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Hello and welcome to another episode of Pop Bear Hikes.

Before we get into tonight's topic, we'll start by addressing a couple of emails,

randomly picked two emails. The first one, Laurie from Little Rock, Arkansas.

Pop Bear, I love your interviews with Room the Kendrick of the American

Permanent Trail. He comes across as just a sincere person who really loves what

he's doing and is really dedicated to the goal of the American Permanent

Trail. Laurie, you're absolutely right. Really, it's just such an incredible

person. What he has done, his accomplishments, not just physically, but the way he's

throwing his heart into what he's doing. He is an incredible person. Go check out

the American Permanent Trail's website. They're in the middle of a membership

drive right now. See what they're doing and if your heart's in it, I know it's

the holidays, but if you can give a cup of boxing American Permanent Trail, I'm

sure they'd appreciate it. Next, we have Alan from Gary, Indiana. Alan says,

hey, Pop Bear, I've been using the same backpacking gear now for 12 years and I

feel like I'm at a point where I'm ready to upgrade. I don't want to empty the

bank doing so. I'm not at a point in my life. I'm ready to do a through hike.

It's about 10 to 15 years out for me. But as a way, I can do this without

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