How's it going, everyone? You're listening to Trail Tales. My name is Kyle O'Grady. I'm a

through hiker. I'm a peak bagger. And this is the podcast where every single week I give the same

introduction. And this is the podcast where every single week I chat the same introduction and this is the podcast where every single

week I chat with other through hikers and other peak baggers and other hiking nerds like myself

about their experiences on the trail. So this week's guest is a woman named Nancy Wind. She is the

founder and owner of a business called Peaks and Poses.

We're going to talk all about what exactly it is, but basically it's like a guiding service

that also brings people out on the trail to do yoga, which is a very unique idea.

This episode is not sponsored by Peaks and Poses.

I did not receive money to have this conversation with Nancy,

nor did she receive money to have this conversation with me.

She pretty much just reached out a few months ago and was like,

hey, can we set something up?

And we were able to make it happen.

Not only do we talk about Peaks and Poses and her business, but we spend a lot of the episode, pretty much the entire second half, talking about our differences in spirituality as it relates to hiking. Now, I've said this before in the show. I am not a very spiritual person. I kind of just like to go fucking hike.

And, um, Nancy is kind of the opposite. And I thought that could be like a cool conversation

to kind of try to understand each other a little bit more. And so that's what we did.

I was definitely in over my head for a lot of this stuff. I mean, that should be pretty obvious.

But regardless,

if you are a spiritual person like she is, hopefully you can have a laugh at me trying to wrap my head around some of this stuff. If you're not spiritual at all like me, then hopefully

you'll find some of the things that Nancy shares to be interesting or at least mildly entertaining.

And yeah, I really think there's something for all sides of this conversation.

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