What's going on, everybody? You're listening to Trail Tales episode number 78. My name is Kyle O'Grady,

and every single week on this podcast, I, a through hiker, a peak bagger, a huge hiking nerd chat with other

through hikers, other peakbaggers, and other hiking nerds about their experiences on the trail.

This week's guest is a man that I've known for a long time now. Ryan Stratton, we were both

in the same fraternity together in college. That's how we met. We talked about that a little bit more later. And we also talk about his through hike of the Pacific Crest Trail in 2018. That's what we focus on for most of this episode. And I got to say, folks, this is not my best episode. I'm going to be honest. Still worth listening to. Still putting it out, obviously. But I had literally just gotten back from a backpacking trip when we recorded. Like, it was literally less than an hour before we hit record. I had gotten back to my house. And I was just completely tired. And as much as I love talking about backpacking,

I mean, I literally have a podcast about backpacking and I've been doing it for, you know,

getting close to two years now. As much as I love talking about backpacking, um, I just feel like,

you know, when you like immediately get back from a strenuous backpacking trip, talking about

backpacking for an hour probably isn't like the top thing on your list that you want to do.

But that said, it was my fault that we had to kind of postpone it and record it at that time

anyway.

So yeah, here's my like low key kind kind of apology still worth listening to obviously but um

yeah sorry stratton and sorry everybody if if i just kind of sound like even more of an idiot in

this episode because yeah i was really really tired as you're going to hear me say like five times

so anyways still a good episode and i still need to thank Stratton for coming on.

We're going to do another one soon. Like I said, we're friends. We know each other besides just

from all the hiking stuff. So yeah, it was a really good time. And Stratton, thank you so much.

Trail Tales has been doing pretty well in the downloads department lately. So thank you to

everybody who's tuning in. If you tune in

week after week and you haven't checked out a couple things, most notably my Instagram at

Kyle Hates Hiking, you should definitely go do that and my YouTube channel, Kyle Hates Hiking

on YouTube as well. Just type that in and you should be able to find all my dumb videos. Yeah,

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