All Episodes

The last time Chris "Rad" Carter was on Hiker Trash Radio, he had just completed the Triple Crown, with the CDT and AT in a single calendar year. Sinc...

The Route Makers Episode 2: Rue McKenrick, Kevin "The Animal" Koski, Wesley "Megaman" Tils, and Andrew Skurka on what it costs to walk a route no one ...

In Part 2, Flo's origin story comes into full focus: an Iowa kid who traveled the country in a motor home with her grandparents every summer, got a gu...

Jada Lippincott (trail name Flo, acquired in the most appropriate possible way on day one of the Arizona Trail) has hiked over 9,000 miles, lived full...

Jada Lippincott grew up in Fairfield, Iowa (population 10,000, not a lot to do) and did not hike a single meaningful mile until a semester abroad in F...

The Route Makers Episode 1: Andrew Skurka, Rue McKenrick, Kevin "The Animal" Koski, and Donovan "Iceman" Rice on inventing long-distance routes — the ...

In Part 2, Carolyn Highland gets into the adventures, the essays, and the through-line that ties them together. She runs 40-mile loops solo in the Eas...

Carolyn Highland is a writer, outdoor educator, and endurance athlete whose new essay collection, The Full Range, is out this October from Rocky Mount...

On January 8th, 2026, Chris Carroll was on the balcony of his hotel in St. Croix downloading GoPro footage when the beach got loud. Then louder. Then ...

Carolyn Highland has been writing since she was seven years old, which means she has been trying to put into language the experience of being alive fo...

Brandon Weis had never thru-hiked anything before he attempted the Calendar Year Triple Crown. He got his trail name carrying a 70-pound pack on a uni...

In Part 2, Lindsay Phenix gets into the coaching side of her life — what she sees first-time 100-miler athletes get wrong (doing too much, too fast), ...