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Kevin Bae: We are here at the
Walden creek

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falls trailhead,

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and everything still frozen over
here from last week,

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so hopefully we don't break our
next hiking on Ice see how it

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goes.

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So Godfrey and I came on this
trail last year in the summer.

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Godfrey Come on this way. And as
I remember, it was an easy hike,

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but of course, there was no snow
and ice like there is right now.

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So that makes a little bit more
of a challenge trying to get up

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this incline, this icy it's like
a, almost like a Forest Service

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road. I don't think it's quite a
Forest Service, rather, to be

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careful. It's pretty icy, but I
don't I've never been on a hike

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anywhere where it's been
snowing. Yeah, so this is the

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first I've been hiking in the
winter. But it really doesn't

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snow much here in Georgia, so
and to focus, broke through some

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of the snow back to regular
trail, and I remember this now.

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I went this way before to the
left and it's the wrong way.

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Stay to the right and keep
going. Not always easy to tell

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from the all trails may have the
way it navigates now. Oh, back

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to more snow. I room that's
gonna be a lot of wind on this

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microphone. I should have put
the the dead cat on it and bring

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it I didn't think it'd be so
windy today. One thing is for

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sure, walking in snow is more
taxing than just walking on the

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trail. It's like walking in
sand. It's like double the

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effort.

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And then I a road here where
it's very apparent people have

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done their off roading or
driving on this on this trail.

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It's like a Forest Service road,
almost. It kind of compressed

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things down to where it's icy
where the car tire tracks would

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be, so you gotta walk in the
middle, where there's some snow

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that hasn't been compacted.
Another thing to note, just as

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an observation, is that it's
like 41 degrees, starting out.

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Supposed to get warmer as we go,
but normally at this

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temperature, I don't even wear a
jacket. But depending on where

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you are in, the amount of wind
you get, it feels a little bit

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colder. So on, the breeze is
kicking up. I wasn't gonna wear

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the jacket today, since I got
out of the car and I felt the

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breeze, I'm like, Ah, better
wear your jacket there and

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freeze to death. That's always a
good plan. This dog's absolutely

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loving it. Good boy. This is
like, the first real winter he's

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had it since we got here. We
used to go to the park when it

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would snow, big in Chicago, and
I throw a Frisbee. And he would

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love to go fetch the Frisbee,
and likes, you know, half a

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foot, put a snowman. We got a
lot. I. Here, even this last

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Snow was only at my house, two
inches Max. Think they got more

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here, getting farther north
Georgia, but still not that

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much. So he's kind of digging,
being able to run around the

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snow he hasn't done in a while.
So there's more. We just passed

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it down tree earlier, and here's
another one coming across the

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trail, probably all from the
hurricane that blew through a

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few months ago.

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So it's not a very long hike.
It's like two and a half, three

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miles, I think, there and back.
Yeah. So these podcasts are

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shorter on these short hikes,
because I only record when I'm

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talking taking video. Not that
what I say is all that

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compelling anyway, but

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since I changed the way I do
this, these type of recorder

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that I would just talk into,
just let it run. But it became

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kind of an editing nightmare,
because sometimes, on a longer

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trail, especially, it's like,
you know, two three hours of

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talking, sometimes two three
hours of video or audio, rather,

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and then I gotta go through and
chop out all the so much of the

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silences, because who wants to
listen to? You know, 30 minutes

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plus somebody walking with no
sound. Maybe it's better than me

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chattering. I don't know. That's
why these are shorter. In case

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you were wondering, go think
that was the apex of the hill.

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So now on our way down.

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So when this trail is without
snow and ice. It's easy because

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it's just mostly a wide trail
that jeeps and ATVs are driving

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on. So if you get an older dog
like mine, it's good for him,

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and that's why we're here.

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So the sun has fully come up,
and it's starting to get a

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little bit warm. Okay, I'm gonna
have to take off my jacket. We'd

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like to know what you were
doing. Godfrey. He's trying to

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the snow pack is a little bit
covered over in a thin layer of

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ice. And he's trying to, like,
dive into the snow like you used

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to, but doesn't work quite as
well here, after uh, snow, a

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thaw, some rain and then
freezing temperatures, But he's

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trying approaching some more
tree debris. Trees are just

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falling and can't get up. We're
almost to the falls. It's right

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around the corner here. I can
see the turn off. We're going

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this way. Go ahead.

