Episode
Trail Stories - Will Roquemore
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- Hiker Trash Radio
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- Jun 6, 2026
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- 2246
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Summary
Will Roquemore goes by Last Strap on the trail, a name earned before the PCT even started, handed to him by a friend who instituted a rule that he was not allowed to partake in any extracurricular fun until his last strap was fastened, because otherwise he would never leave camp. He is a fourth-generation Idahoan, PCT class of 2025 finisher, and full-time nomad living in a converted 2016 Toyota Prius V wagon he has called home since COVID, when a landlord raised the rent during lockdown and a friend asked him why he needed all that stuff anyway. He showed up at the southern terminus with a 14.63-pound base weight, a fanny pack the size of a walk-in closet, a two-year relationship, and a biggest fear that something bad would happen to someone he loved - and his partner broke up with him five days in, leaving him to hike 2,650 miles broken-hearted, rage-hiking 20-mile days before he had trail legs, on what he calls legendary mode. The trail gave him a tramily willing to listen, a logging semi driven by a man with a Don't Tread On Me hat and a Chihuahua named Gunner, and, at the very end, a father who went from "get a job, hippie" to building a map of every campsite his son had ever slept in and driving to Harts Pass with potato soup and trail magic. The full interview with Last Strap drops Wednesday in two parts on the Hiker Trash Radio feed.