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Kevin Bae: All right, it is
November, 27 2024 and we are at

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the black branch trail. I'm here
one day before my 58th birthday.

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I was gonna hike on my 58th
birthday, but it's gonna be a

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stormy day in North Georgia, so
instead, we are here at the

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black branch trail near
Dahlonega, and we're gonna go on

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what's supposed to be a
relatively easy hike. So it's a

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loop. The trail goes off this
way, and I guess there's a bit

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of Forest Service road or
something to walk on. We'll see.

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So I was wrong. There's no
Forest Service road to walk on.

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I got to go up this trail a
little ways, and then I make a

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right, and we'll do my usual
counter clockwise path. This

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trail says it's open to mountain
bikers and horse horses, so

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hopefully, hopefully, not too
many people ride horses, because

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I hate when there's tons of
horse poop on the trail. So this

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does connect to the Forest
Service road for a little bit,

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and then the trail picks up over
here on the side, I believe

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we'll find out. Hey, Godfrey,
Come on this way. There's a

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sign. We'll continue on. So that
was definitely a wrong turn. I

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can see it on the map. So we got
to continue on up this Forest

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Service road for a little bit
until we catch the rest of our

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trail. Some guess we're
following the blue trail, the

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blue Blaze, and we'll continue
on the road and oh, let's go,

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God free.

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This is supposed to be an easy
hike, and it looks like it's

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going to be. I keep looking for
more easy hikes because of God

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freeze age. Plus, we haven't
been hiking since September when

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we were in Utah, and he's not
really conditioned for a good,

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hefty hike, so looking for
something that we could do where

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he could get outdoors and enjoy
himself, but not stress him out.

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Stress himself out too much,
because getting really stiff in

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his old age.

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So I missed the trail marker
again, but I didn't wander off

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too far. For some reason, my
phone lost this GPS signal, and

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then the all trails map couldn't
figure out where I was, so I had

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to reboot now all this back in
order. Were on the correct

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trail. Keep on trucking it. I
don't think there are any water

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features on this trail, but it
is kind of nice, even though

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it's hard to fall. It's not the
canopy is not too wide open.

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There's a lot of Hollies here
that are evergreen, a lot of

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pines, so you get this really
nice dappled sunlight that comes

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through. I'm

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uh, hopefully we don't see any
mountain bikers. I don't see how

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you'd want a mountain bike on
all these leaves. It's got to be

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pretty slippery, but maybe
that's part of the thrill. Who

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knows? Just as I say, there's no
water feature. What Is there a

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water feature? I thought other
people reported that there was

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nothing here, just a little
something.

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Right on cue. Oh,

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Godfrey loves nothing more than
a bark Fest at a stream. Let's

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go. I.

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Uh, suddenly the trail got wide.
So I did pass a little bit of an

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incline, just enough to get your
blood pumping, but nothing to be

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concerned about, or or anything.
Wasn't difficult. I didn't even

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break stride. You just kind of
get your heart going, break out

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a little bit of a sweat, maybe.
I think it's pretty easy for

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most people.

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I like it when I come up and the
days are picture perfect. You.

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It so far. Well, not
particularly scenic, if, if you

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like a walk in the woods, this
is still fantastic. There's

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nobody here. I'm here on a
Wednesday, early in the morning,

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I got started out about 9:30am
and it's been just quiet and

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peaceful. So it's a really nice
walk in the woods. Got another

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tiny, tiny stream we've run
across and

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oh, you're ruining the peace and
calm of the forest. Godfrey, you

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don't care. Oh, Lord, all right,
let's go back to the trail. Big

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glute, this way, this way. So
here's another incline. This one

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is the first one that's of any
consequence, but it's the trail

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is flat, nothing difficult to
climb up. It's really just a

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walk. I don't know what the
grade is, maybe 20 degrees or

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so. It's not that bad. So while
I'm going downhill, and I think

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we're probably 1015, minutes
away from being done. Just going

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to take this opportunity to say
that this is a value for value

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podcast. That means there is no
advertising. Nobody's paying me

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to do anything. I make no money
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participation is welcome. So if
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Satoshis, which are basically
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compared to, you know, they're
called SATs, SATs to a Bitcoin.

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I mean, it's, it's worth way
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SATs, it's fantastic. It's all
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not much the the ethos of value
for value is time, talent or

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treasure. So I don't know what
anybody in the listening

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audience, how few of you there
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Provide what you think would be
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it on over. You know, being
making graphics for for the

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podcast episode, although I use
pictures from from the hike in

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general, or you got ideas where
to go. Anything that you want to

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add to the show is welcome. You
can send me an email at mail, M,

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a, i, L, at the casual hike.com
will be links in the show notes

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and on the website to the
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that explain what value for
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then probably be back to ramp up
this hike. All right, we're

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pretty much back where we
started. This is the very

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beginning of the trail, where
you've got this connector trail,

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and then that's our trail that
goes up that way. So the Jeep

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shouldn't be too far away. Now
let's see. We're finishing quite

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early, so we might even try one
more trail that's close by,

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that's kind of short, also
supposed to be fairly easy.

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We'll see

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back to the Forest Service road,
and we're almost done. So I

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goofed again. I wasn't supposed
to go out to the Forest Service

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road. I was supposed to turn
right and stick on this little,

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tiny feeder trail that takes me
back to where my jeep is. I was

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wondering why I didn't see it
right right after I got out. Now

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I know now we're in the right
spot. We've made it back to the

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Jeep,

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and we'll catch you on the next
one. Go take a hike and