What's going on everybody? Welcome to episode number 27 of Trail Tales. I got the episode number wrong at the beginning of last week's episode. I said

25 and it was supposed to be 26. And when I listened back on it, I like cringe. I was like,

oh shit, I totally fucked that up. But episode number 27 of Trail Tales, this is going to be a

little bit of a different episode. First of all, because I'm recording this introduction, like, quote, live. Like,

I'm, I'm on the line. I'm on the phone with my guest, Flossi right now, and I usually will

record the conversation and then edit it and then go back and record the introduction once

everything's done. But in the interest of of time we kind of got delayed a couple

days here because i was sick when we were supposed to record originally in the interest of time

we're just recording this now i'm doing the introduction right now and then we're going to put it

out there but like i just said a second ago this week's guest is a man named Mitchell Larby Trail Name Flossie.

You might recognize that name, and that's because he was the third guest that Trail

has ever had.

That's right, episode number three.

Way back in, it must have been like probably October at the time we recorded that episode,

and then it didn't come out until the

beginning of November, something like that, but quite a long time ago now.

Flossi and I met on the AT, but that's not what we're going to talk about today.

We're going to be talking all about our through hike of the foothills Trail.

Now, if you're not familiar with the foothills trail, we're going to talk

all about it in just a second, but it's basically just this 77-ish mile hike out in South

Carolina and a little bit in North Carolina as well, just right on the border there. And Flossie

and I went out last week. Today is May 7th, and we left for the hike on April 27th. So it was just

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