CDT Trail Correspondent Jared "Fisherman" Lampal - Check-In #1

About this episode

Doc interviews Jared "Fisherman" Lampal about his experiences on the CDT trail.

In this episode, Doc sits down with 2026 CDT Trail Correspondent Jared "Fisherman" Lampal, who has officially survived the blistering desert of New Mexico and is currently checking "State #1" off his completionist master list. Jared debuts a rare, blonde trail-fuzz beard and shatters all romantic notions of wilderness solitude by revealing that the CDT is surprisingly packed with social tramilies, with roughly 10% of the entire 2026 registration pool currently hiding out in Chama. The highlight of his trip involves treating the trail less like a strict red line and more like a loose, "choose-your-own-adventure" corridor , which apparently includes scooping murky, algae-ridden cocktail water straight out of a dirt circle surrounded by cow poop.

People in this episode

Host: Doc

Guest: Jared "Fisherman" Lampal

Topics covered

• CDT Trail
• wilderness
• hiking
• social tramilies
• adventure

Keywords

• CDT
• hiking
• New Mexico
• wilderness
• social tramilies
• adventure

Mentioned in this episode

Places: New Mexico, Chama

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