How's going, everybody? Welcome to episode number 118 of Trail. My name is Kyle O'Grady. I am a huge

hiking nerd, and every single week, pretty much every single week anyways on this podcast,

I chat with other hiking nerds about their experiences on the trail. And speaking of hiking

nerds, this week's guest is probably the biggest hiking nerd I've ever met in my entire life.

Jonathan Zaharic, he's back on the podcast for a second episode.

If you frequent the Adirondacks and you look at a lot of hiking content, I'm sure you know, Jonathan.

If you don't, you should get to know him by listening to this episode.

That sounds perfect, right?

We talk a lot about backcountry skiing, which is something that Jonathan just kind of started to get into this past winter and something I'd like to get into this upcoming winter.

We talk a little bit about trail running and for the first time ever in Trail Tales history, about halfway through the episode, Jonathan brings in a friend of his that he was with, who is currently

working on hiking every single peak in the Adirondacks that has a trail to it. His name is

Nick Groves. It was cool to kind of chat with him for a few minutes as well, shake things up.

And yeah, so thank you, Nick. Thank you, Jonathan. And I'd love to have you guys back on the show sometime soon. Real quick, before we get into it, I just want to say how you can help support the show. And this is important stuff. I know every podcast, every YouTuber says this shit. But seriously, guys, it's really important. If you listen to these episodes a lot, if you're a big trail tales nerd, if you're a big hiking nerd, and you want to

help support me in doing this, you're not really supporting me, you're supporting the show.

Um, there's a few things you can do. The most important of which is go to patreon.com slash

Kyle hates hiking and just sign up for, you know, two, three, whatever, five dollars a month dollars a month for however many months you want

doesn't have to be a lot but um joining the patreon is the number one way to support the show uh you

know i've done a little bit of sponsorships in the past but haven't really had the opportunity

to do any lately i'm not really super eager to do any either, to be honest. Um, not totally opposed,

but honestly, I like Patreon better. So if you want to help support the show, um, patreon.com

slash Kyle hates hiking. I know that's not the Trail Tales Patreon. Well, well, it is the Trail

Tales Patreon now. I used to have a Trail Tales Patreon, uh, specific to Trail Tales, but um, that is

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