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Hello, welcome to another episode of Pop Bear Hikes.

I'm going to start this week off by giving a shout out to our newest

Patreon member as of this morning.

It goes by the name of the Mushroom King.

Mushroom King, thank you for being such a generous Patreon member.

Signed up for our grizzly bear level, and for that he's going to receive an

autograph copy of my book, Switching Gears, and he's going to be able to

participate in monthly live streams and get advanced content, get a

Pop Bear Hikes necklace, sticker, and a few other things.

Make sure you go to the website, popbearhikes.com and check out our

Patreon, we have three different levels there.

We have the cub level, black bear, and grizzly bear.

Now on to today's topic, or I don't know if you want to call it a rant,

a disappointment, I don't know.

However, here we go, it's about winter hiking and leave no trace.

So let me start by saying this, everybody, leave no trace, doesn't take

a winter vacation, there's no cold weather breaks, there's no snow days

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