Happy Earth Day! Today we are highlighting one of the most unbelievable, gnarly, impressive, and physically demanding adventures that I have ever heard of. Two rising Juniors at Stanford, Jackson Parell and Sammy Potter, are taking a gap year to hike 7,940 miles to complete the Calendar Year Triple Crown.  The Calendar Year Triple Crown consists of three trails:

• Appalachian Trail (2,190 miles)
• Pacific Crest Trail (2,650 miles)
• Continental Divide Trail (3,100 miles)

These three trails cover some of the most beautiful and gnarly terrain the United States has to offer. To put that into perspective, if you divide their total mileage, 7,940miles by 365 days, you get 21.75 miles. That means that in order to achieve hiking 7,940 miles in a calendar year, you would have to hike 21.7 miles per day. AND they are aiming to achieve this feat in 9 months! This means that they will be hiking more than a marathon a day, averaging around 30 miles! To keep up with their journey, follow their instagram: cytriplecrown

Today is also Earth Day. Earth Day is an annual event on April 22nd to demonstrate support for environmental protection. We at the WYJ podcast hold environmental stewardship and solving climate change right at the top of our priorities. The earth gives us everything that we have, from our necessities for life to the thrilling experiences of skiing, surfing, skating, and all of the epic activities that we get to do on this amazing planet. Earth day is extremely important and it's crucial that on this day we recognize all that we owe the earth and that we see the necessity to guard it. And, going beyond Earth Day, we must remember that this practice of acknowledging the importance of the earth, isn’t a once a year thing. It needs to be a daily practice that is further woven into the fabric of our nation and it needs to become a focal point of the global culture where we all become stewards of the earth.

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