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 that sat with her until the midway marker, the system she developed for being a creator without letting the camera steal the hike, the one crying moment in Southern California (cold, rain, period, no stove fuel, trail family moving too fast, everything at once), the NorCal blues that followed her across the Oregon border, what the trail finally taught her about what she's capable of, the trail name she almost received at San Jacinto, and why Jeffrey pine bark smells like vanilla and butterscotch if you know where to put your nose. The full interview with Bee drops Wednesday in two parts on the Hiker Trash Radio feed.