{"podcast":{"title":"Hiker Trash Radio","slug":"hiker-trash-radio-2158694","podcast_index_feed_id":2158694,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/TGxnwCmZ","website_url":"https://bleav.com/shows/hiker-trash-radio/","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/6215cda8-011d-4ccd-9fe8-c389912a62af/8462348d-3bc5-4438-a3de-05a96ab6009b/3000x3000/updated-circular-logo.png?aid=rss_feed","author":"Bleav + Doc","episode_count":600,"summary":"Join Doc and his guests on Hiker Trash Radio, the outdoor adventure podcast that takes you on a myriad of trails. With interviews from thru hikers, skydivers, adventure athletes, big wall climbers, and more, each episode is packed with trail talk, gear tips, and hilarious misadventures. And if you thought the great outdoors was all sunshine and rainbows, think again! Tune in for tales of blistered feet, helicopter evacuations, and Type II Fun that will make you appreciate the comforts of home. Settle in and get ready to trade the city for the wilderness. It's time to embrace the suck!","last_synced_at":"2026-06-27T14:22:14.256375+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hiker-trash-radio-2158694"},"episode":{"title":"Trail Stories - The Circle on the Map with Kevin \"The Animal\" Koski","slug":"trail-stories-the-circle-on-the-map-with-kevin-the-animal-koski","published_at":"2026-06-27T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hiker-trash-radio-2158694/trail-stories-the-circle-on-the-map-with-kevin-the-animal-koski","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hiker-trash-radio-2158694","url":"https://bleav.com/shows/hiker-trash-radio/?post_type=gp_podcast_episode&p=963","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1385/injector.simplecastaudio.com/6d2da267-75e0-4996-8f52-dc96c283fcb3/episodes/e17bcff4-8932-4627-ba8f-dcf7ebe7eecc/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=6d2da267-75e0-4996-8f52-dc96c283fcb3&awEpisodeId=e17bcff4-8932-4627-ba8f-dcf7ebe7eecc&feed=TGxnwCmZ","summary":"Kevin Koski was sitting at his desk one day, looked at a topographical map of the United States pinned to his cubicle wall, noticed an 800-mile-diameter circle nobody had ever officially hiked, and thought: somebody should walk that. The somebody was him. This episode covers three years spent building the Four Corners Loop on a mapping website during lunch breaks, a 47-mile dry stretch that required 14.5 liters of water and a stroke of luck involving two owl researchers at one in the morning, and a piece of hardware-store ice maker tubing that Kevin will defend to his grave as superior gear design. There is also a smoked trout, a 30-foot sandstone cliff he probably shouldn't have climbed, and, in the middle of all the engineering jokes, a quieter chapter about his mother that the episode doesn't rush past.","meta_description":"Kevin Koski was sitting at his desk one day, looked at a topographical map of the United States pinned to his cubicle wall, noticed an 800-mile-diameter c…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1531,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hiker-trash-radio-2158694/episodes/trail-stories-the-circle-on-the-map-with-kevin-the-animal-koski/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hiker-trash-radio-2158694/trail-stories-the-circle-on-the-map-with-kevin-the-animal-koski.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}