How's it going, everybody? Welcome to episode number 115 of Trail Tales. My name is Kyle O'Grady. I'm a

through hiker. I am a peak bagger. I am a huge hiking nerd. And every single week on this podcast, I chat with other through hikers, other peakbaggers, other huge hiking nerds about their experiences on the trail.

I am very privileged to welcome Jacob Younger back on the podcast.

His third episode, he is the, the Riggin'et

Gear dude. He's the dude that I met on the NPT this past fall. And yeah, he's back for

round three. Jacob and I have become pretty good friends. And that's why I keep having him back on.

I always have fun talking to him and he does like cool shit like pretty

constantly and that's kind of what we talk about in this episode. We talk about trail days quite a bit

because he went down to trail days in Damascus, which I've never gone to and I'd really like to.

So, oh, I'm pretty sure I was supposed to give like a heads up in this introduction. I vaguely remember saying

something like maybe, Rose, you can cut this out, but if this isn't true. But I feel like in the

episode I said that you should drink every single time that I say I wish I had gone to trail days

or that I want to go to trail days. So there's your drinking challenge for this episode.

It was fun.

We also talk about some other stuff.

We talk about his 4x4 by 48 challenge, which we talked about in our previous episode.

You'll have to tune in to hear what that means and all that stuff.

And of course, we talk about his gear company rigging it a little bit

too. It was just a good time. I'm grateful for Jacob coming on all these episodes. And yeah,

I'm grateful for everybody listening as well. We're going to get into it in just a second.

I'm going to one take this introduction here. Real quick, Patreon. Patreon.com slash Kyle Hateshiking.

That is the place to go.

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