee talks about what it was like to tell her family she was hiking 2,600 miles solo [they believed in her stubbornness more than they doubted her ability] and what imposter syndrome looks like for someone who spent years building an outdoor platform before she felt she'd earned the identity to match it. She covers why teaching beginners to get outside is personal for her (it's been exactly 10 years since her first backpacking trip, and she went from knowi
S10 · E5
Wednesday · 43 min
I Actually Thought You Weren't Going to Make It - Bee Corrado (Part I)
Bianca "Bee" Corrado teaches high school Spanish in San Diego, builds a backcountry safety community of 100,000+ followers at @beeswildlife, and just finished the Pacific Crest Trail while posting daily reels, weekly YouTube videos, and weekly Substack articles from the trail on a three-week delay, for reasons that become clear in Part 1. Her Hiking Poll score is 41, the main deduction being 1,000 ounces of dirty pot water consumed over approximately 140 days on trail. She is proud of this. In P
Monday · 44 min
Dark Miles - Never Again with Zach Lawyer
Zach "Tapeworm" Lawyer had to battle the negative inner narrative growing up. By 14 he was dealing. By 26 he was the customer he’d spent a decade selling to. Then a jail cell floor, a yoga studio in Temecula, and eight hundred miles of Oregon desert rearranged everything. In this episode of Dark Miles, Zach walks Doc through the full arc: a chaotic childhood, 12 years on probation, the moment on a dirty cell floor that became the hinge of his life, and what happens when you take a yoga practice
S12 · E5
October 24 · 19 min
Trail Stories - The Trail Name I Didn't Get (Fortunately!) with Bee Corrado
Bee Corrado is a high school Spanish teacher from San Diego who built a following of over 100,000 people by teaching beginners how to get outside safely, and who just finished the Pacific Crest Trail while documenting the whole thing in real time. She didn't think she was going to make it when she started. Some of her followers agreed: she received messages after finishing from people who admitted they had watched her and thought: she's not gonna last. This episode covers the imposter syndrome t
October 23 · 11 min
The Cottage - Episode 4: From Basement to Warehouse
The cottage gear industry doesn't just need makers. It needs a place where makers can be found and a community that connects them to the hikers they serve. In "From Basement to Warehouse," we meet the ecosystem. Lloyd Vogel built Garage Grown Gear from a Minnesota basement into the online home for 160 ultralight brands, developed a philosophy of digital minimalism that mirrors the ultralight ethos, and gives away buckets of his own gear to his staff. Whitney "Allgood" LaRuffa bridges makers and
S12 · E4
October 21 · 35 min
It Is Never Too Late to Rewrite Your Story - Joe Hardin (Part II)
In Part 2, the origin story. Joe Hardin was once in the pulmonary wing of a hospital, unable to walk 100 yards without supplemental oxygen, dealing with pancreatitis, a collapsed lung, and a drug and alcohol problem that had been building since middle school. On December 1st, 2019, he got sober for the last time. At his first sobriety birthday, his wife suggested a gym membership. He walked on a treadmill at 5 AM for 30 minutes because he was too embarrassed to exercise in public. He found a fly
S10 · E4
October 21 · 33 min
Maybe You're Just Not Cut Out for 100 Milers - Joe Hardin (Part I)
Joe Hardin just ran 314 miles across Tennessee in July. Self-supported. No crew, no aid stations, no shade. He went nocturnal to escape the heat, slept on church porches and VFW walls, hit his lowest moment at a red bench covered in other runners' signatures at mile 186, and finished nine hours after he told Carl it would take four or five. The last 17 miles include a road called Cheese Grater Road, a series of bean fields, and three consecutive signs that all say one more mile. In Part 1, Doc a
October 19 · 49 min
Donovan "Iceman" Rice: First Great Colorado Route Thru-Hike
Donovan "Iceman" Rice drew a 2,000-mile loop around Colorado, told us in April he might be "wildly off" on every number, and then walked it: the first person ever to thru-hike the Great Colorado Route. He is back on Hiker Trash Radio to be audited. Doc hauls out every promise Iceman made before his start and demands a verdict of promise kept or promise broken, with a surprising number of confessions. The four-month estimate became four and a half. The 1,700 miles became more than 2,000. A planne
S12 · E4
October 17 · 20 min
Trail Stories - It Is Never Too Late to Rewrite Your Story with Joe Hardin
Joe Hardin once couldn't walk 100 yards without supplemental oxygen. He was in the pulmonary wing of a hospital, dealing with pancreatitis, a collapsed lung, and a drug and alcohol problem that had been building since middle school. On December 1st, 2019, he got sober. On his first sobriety birthday, his wife suggested a gym membership. He walked on a treadmill for 30 minutes at 5 AM because he was embarrassed to exercise in public. He found a flyer for a turkey trot on the door on his way out a
October 16 · 13 min
The Cottage - Episode 3: The Whiteboard and the Sewing Machine
