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It's Fall y'all! Nick and Josh sit down and chat with one of the most prolific and creative hikers in the White Mountains: Philip Carcia!

Nick has been taking selfies with scary clowns and hiking a local hill on repeat for the Tay's Summit Challenge, Josh is excited to get spooky in the coming months, and we dive into a multitude of hiking-goodness including long trails, the Kancamagus Highway Yo-Yo, the Single-Year-Grid, 39 summits of Mount Wachusett in 24 hours, thinking "outside the box", a fun game of FKM with months in the Whites, and miles(!) more with Phil Carcia, on this inspirational episode of the PUDs Podcast!

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Episode Links:

Finding Philip Website

Phil's Instagram

Phil's Facebook Page

Taylor James Steeves Foundation Website

Tay's Summit Challenge Signup Page

Donate to Nick's Fundraiser for Tay's Summit Challenge

Nick's Music Moment:

Achtung Baby - U2 - 1991

Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:

Let's get to the main topic...

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Nick is back from the Adirondacks and Josh has been getting out hiking as well! The boys settle in and chit-chat about some late-summer jaunts as Fall settles into the Northeast!

PUDs Podcast has a new logo(!), Josh scores his first win as a soccer coach, the boys want to get a candle sponsor, Disney+ is expensive, Josh finds a "Cliff Trail" with the family, and Nick runs down his recent trip to Keene Valley in the heart of New York's Adirondack High Peaks; including a loop to bag Nippletop and Dial from the Adirondack Mountain Reserve, a family hike up Mount Van Hoevenburg, exploring High Falls Gorge, and capturing the Milky Way on camera, plus a hyperthetical that might just drive you bananas on this episode of the PUDs Podcast!

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Episode Links:

AllTrails Map for Rainbow Falls, Indian Head, Fish Hawk Cliffs, Nippletop, Bear Den, Dial, & Noonmark Shoulder via the AMR

Taylor James Steeves Foundation Website

Tay's Summit Challenge Signup Page

Donate to Nick's Fundraiser for Tay's Summit Challenge

Nick's Music Moment:

The Artist in the Ambulance (Revisited) - Thrice - 2023

Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:

Jane's Addiction isn't getting along on stage...

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On this week's episode the boys sit down and chat with Britt Wassick, Co-chair of Taylor James Steeves Foundation!

The Taylor James Steeves Foundation (TJSF) was founded in 2018 after the loss of Taylor Steeves. Taylor was diagnosed with a genetic form of lung cancer just days before his 30th birthday and fought the disease for 1 year before losing his battle.

Through fundraising events, like the annual Tay’s Summit Hiking Challenge, they work to provide financial to people and families going through a genetic lung cancer diagnosis. The Tay's Summit Hiking Challenge kicks off September 13th and runs through October 13th, the best time of year for hiking!

Nick wraps up his Summer Four-Thousand Footers with hikes of The Twins and Waumbek and gets ready to head to the Adirondacks, Josh has been busy coaching soccer, and we learn about the touching story of Taylor Steeves, his battle with genetic lung cancer, and how he inspired his friends and family to setup the TJSF to give aid to those fighting genetic forms of lung cancer!

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Episode Links:

Taylor James Steeves Foundation Website

Tay's Summit Challenge Signup Page

Donate to Nick's Fundraiser for Tay's Summit Challenge

Nick's Music Moment:

Ceremony - Phantogram - 2020

Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:

What's up with Oasis?

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The boys have both been getting out for some hikes and it's time for a recap!

Josh recaps a hike of Weetamoo Woods in Tiverton, RI with the kiddos and tries to find some Giant Trolls in Charlestown, RI! Meanwhile, Nick takes a day off and bags Mount Cabot and Mount Moriah up in New Hampshire in the same day to chip away at his Summer 48 Four-Thousand Footers! Watch out for broken bog bridges, try to stay dry, and how hard is it to find a dwarf to make a power sword these days(?) on this short, sweet, and hiking-content-filled S(mall)PUDs entry of the PUDs Podcast!

Episode Links:

Weetamoo Woods Website & Map

How to See the Trolls in South County, Rhode Island

Mount Cabot from York Pond Trail, Bunnell Notch Trail, & Kilkenny Ridge Trail

Mount Moriah from Stony Brook Trail & Carter-Moriah Trail

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Grab your White Mountain Guide and your 48x12 Spreadsheet as Nick and Josh sit down and have an awesomely interesting conversation with friend of the podcast Fawn Langerman!

Josh had a great vacation in Saco, Maine; Nick lied about not caring about finishing his Summer 48 Four-Thousand Footers this year; and the boys are super-excited for an opportunity to chat with Fawn: AKA "BikeCampHikeGirl"! Fawn tells her story of learning to love hiking in The Whites, the decision to move to New Hampshire from Ohio, tracing the White Mountain Guide, the most intimidating thing about chasing sunrises, a week volunteering for MWOBS, "reluctantly" gridding, and o-so-much-more on this jam-packed episode of the PUDs Podcast!

