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"We survived the trek. We did it! We're about a day late and three llamas short, but we made it off the Cordillera Blanca." One last unplanned climb, a dusty seven-mile descent, a taxi that (miraculously) shows up on time with no cell service in sight, and a well-earned pizza celebration in Huaraz before the long bus ride to Lima. Roughly 70 miles and nine days after Cashapampa, Tent Talk signs off.

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Day 9 of 9: Laguna Cullicocha to Hualcayán

🥾 7.5 mi (12.1 km) | +748 ft / -5,554 ft

⛺️ Trek complete, no camp tonight (taxi out from Hualcayán)

🗓️ Recorded: Saturday, May 30, 2026

Tent Talk is an immersive backpacking podcast hosted by sisters Audrey (Mountain Goat) and Haley (GPS, One More Mile Marshall, and Dr. Dolittle). Each season follows one epic, multi-day wilderness trek, recorded from their sleeping bags every single night on the trail. Tune in for the real, unedited side of backcountry life, one campsite at a time.

Season 1: The Alpamayo Circuit follows the sisters’ grueling, high-altitude journey through Peru’s breathtaking Cordillera Blanca. Over nine days inside Huascarán National Park, they battle steep passes, stunning alpine views, and the realities of the trail.

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The longest day of the trip: a walk past the Inca ruins at Ruina Pampa, a 2,000-foot climb, then a second summit with three or four false tops before the final push above 15,000 feet, the last elevation gain of the entire circuit. It ends after dark with no campsite in sight, until a park ranger's flashlight, and later his questions about their permits, leads them to a place to pitch the tent for the last time.

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Day 8 of 9: Jancarurish to Laguna Cullicocha

🥾 10.1 mi (16.2 km) | +3,898 ft / -2,605 ft

⛺️ Campsite: Laguna Cullicocha

🗓️ Recorded: Thursday, May 28, 2026

Tent Talk is an immersive backpacking podcast hosted by sisters Audrey (Mountain Goat) and Haley (GPS, One More Mile Marshall, and Dr. Dolittle). Each season follows one epic, multi-day wilderness trek, recorded from their sleeping bags every single night on the trail. Tune in for the real, unedited side of backcountry life, one campsite at a time.

Season 1: The Alpamayo Circuit follows the sisters’ grueling, high-altitude journey through Peru’s breathtaking Cordillera Blanca. Over nine days inside Huascarán National Park, they battle steep passes, stunning alpine views, and the realities of the trail.

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Camped in the shadow of Alpamayo itself after a day defined by caterpillars scattered across the trail (inchworms and fuzzy black-and-red ones both), a long circular valley walk, and a summit made intense by fierce wind and loose, slate-like scree. The night ends with a chaotic, mid-dark tent turnaround after realizing they'd pitched it on a slope.

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Day 7 of 9: Safuna / Huillca to Jancarurish

🥾 7.3 mi (11.7 km) | +3,140 ft / -2,474 ft

⛺️ Campsite: Jancarurish

🗓️ Recorded: Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Tent Talk is an immersive backpacking podcast hosted by sisters Audrey (Mountain Goat) and Haley (GPS, One More Mile Marshall, and Dr. Dolittle). Each season follows one epic, multi-day wilderness trek, recorded from their sleeping bags every single night on the trail. Tune in for the real, unedited side of backcountry life, one campsite at a time.

Season 1: The Alpamayo Circuit follows the sisters’ grueling, high-altitude journey through Peru’s breathtaking Cordillera Blanca. Over nine days inside Huascarán National Park, they battle steep passes, stunning alpine views, and the realities of the trail.

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The hardest day of the trip: a herd of bulls treats a routine pass-through as a threat and pursues the sisters off-trail across open mountain slopes, no cover, real fear. Two more passes and a 15,000-plus foot summit later, the day turns around entirely at a meadow of fifty to a hundred alpacas right at sunset.

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Day 6 of 9: Wild Camp (past Jancacucho) to Safuna / Huillca

🥾 7.1 mi (11.4 km) | +3,911 ft / -2,457 ft

⛺️ Campsite: Safuna / Huillca

🗓️ Recorded: Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Tent Talk is an immersive backpacking podcast hosted by sisters Audrey (Mountain Goat) and Haley (GPS, One More Mile Marshall, and Dr. Dolittle). Each season follows one epic, multi-day wilderness trek, recorded from their sleeping bags every single night on the trail. Tune in for the real, unedited side of backcountry life, one campsite at a time.

Season 1: The Alpamayo Circuit follows the sisters’ grueling, high-altitude journey through Peru’s breathtaking Cordillera Blanca. Over nine days inside Huascarán National Park, they battle steep passes, stunning alpine views, and the realities of the trail.

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What was supposed to be an easy seven-mile day dissolves into backcountry chaos. An impassable river forces a scramble off-trail straight up a steep hillside, a pitch-black marsh nearly swallows a shoe whole, and a runaway cow, a village woman on horseback, and a genuine riverbed chase provide the rest of the day's drama.