Dan Durston spent hours on the Pacific Crest Trail thinking about tent geometry: why did trekking pole shelters have to be so complicated? Three years later, on the Great Divide Trail in Canada, the answer clicked: a rectangle, two poles, set on one angle while you sleep on the other. He didn't mean to start a company. The X-Mid just solved a problem that wouldn't leave him alone. Cameron "Chef" Abila was a real estate agent whose grandmother wished she could sew all day. Together, with her 40 y
S12 · E3
October 14 · 46 min
Long Walks and Rabid Dogs - Cam "Swami" Honan (Part II)
In Part 2, Cam and Doc get into what he's built and what he believes. The Hiking Life: a free resource started in 2010 while he was building the website and scanning pre-digital photos; now covering everything from Patagonia to Siberia, a mix of trip reports, skills articles, and what he calls random musings, including "Practical but Crappy Christmas Gifts for Hikers" (starts with Ziploc bags) and "50 Reasons You've Taken Ultralight Backpacking Too Far" (ends with trimming the bristles of your t
S12 · E3
October 14 · 52 min
Long Walks and Rabid Dogs - Cam "Swami" Honan (Part I)
Backpacker Magazine has called Cam "Swami" Honan the most traveled hiker on earth. He has walked more than 75,000 miles across 68 countries. His Hiking Poll score is 7 out of 100 — the lowest score in the history of Hiker Trash Radio, and a record Cam considers fair. In Part 1, he and Doc cover the origins of the trail name Swami, the genesis and planning of the 12 Long Walks, the Calendar Year Triple Crown (which was a byproduct rather than a goal), what 14,000 miles of cold soaking does to a p
October 12 · 31 min
The Barkley: A Love Story - Episode 3, "They Figured It Out"
The Barkley: A Love Story concludes. This is the episode the series has been building toward. We hear from the finishers: the 26 people in 40 years who have completed five loops in 60 hours. Jared Campbell, four-time finisher, on what the race selects for in a person. John Kelly, who grew up across the road from Frozen Head State Park and calls the Barkley his home course. Ihor Verys, who didn't like running six years before he finished first. John Fegyveresi, who applied from Antarctica and he
October 12 · 28 min
The Barkley: A Love Story - Episode 2, "The Edge of Possible"
The Barkley: A Love Story continues. In Episode Two, we go to Frozen Head State Park. This episode is anchored by audio captured live at the 2025 Barkley Marathons: the conch blow, Laz's pre-race speech, the reading of the names of those no longer with us, taps, and the lighting of the cigarette. You hear the race begin. Then you hear what happens to the people who go out into those woods. We hear from runners who trained for years and came up short. From crew members who waited at the gate fo
October 12 · 21 min
The Barkley: A Love Story - Episode 1, "I Discovered It"
The Barkley Marathons has only been finished 26 times in 40 years. This is the first episode of a three-part audio documentary series from Hiker Trash Radio — The Barkley: A Love Story. In Episode One, we go to the beginning. Who is Gary "Laz" Cantrell, the man who built the most obsessively followed race in endurance sport? We hear from Laz himself on how the Barkley was born, why it was designed the way it is, and what he sees when he looks at the people who come to run it. We also hear from
S12 · E3
October 10 · 27 min
Trail Stories - There's a Fine Line Between Sad and Impressive with Cam "Swami" Honan
Backpacker Magazine has called Cam Honan the most traveled hiker on earth. He has walked more than 75,000 miles across 68 countries. He completed the 12 Long Walks [12 consecutive thru-hikes, 14,000 miles, 29 states, 4 Canadian provinces, 18 months] and along the way, as a byproduct rather than a goal, put up one of the fastest Triple Crowns ever recorded. He cold-soaked for the entire 14,000 miles. He chugged quarts of gas station eggnog through a winter AT section because at 1,300 calories per
October 9 · 14 min
The Cottage - Episode 2: Quit Your Day Job
Every cottage gear founder had a moment when they walked away from a conventional career. In "Quit Your Day Job," we hear four of those stories. Whitney "Allgood" LaRuffa spent 17 years as a commodity broker before his body and mind told him he wasn't going to survive another year in that chair. Luke "Bus" Piersall bounced from Hawaii film sets to Hollywood to South American tour guiding to commercial photography before getting fired on the day he thought he was being promoted to VP; he then gam
S12 · E2
October 7 · 38 min
"I Had A Big Old Blank Canvas." - Watergirl (Part II)
In Part 2, the real story of why Andrea was primed for that stranger's suggestion in Vermont comes into full focus: years of political reporting that included mass shooting coverage and a growing inability to trust what people told her; a divorce after 13 years that left her grieving a version of the future and staring at a blank canvas she was too afraid to paint; and the accumulated weight of feeling like she was the center of a universe that would stop spinning if she stopped working. She jus

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