Welcome to the Monday minute of the Hunts Backcountry Podcast. These are shorter and more informal episodes where we answer your listening questions.

Steve, it's April, which is pretty wild.

Yeah, it's April 1st.

We should probably be doing some kind of joke or something, huh?

I know, like a gimmicky email should be going out.

Yeah.

It's not really our style.

Yeah, yeah, it's good.

Obviously we got T minus what, four days, so we fly down to Las Vegas and drive over the Grand Canyon for the death hike.

So I'm very excited and nervous.

Like the weather forecast is not good at all and then did a long hike last

Thursday I got in like a little over 22 miles and 6,000 feet elevation.

It was just a muddy, and it had poor drain that Wednesday night.

So the whole, I had on this road system

and the whole, it was just a muddy freaking mess. I was pretty wiped out after that that height man I was kind of like oof this

is gonna be it'll be interesting so we'll see yeah it's it's coming quick I have so many conflicting like thoughts and a great mix of

excitement and nervousness and hope and worry like which is honestly everything you you want going into something like this that's why you do it you know

Yeah, absolutely yeah if you just felt

Uber confident rolling into it then I made it too easy.

I did make some homemade bars the yesterday. I went to the grocery store to get food for this hike and it was one of those deals I just I was like in the granola bar aisle or whatever right I just had a stomachache just thinking about eating all that crap. I, man, I just want to make something,

you know, make something quote unquote real.

And ended up finding like a peanut butter, pecan,

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