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Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

#83 | Kraig Adams on being a Full Time Hiking YouTuber

Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

Kyle Hates Hiking

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness

4.9 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The one and only Kraig Adams joins me this week to chat about his wildly successful YouTube channel. Kraig started out as a more 'traditional' YouTuber and has transitioned his content into that of a hiking channel. This is very much a rapid fire episode, with me asking many questions that were submitted on Instagram. We cover a lot, so buckle up!   Huge thanks to CS Instant Coffee for sponsoring this episode! Go check them out through my affiliate link: https://cs-instant-coffee.peachs.co/a/kyle-ogrady/   Like what you hear? Want to talk some smack? You can contact me on Twitter, Instagram, or send me an email: [email protected] you're really into Trail Tales and want to receive some bonus content, please consider supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trailtalesFeel free to leave me a five-star review on iTunes, 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 up everybody? You're listening to Trail Tales episode number 83. My name is Kyle O'Grady. I am your host. I am a through hiker. I am a peak bagger and I am a huge hiking nerd.

0:22.4

And every single week on this podcast, I chat with other hiking nerds like myself about their

0:27.5

experiences on the trail. Craig Adams is this week's guest. I'm sure a lot of you out there are

0:34.0

familiar with him already. But if you're not, he is a bit of a different

0:37.9

guest for this show. He has a very popular YouTube channel, and he kind of started as a more,

0:44.6

quote, traditional YouTuber, whatever that means, aka not a hiking YouTuber, strictly,

0:50.9

and lately he has been transitioning his content into a hiking channel or at least

0:57.3

that's the way that I see it I mean most of his videos these days have been directed towards

1:01.0

hiking and they are amazing he makes some very unique really really awesome films capturing his

1:07.4

hikes and it was a huge privilege to have the chance to talk to him.

1:12.0

Pretty much all of the questions and the topics that we covered in this episode were

1:17.5

submitted on Instagram. So thank you very much to everybody who sent a question for Craig. I've made my job a lot easier if I'm just going be honest. And yeah, it was just a great chat.

1:27.7

So thank you, Craig. When you hear this, please come on again soon. You are probably the biggest

1:33.0

guest that's been on Trail Tales up to this point. And speaking of that, I do think there's going

1:38.4

to be a lot of new listeners. Yeah, because of that. So if this is your first time listening to

1:43.4

Trail Tales, I hope you like it.

1:45.1

And if you enjoy it, please go back and check out one of the 82 other episodes that exist.

1:52.2

You can go to TrailTalespod.com to listen to those other episodes,

1:56.7

or you can just look on the exact podcast app you're listening on right now.

2:02.4

That would be really, really cool.

2:04.2

Go check out my Instagram as well at Kyle Hates Hiking.

2:07.9

You can check out my YouTube channel as well, also called Kyle Hates Hiking.

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