What is going on everybody. My name is Kyle O'Grady. I am a through hiker. I'm a peakbacker. I am a huge hiking nerd and every single week on this podcast.

You know what we do. We chat with other through hikers and other peakbaggers and other hiking nerds about their experiences on the trail.

And that is certainly what we did in this week's episode.

Troy Zoner is on the podcast and let me tell you, first of all, his

trail name is Tomcat. This guy has done a ton of stuff. And that sounds like the most

generic podcast intro thing to say. Like, oh yeah, he's done a ton of stuff. No, like actually,

this guy has done a ton of stuff way more than I have. And it was really awesome to talk to him.

We basically just jumped around and just tried to touch on as many different things as we could.

Because like I said, this man has a long hiking resume.

It was really, really fun.

I really appreciate Troy reaching out to me to make this happen.

So Troy, thank you so much. We're going to get into the episode in just one second. First,

I just want to say something to the folks who listen to this podcast quite frequently. You

might have noticed that last week there was no episode. And I just got to say the next few

weeks might be a little spotty as far as episodes go. Just some stuff has come

up and I just need a little bit of time off in the podcast. I'm still going to put out a couple

episodes, but just bear with me. Things are going to get back to once a week. Very, very shortly,

it's just going to be a few more weeks of potentially no episodes. We'll see what happens. But it's going to be all good.

And I'm looking forward to getting back into things. And yeah, a few weeks. So thank you so much to

everybody who listens to this podcast all the time. I seriously, seriously appreciate it.

I don't I don't say thank you enough to the folks who download this podcast every single week.

I know there's a lot of you.

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