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Hiking With Chardonnay
Category: Sports & Recreation
Duration: 00:39:24
Publish Date: 2017-05-06 05:00:00
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Meet Chardonnay

Elsye Walker, a thru-hiker who goes by the trail name Chardonnay is currently going after her triple crown, right now. If you’re not familiar with that term, the triple crown is a hiker who

If you’re not familiar with that term, the triple crown is a hiker who completes the Pacific Crest Trail, Appalachian Trail, and Continental Divide Trail so almost 8,000 miles worth of trail thru 22 states.

Right now Chardonnay is on the Continental Divide trail…she’s not doing the interview from the trail, we recorded it back in December. But be sure to follow her progress right now on her blog Wandering Chardonnay.

I hope you enjoy our conversation and it inspires you to hike more and drink more wine.

Enjoy the show!

 

Show Notes:

5:00 How road biking led to a life on the trail.

9:00 “I didn’t know what I was doing,” Chardonnay about the Pacific Crest Trail.

9:50 “Out there you get to hear the story, all of it,” Chardonnay.

12:00 “You realize that you really don’t need that much to make you happy,” Chardonnay on minimalism on the trails.

14:00 Carrying a box of wine on her bike.

17:45 Going off trail with a fractured ankle and why it was a terrible idea (but what she learned).

26:00 The kindness of a stranger.

30:00 Backpacking food + cold mashed potatoes.

35:00 I would tell my 12-year-old self that it’s okay to be different.

 

Find Chardonnay here.

 

Movie Mentioned: The Way

Books Mentioned: Sue Grafton, The Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Series    

Blogs Mentioned: www.carrotquinn.com

Brands: Columbia

 

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