How's it going everybody? My name is Kyle O'Grady. I'm a through hiker. I'm a backpacker. I'm a huge hiking nerd and every single week on this podcast. I chat with other

through hikers and other backpackers and other hiking nerds about their experiences on the trail.

And this episode is a good one. My friend Brandon Sofer is back on the show. Brandon and I hiked a lot of the PCT together this past year, 2022.

And for this episode, we wanted to kind of have a theme.

We went through a bunch of different things that we wish we had done differently on the PCT.

And some of Brandon's were more beginner focused because he had never threw hike before.

But not all of them.

I feel like at the beginning of the episode, I kind of made a comment like, oh, like all

Brandons are going to be like beginner stuff.

And that didn't really turn out to be true.

Some of them were, but not all of them.

And we got deep, especially towards the end of the episode.

We got real deep.

And of course, we had plenty of interesting, funny, crazy stories from our PCT hike thrown in

the mix as well. So Brandon, when you hear this, thank you so much for coming on. And we're going

to get into the episode, but, but, but, but, but, but real quick, don't, don't skip, don't skip, don't do it.

Five-star reviews. I said this last week. I know that every single podcast you listen to at the beginning, they're like, oh, like, leave us a five, like it, it actually matters.

There's a reason why every single podcast you listen to says this. It really, really matters. It helps get the show out to more people. It helps people, it helps show people

that it's worth listening to. So please leave a five-star review on whatever app you're listening

on. I would really appreciate that. And with that said, let's get into it. Episode number

132 with Brandon, not Gfer, but Brandon Sofer.

All right, I'm here with the one and only Brandon Gopher.

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