This week’s episode features Kevin Grooman aka “Spacejam” + I met Kevin through Dylan’s hiker chat (go listen to last week’s episode!). He’s triple crowned and gotten engaged along the way. + In this episode we’re talking about triple crowning; navigating home ownership, a career, and thruhiking all at once; forging a relationship formed in “real life” on the trail; Casa de Luna and Hiker Heaven closing; CDT vs PCT vs AT culture and intimidation level; the most epic trail magic ever; paper maps vs guthooks; bringing a camera on trail; finding your place after triple crowning; as well as the pandemic and the antiracism movement in the US in 2020. + Thanks to Chelsea Hall and Monica Aguilar, our Patron donors this week. And shoutout to Michelle and Eric Meltzer, my parents, who always support the show. + Find Kevin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/groomanji/?hl=en Kevin’s website: https://www.groomanji.com/ + Find Rachel on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meltzerseltzer Rachel’s website: https://www.trailnamehere.com/ + Dylan “Pickle” Tonkin’s Hiker Chat (DM him on instagram!): https://www.instagram.com/dstonkin/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theguidebook/support

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Dylan Tonkin This episode features Dylan “Pickle” Tonkin + I saw Dylan’s podcast come out at the end of 2018 when I was just under a year into my show. I remember being completely jealous and totally comparing myself to him bahahah I was still so self-conscious about podcasting back then. + Fast-forward to nearly a year and a half later, I decided to kick my ego out and message Dylan on Instagram to see if he might want to come on my show and do a crossover episode like the one I’d done with Trail Tales. + Man, Dylan turned out to be so kind, funny, and such a great conversation. On our pre-recording screening chat (usually about 15 minutes) we talked for almost an hour! He invited me to his hiker chat (you’re invited too, see the podcast episode description your fave podcast player for details!) and it was a blast. It felt SO good to reconnect with the hiking community virtually while we can’t be out on trail. + This episode was incredible. We talked about how the trail community and the relationships we build on the trail, how the trail brings us back to our best selves, starting your own business after thruhiking, starting a podcast, and social media on trail. Dylan also opens up and shares a very personal story with us about the one day that hit him the hardest emotionally on the trail and why he kept going after it. + I hope this episode inspires you. Whether you’re dreaming about thruhiking, considering entrepreneurship, or you’re also facing the death of an important person in your life, we’ve got something for you here. This episode really rekindled my excitement to plan another thruhike and to push myself harder with this podcast. + If you haven’t heard, our Patreon has officially launched! You can find the link in our bio! Patreon is a platform that allows our listeners to support the show through a small monthly donation. All patrons (people who donate) will receive a free sticker, invites to The Guidebook community meetups (check out our story for deets!), and even voting power. By joining us on Patreon, you’re helping pay for our server costs and gear maintenance. + I want to thank you ALL for being here listening. I am so grateful that I get to connect with you through this amazing journey. + Thanks to our Patrons + Donors: Chelsea Hall Luke Pearsall  Eric Meltzer Michelle Meltzer Support The Guidebook on Patreon and get a free sticker, a shoutout in the show credits, and invites to our community events where you can talk to guests from the show (currently via zoom)! https://www.patreon.com/theguidebookpod  +  Follow Dylan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dstonkin/ And be sure to direct message him if you want to join in on the Hiker Chat! It takes place every Wednesday at 6pmET over Zoom. Dylan’s Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/2F0P14DYPZTGQ1Clly09pJ Follow Rachel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meltzerseltzer Rachel’s Website: https://www.trailnamehere.com/ The photo for this episode was taken by Twerk! Find Twerk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twerkinthedirt/ Twerk’s Website: https://www.tommycorey.com/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theguidebook/support

