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Kevin Bae: So it's November 28
2023 I'm on a birthday hike 57

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Today I'm hiking to Montgomery
falls near Dahlonega Georgia and

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apparently this is near an army
base because there was a Humvee

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that just went roaring by on the
Forest Service road

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and let it all kinds of stuff
over here I gotta make sure I'm

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on the right path because this
was like not very clear now I

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think this is correct we'll see
some back out here with my dog

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Godfrey and it's late fall so
this trail is absolutely covered

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with leaves and you got to be
careful with leaves because it's

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very slippery

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and since it's been dry not a
whole lot of rain these leaves

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are super dry

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nice crisp morning to about 38
degrees when I got out of the

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car so I'm prepared to get
gloves I got a jacket but i like

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i i missed the cold weather from
Chicago and I promised myself I

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wouldn't get soft we're living
in Georgia okay and we

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definitely on the right trail so
we are good

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it's not a super long trail from
what I understand two and a half

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miles out and back so smile and
a quarter there and I guess army

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trains here so there's things
here with numbers I don't know

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what these are

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five and six

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tiny waterfalls down there

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right so to record these hikes I
decided to ditch the video the

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video just is too much hard to
take pictures with my phone I

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take some video with my phone
but having a 360 camera and

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trying to take video with that
and and do all the editing later

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was just making this entire
thing a chore and not not very

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enjoyable. So I decided to ditch
that I just gonna take photos

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and videos from my with my phone
and I'll put that together

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later. I'm

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just going to record this on my
little field recorder. See how

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that turns out. And just look, I
thought it captured the sounds

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of walking in the woods, walking
on the trails and with The sound

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of the creeks and the streams
and the waterfalls my dog I

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thought it captured it well
enough but we'll see

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going to be a little bit of a
hike up because the initial walk

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here we're heading downhill most
of the way it looks like

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nope My dog is a creek

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wondering if this is where I'm
supposed to cross is gonna get a

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little wet

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hold on Godfrey

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Yep, this is the stream crossing
so I gotta find a way to get

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across without getting myself
soaked let's see

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I can go this way

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kind of ruining this wonderful
babbling brook no you're gonna

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go digging in the stream

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all right I gotta find a way
across Godfrey

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this looks like this might be
the way I can get down without

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falling in

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Yeah Give me a chance buddy

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my god That wasn't too bad I had
to hop across some rocks a

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little bit upstream because
we're the actual trail is too

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deep for my boots

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wind is starting to pick up so I
may have to get my jacket out if

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I can't get my body temperature
up by hiking we'll see those

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ages where you're kind of in
between you're not quite super

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old. You're definitely not young

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and to be honest, I never
thought I'd I'd be this old

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maybe that's the way it is way
most people think.

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Given the way I spent my youth I
didn't think I'd make it to 30

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but I got married at 20 and that
seemed to slow me down a bit

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had to behave because I had to
raise kids. So in order to keep

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them alive. I have to stay out
of trouble.

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Whenever you whenever you talk
to somebody who's older than you

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they never feel as old as they
are which is the same for me I

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suppose hey I'm 57 you should
you know should feel old back

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when you know when you're in
your 20s it it looks like it's a

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million miles away like you'd be
ancient

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yeah I'm grayer that's for sure
but that process started when I

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was 18

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but I am in better shape than I
was when I was in my 20s

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and that's just due to a
concerted effort starting in my

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40s basically to not an outline
lined up like like my parents

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which you know they while
they're both older and still

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moving around they are not this
fleet of foot as as I would like

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to be when I'm their age

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this way Godfrey got her first
incline here which is good

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because kind of need to get that
heart rate up and get the blood

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pumping a little bit more

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it's pretty good steep incline
here

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up into this point it was pretty
easy so this part here would

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definitely make it a moderate
hike because the incline is

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steep it's not hard you don't
have to scramble but it's pretty

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steep

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you can hear I'm finally really
huffing and puffing

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Tuesday's supposed to be my
cardio day for exercise so this

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is the cardio workout

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going down that incline with all
these leaves is gonna be a treat

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it's gonna make a slippery

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was a healthy healthy homeless
up to the top here

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let's see Ben Klein Devon
definitely got the chill out of

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my phone's got the blood pumping

