{"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":"2026-09-19T12:22:28.586390+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hiker-trash-radio-2158694"},"episode":{"title":"Trail Stories - Top of the World with Chris \"Rad\" Carter","slug":"trail-stories-top-of-the-world-with-chris-rad-carter","published_at":"2026-08-29T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hiker-trash-radio-2158694/trail-stories-top-of-the-world-with-chris-rad-carter","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=1008","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/1385/injector.simplecastaudio.com/6d2da267-75e0-4996-8f52-dc96c283fcb3/episodes/ffceec32-34e0-45c0-a874-668071653841/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=6d2da267-75e0-4996-8f52-dc96c283fcb3&awEpisodeId=ffceec32-34e0-45c0-a874-668071653841&feed=TGxnwCmZ","summary":"The last time Chris \"Rad\" Carter was on Hiker Trash Radio, he had just completed the Triple Crown, with the CDT and AT in a single calendar year. Since then he got married, moved to Chattanooga, started running climbing and mountaineering coverage for Switchback Travel, and stood on top of Denali. This episode covers what it's like to go from horizontal miles to vertical feet on a 20,000-foot glaciated peak in Alaska, the Denali poop management system and its specific failure modes in minus-20 conditions, the Diving Board shot he carried as a mental image since childhood in Kenya and waited through three attempts and 20 seconds of clear sky to finally get, and the section called the Autobahn where he found himself looking down at the crevasse where a team of Latvians had died weeks before and feeling, properly, the weight of the mountain beneath him. It also covers something rarer: an honest reckoning, three years after the Triple Crown, with what serial thru-hiking cost him, what he thinks trails are actually for, and why he believes the depression that hits so many thru-hikers after they come off trail might be partly about not giving back. The full interview with Rad drops Wednesday in two parts on the Hiker Trash Radio feed.","meta_description":"The last time Chris \"Rad\" Carter was on Hiker Trash Radio, he had just completed the Triple Crown, with the CDT and AT in a single calendar year. Since th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1137,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hiker-trash-radio-2158694/episodes/trail-stories-top-of-the-world-with-chris-rad-carter/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-top-of-the-world-with-chris-rad-carter.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}