Hosts Tim and Amy have been chatting all things spooky in the outdoors, with inspo and tales from our readers.

What’s the spookiest thing that’s happened to you on the trail? Maybe you’ve walked through spiderwebs before sunrise or dropped something valuable down a drop dunny. Hosts Tim and Amy deep dive their biggest outdoor nightmares come to life as well as some of our readers.

Listen on, if you dare…

In This Episode We Cover:

• Household critters
• Dehydrating food
• Washing & Repairing expensive outdoor gear
• Outdoor horror stories

Show Notes:

• Hiker Rescued After Hanging by Her Bare Feet For 7 Hours

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Dr Sheddy's story is one many people can relate to – finding out your career isn't exactly what you thought it'd be and trying to make sense of it all. But the way Sheddy found balance is pretty unique.

Leaving a veterinary clinic in Australia, she moved to China to save bears before buying a sailing boat in Panama. She now sails around Central America treating animals that'd never otherwise have access to care, and she does it all thanks to the support she gets online.

Listen to the episode to hear how she learnt to sail on her own boat, some of her wildest animal rescues, and what her future sailing vet adventures hold.

If you'd like to support Vet Tails, you can pledge a monthly donation to help Dr Sheddy keep up her work and follow along the sailing vet journey.

In This Episode We Cover

• Dr Sheddy's early career
• Learning to sail and upkeep a boat
• Living through Covid on the boat
• Access to resources
• How Dr Sheddy gets funding
• Work-life balance
• The online sailing community
• Interesting animal treatments
• How to support Vet Tails

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After a huge call from our Assistant Editor that Jatz Tim Tams are better than the originals, we got to thinking – what weird and wonderful snacks do our audience take hiking? We threw the question out to you on Instagram and people came back with some pretty quirky answers.

Have a listen!

In This Episode The Hot Takes We Cover Are:

• Hiking snacks
• Overland Track
• Hiking nutrition
• Dehydrating meals
• Ready made meals – shout out to On Track Meals
• Trail Drinks

Show Notes:

• Dehydrated Tex Mex rice
• On Track Meals review
• Radix Nutrition review
• Dehydrated and freeze dried hiking meals review

Aidan’s Skippy Jerky ‘Recipe’
We always winged it and it never failed:

• Cut your kangaroo fillets into thin strips.
• In a bowl, combine soy sauce and honey, or use teriyaki sauce (any marinate you like works really).
• Add in finely grated garlic and ginger. If you want, dry rubs of spices also work.
• Allow to marinate in a covered bowl for at least a few hours.
• Remove strips and let them drip, then add to the dehydrator and run for 24 hours.
• Keep checking for optimal firmness. This will depend on your dehydrator but you don’t want to completely dry out the jerky, it should be just a little soft.
• Try not to eat it all in the car on the way to the trailhead.

Enjoy this episode? Listen to the next Tim & Amy episode, it’s full of outdoor hot takes.
Or if you’re after something different, learn How Nature Saved Kane Ford’s Life.

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