In this episode Knuckles talks with Professor Pinecone about how she tackles fear head on. Not only is she hiking the Pacific Crest Trail with her three (yes, THREE) children, but when she’s done she’s planning to turn her dreams into reality. She’s creating the COOLEST resource for her community that she could think of by opening a lavender farm and discovery center!! When I asked her earlier in the day why she’s doing it, she essentially said “life’s short, make it what you want it to be” and I think we could all use more of that energy in our lives🔥🔥 You can check out their YouTube channel here: The PCT and the O’Hearn Stone Family. (also excuse the small bit of white noise in this, not sure why the audio did that!)

Knuckles celebrates hitting her hundredth day on trail (!!!) by doing her first 30 mile day. Wanted to record a few minutes at the end of a long day to preserve the memory of it all.

Knuckles and Powerplant do an update pod in Burney, California! This is a longer episode but we haven’t done a general update in a while. Talking about tough days, celebrations, and what we’ve been up to. Enjoy!

Powerplant, Knuckles, Topo, Beetle and Zelda sit down with the most involved trail angels we’ve encountered so far - Outside Jay. Outside Jay talks to us about his experience being an angel and what he likes to explore in his free time.

Knuckles does another brief solo pod to update after one of her toughest days on trail - which happens to also be the day she crossed the half way point on the PCT

After meeting the worlds coolest ranger, we had some awesome conversations that ended in him reading us a few poems. It ended in tears and a hug and was one of our favorite nights on trail so far! We did have his permission to record and upload to the WTF podcast. Shoutout to you Ranger who won’t be named🤘🏼

After a long day hiking through Yosemite, Knuckles and PowerPlant sit down with the largest group yet for a fun pod. We had Little Hamster, Crypto, Milk, Zelda, Topo and Smiley join us for a fun discussion about the events that would exist if thru-hiking had an Olympic Games. Get ready to laugh. Part way through we were joined by a Park Ranger and took a small break to chat with him. Enjoy!

Knuckles and PowerPlant talk about the high elevation passes in this last section of the Pacific Crest Trail. Just a general trail update podcast, and the important questions are asked….like who cuts the grass?

Knuckles decided to do a solo pod while hiking! Very much a stream-of-consciousness style chat about her experience so far. She also runs into a fellow thru-hiker, Willie Nelson, who gives her some awesome suggestions for town food in Bishop. We did go to the bakery and all the food was excellent! Check bc out Willie Nelson’s Instagram: @make_memories_not_excuses

This podcast was recorded at the summit of Mount Whitney! We’re going to believe that it’s the podcast recorded at the highest altitude ever because that’s just fun. We weren’t sure if we’d be able to summit after PowerPlant was sick the day before. But he felt better and made 16 miles up and down Mount Whitney his “recovery” day. What a legend!