Gear Abby: An Outdoor Advice Column For Your Ears

What If a Ghost Steals Your Garmin?

August 14, 2026·38 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

What should you do if a ghost steals your Garmin on trail? Which of your favorite movies were actually filmed inside national parks? And just how desperate do you have to be before stale tortillas, canned chicken and sun-melted Kraft Singles qualify as a gourmet meal?This week on Gear Abby, Shawnté shares some haunted Sierra lore and offers up her best ghost etiquette, then takes a trip through national park movie history from Star Trek and Star Wars to Indiana Jones and The Shining. Plus, she digs into the weirdest things she’s eaten while backpacking, the foods she’ll never touch again, and the one meal she still dreams about on trail: enchiladas. And Gear Abby wants your outdoor ghost stories for October send them in now.Gear Abby is a production of Rock Fight, LLC.

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