Dylan "Pickle" Tonkin

It’s been so amazing to get to talk to thruhikers from other countries this season. You might remember episode 1 of this season with @ValIsmaili who hiked the Transcaucasian trail. He connected me with @Leahikes who is an expert thruhiker from Germany. She’s lived and hiked basically all over the world. + In this episode Lea and I got to chat about arranging your life to allow for lots of hiking, the time her backpack got stollen in Chile, vanlife in Switzerland, gear and food – of course, resupplying in a foreign country and hiking alone as a solo female traveler. We also discuss what makes an expert because often, even though we might be incredibly experienced, we don’t feel like “experts.” + If you haven’t heard, I’ve launched our Patreon early! Head to patreon.com/theguidebookpod. For just $5/month you can support the show so that we can get back on a paid server! + You’ll receive a sticker and a handwritten thank you card from me in the mail. Plus, you’ll get exclusive invites to The Guidebook events which I’ll be creating via Zoom during the coming months! I can’t wait to meet you all face to face. It blows my mind that there are so many of you listening every week. + If you can’t afford to support us through Patreon monthly, you can make a one-time donation to our PayPal (paypal.me/trailnamehere). OR you can share the show with your friends, subscribe to the show on your fave podcast player, or review the show! It helps more people find us. + I’m so grateful to have all of you here listening in this big extended tramily. I can’t wait to meet you over on Patreon! + Now,  listen to this episode and comment over on our insta!: How are you making time and space in your life for outdoor adventures?  + Follow Lea on Instagram: instagram.com/leahikes  Follow Rachel on Instagram: instagram.com/meltzerseltzer Follow The Guidebook on Instagram: instagram.com/theguidebookpod Rachel's Website: trailnamehere.com The Guidebook on Patreon: patreon.com/theguidebookpod --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theguidebook/support

Lea 'Blue Cheese' Geibel

I met AM Fog (aka @ashermcglothlin) on the Appalachian Trail in 2018 when we were both making our way Northbound through the Smokies. + Asher is a musician, grad student, and thruhiker. He just released a new EP called “Smothered, Lovered, and Covered” which is available now on his website and will be available on all streaming platforms on July 30th! + This episode is a simple shooting the shit trail stories episode much like the classic Podcast Here episodes from our origin. We talk about the blizzard we trekked through in the Smokies, the moment you realize you can hike your own hike, the powerful confidence thruhiking gives you, the best trail magic ever, and so much more. + I hope this episode helps you reminisce or look forward to your first thruhike. Maybe it’ll even help you avoid our novice mice mishaps and pack enough food! + One thing that hit me from this episode is when Asher said “Even on the hard days there was never anywhere else I’d rather be. That is a hard feeling to recapture.” + Give it a listen along with all of our other episodes from season 3 on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts! + P.S. Thanks for all of your patience with this season’s new host and upload limits! We’ll get it right next week! + We’ll be rebooting our Patreon next month with tiers starting as low as $3/mo! I’d love it if you’ll join us over there for some bonus content, merch, and virtual community gatherings! Stay tuned for its release on Thursday, August 6th. + Asher's Website: https://www.ashermcglothlin.com/store/smothered-lovered-and-covered-digital-download-hear-it-today Rachel's Website: trailnamehere.com  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theguidebook/support

Asher "AM Fog" McGlothlin

Welcome back to part two of my lovely chat with Elina "Tip Tap" Osborne!! + In this second part of our chat we dive deeper and discuss the impact of social media on thruhiking and story telling, the glorification of thruhiking on Youtube, the struggle of telling your own story and Elina's tips on beginning to tell your own, camping alone, and Elina's best cry on trail.  + I hope y'all love this episode as much as I did. Elina has inspired me to work on my trail memoir again with renewed excitement! Are you working on any storytelling projects? Let us know in the comments! + If you love the show, please please subscribe on your favorite podcast player and rate and review the show! You can also just share this episode on your Instagram story and send it to a friend. + Find Elina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elinasborne/ Find Elina on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/elinabox Elina's Website: https://www.elinaosborne.com/ Find Rachel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trailnamehere/ Rachel's Website: https://www.trailnamehere.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theguidebook/support

Elina "Tip Tap" Osborne | Pt. II

This week’s guest is Elina “Tip Tap” Osborne (aka @elinasborne)! . Oh my gosh, I had such a good time interviewing Elina. We have lots in common and the jokes were flowing!! We talked so much that this is going to be released as a two-part episode. . In this first part of our chat, we talk about loads of things. From life plans to the confidence we found on trail, post-trail grief to the euphoria of climbing Mount Witney, how it felt to edit her PCT videos after her thruhike, doing things for YOURSELF by YOURSELF, fear on trail, and social media on the trail. Oh, and sooooo much more. . This episode will bring you laughs, bring back memories, and hopefully get you excited about your next adventure! Find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts. . If you love the show, please please subscribe on your favorite podcast player and rate and review the show! You can also just share this episode on your Instagram story and send it to a friend. . Find Elina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elinasborne/ Find Elina on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/elinabox Elina's Website: https://www.elinaosborne.com/ Find Rachel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trailnamehere/ Rachel's Website: https://www.trailnamehere.com/ . . Life Update: I have now picked up my van! She’s amazing and I’ve named her Marcel (like the shell). Unfortunately COVID messed up some of my financial plans and is making it more difficult with cafes and gyms closed for cheap cross country travel while working more difficult. I’m saving up for some solar panels so that I can make it all happen! For now, I’ll be taking her out on weekend trips and recording podcasts in her! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theguidebook/support

