What is going on everybody? Welcome to episode number 108 of Trail Tales. My name is Kyle O'Grady. I am a through hiker. I am a peak bagger. I am a

huge freaking hiking nerd. And every single week on this podcast, you know what we do. We chat with

other through hikers, other peak hackers, other freaking hiking nerds about their experiences on the

trail. I.B. Tat is back for his third Trail Tales episode ever, which is really,

really cool. Now, before we get into the episode here, I got to give a little apology. This was

supposed to come out last week. Obviously, I didn't post an episode last week. It was supposed to

come out last week. I teased it on my Instagram. I put up a poll asking for questions for the episode. We got connected. I beat Tat and I. And we were having some audio issues. It was honestly, it was on my end. It was my fault. And so we had to reschedule for a week later. That's just when it worked out with the timing and everything.

So the episode did not come out on time.

I usually don't tease these on my Instagram either, but I'm going to try to start doing more

of that.

And of course, the one time I do, it falls through.

So I'm really, really sorry about that.

In addition, because I ended up waiting a week later, like after I posted

that Instagram poll, I guess the app doesn't let you go back and look at the questions

that everybody submitted. So I didn't, I know, I suck. I didn't actually get to ask any of the

questions that people submitted, which there was quite a few of, and they were a bunch of really

good questions too. So I really, really dropped the ball on that one. I'm sorry was quite a few of, and they were a bunch of really good questions, too.

So I really, really dropped the ball on that one. I'm sorry, but we still made it work.

I beatette and I still had a good chat. We talk about his upcoming CDT hike. We talk about what

it's like to work at mountain crossings on the Appalachian Trail. And it was really super amazingly fun and I'm very grateful for IBT.

Coming back on for a third time, really, really awesome, super, super stoked. You're going to enjoy it

real quick. Before we get into it, I just want to say, for those of you who don't know IBT,

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