#9 | Four Failed Attempts at the Adirondack's Northville-Placid Trail, and a Fifth Shot at Success with Tuts from Trekking On

Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

Kyle Hates Hiking

Wilderness, Sports:wilderness, Sports

4.9 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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On today's episode I chat with Tuts, a thru-hiker, film-maker, and all-around outdoors man about his fifth, thats right FIFTH shot at thru-hiking the Adirondack's Northville-Placid Trail (spoiler, he crushes it the last time). What makes a relatively short, and nearly completely flat trail so difficult? We cover this and much more in our discussion about Tut's latest film, 'Northville-Placid Trail - If At First'. We also got into why Tut's shares his adventures with the world on Youtube, and even hear the story of how I (as in Kyle) also failed an attempt to thru-hike this infamous trail, due to a very bizarre reason. Like what you hear? Want to talk some smack? You can contact me on Twitter, Instagram, or send me an email: trailtalespod@gmail.com If you're really into Trail Tales and want to receive some bonus content, please consider supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trailtales. Feel free to leave me a five-star review on iTunes (I read every one at the beginning of the next episode), 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 is going on, everybody? Doesn't that intro music just get you so damn pumped?
0:17.4	Welcome to episode number nine of Trail Tales, podcasts where I, a through hiker and
0:23.4	peak bagger, chat with other through hikers, peakbaggers, and as of today, filmmakers
0:29.2	about their experiences in the outdoors and on the trail. I'm super stoked to share today's
0:35.3	episode. I mean, I'm always super stoked to share the week's episode, but I'm especially excited today
0:41.3	because I have a great chat with Jonathan Tutts, Meserve of the YouTube channel,
0:47.3	Trekking On.
0:49.3	I've been following Tuts on YouTube for a number of years now, so I was very happy he was willing to do an episode
0:55.1	on Trail Tales. And I'm also very happy to say that today's episode is about the Adirondacks
1:01.6	of New York, a place I've hiked quite extensively, a place that's kind of removed from the
1:08.0	Appalachian Mountains, the AT, and that sort of trail system is kind of a weird
1:12.9	contrast there. I'm not really sure what that's about, but I'm very excited to talk about the
1:18.0	infamous Northville to Placid Trail on today's episode. Once we get into the conversation, we give
1:25.7	a very thorough rundown of what the trail is, but for now,
1:29.3	all you really need to know is that it's about 140 miles long, and it just goes straight up
1:34.1	the heart of the Adirondack Wilderness. It took Tuts five tries, that's right, five tries before he
1:41.0	was able to successfully complete a through hike of the North Philadelphia
1:45.0	Placetal.
1:46.5	We get into what happened there.
1:48.7	We talk all about why this short trail is so difficult.
1:52.9	And finally, the sense of accomplishment that Tuts fell after he was finally able to successfully
1:58.9	complete the trail.
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