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there's still more to come but
at least from his vantage point

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it doesn't look as steep

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a couple of routes to take I
think we stay and Bruce was to

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go to the left this way. Godfrey

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You know God's gonna take a
picture of that fork three prong

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fork in the trail

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don't think I can care for all
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okay let's go this way

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I'm really starting to love
living here because we're not

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really that far away from any
civilization these trails just

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everywhere I'm not too far from
some other trails I previously

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hiked but yet there's there's
like 1000 Over a million of them

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so even though I'm in similar
areas I was before totally new

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trail totally new things to see
different waterfalls different

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creeks

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if you can hear that creek down
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maybe I wonder if I got a cell
signal out here I do must be

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because the army bases nearby

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because normally out here once I
get this deep into the woods

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there's really no cell coverage
at all

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just kind of stopping taking a
break I can see the creek way

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down seeing where my dog is in
the fear returns at some point

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kind of get ahead of me here he
comes. So funny when he doesn't

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see me or see I'm behind him
good boy. Good boy Godfrey. Hey

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you feel like taking a selfie
Godfrey Are you going to bark

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again

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hey wouldn't you rather just
take a nice quiet selfie

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just blew up my eardrums I'm
sure yours if you're listening

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to this

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we've been heading down steadily
mild incline

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I'm sure to get to the bottom of
whatever falls

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of Montgomery falls through try
to remember the name. We've met

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up with the stream Creek,
whatever you want to call it

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we're almost false. It's not a
not very long hike at all.

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Simon's getting a little bit
higher in the sky. It's a

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beautiful, sunny day. Really
nice blue skies tall pines. I

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don't think I could ask for a
better day to get a picture of

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that.

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got free All right good boy

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He's pretty good at recall not
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he does pay attention to where I
am when I don't show up he comes

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right back down the trail if he
gets too far ahead and goes

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around the bend and then doesn't
hear me coming he'll turn around

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and come back he doesn't go
chasing after wildlife too much

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out here there are times when we
run across deer in squirrel he's

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kind of sprinted about but a
stern call and he'll come right

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back up there's the false

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so we have to get down there
take a picture on the bottom

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see the Falls young man all the
way down there somewhere you're

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trying to pass down What do you
think all right well let's go

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this way first

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can you not You're not a
lumberjack oh

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we're gonna have to do a little
scrambling to get down there

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course he's totally unimpressed
with the false and instead turn

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to rip up a log

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Unknown: right

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Kevin Bae: close

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he's gonna swim by my dog so
he's he swam to the other side

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where there's like a waterfall
and he can't get up because it's

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too slippery. Hey Godfrey come
this way

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alright let's try to make it
down the bottom what do you say

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got a scramble back up this
hill. So we were at the top of

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the falls just now

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there's no great vantage point
from the top. Now we got to find

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our way down to the bottom. I
should pause this

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I think we can go down the side
trail, sort of back where we

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were but off to the left

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so that when you get to the
falls and you see it there's a

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steep hill that you have to
scramble down and there's a

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trail off to the left your feet
if you look for it I didn't

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notice it right off so busy
looking at the falls and

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honestly trying to make sure
Godfrey doesn't try to go down

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over the falls

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you got to be a little bit
careful to the wet little

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slippery down here but you can
make it

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if I can get across might be too
deep for my boots

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there is a path across

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you know Lassie bark for a
purpose he barks for nothing

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you gotta like rip up every log

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What the hell are you doing

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if we're not walking down the
trail he's working at stuff are

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ripping up logs of rhododendrons
here who I just got water right

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over the top of my shoe you know
I can go here but God you can't

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you won't be able to make it
there and back so flip an area

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I'd like to get to this a snap a
picture but he won't be able to

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go now aside from aside from
Panther creek falls this is one

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of the nicest waterfalls I've
been to it's a very easily

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accessible

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so if you like waterfalls this
is definitely a trail to take

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it's not that difficult. Other
than that incline but honestly

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if you're able to hike just take
your time up that incline and

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he'll do just fine well then you
got to scramble down the hill

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here but I don't know anybody
that's determined enough I think

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can do this you're sliding
around you're sliding around so

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there's a lot of wet moss and
then the leaves on top of the

