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 Part 1, she and Doc cover the Topo Athletic UltraVenture toolkit, the culture surprise of how much section-skipping is actually happening on the modern PCT, the double zero editing system, what the Sierra meant to her as her all-time favorite backpacking destination, and the low moment that combined a three-day cold, rain, period, no stove fuel, and a trail family that apparently didn't know she was sick into a very specific kind of campground bathroom pout. She also discusses the NorCal blues that followed her across the Oregon border, the midway marker that finally convinced her she was going to finish, and where she grew up and how she got here.

Part 2 drops in 10 minutes.