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Day 5 of 9: Wild Camp (past Wicrococha) to Wild Camp (past Jancacucho)

🥾 6.8 mi (10.9 km) | +1,726 ft / -2,799 ft

⛺️ Campsite: Wild Camp (past Jancacucho)

🗓️ Recorded: Monday, May 25, 2026

Tent Talk is an immersive backpacking podcast hosted by sisters Audrey (Mountain Goat) and Haley (GPS, One More Mile Marshall, and Dr. Dolittle). Each season follows one epic, multi-day wilderness trek, recorded from their sleeping bags every single night on the trail. Tune in for the real, unedited side of backcountry life, one campsite at a time.

Season 1: The Alpamayo Circuit follows the sisters’ grueling, high-altitude journey through Peru’s breathtaking Cordillera Blanca. Over nine days inside Huascarán National Park, they battle steep passes, stunning alpine views, and the realities of the trail.

🏔️ Watch the Alpamayo Circuit hiking video

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🎵Intro & outro music: Citrus Avenue - “Video Night” via Thematic

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A punishing two-and-a-half-hour climb to 15,000 feet delivers the best view of the trip so far, Mount Taulliraju front and center, plus a rock-hopping river crossing and a stampede of spooked sheep. It's also the day Haley earns her third trail name, One More Mile Marshall, for consistently underselling how much farther there is to go.

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Day 4 of 9: Tuctubamba to Wild Camp (past Wicrococha)

🥾 7.4 mi (11.9 km) | +1,833 ft / -2,815 ft

⛺️ Campsite: Wild Camp (past Wicrococha)

🗓️ Recorded: Sunday, May 24, 2026

Tent Talk is an immersive backpacking podcast hosted by sisters Audrey (Mountain Goat) and Haley (GPS, One More Mile Marshall, and Dr. Dolittle). Each season follows one epic, multi-day wilderness trek, recorded from their sleeping bags every single night on the trail. Tune in for the real, unedited side of backcountry life, one campsite at a time.

Season 1: The Alpamayo Circuit follows the sisters’ grueling, high-altitude journey through Peru’s breathtaking Cordillera Blanca. Over nine days inside Huascarán National Park, they battle steep passes, stunning alpine views, and the realities of the trail.

🏔️ Watch the Alpamayo Circuit hiking video

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🎵Intro & outro music: Citrus Avenue - “Video Night” via Thematic

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After a slow, freezing morning disrupted by a curious cow licking a neighboring tent clean, an Andean fox mysteriously appears to guide the sisters up a grueling, four-and-a-half-hour climb over Punta Union Pass. New trail friends collect along the way, and the night ends with a rare, deliberate look at the stars.

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Day 3 of 9: Taullipampa to Tuctubamba

🥾 5 mi (8 km) | +1,975 ft / -2,008 ft

⛺️ Campsite: Tuctubamba

🗓️ Recorded: Saturday, May 23, 2026

Tent Talk is an immersive backpacking podcast hosted by sisters Audrey (Mountain Goat) and Haley (GPS, One More Mile Marshall, and Dr. Dolittle). Each season follows one epic, multi-day wilderness trek, recorded from their sleeping bags every single night on the trail. Tune in for the real, unedited side of backcountry life, one campsite at a time.

Season 1: The Alpamayo Circuit follows the sisters’ grueling, high-altitude journey through Peru’s breathtaking Cordillera Blanca. Over nine days inside Huascarán National Park, they battle steep passes, stunning alpine views, and the realities of the trail.

🏔️ Watch the Alpamayo Circuit hiking video

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📍 View our Alpamayo Circuit route on AllTrails

🎵Intro & outro music: Citrus Avenue - “Video Night” via Thematic

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Hit by the breathless reality of high altitude, the sisters chew traditional coca leaves to cope. A surprise nosebleed and thick, rolling rain clouds threaten to steal their first real look at Alpamayo from the mirador, and by the end neither of them is entirely sure which peak they were even looking at.

Daily Itinerary:

Day 2 of 9: Llamacorral to Taullipampa

🥾 9.6 mi (15.4 km) | +2,808 ft / -1,467 ft

⛺️ Campsite: Taullipampa

🗓️ Recorded: Friday, May 22, 2026

Tent Talk is an immersive backpacking podcast hosted by sisters Audrey (Mountain Goat) and Haley (GPS, One More Mile Marshall, and Dr. Dolittle). Each season follows one epic, multi-day wilderness trek, recorded from their sleeping bags every single night on the trail. Tune in for the real, unedited side of backcountry life, one campsite at a time.

Season 1: The Alpamayo Circuit follows the sisters’ grueling, high-altitude journey through Peru’s breathtaking Cordillera Blanca. Over nine days inside Huascarán National Park, they battle steep passes, stunning alpine views, and the realities of the trail.

🏔️ Watch the Alpamayo Circuit hiking video

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• Tent Talk on Instagram
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• Audrey on Instagram
• Haley on Instagram

📍 View our Alpamayo Circuit route on AllTrails

🎵Intro & outro music: Citrus Avenue - “Video Night” via Thematic