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Hello and welcome to another episode of Pop Bear Hikes.

This is a very special episode for Pop Bear Hikes.

This is our one year anniversary.

That's right, one year.

And wow, what a journey it's been.

Started this off where it was just going to be a podcast about hiking.

For some reason, I thought I could just talk once a week about hiking and it would somehow be interesting.

Like, I can talk and people would want to hear what I have to say.

And I quickly realized, I'm just not that interesting.

By episode two, I was already bringing guests on.

And that just opened up the floodgates for the topics we were,

we went from being a hiking podcast to everything outdoors,

covering every topic.

And wow, I just feel so blessed to have had time to talk to the people

and the friends I've made along this journey.

I want to thank every one of you.

We are closing in on 170 episodes.

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