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Hello, welcome to another episode of Pop Bear Hikes.

I'm always encouraging our listeners to send in questions.

If they have any suggestions for episodes, if you recall a few months back,

I was doing an episode on the Lone Star Trail and asked everyone,

if you have any suggestions for trails we should cover, let us know.

Well, today's guys did that.

Hopefully he doesn't regret doing that.

But we have him here with us.

Samir, Mazeeb, welcome to Pop Bear Hikes.

Thank you. It's nice to be on the podcast, big fan of it.

Excited to talk to you about the Arizona Trail.

Well, we're excited to have you here because your experience on the trail wasn't all that long ago.

You just completed it this fall, is that correct?

Yeah, I did a fall 2021 southbound through hike of the Arizona Trail,

started about in October 1st and then finished mid-November.

Is there a typical direction people will hike the Arizona Trail?

Yeah, so definitely the most popular direction I'd say is northbound.

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