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 knowing nothing to finishing the PCT in that decade), the biggest barriers keeping people out of the backcountry, the LNT principle she thinks is most underrated (Plan Ahead and Prepare), how teaching and creating feed each other in both directions, and what she wants solo women especially to know about safety. She also reveals the JMT conclusion she and her younger brother reached at the end of their 2019 trip [that there was no way they could do five months of the PCT] and then immediately contradicts herself by finishing the PCT. And she closes on the trail name she almost got, the Jeffrey pines around San Jacinto that smell like vanilla and butterscotch if you know where to put your nose, and why she declined to be known as Crack Sniffer.

If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, start there — it dropped 10 minutes ago.