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Episode 28: Date Published: Feb 08th, 2023 / Length: 2 hours + 23 minutes / Hosts: Dan Deveau with Mallory & Luke
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Show Notes:
- 0:30 / Opening violin theme song with our three sponsors Triple Crown Coffee, Purple Rain Adventure Skirts and Thru-R then our opening song always playing before the guest… it’s from Dispatch with their song “Only The Wild Ones“
- 1:24 / Dan’s ramble and intro to the episode before we get started.
- 4:50 / Segment starts and they are not that far on the map from Dan in Peterborough. Tobermory is on Dan’s bucket list. They are not that far away from it and that’s cool.
- (Photo Above): Tim Horton’s is a big coffee shop here in Canada on every corner. They talk about how they met and their wedding. Here is the post that Dan was talking about them and the wedding after this clip on their IG that can be found here.
- The highlights on their IG about the wedding are here. They talk about climbing together and travelling.
- Free Solo is an incredible movie that everyone has to watch. Dan talks about the Movie 180 South which is also really good.
- Dan asks them how they found out about the PCT and what made the want to hike it. Dixie on YouTube is here. Mallory talks about who she followed on IG. They talk about Renee & Tim who are huge on TikTok which they don’t really use but Dan & Chantal will use it more when we get closer. Renee & Tim are great for knowledge. You can find all our socials here.
- Dan talks about Magnet and finds out Mallory and Luke bumped into him and flip-flopped with him a bit. Magnet Northbound (AKA James) can be found on YouTube here. His videos are excellent with his visuals and storytelling. His Instagram account can be found here. His show notes for his episode are here: You can find his two episodes here. You can listen to his episode here for Part 1 and Part 2.
- Here is the website/app that Dan was talking about that you can virtually hike trails around the world if you need a challenge.
- The conversation talked about them deciding at the last minute to hike the PCT in 2022. We ramble on about all the things about starting off and as they make their way north starting out on the Pacific Crest Trail.
- Dan also asks if they bumped into the Daley Family hiking with their 3 kids hiking the PCT in 2022 who were on our podcast. They did in Hikertown. David & Marketa Daley along with Marketa’s sister Barbora and the father of Marketa and Barbora is “Jedda” join us for episode 14. You can listen here. Marketa’s Instagram you can find here and it’s filled with incredible images and descriptions of the daily grind on trail.
- 56:45 / Triple Crown Coffee commercial. Chris’s segment starts and runs for 64 minutes to the 1 hour and 9min mark in episode 16. He owns Triple Crown Coffee.
- 57:58 / Second segment starts. We talk about the weather and Dan finds out the weather website for the AT and the PCT to check out.
- 59:40 / Dan asks them what it was like to have a birthday on trail when she went 26 miles on her 26th birthday. They talk about the mental reflection part of the hike.
- 1hr 5min / Audio clip from IG about Mallory’s pain in her foot. Dan asks if they had any injuries on trail.
- 1hr 9min / Dan also mentions Doug Laher being on our podcast, which we will re-post again shortly. His son Trevor “Microsoft” Laher slipped and fell 11 days into his PCT hike. Dan asks them about Trevor and what that section was like near Apache Peak. Doug’s his first podcast and reads the article he wrote for the Trek on the Trek’s Backpacker Radio episode #73 which is very raw. You can find it here. In the second part of the episode, the show interviews someone from the Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit and that is also worthwhile to listen to. There is a great article from Louise Farr from AltaOnline that talks about the accident and also invited Doug and Cameron on a Zoom call that is hosted on YouTube. Riverside Mountain Rescue Unit is the incredible volunteers that go out on every mission when people are hurt or missing in and around a large area that they cover.
- Jon King AKA “SanJacJon” from his website SanJacJon.com covers Mt. San Jacinto which is a great resource for this area. Luke mentions he is really really tall… which sounds right since he is “legend” status.
- 1hr 15m 40s / Mayor Max (who will be on the pod soon) and they talk about the Daley Family who hiked with 3 little kids. Check out episode 14 for their episode. Mallory talks about Mandy from Purple Rain Adventure skirts who was on episode 10 talking about her family finally putting the business on autopilot and taking her family truck camping in Baja. You can listen to it here. She then came back on the show to talk about how her PCT hike was going with her partner and Son in episode 13. Dan made a blog post about how many kids are on trail this year. We have links for Mandy who is on our podcast hiking with a 5-year-old on the PCT
- 1hr 23m 25s / Dan asked what the nights were like and the sleep system they used. They then segway into the evening routine and who does what.
- Dan asks them if they bumped into Morgan from Blaze Physio who was on our episode 18. Her show notes for her episode is here. Morgan’s website is Blaze Physio. Morgan’s IG handle is @blazephysio (weblink for her IG). She helped Yogi on her FB Group with an educational Zoom. Here is Morgan’s PDF from the Zoom. / You can listen to her episode here.
- 1h 29m 50s / Dan asks them about getting into the Sierras May 8th.
- 1h 34m / The talk shifts towards Mt. Whitney summit. A little more about Mt. Whitney Dan & Chantal wants to attempt to summit this mountain. It’s a side trip on the PCT and Dan lists the different side trips they want to do on the PCT on their blog. (The Side Trips we plan to take )
- 1h 40m / The talk shifts toward Forrester Pass and about Maddie.
- 1h 49m / They talk about the Reds Meadow Hot Spring.
- 1h 53m / They talk about going up Half Dome in Yosemite. Dan asks them lots of questions about Half-Dome. Dan & Chantal want to take a “Zeek” off trail. Then a segway into us possibly planning a “Trailcation” of spending some off-trail time at Yosemite. Yosemite and Half Dome
- 2h 6m / The Ginger & the Joy with Wes & Marie is talked about. Show notes are here >> Episode 26: Date Published: Feb 1st, 2023 / Length: 3 hours 10 mins / Hosts: Dan Deveau with Guests Wesley & Marie Black You can find Wesley (Yeti Legs) and Marie (Basecamp) Black here on YouTube and here on Instagram. / Listen to their episode here.
- Christina and Andrew who did a podcast on trail called WTF (Walking Towards Fear) are talked about.
- The Wildfires impacting the PCT
- They talk about the finish and what Oregon + Washington was like. Dan asked them if they wanted to do anything different on trail for the last steps of this thru-hike.
- 2h 13m / Excellent idea Luke talks about how they wrote letters to each other to read at the Northern Terminus.
It’s hard to type out these show notes at 1am.
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