Welcome to the Monday Minute of the Hunts Backcountry podcast.

These are shorter and more informal episodes where we normally answer your listener questions.

But today we're mixing it up.

We actually have a listener of the show on the show.

Patrick, how's it going, man?

Good, Mark. How are you?

Doing well. We are going to hear a little bit about your experience.

You did your own version of a death hike just recently.

I don't know if it was timed to coincide with ours.

Not that it was the exact same dates, but you essentially had sent

us an email letting us know you did a pretty cool hike there locally. And it was not too long after

our death hike. And since we've been talking about the death hike on the podcast recently,

I thought it'd be cool to get you on and maybe inspire some more listeners to get out and do their own thing. But before we get

into that, what is any introduction, background, context for who you are, where you're from,

anything you just want to share? Yeah, real quick, my name is Patrick Olson. I grew up in the desert

of Southern California.

I moved to Boise about 10 years ago for college and stuck around since.

Love archery elk hunting.

Love meel deer hunting.

I pretty much, if I can hunt, I'm going to try to carve out some time to do so.

How long have you been listening to the podcast?

Probably since the beginning.

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