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wet moss make for a wonderful
experience careful

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alright, we'll go back across
How did I get here? Isn't that

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what the talking heads saying
about all right now for the

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scramble back up. Oh, let's go.
Go up up. And he's got Godfrey

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dirt Am I

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ever had that happen where it's
slow motion. You can see the

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Second flying for dry and
there's nothing you can do your

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agents doesn't close in time all
right

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scramble up is easier than the
scramble down

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keep walking a bit

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one second Godfrey

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you gotta resume my hiking
tracker because we're gonna go a

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little bit further up because
the hike a little bit short

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so I think we're gonna go
further up to where the Forest

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Service road is and then turn
back around

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does a fantastic waterfall worth
the trek you know fall hiking

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even though you know the trees
all the leaves are falling off

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the trees and it's cold I like a
cold I think it's much more

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comfortable to hike when it's 40
degrees outside so when it's at

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I don't have to carry as much
water I'm not sweating you know

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hardly at all. Yeah, I mean, you
start to sweat when you can't

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take those big inclines but

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other than that, you know like
cruising along it feels nice

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fewer people on the trails for
Godfrey and I usually pick

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trails anyway that are pretty
pretty quiet mostly because he

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doesn't like other dogs and I'd
like to give him space to run so

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we pick these trails that not a
lot of people go on so he can

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have a good day

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mean I suppose he would enjoy it
if he's on leash anyway but

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because we're from you know this
this stuff didn't exist so he

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got to play a lot of fish
because I'll flatland and we had

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parks near the house. So we
would take daily walks and go

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there so we might not take daily
walks here but we do go on these

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hikes often. Now that I bought
my state park pass we plan on

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going into some of the state
parks more often my parking pass

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going to try to try to do it
weekly

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there's so many places to go and
while he does fetch in the yard

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which way is the trail supposed
to go follow the creek he does

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play such in the yard. It's not
as much activity as he used to

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get so these hikes are the
pinnacle for me he's kind of in

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his element

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except more in your waterfalls
and stuff because then you just

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barked at them

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now we're on part of the trail
is not really a trail

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at least most people think stop
at the falls and head back. But

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it's really kind of short so I
just want to extend it a little

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bit. You know there's a Forest
Service road up at the top of

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this

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but it's clear that many people
have walked the rest of this

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trail people have it's it's worn
down but not not like the other

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side J tree that fell down over
the trail I don't know if I can

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continue theaters away over
around

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yeah just walked through the
towards the base of the tree but

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now I can't tell I'm supposed to
be think I'm supposed to be this

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way. Still sort of following the
creek now we're sort of off

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really into a trailer left at
all we're not bushwhacking but

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definitely not on a well worn
trail anymore

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I supposed to be another stream
crossing so I think I'm just

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gonna go to that point maybe an
angle back because the trail

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definitely over here is pretty
rugged and

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not much else to see it looks
like but I want to see the other

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water crashing just for my own
curiosity

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gotta continue this way
following the creek guide pretty

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there's definitely no semblance
of a trail the only way the only

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reason I know where I'm going is
because I'm following the creek

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on the map to where a trail is
sort of supposed to be

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sticking out is not pleasant fix
in the I don't recommend it

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just scratch my contact lens

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well there's definitely nowhere
else to go I'm not gonna see

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that water crossing I don't
think

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because there is no trail away
maybe I can go back this way

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me I would steer myself into a
voluntary steep incline on the

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bright side I have rediscovered
the trail it's obvious people

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come on the site

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because they actually have some
signs and maintenance where

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there are cut logs really did a
number on my eyeball I think

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it's just a scratch on my
accomplishments. So that would

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have hurt my eye in a serious
way if I didn't have lenses.

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This is the stream crossing
which is not exciting at all

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you bushwhack for this sort of

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all right, Godfrey. We made it
to where I wanted to make it so

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now we will return. Like it's
really starting to warm up now.

