Hiker Trash Radio
Doc, Bleav
300 episodes
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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Trail Stories - Your Time is Limited with Jada "Flo" Lippincott
About the Guest Jada "Flo" Lippincott is a 27-year-old thru-hiker, splitboarder, canyoneer, packrafter, and full-time truck dweller based in Big Sky, Montana. Originally from Fairfield, Iowa, she discovered the…
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The Route Makers - Episode 1: The Map Moment
The Route Makers, Episode 1: "The Map Moment" — Andrew Skurka, Rue McKenrick, Kevin Koski, and Donovan Rice on the birth of a long-distance route. Every trail feels permanent. The Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest,…
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The Full Range - Carolyn Highland (Part II)
About the Guest Carolyn Highland is a writer, outdoor educator, and endurance athlete based in Anchorage, Alaska. Her second essay collection, The Full Range: Essays from a Life Outside, is published by Rocky Mountain…
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The Full Range - Carolyn Highland (Part I)
About the Guest Carolyn Highland is a writer, outdoor educator, and endurance athlete based in Anchorage, Alaska. Her second essay collection, The Full Range: Essays from a Life Outside, is published by Rocky Mountain…
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Dark Miles - The Longest Swim with Chris Carroll
On January 8th, 2026, Chris Carroll was on a hotel balcony in St. Croix when the beach got loud. He heard someone yell for a lifeguard. He knew there were no lifeguards. He swam out. Chris is an emergency nurse, a…
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Trail Stories - The Full Range with Carolyn Highland
About the Guest Carolyn Highland is a writer, outdoor educator, and endurance athlete based in Anchorage, Alaska. Her second essay collection, The Full Range: Essays from a Life Outside, is published by Rocky Mountain…
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The Big Year - Bonus Episode: "This is Gonna Hurt"
Brandon Weis is from Ottawa, Ohio — farm country, flat, not a hiking family. He grew up playing football and basketball. His first experience in the mountains was a 2018 university group trip to the High Sierra, where…
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No Limit - Lindsay Phenix (Part II)
About the Guest Lindsay Phenix is an elite ultra-marathoner, two-time Badwater 135 finisher, run coach, and podcast co-host based in Los Angeles, California. She has completed approximately 145 marathons and…
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No Limit - Lindsay Phenix (Part I)
About the Guest Lindsay Phenix is an elite ultra-marathoner, two-time Badwater 135 finisher, run coach, and podcast co-host based in Los Angeles, California. She has completed approximately 145 marathons and…
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CDT Trail Correspondent Jared "Fisherman" Lampal - Check-In #2
CDT Trail Correspondent Jared "Fisherman" Lampal checks in from Montana as he closes in on the northern terminus of the CDT. Settle in and buckle up as Fisherman gives us the updates on Colorado and Wyoming, and what…
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Trail Stories - No Limit with Lindsay Phenix
About the Guest Lindsay Phenix is an elite ultra-marathoner, two-time Badwater 135 finisher, run coach, and podcast co-host based in Los Angeles, California. She has completed approximately 145 marathons and…
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The Big Year: Episode 4 - The Limit
On New Year's Eve, Madison Blagden and Philip Witmer finish at the southernmost point in the continental United States. Two hikers are there to watch them, about to attempt the same thing themselves, starting the next…
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Carry the Damn First Aid Kit - Dave, aka Slowfoot (Part II)
About the Guest Dave — trail name SlowFoot — is a three-time Appalachian Trail thru-hiker, seven-time Long Trail thru-hiker (including three winter traversals), and among the first to complete both the Eastern…
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Carry the Damn First Aid Kit - Dave, aka Slowfoot (Part I)
About the Guest Dave — trail name SlowFoot — is a three-time Appalachian Trail thru-hiker, seven-time Long Trail thru-hiker (including three winter traversals), and among the first to complete both the Eastern…
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Appalachian Trail Correspondent Dana Wolf - Check-in from the Trail #1
Triple Crowner and HTR AT Trail Correspondent Dana "Sniper" Wolf checks in with Doc from the trail on her yo-yo hike of the trail. Settle in and buckle up as Sniper shares how it's going, the biggest surprises, and…
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Trail Stories - The Old World with SlowFoot
About the Guest Dave — trail name SlowFoot — is a three-time Appalachian Trail thru-hiker, seven-time Long Trail thru-hiker (including three winter traversals), and among the first to complete both the Eastern…
