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Hello, welcome to another episode of Pop Bear Hikes.

Today I have fellow podcaster and fellow outdoor enthusiast, Dan of Bigfoot

Bat Packer. Dan, welcome to Pop Bear Hikes.

Thank you very much and I sure appreciate your time today and reaching out and

having us get together today. I love it. Thank you.

Yes, I read a little bit about you and I saw somebody's passions are certainly

going in the same direction as mine.

So why don't you tell us. Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Sure. Wow, we're to start, gosh, with the backpacking world.

It goes back obviously like so many people back to when they were young and

with their dad or parents or uncles or cousins, brothers, sisters, whatever that may be.

Gosh, I grew up in Montana and I was fortunate enough to grow up pretty

close to Yellowstone Avenue Park. But in between the Yellowstone National Park

and where I grew up in Billings, there was the Absorca Bear Tooth Wilderness.

And I tell you what, ever since I could walk, even maybe before then, my dad would

take me out and show me the streams and how they worked and how they were

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