Episode
Trail Stories - Your Time is Limited with Jada "Flo" Lippincott
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- Hiker Trash Radio
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- Aug 22, 2026
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- 1337
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Summary
Jada Lippincott grew up in Fairfield, Iowa (population 10,000, not a lot to do) and did not hike a single meaningful mile until a semester abroad in Fairbanks taught her what the outdoors actually was. Then she moved to Big Sky for a guiding internship, shattered her leg in a snowboarding crash, spent eight weeks bedridden and furious, found a YouTube video about long-distance hiking, and walked out of her boot three days later to start the Arizona Trail. She limped the whole way. She has not stopped moving since. This episode covers how an Iowa kid with no outdoor background discovered trail culture, found her people, and built a life at 27 that most outdoor athletes three times her age couldn't sustain, all out of a Toyota Tundra with a 50-pound shelter dog who knows how to hold still when a grizzly bear crosses the trail five feet in front of her. It also covers the Colorado hut trip that landed her in a helicopter with a face swollen shut and frostbite down her leg, and the tattoo she got on the Arizona Trail that sums up everything she does: your time is limited. The full interview with Flo drops Wednesday in two parts on the Hiker Trash Radio feed.