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The Big Year: Episode 3 - The Record
Jeff Garmire completed the Calendar Year Triple Crown in 2016. When asked if there was a Fastest Known Time for it, he said it wasn't really a competitive thing, people just want to finish. Then he was asked directly…
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Vibe Drinking with the Beans Lady - Maria "Beans" Romfoe (Part II)
Maria "Beans" Romfoe — AT and PCT thru-hiker, CDT finisher-minus-New-Mexico, and the internet's foremost beanfluencer — joins Doc for her first-ever podcast appearance. Beans traces the origin of her trail name from a…
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Vibe Drinking with the Beans Lady - Maria "Beans" Romfoe (Part I)
Maria "Beans" Romfoe — AT and PCT thru-hiker, CDT finisher-minus-New-Mexico, and the internet's foremost beanfluencer — joins Doc for her first-ever podcast appearance. Beans traces the origin of her trail name from a…
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Trail Stories - "She Just Wants to Exist" with Maria "Beans" Romfoe
About the Guest Maria "Beans" Romfoe is an ABNM Triple Crown hiker — Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and Continental Divide Trail minus New Mexico — a beanfluencer, and the sole representative of what she…
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The Big Year: Episode 2 - The Year
The plan looks clean on paper. Then you start hiking. Episode 2 of The Big Year follows the year through all three trails. The Aqueduct in the Mojave, hiked at night for four nights straight. A wildfire in Northern…
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Dark Miles - If I Slow Down with Casey "Vegas" Huffman
Casey “Vegas the Pied Piper” Huffman thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2023 and the Pacific Crest Trail in 2025, and six weeks after telling Hiker Trash Radio that nothing would stop his 2027 Continental Divide Trail…
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When the Wand Breaks - Casey "Vegas" Huffman
️ In This Episode, We Discuss: • The Coworker's Lodge Floor: Why Vegas is recording from a room that smells suspiciously good, surrounded by floral decor in Silver Gate, Montana. • The Tahoe Rim Trail Victory Lap:…
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The Big Year: Episode 1 - The Call
The Calendar Year Triple Crown doesn't recruit. It gets into people — through a sign above a bar, through a podcast episode, through the quiet math a hiker does at the end of a long day when they realize they want more…
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The Full Traverse - Mr. Fabulous is Everyone
The Full Traverse is Hiker Trash Radio's narrative documentary series, drawing from years of conversations with a single guest to tell their complete story. This episode: Derick "Fab" Lugo — author, speaker, and…
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The Full Traverse - Mountains Don't Care with Ben "Ginger Ballz" Vaughan
The Full Traverse is HTR's long-form narrative format, drawing from multiple years of conversations with a single guest to tell the complete story. This is Episode 3. Guest: Ben Vaughan, trail name Ginger Ballz — Navy…
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The Full Traverse - Thoughts on a Zero Day with Eddie "Bard" Janicki
The Full Traverse is HTR's long-form narrative format, drawing from multiple years of conversations with a single guest to tell the complete story. This is Episode 4. Guest: Eddie Janicki, trail name Bard — Triple…
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The Source Material: Episode 6 - Barkley's Mad Genius
Guest Featured Lazarus Lake (Gary Cantrell) Creator of the Barkley Marathons and the Backyard Ultra in direct conversation with Doc Key Themes • Laz on the design philosophy of the Barkley with uncertainty as the…
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Walking Away From a Life That Worked - Jeff "Bluey" Lewis (Part II)
Picking back up, Bluey traces the real origin of his AT dream back to childhood summer camp, where two counselors disappeared for a season to thru-hike the trail and came back changed men — planting a seed that took…
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Walking Away From a Life That Worked - Jeff "Bluey" Lewis (Part I)
Jeff "Bluey" Lewis joins Hiker Trash Radio to talk about walking away from over 16 years in nonprofit leadership and business strategy at age 40 to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail in 2025 — all 2,198 miles of it,…
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The Full Traverse - Hike or Die with Wesley "Megaman" Tils
The Full Traverse is HTR's long-form narrative format, drawing from multiple years of conversations with a single guest to tell the complete story. This episode covers Wesley "Mega Man" Tils. Guest: Wesley "Mega Man"…
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Trail Stories - What Would Your Dead Self Say?