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Go feeds to the falls. That's
got to be super cold, but he

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doesn't see me there.

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And we've reached the following.
There's two sets. There's one up

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there, there's one down here
that you got to scramble to. I'm

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going to see if it's scrambled.
I'm

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okay, it's definitely scramble.
We made it wasn't that bad at

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all. Somebody's having a good
time, reckon nature. Oh.

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Underneath the fall, just about
you got people taking out.

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Noise. All right, we've done all
we're gonna let's go back. Let's

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go. Let's go. I guess I gotta
move first.

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The second set of falls is not
as nice and a little bit harder

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to get to. We're going to make
an attempt anyway, because we're

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here, so we're going to do it.
It's not super hard, it's just

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little bit more of an incline,
little bit more of a scramble,

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but nothing, I think, that most
people can't do. All right, we

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made it to the top balls. That
was not easy, because the steep

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hillside is just covered in
leaves and debris. It's really

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hard to tell where to put your
feet, but we made it. In this

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case, it's easier for him than
me, even within his old bones

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now,

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guys, he's trying to dig up a
big log. He's crazy. Oh, we

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came. We saw, we conquered. Now
we got to try to get back down

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without killing ourselves, and
head back and get the jacket

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off, getting warm. All right,
we're leaving the waterfall

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area. Successfully made it down
without breaking our necks, at

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least my neck, and now the one
and a half mile or so hike back

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down to the Jeep.

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So so this really is turning
into quite the workout for me,

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with trying to walk on snow and
ice really slows things down.

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Hi, great, good. Just kind of
slipped. I'm long as I don't

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break my neck, it's all good.

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I definitely don't think I'd
want to hike in snow. I don't

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know how people do it. It's just
not enjoyable. Like walking

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through sand on a regular basis.
I wouldn't want to do this,

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short hikes like this, not a
problem. But if I was doing, you

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know, a six mile or 12 mile
hike, I don't want to be doing

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it through snow, where it's like
double the effort just to walk.

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I'm just taking a selfie video
of my dog kind of grinding

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himself into the snow and ice.
He's a bit nuts.

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I I'm sucking down some oxygen
walking up this hill in the snow

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that'll ruminate over an idea I
had since God for his 10th

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birthday at the end of December.
You know, Labrador Retrievers,

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on average, live to about 12.
You know, if you're lucky,

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they'll live to 14. So I thought
at best, you know, if we went

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once a week, he would have about
100 hikes left. So I was kind of

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mulling over the idea of, you
know, doing just a series of 100

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hikes. Problem is, I'm not sure
if I have the ability to to

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carry that through over two
years. Not that I can't do the

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hikes once a week. It's just a
lot of commitment for me to to

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produce record post and not sure
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You know, all the audio from
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check that out. Somebody wants
to take the other trail. He's

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feeling too good today, too much
snow, too much water.

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Is this the kind of behavior we
want out of a senior dog?

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I don't think so. You really
miss the snow too much, don't

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you?

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So the walk down is a lot more
slippery than the walk up. So I

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thought, so that's why I'm not
recording a heck of a lot while

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I'm walking down because slip
and slide everywhere. But we're

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almost back. It's not much
farther after the Jeep

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got two glass turns, and then I
should see the jeep. Bae

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policies, for all the wind
noise, have to remember to bring

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the dead cat for this microphone
next time. Usually don't bring

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it because not a terrible amount
of wind most of the time, and

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kind of looks stupid this big
fluffy thing on my shirt, this

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is going to make for the
shittiest podcast in the world.

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I forgot to use the microphone
even, oh, Lord. Well, this last

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part will sound really nice
compared to the other stuff. I

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probably won't even post it. The
sound should be so awful. Okay,

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this brings us to the end of
this hike. It's actually quite

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nice, even though a little
difficult walking through some

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of the snow. But you probably
won't even hear this because I

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didn't have the microphone on
correctly, and so this is the

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only part that will sound
halfway decent. So if I do post

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it, talk to you next time

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go take a hike.

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I