The Comeback Kid - Audrey "Glowstick" Payne

Audrey "Glowstick" Payne, 10 years removed from a horrific, debilitating back injury, chats with Doc about her journey from those depths to summiting Katahdin at the end of her first thru hike. This small-town girl opens up about her path that led her to the big city and her dream job, and then took her to a home base in Colorado and a life on the trails. Settle in and listen up as Glowstick and Doc discuss mushroom experts, Copper Cow Lattes, unruly hair, poor parenting, Tina Turner Legs, trekking pole myths, Hiker Trash moments, and the perils of being not particularly gifted and just a normal member of society. And, um, there's a cadaver bone.

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