Monday, September 21, 2026CDT Trail Correspondent Jared "Fisherman" Lampal - The Post-Hike Debrief
He started in a desert in New Mexico, drank out of a cow pond, and told us he'd be back at his desk in Washington, DC by October 1st. On September 7th...
Saturday, September 19, 2026Trail Stories - The Youngest at the Finish Line with Kaylee Frederick
At 16, Kaylee Frederick laid down in the middle of a 100-mile race at mile 93 and cried for what felt like the rest of her life while other runners st...
Friday, September 18, 2026The Route Makers - Episode 5: Adjustments on the Fly
The Route Makers finale: Renee "She-Ra" Patrick, longtime coordinator of the Oregon Desert Trail, on a career spent designing some of America's hardes...
Wednesday, September 16, 2026There's No Suck to be Embraced - Bradford "Rafiki" Bartels (Part II)
In Part 2, Rafiki gets into the substance: the trail's political situation (he read 990 tax forms and called the opposition before deciding to hike), ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2026There's No Suck to be Embraced - Bradford "Rafiki" Bartels (Part I)
Bradford "Rafiki" Bartels just became the first person to thru-hike the Alaska Long Trail, and his hiking poll score of 33 out of 100 — which he descr...
Saturday, September 12, 2026Trail Stories - There's No Suck to Be Embraced with Bradford "Rafiki" Bartels
Bradford "Rafiki" Bartels just became the first person to thru-hike the Alaska Long Trail — a roughly 500-mile route from Seward to Fairbanks that is ...
Friday, September 11, 2026The Route Makers - Episode 4: The Eraser and the Gift
The Route Makers Episode 4: Kevin "The Animal" Koski, Donovan "Iceman" Rice, Rue McKenrick, and Wesley "Megaman" Tils on what happens to a route after...
Wednesday, September 9, 2026Hexatrek with a Dog - Fab, Fitch, and Billie (Part II)
In Part 2, the origin stories. Fitch has been traveling since 21, lives a leap-before-you-look life that has taken him on a borrowed bike from Paris t...
Wednesday, September 9, 2026Hexatrek with a Dog - Fab, Fitch, and Billie (Part I)
Fab, Fitch, and Billie are currently halfway through the HexaTrek (France's 3,000-kilometer Grand Traverse) on their first thru-hike, as a couple who ...
Monday, September 7, 2026A Hiker's History of the Appalachian Trail with Mills Kelly, Author and A.T. Historian (Virginia Outdoors Adventures Podcast)
The Appalachian Trail is more than a footpath - it’s a living piece of American history. Stretching over 2,000 miles from Georgia to Maine, the A.T. w...
Saturday, September 5, 2026Trail Stories - Is This the Summer We Quit?
Fab and Fitch met a year ago at a Facebook group hike in Gold Coast, Australia that Fab almost talked herself out of attending. Three weeks later Fitc...
Friday, September 4, 2026The Route Makers - Episode 3: The Concrete Wilderness
The Route Makers Episode 3: Liz "Snorkel" Thomas and Alexandra "Sunshine" Kenin on urban thru-hiking: inventing 100-mile hiking routes through America...