Elina "Tip Tap" Osborne

Welcome back to Season 1 of The Guidebook! I'm your host Rachel. This here episode 4 features Anne “Scrappy” Baker (@ennakrek). + Anne has hiked the Wind River Travers, the Teton Crest Trail, the Sheltowee Trace Trail, parts of the Appalachian Trail and Mountains to Sea Trail, and completed the PCT in sections. She’s a PhD candidate too! + Anne wrote an article for The Trek called “Post Trail Depression: It’s Not What You Think” in 2019 and I immediately reached out to her to talk. I was so curious about her research because at the time I had just launched my Post Trail Depression survey and decided to write a book about Post Trail Depression (it’s still in the works). + This interview is more than just a talk about post trail depression – well actually post trail grief. We also discussed reconciling the person you are on trail with the person you are at home, the thruhiking community, working toward her PhD, and working in the US mental healthcare system. + Anne is incredibly smart, so relatable, and a great gear reviewer (check her out on the Trek!). I hope you’ll be able to relate to this episode and maybe put some thought into your feelings about your thruhike and yourself. + Please please subscribe and give us a quick review! Or share it with a friend! or donate to our paypal. + PS I did finally sell that saxophone! A college freshman studying jazz performance bought it from me and he uses it every day, happily. + Get 20% off of Backcountry Foodie here with he discount code “The Guidebook”: https://backcountryfoodie.com/friends Find Rachel on Instagram: instagram.com/trailnamehere Find Rachel online: Trailnamehere.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theguidebook/support

Anne 'Scrappy' Baker

This episode features Aaron Owens Mayhew. Aaron is a registered dietician and the creator of Backcountry Foodie! Aaron and her husband, Chris, live in a van they custom designed and built themselves. + We chat about how Aaron got started backpacking, thruhiking misadventures, how Aaron became a nutritionist and used those skills to create the Backcountry Foodie, the van that Aaron and her husband Chris designed and built together, and starting a small business together. Aaron also gives great tips for living vanlife with your dog! + This episode was recorded pre-COVID-19 so quick update on Aaron and Chris’s status… Aaron and Chris have traveled in their van back to Florida to park in the driveway of some family members to shelter in place safely. They’re pretty bummed because, as you’ll hear in the episode they were working on choosing a place to plant roots and begin phase two of their business. They’re incredible entrepreneurs and I know they’ll get through this. + Support them by checking out their platform and subscribing! Plus, if you want a DISCOUNT on Backcountry Foodie’s AMAZING ultralight recipes platform, go to backcountryfoodie.com/friends and enter the code “The Guidebook” for 20% off of their service! + Get 20% off of Backcountry Foodie here with he discount code “The Guidebook”: https://backcountryfoodie.com/friends Backcountry Foodie: BackcountryFoodie.com Backcountry Foodie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/backcountry_foodie/ Backcountry Foodie on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSUpLNV2Ct1WQWZHhSF3eCw Backcountry Foodie on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/backcountryfoodie Backcountry Foodie on Facebook: https://www.pinterest.com/backcountryfoodie/ Find Rachel on Instagram: instagram.com/trailnamehere Find Rachel online: Trailnamehere.com

Aaron Owens Mayhew - Backcountry Foodie

Our guest this week is Amanda aka @tidelinetoalpine on Instagram! + Amanda has lived in a van for 6 years! She thru-hiked the PCT SOBO in 2018, Hiked the Washington section of the PCT in 2019 NOBO, and she’s hiked the Sunshine Coast Trail 3 times. Amanda is a climber, photographer, and writer too. She travels everywhere with her dog Frank who has summited over 60 peaks with her. She created @walk9radio to share more about backpacking with dogs. + Amanda’s Instagram is full of truly honest and gritty accounts of her travels, the people she’s encountered, the things she’s learned, and the mental stuff she’s working through and I love that. Her honesty is really why I started following her. Plus, she shares adorable pics of her dog on her stories and in her feed! + We talked to Amanda about her choice to live in a van and some things she’s learned over the past 6 years of living in a van. Plus, we’ll touch on adventure travel with a dog! I hope we’ll get to talk about climbing too, but let’s see where this leads us! She gave us some AMAZING advice. You can find more from Amanda on her website: http://tidelinetoalpine.com/ + If you love the show, please share it with a friend!! You can also donate to the show at the link in our bio so that we can keep pumping out these extra, fun episodes!