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Let's see No no I'm without
internet connection for sure

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I went far enough into the woods

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it seems to me the trail where
are we We're now following the

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creek we definitely missed some
turn off because now I'm on a

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pretty well worn trail heading
back and I haven't been on the

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section so I missed something up
there

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so I'm thinking if you want to
continue on this trail after the

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fall it's gotta pay close
attention to that Miss whatever

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I missed this part of the trail
is actually that bad I just

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missed it somehow. I blame it on
Godfrey on the other bonus for

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hiking in the fall with
everything being dormant and all

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the vegetation gone is that God
eat fewer stupid things that dog

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sometimes we get back home and
that night or the next day cough

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up some big ball or something
God reset speaking of eating bad

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things

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let me see where are we okay
we're definitely back on track

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heading back to the car

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he got free

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were you eating dumb things Hey,
hey Godfrey Godfrey come here

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right here Wait wait wait wait
Hey, Godfrey look here look here

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look here no no complain let's
go

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go drink go drink

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not get the stick go drink

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once you want to drink Drink go
drink coffee go drink gonna take

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my first drink of the hike

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getting closer to the falls
again just the truck back. I can

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see him from here. It's funny
how the cliff on the fall

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blacked out all the sound so you
can hear the stream as it picks

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up speed but the roar of the
falls can't really hear it that

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well from here at all

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back to having a connection to
the internet. So connection and

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just trying to find my
temperature here. Or at least as

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close as whatever station has
reading because it feels pretty

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warm now and part of it from the
hiking but part of it's the sun

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is up in the sky now. Not a
single cloud either. Not a good

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enough connection to get some
data to see with a lot of local

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temporary yours definitely feels
like about 50 degrees now going

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the wrong way yep you go this
way drills over here usually He

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spots the trail today

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we're working up a gentle
incline now which firm remember

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culminates in that steep incline
which on the way back to a

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decline as part of it's not hard
at all just get your heart rate

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up a little bit blood pumping
you know how I know we've had a

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good hike My dog is tired all
that up and down and all the

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excitement by the Falls has
slowed down dramatically right

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now

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it's almost like he's citing
which is funny. He is calmly

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walking in the past looking here
looking there which is kind of

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how I wish he was all the time
but you get what you get. He is

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what he is a high energy
excitable guy. He's going to be

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nine years old in a month and he
still hasn't slowed down really

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a little bit but you should have
seen how high energy he wasn't

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he was two or three and I don't
know to whoever's listening to

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this if you're like me you take
a lot fewer pictures on the way

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back than you do on the way out

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don't know why it is because you
feel like it's over. And the

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hike is done

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but they're definitely different
perspectives on the way back and

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I'm looking at it from a
different angle 180 degrees

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every once in a while I don't
come upon a scene that just kind

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of looks kind of cool. Please
stop and take a pic my dog

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whines could I stop moving

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even in his tired state he
doesn't want to stop

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when he stops that's when I know
something's wrong

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there have been a couple times
while on hikes and back to the

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triple fork in the road in the
trail. Then a couple times on

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hikes we're going this way this
way where he's had some problem

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stepped on something hurt
himself somehow in a minor way

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because he's he's kind of a
crybaby and he just he stops or

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her walk really slowly end up
behind me which he's never

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walking behind me on the trail.
He's always a little bit out in

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front and then if I go to check
them out, and he's very fearful

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so he doesn't he won't allow me
to check them out. He doesn't

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trust that way. You know, he'll
snap you know, for most

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everything, he's fine, but when
he's hurt, he's just such a

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baby. That he gets really
fearful about it and he he'll

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snap and and bite and he's never
actually done it. It's just

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threatened pretty pretty well.
So what I what I bought from

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from Ruffwear I got this it's
like a packout kit. For dogs,

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like if he gets injured because
there's he's 75 pounds, there is

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no way I'm going to really pick
him up in my arms and carry him

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you know when I'm two three
miles into the woods. So they

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have this pack comes with like a
harness type thing that you put

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around the dog. And then it
becomes like a front pack or a

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backpack where you carry the dog
that I can, I can probably it'll

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take me time but it'll work and
it comes with a muzzle. So your

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dog doesn't bite you. Almost
went down, tripping on the

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leaves, very slippery. But um,
so it comes with a muzzle, she

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could put it on your fearful dog
and I get bitten while you try

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to pick them up. It's kind of a
silly thing. I tried it on him

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at home, just so I can figure
out how it works. So

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uncomfortable. But for anybody
else who hates for the dog, a

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big dog come out myself. So
we're going down that steep

