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Kevin Bae: Bae, all right. So
cold, crisp morning, we're at

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Bearden creek falls. Bearden
creek falls, Bearden Yeah,

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Bearden creek falls, that's
right. So we're gonna

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figure out where the trail head
starts, and then get hiking.

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How's the water? Is it cold?
Should be I gotta get across.

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There's a lot going into the
drink when it's 35 degrees out.

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It's

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not good. Hope we don't freeze
to death. I took a dip in the

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creek for nothing because I went
in the wrong direction.

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This is the way to go. So this
is our first hike of 2025, we've

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been here before. I picked it
because I remember it's kind of

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easy until we get to the end by
the falls, because Godfrey is

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getting a little bit stiff in
his old age. So gonna try to

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keep choosing some easy trails,
even if they're familiar,

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familiar trails that we've been
down before,

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even when the stick is very
nice.

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So it is a brisk late morning,
probably like 34 degrees. I

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think it is 35 degrees, little
bit breezy, and I think this is

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the first time I've gone out
with Godfrey when it's this

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cold. But not I mean, as a hike.
We used to live in Chicago, so

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we would walk regularly, walk in
this weather with no problem,

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even in the in the deep snow. So
it's not like he's not

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accustomed to walking in the
cold,

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but his first time here in in
Georgia makes it very easy. He

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almost did the splits on ice.

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What's nice about this trail is
that it is easy, but there's all

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these cool

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little streams and stuff you
gotta cross. It's just really

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nice. All right, this one seems
a little bit difficult to pass

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without getting my feet wet.
They're already wet now, but

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let's see how well I can do. I'm
trying to find a way across. Cut

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me some slack. Think I need to
do more, more winter hikes. I

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like them because I don't really
like sweating an awful lot,

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which you do in the summertime
here. Well, really all year

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round, except for winter, it's
kind of nice. I made it through

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the stream and I'm gonna kill
myself just walking somebody

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left their dog shit. That's just
not nice. Okay, we've got

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another stream crossing. I don't
remember crossing at these

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places. We've been here before.
Just one time. Looks like I

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gotta jump across over there,
let's go.

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So much of this, I just don't
recall. We just we went, like a

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year ago, so I thought some of
it would be a little bit more

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familiar, but it ain't. But they
did paint some nice new blue

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blazes on the trail. Another
hard to get across crossing. I'm

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going to go this way and see if
there's another way to go

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that'll get my feet wet. All
right, I think I found my stream

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crossing. Let's get to it. I'm.
Another complicated stream

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crossing for me, but not for
Godfrey. Think I'll go up there.

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Easy for you. I'm going across
here. Let's go. Let's go.

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I finally got sufficiently warm
I could take off the jacket. I

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don't know if the temperature
went up, which I'm sure it did.

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It's midday now, or if just the
physical activity finally got my

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body temperature up to where it
needs to be,

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tight, comfortably without a
jacket coming up to another

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stream crossing. This one looks
to be one of the easiest. Thank

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goodness. It's tough finding a
safe place for me and him as he

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gets old, we made it.

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We're not gonna go all the way
Godfrey for you'll never make

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it. We'll stop here. This is
good enough. So what do you

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think of the one?

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People now the exciting trip
back down should be easier on

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you. So

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I'll take the easy ones now.
This

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is like the perfect day for this
hike. Tomorrow won't be at this

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point in time, there's supposed
to be a few inches of snow

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coming through North Georgia,
which, if it does fall, it'll be

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the most snow that I've
experienced here since I've been

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here, which is coming on five
years, and it won't last long

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anyway. It usually snows, and
then a couple days later,

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whatever has fallen is gone.
Most of the times, the next day

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it's gone. But if we get three
inches with snow, then I suspect

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it'll be it'll be gone by
Monday. Today is Friday. Friday,

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Thursday. Today is Thursday. So
tomorrow supposed to snow, and

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then it might stick around
Saturday, because supposed to

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stay cold, but then going to get
up into the 40s on

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Monday and Tuesday, so it'll be
gone by then, I think. Plus, you

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know, it's only been in the 20s,
so the

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ground isn't really that all
that cold right now here, but

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it's interesting to live in a
different place where they don't

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get the snow for harsh winters,
because everybody's getting All

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excited over a few inches of
snow. And you you know, when

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you're from the Midwest, it's
like, it's old hat, it's not,

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it's like a taste of winter, not
not quite, not quite winter,

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just a taste like, right now
Chicago is in the middle of,

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like a 10 day, 14 day Deep
Freeze where it's not going to

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come above freezing at night or
during the day. That's what I'm

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used to at least once or twice
during the winter. Not like

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this.

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Still a good time, though, nice
all year round. This is, this

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is, like, beautiful.

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I'm very glad I didn't make him
scramble all the way up to the

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falls, because he's still moving
pretty good. I know he's going

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to be really sore tomorrow, but

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still moving pretty good,
considering on the activity he's

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had, just got to watch him,
probably help him up and down

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the stairs tomorrow or tonight.
Even

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crossing. We came across before,
and I went over those logs, but

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I couldn't see this. This is so
much easier. So we're getting

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close to the bottom again, back
to the trailhead, and it's

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weird, we cross one stream and
it's like five degrees colder

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here than the other side. I
thought it would get warmer the

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lower I get. That's cool off a
bit, still nice, though. And

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just like that, we're coming to
the end of the first hike, 2025,

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short and sweet, but it's a this
is a nice, entertaining hike

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because of all the water
crossing And the falls again, we

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can get up there. You