Why the Hell do people STILL believe these Appalachian Trail Thru Hiking MYTHS?!

Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

Kyle Hates Hiking

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness

4.9 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Two Appalachian Trail thru hikers busting Appalachian Trail Thru Hiking myths, does it get any better than that?! This week I'm joined by Appalachian Trail thru hiker and editor for the Kyle Hates Hiking YouTube channel, Luke McKay. Is Pennsylvania REALLY as rocky as everyone says? Is the Appalachian Trail actually dangerous? Find out these answers and more. This is the FIRST video podcast of Trail Tales. SUBSCRIBE to the Trail Tales YouTube channel to start watching episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@trailtalespod Luke's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@experienceoverthings Like what you hear? Want to talk some smack? You can contact me on Instagram (@kylehateshiking), or send me an email: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Busting, destroying, annihilating Appalachian Trail through hiking myths.
0:05.0	There have been more people that have died from constipation than have died from Black Bear
0:10.9	attacks in the last 100 years.
0:13.9	I don't know where the hell this one came from.
0:15.7	This is super stupid.
0:17.1	Pennsylvania is rocky.
0:18.9	I think this is BS.
0:24.7	What's going on everybody? Welcome to Trail Tales. My name is Kyle O'Grady. I'm a through hiker. I am a peak bagger. I am a huge
0:29.2	hiking nerd and every single week on this podcast, I chat with other hiking nerds about their
0:34.7	experiences on the trail. This is a big episode, folks. First of all,
0:39.8	because it's an awesome theme with an awesome guest, Appalachian Trail myths, we're just
0:44.5	busting them, we're breaking them, we're annihilating them, as I said in the episode, and Luke
0:50.0	McKay is our guest. Luke is an Appalachian Trail Thruhiker and he is also an editor for my
0:56.9	YouTube channel and basically a co-producer at this point. So that's those are the first reasons actually
1:02.6	why this is such a big episode. The second reason is because well, if you're watching on
1:08.0	YouTube right now, you know this already. This is the very first video podcast in Trail Tales history.
1:16.1	That's right.
1:16.8	I just said it there.
1:17.7	If you're watching on YouTube, you can see my face right now.
1:20.4	You know what color my shirt is.
1:22.4	You know what color my eyes are?
1:24.5	You can see my pimples.
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