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Our LIVE guest this week is Britany aka @britanyinwanderland! + Brit is the founder of @11thessential and a part-time road traveler who is building out a van with an incredible story. Brit is proof that stewardship matters and that a fun car camping adventure can be achieved in just about any vehicle. + I started following Brit for her stewardship promotion with 11th Essential and I stayed for her dope captions and adventures. We’ll be talking about her recently acquired van, the 11th Essential, and her adventures in part-time road travel! + If you love the show, please share it with a friend!! You can also donate to the show so that we can keep pumping out these extra, fun episodes! Even just $1 helps so much!

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Nicholas thruhiked or LASHed for three consecutive hiking seasons and since then has settled down to have a family in Maine. He's hiked the AT, PCT, and a portion of the CDT. I started following Nicholas for his simple beginner’s film photography tricks! On this episode we’ll be chatting about film photography during a thruhike, completing three thruhikes in three years, and how your thoughts about thruhiking change over time (especially after having a kid!). If you love the show, share it with a friend!! You can also donate to the show at the link in our bio so that we can keep pumping out these extra, fun episodes!  You can follow Nicholas on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicholasreichard/ You can follow the podcast on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @theguidebookpod!  https://www.instagram.com/theguidebookpod/ http://facebook.com/theguidebookpod/ https://twitter.com/theguidebookpod/ 

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Our guest this week is Allison Williams aka @sizzlemayfield and @19hourswithsizzle!She has worked with @the_sca via @americrops, worked in land management and forest service, gone on an adventure with @nolsedu, and is a yogi. I can’t wait to chat with her about all of her varied experiences! I’ve been following Allison on Instagram ever since I first thought I might want to work outside more. She is sunshiney and almost always has something funny or cheer up worthy in her stories. I love that she’s always supporting her community too. Follow her for some sunshine, work life, and inspo! If you can’t make it to Thursday’s LIVE episode, it’ll be posted to our feed on Friday! You’ll be able to find it UNEDITED on Spotify, Stitcher, Google Play, and Apple Podcasts just like our other episodes. If you love the show, consider sharing it with a friend or donating to the show at PayPal.me/trailnamehere so that we can keep pumping out these extra, fun episodes! +SEE YOU THURSDAY!Support the show (http://paypal.me/trailnamehere)

Allison "Sizzle" Williams

This episode features Tyler Lau, trail name: The Prodigy (@thehikingprodigy). He’s hiked over 8,000 miles in his lifetime including the Pacific Crest Trail, the John Muir Trail, and the Colorado Trail. He is one of 9 people to have completed a Calendar Year Triple Crown and the first person of color to do so. He is an active advocate for conservation and diversity in the outdoors. In this episode, we get deep. We talked for over an hour and I split our conversation into two parts. This is the second part. In this portion of my conversation with Prodigy, we delve into more feelings. This is a humble, determined, human conversation and I’m so glad we got to make it happen! We talk about: +Never wanting to thruhike again when he got home+PTSD from the CYTC+Going back to work after his CTYC+Deciding to try thruhiking again+Losing yourself to thruhiking+Reminding you that the trail is about the people+Post trail depression+Crying at Elina Osborne’s short film+Recapturing the feelings of trail that you missed+The importance of volunteering after a thruhikeConsider doing volunteer work after your thurhike to combat depression (and stay in shape)If you want to hear about the ups and downs of podcasting and the motto I’m trying to live by, stay through the end for a bonus clip! I am so grateful to Prodigy for coming on for this episode. This is the content I LIVE for and I hope you love it too. If you loved this episode, please support the show. You can share, rate, subscribe, or review the show for FREE which is a huge help to us. If you really really loved it and want more episodes, you can donate to PayPal.me/trailnamehere or click the link in our bio. Every cent that is donated goes to the server fees to get the show from my computer to your device. It costs me over $200 per year and if every listener donated just $1 it would be completely covered. Advertising only covers about 1/8th of the show’s fees so far, not including the time I spend creating the show. Thank you SO MUCH for listening. I’m extremely humbled and grateful to have you all here listening.People mentioned:We mentioned Elina Osborne. She’s making INCREDIBLE videos from her PCT thruhike: https://www.elinaosborne.com/Graduate and TRex completed their calendar year triple crown in 2018 and hiked portions with Prodigy. You can find them here: http://mymountainiswaiting.com/We mentioned Sarah Mowery and our chat about social media on trail. You can listen to her episode here: https://www.trailnamehere.com/show-notes/2020/1/22/podcast-here-e26-sarah-tunes-moweryMy life coach is Jessica McKinley. I’ve mentioned her magic in this episode. You can find her here: https://www.whatshappyning.com/This is the documentary of Prodigy’s CYTC that got backlash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6i2Yz8rgzE&feature=youtu.beYou can find Puff Puff here: https://www.instagram.com/masonalexandra/Support the show (http://paypal.me/trailnamehere)

