Hello welcome to another episode podcast about hiking challenges. It was titled

Hiking for Patches. If you't, please go check it out. I labeled it hiking for

patches because a lot of these hiking challenges involved. When you complete it you

send in a form and usually five dollars or so and they will send you a patch and you get

signed a number showing your achievement.

And as I said in that podcast, hiking challenges could be fun. They could be motivating.

They can help you maybe bring in some friends to join you.

That's been the case with the Cats Girl 35. I've got a group of friends

and John and Dar who we've been hiking the Cats Girl 35 and having a lot of fun.

Pat joins us on some of those as well as my two sons.

So it's helped us expand myself at least a group of people I hike with.

And I enjoy these hiking challenges. Some of them, not so much maybe. Some of them I just, I've got two in particular I'm just struggling to motivate myself with

the Finger Lakes Trail which I have enjoyed I started in 2008 have a youngest son was 11 years old.

So a lot of that trail I hiked with my three boys, not all at the same time, but at different times they joined me on those hikes.

And I've had friends do other sections with me.

And I'm of a 500 and I think it's 560 mile trail I have less than 200 miles

left to complete.

Got a little bit of logistics problem and a little bit of a motivation problem.

It doesn't exactly offer the summits or the views that some of these other hiking challenges

have.

But I think I can enjoy going through some of the small towns and meeting some of the people that make these towns special.

Then there's the Catskill highest 100 or 102.

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