What's going on everybody? Welcome to episode number 75 of Trail Tales. My name is Kyle O'Grady. I'm a

through hiker. I'm a peak bagger. And every single week on this show, I chat with another through hiker, another peak bagger, and

just a bunch of hiking nerds. We're all just hiking nerds around here and I'm back. I guess I just said every single week, but last week missed an episode.

Gotta be honest, I've been moving and setting everything up in a new place.

In fact, if this sounds different right now, that's because I literally haven't even had a chance to set up my microphone stand yet.

I'm just holding it in front of my face like an idiot, so hopefully it sounds okay.

I can guarantee you that the episode sounds okay and that it is also super, super interesting. Joe Biasi is my guest this week. He threw Hiked the episode sounds okay and that it is also super super interesting Joe Biasi is my

guest this week he threw hiked the Appalachian Trail and he also does quite a bit of

backpacking for his job we talk about all of that stuff and I gotta say the second

half of this episode it's a little bit sad it's a little bit sad. It's a little bit depressing.

I still think you should listen to it.

I think there's value there, but Joe kind of had a tough time on his Appalachian Trail

Thur hike and he was very candid and honest about it.

He didn't hold anything back and so just, I guess I don't want to call it a warning,

but just a heads up up it is a little bit

sad everything turns out okay in the end he finishes the trail but it's a little bit different than

some of the more positive stories that tend to get told on trail tales but he did finish off the

episode by telling a pretty funny story something that happened to him on the AT.

So it's not all bad.

It was a really interesting conversation.

We kind of went all over the place, tons of different topics here.

So I'm really stoked on it.

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