Welcome to the Huntback Country podcast. This is a bonus episode that Stephen Ag. just recorded

and formally right before the death hike. If you're new to what the death hike is, it's

something that we've been doing for many, many years now, almost 10 years actually. And

we've talked about it on previous podcasts plenty of times. You can go back and find some

of those episodes and we'll leave links in the short description for some of that just

to get context for what the death hike is. But it's something that every year we often

get a lot of questions about and feedback on and people enjoy hearing about it. So we just

decided last minute right before this year's death hike that Stephen Ag would hop on and

chat about the plan for the hike this year and just get a fresh perspective. And then next

week we'll also have another episode after the hike to talk about how it went. Some of

us has learned and will bring in some guests as well, including maybe some guys who were

doing the death hike for the first time this year, which would be great to hear their

perspective on. So I hope you guys enjoy this conversation. If you happen to have questions,

feel free to send those to us to podcast at xamangueer.com. Maybe it's something we can talk about

in the post-death hike recap or answer on a future Monday minute episode. Right now

though, here's this conversation with Steve. Steve, how's it going man?

Excellent. Excellent. Had a great Fourth of July had a family reunion over in Oregon with

the spec family and got to see a bunch of cousins and stuff that I grew up with. So that

was fun. But the whole time like a little bit of hitting my stomach knowing that the

death hike was coming up just a few days later. Yeah. It's like it's like bad planning

because it's like you just want to enjoy the fourth and barbecue and drink beer and stuff

like that. But the whole time it's like, oh man, I need to be a paceman. Yeah, this

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