The Prepper Broadcasting Network - 12 Miles in the Dark

Episode Date: July 12, 2025

We survived!

11 miles in folks. We're feeling it. We didn't get your podcast in early. We got some video early. We spent a lot of time in the pitch dark just walking and muttering. And now we've foregone the sleeping in the woods because we really kind of rock and rolled and decided to just go the full 12 mile trek and finish at the Jones Homestead and curl up on his nice new deck. Yes sir! We're damn close! I'm motivated. My legs are hurting a bit. The hip flexors and the thighs in particular and this is the last mile it's actually one of the steepest parts, but I feel good Yeah, I don't feel too bad either. It's we're covered in sweat head to toe. You know, this is so this is relative

Okay, so I think we're being facetious by saying we feel pretty good because this was a tough hike, you know, it was Thousand feet elevation change right something like that exact numbers But we gained more than a thousand for sure and went down more than a thousand but we'll see the exact numbers, but it's it was a lot up and down we Thoroughly sweated through our garments I'd say you probably we went through what half gallon gallon of water? I'd say about two-thirds gallon three quarters gallon

okay I got a little bit left but I'm almost done but I still got the emergency packs from the Lima Tango backpack so I'll be drinking some of that on the deck although I think we are excited to get the water hose and just pour cold water on us. That's gonna be real nice. That's the goal. I don't know what this thing is 32 ounce probably. I don't know 24 maybe. 24. It's pretty small actually. So I probably did about 36 ounces of water total but I pre-gamed with a hydration drink so I feel pretty good. That's good. I was a little worried. I was like, that's all the water you're taking? Because last time I did this I ran out I'm like I know it's only gonna be you

know 75 degrees overnight. I rationed. I rationed. I rationed. rationed I rationed I drank about every two miles to start and then as we guy opened up the Lima tango water packs and added a few of them and then once we got Close to the end. We started breaking and hydrating every mile And We're here. I mean we got a little bit of ground to cover to get to Jones Homestead, but we're here. What I was saying though is this is a tough deal. You know, Ben's been training.

He's been running hills. He's been doing the stuff to get in shape. You guys know I'm a maniac with the fitness stuff and we're bushed. Like it would be a real problem if we had to go do this again and then again yeah like two three four days straight of this now also it's also 146 in the morning so that's taking its toll as well on top of it all we're on about our almost six hours we started almost exactly at eight it's almost two so almost six hours

gone pretty fast but I mean we put out a lot of calories it estimated I don't know if this is true but it estimated I spent about what 4,500 calories yeah I mean look it's I think I might believe it I mean it's nonce it was non-stop effort and we weren't walking we were were power walking. We were going pretty fast. You know what I mean? So we put a lot of, yeah, there's a lot of takeaways, you know. I think probably the biggest takeaway for me was we're carrying way too much crap for with this mission, you know. Not nothing wrong with the Lima Tango backpacks, but they are fundamentally just 30 pounds

of weight we don't need on each of us probably Right. I mean there's 72 hour bag and we're doing like a 12 hour thing So it makes sense that we wouldn't need it But if we were out here for two three four days who want like all this stuff in there So we'll do a full review of what's in there. We'll use some of it, but truly Maybe just we were talking about this Truly, maybe just we were talking about this if your bug out plan is only to go like 10 15 miles You might not need a 40 pound pack. Yeah, I would say you definitely don't Because we've relied mostly on

water Liquid IVs dude. Oh man, the power of the liquid IV is Unmatched. Oh and then so we come off the Appalachian Trail this won't give too much APSEC away we go to cross 50 and it was like in being in a movie like we're on the side of the road this big-ass truck headlights are coming at us and they're there past the white line past the white line they're old they're veering towards us and then yeah and then all of a sudden they just veer off like I was we were both ready to just jump the hill to get out of the way but I don't know

what kind of jumping we'd be doing at this hour after we've just been through shit I got a nice drum boost for a couple minutes I was walking fast after that I think I've come back down but uh Nothing to pick up your step after that But it was one hell of an adventure. I'll tell you that much Traveling the Appalachian Trail in the darkness. Oh, the other thing we found was a boon of wild edibles. Yeah raspberries may apples We found giant polypore mushrooms. We found coral mushrooms, we found what looked like

they might have been shaggy main mushrooms, I'm not too sure. In the dark. So yeah, I want a drink. I'm signing off. Talk to you guys soon.