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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Six miles and 2,700 feet of elevation gain into the circuit, Haley earns her second trail name (Dr. Dolittle) after a stray dog adopts her for the day, a herd of pack mules and a very nervous cow nearly go off a cliff, and a clogged water filter threatens to slow the whole operation down.

Daily Itinerary:

Day 1 of 9: Cashapampa to Llamacorral

🥾 6 mi (9.7 km) | +3,028 ft / -269 ft

⛺️ Campsite: Llamacorral

🗓️ Recorded: Thursday, May 21, 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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Before taking their very first step, Audrey (Mountain Goat) and Haley (GPS) face a bumpy 6 a.m. taxi ride, a baffling message relayed by a passing motorcyclist about a police report that may or may not involve them, and the sheer pre-trip nerves of a nine-day wilderness trek about to begin.

The Details:

• Timeline: Day 0 of 9 (pre-trip)
• Location: Cashapampa (trailhead), ~9,800 ft
• Recorded: Thursday, May 21, 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
• Tent Talk on YouTube
• Audrey on Instagram
• Haley on Instagram

📍 View our Alpamayo Circuit route on AllTrails

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