Elsye Walker, known as Chardonnay on the trail, is looking to be African American Woman to Triple Crown. She will be finishing up the Appallacian Trail this Summer.

She tells a great story about crossing a river in the Sierras. Worried about falling in, she walked around to find a log crossing and fell, spraining her ankle. Read her post here- wanderingchardonnay.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/high-sierras/#more-328

She read blogs by both Carrot Quinn and Not-a-Chance before creating a blog of her own at wanderingchardonnay.wordpress.com/blog-posts/

She is also inspired by Heather "Annish" Anderson find her episode here- northcascadehiker.com/cascade-hiker-podcast/095

Instagram- instagram.com/elsyew/

Aria Zoner is known for creating a couple of hiking routes- the Hot Springs Trail and the Siskiyou Peaks Trail. His website, www.wholefoodhiker.com, is the home base for checking out the trails and youtube videos about his whole food ways. 

We talk extensively about who he is and how he grew into a thru hiker. We also talk a lot about his Whole Food Hiker style.

Zoner will be on in two future episodes where we will talk specifically about his two routes. 

Check out our bonus show where we discussed his nature raps- northcascadehiker.com/cascade-hiker-podcast/bonus-14

Facebook- facebook.com/thehotspringstrail/

InstaGram- instagram.com/ariazoner/

The new National Park hats from Crown Trail Headwear will be available in April! I had Allgood back on to share the good news. 

Website- crowntrailsheadwear.com

Facebook- facebook.com/CrownTrails/

The new National Park hats from Crown Trail Headwear will be available in April! I had Allgood back on to share the good news. 

Website- crowntrailsheadwear.com

Facebook- facebook.com/CrownTrails/

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Jennifer Mabus is on to chat about her upcoming attempt at thru hiking the Pacific Crest Trail this summer. 

We talk about her dad, who will be starting the trail with her. We also chat about her Waymark Gear Co backpack, which is also a sponsor of show! She plans on hiking stoveless.

I ask a few questions from folks on my Facebook Group- https://www.facebook.com/groups/cascadehikerpodcast/

Her blog can be found at- https://www.thewhimsicalwoman.com

Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/thewhimsicalwoman/

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/thewhimsicalwoman/

Greg Johnston is the author of Washington's Pacific Coast and I had him on to talk about planning a backpacking trip this Spring.

He goes over some things to pay attention to, including the tides, weather and maps showing the points which are necessary to travel over.

I gave him my first choice, which is to backpack from Ozette to Rialto, so we covered this area mostly. Greg also gives some options for one night backpacks or day hikes in the same area for backup plans.  

Bryan Snyder is the author of Off the Map and Further Off the Map and Falling Off the Map which are short adventure articles, written for newspaper publication and compiled into books that are easy to read. 

Renegade Car Camping, another book Snyder wrote, tells readers the best way to find free camping spots close to your favorite adventure spots.

Website- offthemapbooks.com

Instagram- instagram.com/offthemapbooks/

Facebook- facebook.com/offthemapbooks

I have been listening to the N2Backpacking podcast for many years, so it was great to have Steve "Birdshooter" Goodrich on my show.

We trade off and on as hosts during this show, trading questions. This episode will also be on the N2Backpacking podcast, so give it a listen over there too and see how they are different.

Website- n2backpacking.com

Facebook- facebook.com/n2backpacking/

Anastasia Allison tells the story about her trip across the Ptarmigan Traverse and her husband Aaron Allison talks about the Wind River traverse. I tell the story about my dad and I hiking from Spider Meadow to Image Lake and out the Suiattle River. Stacey tells a crazy story from her first solo backpacking trip to the Wilson River.

Anastasia Allison- anastasiaallison.com

Stacey Arnold- www.staceylarnold.com

Jason Hummel is hard to nail down as far as labeling what it is he does in the outdoors. He is a published photographer, backcountry skier, hiker, backpacker, mountain biker and climber. 

He and his twin brother have been skiing once a month in the state of Washington since they were both 19 years old. Now in they late thirties, they are setting the record higher as every month passes.

One of Jason's newest projects is called the Washington Glacier Ski Project. Over the next several years he will methodically visit and ski up, down and/or across every named glacier in Washington from the volcanoes, the Olympics and throughout the North Cascades.

We also talk about Jason's book- Alpine State of Mind. I can say, now that I own the book, it is wonderfully put together and the pictures are amazing!

Buy the book- www.alpinestateofmindjournal.com

Jason's website- www.alpinestateofmind.com

Instagram- www.instagram.com/jasonhummel/