I think the most boring people in the world are the people that don't challenge themselves, you know, which I don't know too many of those people because I like to surround myself with folks that do want to be challenged. Well, welcome to the Huntback Country podcast presented by Exo Mountain Gear.

In this episode, we're speaking with Stephen

Arata, a former green beret, about his hunting experience, military experience, and how he

recovered after medical retirement, including a great challenge that he did this past year in

2020, where he hiked the year, meaning he did 2020 miles of hiking in the year 2020. That comes

out to five and a half miles a day for 365 days. Super impressive stuff. We'll hear about that

challenge as well as some of the lessons that Stephen has learned as a green beret, how he applies

that to backcountry hunting, and much more.

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All right, let's get right into this conversation with my buddy Stephen.

Thank you. with my buddy Stephen. Cool, Stephen to kick things off, man.

We'll get to an intro here first,

but I was looking at where you're from,

where you've spent time,

and I have a question first things first, because we was looking at where you're from, where you've spent time, and I have a

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