Tyler "The Prodigy" Lau Part II

This episode features Tyler Lau, trail name: The Prodigy (@thehikingprodigy). He’s hiked over 8,000 miles in his lifetime including the Pacific Crest Trail, the John Muir Trail, and the Colorado Trail. He is one of 9 people to have completed a Calendar Year Triple Crown and the first person of color to do so. He is an active advocate for conservation and diversity in the outdoors. In this episode, we get deep. We talked for over an hour and I split our conversation into two parts. This is the first part. We’re talking about:+How it feels to complete a CYTC+Why it meant so much to him to do a CYTC+How comparison and expectations will hinder your thruhike+How the trail community really makes the hike what it is and why our community needs to step up right now in this time of global crisis+How Each thruhike is unique+How technology and social media affected his CYTC+Hikers having to cancel their plans because of the pandemic+How Prodigy got into backpacking and conservation in the first place+Becoming an advocate and putting yourself out there+The uphill battle of Instagram+Backlash in the media of outwardly identifying as POC alongside a big accomplishment+Access to the outdoors+The privilege of thruhikingProdigy shares wisdom, opinion, and feelings in this extremely candid episode. He advocates and elaborates. He tells us why and how we can be a better community from his perspective. Prodigy has offered to be someone to talk to about quitting your hike. If you’re struggling with this, feel free to reach out to him via Instagram DM. I am so grateful to Prodigy for coming on for this episode. This is the content I LIVE for and I hope you love it too. If you loved this episode, please support the show. You can share, rate, subscribe, or review the show for FREE which is a huge help to us. If you really really loved it and want more episodes, you can donate to PayPal.me/trailnamehere or click the link in our bio. Every cent that is donated goes to the server fees to get the show from my computer to your device. It costs me over $200 per year and if every listener donated just $1 it would be completely covered. Advertising only covers about 1/8th of the show’s fees so far, not including the time I spend creating the show. Thank you SO MUCH for listening. I’m extremely humbled and grateful to have you all here listening.People mentioned:We mentioned Elina Osborne. She’s making INCREDIBLE videos from her PCT thruhike: https://www.elinaosborne.com/Graduate and TRex completed their calendar year triple crown in 2018 and hiked portions with Prodigy. You can find them here: http://mymountainiswaiting.com/We mentioned Sarah Mowery and our chat about social media on trail. You can listen to her episode here: https://www.trailnamehere.com/show-notes/2020/1/22/podcast-here-e26-sarah-tunes-moweryMy life coach is Jessica McKinley. I’ve mentioned her magic in this episode. You can find her here: https://www.whatshappyning.com/This is the documentary of Prodigy’s CYTC that got backlash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6i2Yz8rgzE&feature=youtu.beSupport the show (http://paypal.me/trailnamehere)

Tyler "The Prodigy" Lau

Kyle O'Grady is the host of Trail Tales and the creator of Kyle Hates Hiking! He's thru-hiked the Vermont Long Trail and the Appalachian Trail. Kyle has also completed the NH48 and the ADK46! In this LIVE episode (recorded on our Instagram), we're talking about starting podcasts and youtube channels, trail names, the subjectiveness of gear, and what order we'd attempt the three major US long trails to complete our triple crowns. Join us for our next LIVE feat. Allison a.k.a. Sizzle on Thursday, April 16th at 7pm EDT on The Guidebook's Instagram. Support the show (http://paypal.me/trailnamehere)

LIVE Kyle O'Grady

Rachel Meltzer has casual conversations with adventurers about our experiences in the outdoors, challenges, and life. Podcast Here: brings you stories that you can relate to, human connection, and inspiration to do the things that scare YOU.

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