What is going on, everybody? You're listening to Trail Tales, the podcast. I'm your host,

Kyle O'Grady. And yeah, you're about to hear the very first episode of Trail Tales.

It's my very first interview. Right now I'm recording my very first

introduction. I don't really know what the hell I'm doing, but I'm just going to wing it.

So I hiked the Appalachian Trail this past summer. I started on May 14th and finished on

October 1st. And our guest today, Cameron Smymyke otherwise known as Indy was a

somebody that I hiked with for pretty much the entire second half of the

Appalachian Trail we got to know each other pretty well and I'm super stoked that

he was willing to be the first guest on this little podcast that I'm trying to make

here we talk about a lot of cool things, everything through hiking related, obviously.

We talk about the mental aspect of through hiking.

We talk about some of the sketchy situations that Indy found himself in while he was hiking.

Talk about gear.

We pretty much cover it all.

Well, we don't really cover it all. But, you know, we tried. It was fun. It was a good chat. I'm going to stop bullshitting. We're going to get into the episode here in just a second. But first, I just wanted to say that if you liked the show, you want to get in touch with me, you want to talk some shit, whatever it is, I'm pretty easy to contact.

You can reach me at TrailTalespod at gmail.com if you want to shoot me a message there.

I'm also on Twitter and Instagram at TrailTalesPod, same handle as the email.

So yeah, hit me up. Talk some shit. Do what you got to do.

I don't know.

Never done a podcast before.

I don't really know what I'm doing.

So if you got any advice, anything, my ears are open.

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