Podcast Episode June 11, 2021

Episode 40 | Ben Kilbourne Reads “The Anthropology of a Trail”


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Summary

Who or what makes a trail? This is the question Backpacking Light author Ben Kilbourne asks himself (and us) as he reads his essay The Anthropology of a Trail.

a trail vanishes into the desert
A well-worn trail and a shadow of one of its many walkers in the foothills above Salt Lake City. Photo credit: Ben Kilbourne

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