About the Guest Jeff "Bluey" Lewis spent 16 years in nonprofit leadership and business strategy before resigning at 40 to hike the Appalachian Trail, Georgia to Maine, in 2025 — 2,198 miles in five months. The hike…
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The Source Material: Episode 5 - Whistling in the Dark
Guest Featured Jared Beasley Journalist and author of The Endurance Artist: Lazarus Lake, the Barkley, and a Race With No End (Simon & Schuster) Key Themes • The writing of The Endurance Artist: what three years of…
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The Four Corners Loop - Kevin Koski (Part II)
About the Guest Kevin Koski — The Animal — is a nuclear engineer for the U.S. Navy and the creator of the Four Corners Loop, a roughly 2,400-mile self-designed route through the American Southwest. He has hiked the CDT…
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The Four Corners Loop - Kevin Koski (Part I)
About the Guest Kevin Koski — trail name The Animal — is a CDT (2004) and PCT (2014) veteran, a nuclear engineer for the U.S. Navy, and the creator of the Four Corners Loop (FCL), an approximately 2,400-mile,…
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The Big Year - Trailer
Three trails. One year. Fewer than 30 people in history have done it. The Big Year: A Calendar Year Triple Crown Documentary is a four-part narrative audio series coming soon to Hiker Trash Radio. It starts with a…
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Trail Stories - The Circle on the Map with Kevin "The Animal" Koski
About the Guest Kevin Koski, trail name The Animal, is a nuclear engineer for the U.S. Navy, a CDT (2004) and PCT (2014) veteran, and the creator of the Four Corners Loop: a self-designed, approximately 2,400-mile…
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The Source Material: Episode 4 - The Endurance Artist
Guest Featured Jared Beasley Journalist and author - The Endurance Artist: Lazarus Lake, the Barkley, and a Race With No End (Simon & Schuster) Key Themes • How Jared earned access to Laz: the math problem, the…
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Accidental Influencer - Madeline Hyrse (Part II)
About the Guest Madeline Hryse recently completed four years of continuous nomadic travel — three years backpacking through Asia, one year cycling solo and with company from southern China to Sweden. She is newly…
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Accidental Influencer - Madeline Hyrse (Part I)
About the Guest Madeline Hryse has been nomadic for over four years — the first three spent backpacking through Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, the fourth spent cycling…
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The Big Year - Teaser
Three trails. One year. Fewer than 30 people in history have done it. The Big Year: A Calendar Year Triple Crown Documentary is a four-part narrative audio series coming soon to Hiker Trash Radio. It starts with a…
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Trail Stories - The Short-Term Fear with Madeline Hryse
About the Guest Madeline Hryse spent four years nomadic — three years backpacking through Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and China, and one year cycling solo and with company…
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The Source Material: Episode 3 - 99 Seconds and Jasmin Paris
Guest Featured Jasmin Paris First female finisher of the Barkley Marathons: veterinarian, mother of two, Green Runners co-founder Key Themes • The calculated three-year progression: Fun Run in 40 hours, then 36,…
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New Mexico Pack Burros - Shane Weigand (Part II)
About the Guest Shane Weigand is the founder of New Mexico Pack Burros, based outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. In addition to running backcountry packing trips and clinics, he directs five pack burro races on the…
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New Mexico Pack Burros - Shane Weigand (Part I)
About the Guest Shane Weigand is the founder and chief burro wrangler of New Mexico Pack Burros, based outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. A former wildland firefighter and wildlife biologist who managed public lands in…
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The Full Traverse - Lady Unicorn
The Full Traverse is a new long-form narrative format on Hiker Trash Radio. Each episode draws from multiple years of conversations with a single guest to tell the complete story: where they started, what shaped them,…
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Trail Stories - The Burros Built it
About the Guest Shane Weigand is the founder of New Mexico Pack Burros, based outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. A former wildland firefighter and wildlife biologist who spent his career managing public lands, Shane…
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The Source Material: Episode 2 - Runners and Crew
Guests Featured Richard Shannon Zambia: first Zambian to run the Barkley Marathons Isobel Ross Australian at her third Barkley attempt Elizabeth Bespalov Isobel's daughter, crew member, learned about the race at age 5…
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(Corrected) Trail Correspondent Austen Goehring - Follow Up
Our 2026 Pacific Crest Trail correspondent Austen Goring made it 76 miles before a mysterious ankle injury forced him off the trail. In this episode, Doc sits down with Austen to talk about what happened out there —…
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Itchy Feet - Will "Last Strap" Roquemore (Part II)
About the Guest Will Roquemore — trail name Last Strap — is a fourth-generation Idahoan, PCT class of 2025 finisher, and full-time Prius nomad based in Boise, Idaho. He produces hiking content on YouTube at Sucker for…
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