Episode
The Full Traverse - Lady Unicorn
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- Hiker Trash Radio
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- Jun 15, 2026
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- 2123
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Summary
Christine Reed found the Appalachian Trail on a blog she stumbled across at a desk job in Arkansas, and within minutes she'd walked into her mother's office to announce she was going to hike it. That impulsive act of imagination, deciding to become a certain someone before she had any evidence she could be one, turned out to be the defining philosophy of her life. In HTR's first-ever Full Traverse episode, Doc pulls from four years of conversations with Christine to tell the complete arc: the AT hike she started four days before her mother died, the self-published memoir that found its way to ten thousand readers, the POTS diagnosis that reframed every mile she'd ever struggled through, back-to-back FKT attempts in the Arkansas backcountry, a move to Taos to finally put down roots, and a new edition of Alone in Wonderland released five years after the first. It's the story of a woman who kept betting on a version of herself that didn't exist yet, and kept being right.