So Katie Oates, Houston, welcome back to Papa Bear Hikes.

This time we're going to talk about something other than just soil products, something

that's near and dear to your heart just as you're, you know, what you do, but in your backyard,

so to speak.

And that is what happened in the past year, this, you know, this hurricane season, start off by telling us a little bit about it.

Yeah, I was born and raised in Asheville. I still have a direct family there and I'm up there all the

time. Definitely my home.

And last year I went down to Pinhote Fest and actually got stopped because there was no

gas from the Hurricane Helene at a gas station on the way and Georgia eventually made it a day

late to Phoady Fest.

And then that evening was looking on my phone and I'd gotten a text for my brother, like,

just so you know, mom and dad are okay and texts from my friends and then asking how me and my family are.

And then I saw, you know, the news and Chimney Rock Village where I used to go as a kid

all the time is parts of Main Street are just gone. They're, you know, water could be out for

who knows how long. Electricity could be out for who knows how long. So that was incredibly

rough to witness just personally.

I feel like I took that night to kind of process.

And then the next day I went back home.

I was supposed to go to the outdoor media summit in Montana

and the Leave No Trace Global Summit in Colorado straight from Pinhoity Fest. And I said,

can't do that. So I turned around and went home. And by Monday morning, talking to the Sawyer team,

Kurt Avery, who's the founder and owner, had committed to donating whatever we needed to donate,

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