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incline now. That's why I
slipped a little bit on these

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leaves because there's a really
thick mat of leaves on a trail

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and they're all dry. Sorry for
the swear word. So it's

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slippery, they all slip it's
like walking on marbles in leaf

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form. So I don't have any phones
out all I have is Godfreys leash

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in my hand and the microphone I
used to talk on is clipped to my

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backpack so hands are free so I
try to keep my balance and not

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murder myself and my 57th
birthday it is really pretty

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slippery. So I'm like going down
sideways little steps at a time

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cuz that will hurt it's another
reason for staying active is

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that I don't end up busting hips
and stuff and I'm at what's

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happened to my mother recently
because she's never done

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anything physical fitness wise.
And she's a smoker gave her some

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brittle bones. She just fell
well. Babysitting somebody and

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playing in the parking lot of
her apartment complex and fell

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down. broke her hip

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that's not for me. At least
that's what I don't want to

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happen. So we will stay active.
Hiking I love I can do this all

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the time. The daily workout I
don't like I work out six days a

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week, but a half an hour a day.
Some cardio, two days of cardio.

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Three days of strength
weightlifting and stuff nothing

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super heavy just more than
lifting heavier than I would

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normally lift on a normal day
then one day of stretching or

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yoga or whatever. Just to keep
the joints limber so that in

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addition to this hiking that's
my plan and not end up to

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decrepit when I get older or
less decrepit than I already am.

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Okay, we finished that steep
decline without killing

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ourselves. It's an
accomplishment get some wispy

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clouds coming in

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Godfrey Godfrey

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Here he comes.

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Good boy. Good boy. A good
conversation we have every day

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I've come to the conclusion he's
bad up

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here's the major water crossing
let's see if I can get myself

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getting across this thing what I
should do is get fancy bring a

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tripod and put this up on a
tripod to Cesar to see how I

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tried to get across this but I
generally don't have that kind

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of patience alright here we go

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plenty of rocks here to get
across

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and that's how you get across
that now I need both my hands to

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get up

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success

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we're in the homestretch now

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this is the final incline of the
hike

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Well it's pretty good incline on
this last bit it's not not like

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the the other one this is a wide
trail and fairly easy to walk

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the other one that was a whole
it's funny is after I get up

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here it's at least five degrees
colder which is fine because I

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feel a little bit warm down in
the valley there

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but I mean you notice that as
soon as you get up to the top of

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this hill

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there is another waterfall down
there do you want to take that

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risk of going down there just
check it out a bit and see how

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hard it is to get down there

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wait Godfrey Wait wait wait wait
don't go Godfrey wait she that's

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where his recall is pretty good

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all right little slippery
getting down here like

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everywhere else

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it's not that hard to get out
here which is good. Like he was

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worse than it was almost where
he is I'm almost gonna

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grab a hold of this
Rhododendron.

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got free movie here why? Why?
This way? Okay. Oh, look here.

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Look here. Look this way. Hey,
You're terrible nobody wants to

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see your hind end

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right is a bit of a scramble
down to I think they call it the

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lower black falls it's early in
the trail going to Montgomery

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falls so hence the reason why
I'm doing it last I wanted to

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get down to the main event first
and this one was a bit of a

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climb down

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but we made

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are we doing all the way down
there let's go

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he decided he wanted to go visit
the creek

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you staring at me because he
thought I was gonna go down

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there with him

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okay, I heard something but it
was nothing I guess maybe it's

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coming from the military base I
just want to make sure there

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weren't somebody would be
surprised by Godfrey being off

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leash great Godfrey Godfrey this
way

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we have to go up this way. I
think this is the last incline

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Yes, this is the last one. We
almost went down to where some

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area the basis just like
bleachers I can see down there.

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Net that's the wrong way to go.

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I forgot how steep because this
was at the very beginning. So I

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forgot how steep it was. It's
not that it's bad part of the

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trail. It's easy to walk. This
is a pretty decent incline on

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the way back but it's right near
the end

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I can see the road from the car

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and my jeep

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that's gonna be standing right
by the jeep and now he just

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wants to get in. Well then you
got to be wiped off your wet

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Wait

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Wait That will conclude the
hike. We're back at the car.

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Until next time