How is it going, everybody? Welcome back to Trail Tales. My name is Kyle O'Grady. I'm a

through hiker. I am a peakbacker. I am a huge hiking nerd. And every single week on this podcast, I chat with

other through hikers and other peak baggers and other backpackers and other hiking nerds about

their experiences on the trail. Well, actually, part of that was a lie because this episode is going to be

a little different. And so instead of chatting with another through hiker or peakbacker or backpacker or other hiking nerd,

on this episode, I'm going to do something a little bit different.

I'm going to try a solo episode.

Now, the reason I want to do this, well, there's a few different reasons, actually.

The first one is, to be honest with you it's just been

pretty hectic and i didn't have time to get an episode together this week and so i thought that

would make it a pretty good opportunity to experiment with the solo episode thing because that is

not the only reason um the fact that i couldn't get a guest or didn't have time to get a guest

um i have wanted to try this

for a while, to be honest, because I think it could be fun. I think it could be just another way to

kind of shake up the show and make it a little bit different. This is not going to turn into a

solely solo show, so you don't have to worry about that. I would still prefer to do guests probably,

but I don't know. I think it could be would still prefer to do guests probably, but I don't

know. I think it could be fun. And so with that said, before I get into it, I just want to ask you

to give me some feedback about this. And you can be, you can be honest. If you definitely prefer guests

and would rather me just not do this, uh, let me know. Don't be a jerk about it, please. But, you know, I really want, like, genuine feedback about this.

And if you like it and you have some ideas for other solo episodes I could potentially do,

then I would also appreciate it if you let me know about that.

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