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Hello, welcome to another episode of Pop Bear Hikes.

Right, today we have with us, Long This and Hiker, and three-time best-selling author,

Christine Thurmer. Christine, thank you so much for agreeing to come on to

Pop Bear Hikes podcast. Thanks for having me.

Christine, you have quite an incredible story. I read about you, I saw this and I

put, wow, this, this is an interesting person. This is somebody who has done

maybe more miles, definitely more miles than anybody I've ever interviewed in my

podcast. Maybe more than I've even read about, just to give people some

perspective and we're not going to get into the hiking and paddling part of

your life just to hiking alone. 58,000 kilometers. For our US listeners, that's

roughly maybe a little over somewhere around 36,000 miles of hiking. Now,

since that number's probably grown because you're out on a trip as we speak,

correct? I was about to say I'm now at 60,000 kilometers because I just finished

the Oregon Desert Trail just yesterday. That's incredible. Christine, why do you

tell us a little bit about yourself? Beyond what I've said, tell us a little bit

about you. Well, first of all, my name is pronounced Christine Thurmer.

Thurmer, I'm from Germany, as you might expect. I'm a German Long This and

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