Girl Gotta Hike The Podcast
Girl Gotta Hike The Podcast features interviews with adventurous women, plus trail tips and hiking advice for those who want to disconnect from the daily grind. Host Melissa “Click” Goodwin, is an outdoor guide, photographer, and the founder of Girl Gotta Hike. Girl Gotta Hike, connects women with nature, confidence and camaraderie with guided hikes and backpacking trips from New York City to The Catskills and beyond. Visit girlgottahike.com for more info, including hiking and event schedules.
Girl Gotta Hike The Podcast
20. Juliana Chauncey, Author, Podcast Host + Long-distance Backpacker
Guess what y’all? This is the 20th episode of Girl Gotta Hike the Podcast, whoop – whoop! It seems like with every new episode and every new interview, this podcast actually inspires me to want to get outside and adventure more, and I hope that it’s been doing the same for you!
On this landmark episode, I go for a day hike in Denver with long-distance backpacker, author, fellow podcaster, and fellow New York State native, Juliana Chauncey, trail name, Chaunce. Many of you may recognize Juliana’s voice as the co-host of Backpacker Radio, the crème-de-la-crème of backpacking podcasts. Juliana’s been hosting BPR alongside my long-time trail buddy, Zack “Badger” Davis, ever since its inception, 4 years ago. But she’s been a part of the greater theTrek.co family for even longer, when, in 2017, she became the popular backpacking website’s first vlogging contributor during her Pacific Crest Trail thru-hike.
Post PCT, Juliana’s gone on to traverse the Appalachian Trail, the Colorado Trail, and the John Muir Trail, among others, and has kept herself busy in non-hiking-seasons by editing videos, writing a guidebook, raising Harper, (her cutie-pie Australian Shepherd), and oh yeah, keeping down a 9 to 5.
Throughout the episode, we talk about how she got interested in the outdoors to begin with, what brought her to Denver, how she wrote her book, “Hiking From Home: A Long Distance Hiking Guide for Family and Friends,” at a Starbucks in just one month, and a new podcast project she’s got coming our way, which, let me tell you, sounds like it’s going to be nothing short of amazing!
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@juliana_chauncey on Instagram
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Hiking From Home: A Long Distance Hiking Guide for Family and Friends on Amazon
William F. Hayden Park on Green Mountain, Lakewood, CO