Right now, we're four miles from the summit.

I'm done.

Carl, Carl's feeling better than me.

You're done?

Well, I want to be done.

Sitting on the ground eating mango.

You know, sometimes that's where you find yourself.

Hey, this is Brooks.

And this is Carl.

And we are currently in the studio post-adventure.

And what an adventure it was.

It really was.

Welcome to this very first proof of concept for harder than we thought a national

parks podcast.

We're not even going to a national park for this proof of concept.

We're going to a national forest.

We're going to a National Forest. We're going to a National Forest. We're just going to throw it to ourselves in the field to tell you what we're up to

and tell you a little bit about ourselves.

Carl, explain to the people where we are right now.

Brooks, we are in the woods, podcasting in the forest outside of Truckee, California.

Tomorrow morning, we will set out on a bike packing adventure in Tahoe National Forest.

That's very, very, very exciting and very, very true.

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