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Unknown: All right

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Kevin Bae: we're walking to
Walden creek falls near Atlanta,

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Georgia. It just finished
raining. So it's gonna be a

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little bit muddy out here. But
other than that, it's a nice

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day. It's June 6 2024. This is
the casual hike. And we finally

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made it back out on the trail.
Is this supposed to be an easy

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hike a couple of miles.

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elevations are not supposed to
be too bad. And the trail is

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supposed to be sort of like
this, I guess where it's wide.

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Looks to me like it's an ATV
trail. But I'm trying to see to

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take more easy hikes if I could
find them. For Godfrey, because

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getting older, his right rear
leg gets stiff after a while, so

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trying to find something that's
not so strenuous for him. So

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there's a fork in the trail,
when that looks like the road

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when it looks more like a foot
trail. And it's hard to tell on

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the alltrails map which way to
go. But I want to try the foot

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trail, see where we go. So after
the first 2030 yards or so looks

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like this matches the trail on
the alltrails map. When you're

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looking for trails that aren't
so heavily trafficked, they're

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not always well marked. So it
takes some effort to figure out

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which way to go. This one still
is a nice wide trail though.

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So I did indeed take the wrong
trail. It's always hard to tell

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until you get maybe a football
field down the way. And then you

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see it is way off track. So you
gotta go back, take the other

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trail. Keep going. I don't know
if you can hear that. But it has

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decided to rain on us. But it
should be passing showers if if

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they're going to be like that.
So if they're gonna if it's

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going to rain, so we're just
going to press on, even though

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we're at the beginning of the
hike. I'm not going to turn

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around because we're gonna get
soggy and muddy anyway. There's

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hope that the downpours aren't
too severe. Because sometimes in

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Georgia, you get these dang
loses. Followed by some

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sunshine. You know, you'll get
like these really big downpours

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for 2030 minutes. It'll be over
like nothing ever happened. So

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hopefully it won't be that long,
but it's already seems like it's

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slowing down a bit. It'll keep
me cool. This could be a very

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short episode of this podcast.
Because with this being looks

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like an ATV road. It's not a
whole lot to see. Maybe until we

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get to whatever waterfalls are
supposed to be at the end. We'll

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find out. I always say that and
then I end up with like an hour

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of audio anyway

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we'll find out I guess. So in
the first part of this trail,

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it's largely uphill. It's a very
gradual incline. And you hit a

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crest and then it starts to go
down. So it looks like the crest

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is about the halfway point. So
indeed, this is a short trail.

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And just as I thought the rain
has moved out, clouds have moved

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out and now it's sunny. But this
trail is very wooded. So you're

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walking under a forest canopy So
it's not not hot, it's just you

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know, walking through shade most
of the time dappled shade. Now

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it is nice because the
temperature is low, the humidity

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is high today, but the temps
low. So it makes it more

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comfortable for me, and this old
dog might be able to hear the

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creek down there. I'm not sure
if that's where we're headed.

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But it's a nicely rapidly
running stream. Creek, what have

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you. One day, I'll know the
difference. This is kind of

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cool. There's like a side trail
over here. That leads to like a

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little part of the stream. And I
was looking at earlier with the

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little waterfall and such, I
don't know where the rest of

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this trail goes.

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It's cool though. We just kind
of come out to take a look at

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this. Good right underneath that
road. Good spot forgot pretty

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cool often. Very nice. This is
part of that same side trail. A

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little bit further up the
stream. That was really cool

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rolling waterfall happening. And
this guy trying to ruin

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everybody's life.

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So I just got a ping from the
all trails app telling me that

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I'm off the trail, even though
I'm on the same wide trail I've

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been on. So it appears that the
side trail that I walked on,

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there's not the side trail,
that's the actual trail. This is

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one of the big beefs I have with
what they've done to the

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alltrails app. When you're
navigating, it doesn't navigate

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like a car where I can see the
direction in front of me. They

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instead they keep the map in
this wacky stationary position

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overhead with like an overhead
view. So it's not always clear

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if you got to turn right you got
to turn left. It's it's been an

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issue for a while now I need to
search for a new app. Because

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it's just too frustrating when
you walk 100 yards and you're

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not in the right place, you
waste a lot of time and energy.

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And if this was not an easy
trail, it would it would really

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tick me off. Sure enough, sure
enough, just after if I just

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would have walked a little bit
further from where I went on

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that side trail, I would have
seen the falls that app really,

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really something special.

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So there are two waterfalls here
we're at the base of one, I'm

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going to try to go up this hill
a little bit more and go up by

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that upper falls. And then
there's one sort of behind me

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and to my left, which we'll go
check out as soon as we're done

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with this. So it is a little
slippery. And steep to get up

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this hill. Easier for Godfrey
with four legs. But not as easy

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for me with two. It's got to be
careful. It's not that

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difficult. Probably getting down
is harder

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here's the other waterfall I
talked about. And we're gonna

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make our way down going this
way. So the way down is pretty

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slippery, like the way up to the
other one, but not as hard and

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then it's pretty flat the rest
of the way here

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somebody's always angry it's
hard to fall

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and somehow while I was busy
looking at the trail at the

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falls at the stream, I missed
this fire pit didn't know you

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could just camp out here

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somehow I missed it. So that was
really the highlight. That was

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it. But you know what, for a
short hike on an easy trail, you

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get some spectacular waterfalls
at the end, which you can get

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right up to. You know, if you
can scramble a little bit, it

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requires a little bit of
scrambling to get up there and

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down there. But it's worth is
very cool. You can get right up

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in there. And if you're more
adventurous and younger than I

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am, you might even try to get go
behind the falls of that second

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one, the lower falls because
there's an area behind there

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where you can get behind the
falls. Now we just have the

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uneventful relatively
uninteresting hike back to the

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car. At least it's not that
long. And it's pretty easy.

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Let's go. Let's go Godfrey. And
the rain is back through light.

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Although sometimes hard to tell,
you have to wait a few minutes

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to know if it's really raining.
Because if the wind blows,

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because it's so heavily
forested, it sounds like it's

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raining, but it's not what it
actually is right now. But it's

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a good feeling because it's very
humid out here. And I'm already

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drenched in sweat just from
walking in the humidity. So the

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rain feels good. Bring it on,
especially because we're headed

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back so it's not a big deal now.
Well, they said to bring it in

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the rain. Here it comes.
Starting to pour really does

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feel pretty good though. All
right, where it was pouring, we

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hit the crest. So now we're
heading back, oh, there's a

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little side trail there,
whenever that goes. Not gonna

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find out today. So not too much
farther back. And we'll call it

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a hike. But we're almost back to
the car. Like, take this moment

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hike.com That's all I got to say
about that. All right, we're

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coming to the end. I can see the
road. So I'm gonna have to leash

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up Godfrey to make sure he
doesn't run out there. Thanks

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for watching if you're watching
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subscribe to the podcast. Let me
know what you think. And until

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the next time Godfrey and I get
on the trail go take a hike.