# The Full Traverse - Lady Unicorn

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Podcast: [Hiker Trash Radio](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hiker-trash-radio-2158694)
Published: 2026-06-15T08:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://bleav.com/shows/hiker-trash-radio/?post_type=gp_podcast_episode&p=954
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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.

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