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Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

#38 | 576 White Mountain 4000 Footers in Record Time with Philip Carcia (Finding Philip)

Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

Kyle Hates Hiking

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness

4.9678 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Round three with Philip Carcia, also known as Finding Philip! Wrapping up the story of his White Mountain Single Year Grid, Philip goes into detail about the role that social media played in his project, some of his highest and lowest points, and what kept him motivated on the trail, day after day after day. Philip hiked every single one of the White Mountain 4000 Footers in every single month... for an entire year! If you've hiked any of the New Hampshire 4000 Footers or anywhere else in the White Mountains, you know how difficult they are and can probably imagine the strength it took for Philip to complete this goal. He has been incredibly humble about the whole thing, and I am beyond grateful that he was willing to spend so much time talking to me and sharing his story over the last few months. Please consider making a donation of any size to the Trail Tales 46 Climbs team, raising money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: https://afsp.donordrive.com/participant/1975017 Like what you hear? Want to talk some smack? You can contact me on Twitter, Instagram, or send me an email: [email protected] If you're really into Trail Tales and want to receive some bonus content, please consider supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trailtales.  Feel free to leave me a five-star review on iTunes (I read every one at the beginning of the next episode), and subscribe if you like the show! My personal Instagram is @kylehateshiking, so feel free to follow me on there as well.  Subscribe on iTunes, and listen on Google Play and Stitcher!

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0:00.0

What's going on everybody?

0:15.0

Welcome to Episode 38 of Trail Tales.

0:19.0

My name is Kyle O'Grady. I am a through hiker. I'm a peak bagger. And every

0:23.8

single week on this show, I interview other people that fit those descriptions as well and just

0:30.6

kind of nerd out about hiking. We have a lot of fun here. If you're new to the program, I encourage

0:36.0

you to subscribe, especially if that sounds

0:38.6

interesting. That would be really, really cool. And speaking of really, really cool, this

0:45.0

week's guest, that's a great transition, isn't it? This week's guest, Philip Karsha,

0:49.6

he's back for round three overall and round two of this like little mini series that we got going here.

0:57.0

Over the course of these three episodes, I feel like we pretty much got his entire story of the single year grid out there.

1:07.0

I mean at this point, it'll be over three hours of content of yeah I mean I just

1:12.1

said it Philip telling his story I mean it's so incredible if you haven't listened

1:16.9

to the other two episodes definitely go back and do that that is number 24 the

1:21.7

original one we recorded back in April and then last week's episode number 37

1:27.2

definitely go check those out if somehow you stumbled

1:29.8

upon this and haven't heard those already and yeah I mean Philip really just puts it all out there

1:36.3

we kind of wrap up the story here we kind of bring it to a conclusion and I think it is so awesome

1:43.6

that we have all this recorded in a long

1:45.8

format.

1:46.8

I'm so stoked.

1:47.8

I say this a bunch during the episode, like at the end especially.

1:51.1

I'm just, I'm very, very happy with how this came out.

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