What is going on? You're listening to Trail Tales. Welcome. My name is Kyle O'Grady, and if you are interested in through hiking, long distance backpacking, peak

backing or really any type of hiking at all, your ears have arrived in the right place.

Now every Tuesday I release a new episode where I chat with a fellow hiker about their

experiences and of course their stories from the trail.

Now, I feature guests who have through hiked the Appalachian Trail,

the Pacific Crest Trail, the Florida Trail, the Long Trail, just to name a few,

and my goal with every episode is to A, give my guests the chance to share their story

and knowledge about the trail we are talking about and be simply just learn something new.

Now let me tell you a little bit about me because I know you're just dying to know.

When I was 16 years old growing up in the Burlington Vermont area I caught the shit out of the hiking bug and I pretty much spent the next six years doing various backpacking and hiking trips.

Now during this time I completed the long trail two times and I hiked about 100 of the 111,000 foot peaks here in the Northeast.

Now this was all kind of leading up to 2018 when I set off to hike the Appalachian Trail.

I left on May 14th, I finished on October 1st, 140 days.

And as I was nearing the end of my through hike, I kind of knew that I had to find some way to stay connected with the trail community once I was back in normal life.

And I also knew that I needed to find an outlet to share my stories and the stories

of other hikers.

So I kind of thought to myself, why not start a podcast?

And then I immediately realized I have zero experience running a podcast or any sort of content

creation online. But at the end of the day, I was like, you know what?

I'm not going to let that hold me back.

I'm just going to send it.

And so I did.

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