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Episode Links:

Fawn's Instagram

Mount Washington Observatory Official Site

White Mountains Tracing Website

The White Mountain 4000 Footer Grid Website

Nick's Music Moment:

Paradise State of Mind - Foster the People - 2024

Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:

Womp womp...

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Josh and Nick have been on a roll podcasting with guests, but this episode is back to just "the boys"! It's time to catchup on some of Nick's latest hikes and see what Josh has planned for a little summer getaway!

Josh deals with a wascally-wabbit, had a Daddy-beach-day, has no juke left in his ankles, and is getting ready for a trip with the family to the beaches and parks of Saco, Maine! Meanwhile, Nick has been a house-Dad but has been getting up North, and runs down all his latest hikes; including a loop of Flume and Liberty with Ash up the Terrifying 25 Flume Slide, a lunch-break loop of Cascade Path, Georgiana and Harvard Falls during Tropical Storm Debby, a loop of the Hancocks, sunset on Bald Mountain, and an out and back of Mount Jackson! It's time to play catchup and maybe it's time to accept your fate of being a fanatical Canadian Football League fan, on this episode of the PUDs Podcast!

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Episode Links:

Nick & Ash Hike the Terrifying 25 Flume Slide and Bag Flume & Liberty on YouTube

The Terrifying 25

Steve Smith's The Mountain Wanderer Bookstore

Nick's Music Moment:

You Can't Put A Price On Fun EP - Chloe Slater - 2024

Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:

Bando Stone and The New World - Childish Gambino - 2024

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The boys and Ash (finally!) sit down with best-friends-of-the-podcast and fellow "Hiking Peeps" Mike and Lorrie to recall that time that they all stayed in Baxter State Park back in summer of 2021, and how they found themselves assisting BSP Search and Rescue with an injured hiker down Maine's infamous mountain; Katahdin!

The gang recalls their journey to the far northern reaches of New England; the beautiful, wild, and remote, Baxter State Park where three of the Maine (and New England) Four-Thousand-Footers reside. Bagging Baxter, Hamlin, and North Brother, enjoying the serenity of Maine's biggest wilderness area, helping a concussed hiker down a trail with BSP SAR, Mike and the moth, Nick takes a swan dive, Lorrie takes a nap, Ash is over trail-mix, Josh has a lot of moisture, Charles and Shaq are in your bathroom, and the pod has a new and "adventuristiq" sponsor on this I-can't-believe-it's-taken-us-this-long-to-talk-about-this-on-the-pod episode of the PUDs Podcast!

Episode Links & Notes:

Baxter State Park Official Site

Adventuristiq Clothing

Nick's Music Moment Brought to You by Roots Coffee Roasters:

Stars: The Best of 1992 - 2002 - The Cranberries - 2002 

Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:

REO Speedwagon & Train in Concert

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Josh and Nick are sipping on some delicious coffee and are super alert for an in-person pod-session! The boys sit down and chat with Daniel and Matt, owners and creators of Roots Coffee Roasters in Rochester, Massachusetts!

Grab your own "cup of joe" and listen in, as we dive into the complex process of roasting coffee beans and creating flavor profiles with coffee experts and connoisseurs Daniel and Matt! We discuss some of their past experiences on the trails as fellow hikers, the journey and process in starting a coffee bean roasting company, talk about parallels between brewing beer and coffee, and have a bunch of laughs on this highly-caffeinated-and-smooth episode of the PUDs Podcast!

Episode Links & Notes:

Roots Coffee Roasters

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Nick's Music Moment:

SMILE! :D - Porter Robinson - 2024 

Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:

SHAME, Josh had nothing...check out these recommendations by Matt & Daniel...

Brian Culbertson
Janek Gwizdala
The Midnight
Dirty Loops

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Ash and Nick are NOT in Portugal...but we'll get to that later! With Josh off for the night, the hiking buddies dive into their experiences hiking the five four-thousand footers of the Green Mountain State: Vermont!

Hiking "The Chin" of Mount Mansfield with Mike after a day of Stowe hard-cideries, Killington and porcupines on Pico Peak with Mike and Lorrie, a stormy ascent of Camel's Hump with Sara-Beth and Jay, and a grand finale traversing the "Monroe Skyline" section of the Long Trail across Ellen and Abraham in wildfire haze and Ver-mud! Ash and Nick break down all the hikes on their quest to bag the four-thousand foot peaks of the long-trailed-and-lush-neighbor-of-New-Hampshire; on this we'll-get-to-Portugal-one-day-but-let's-talk-about-Vermont-peaks-SPUDs-isode of the PUDs Podcast!

Episode Links:

Vermont 5 Challenge Website

Peakbagging the 4000 Footer Mountains of New England Vermont Page

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Josh is fresh off the links and Nick is getting ready to go to Portugal! The boys catchup and a fiery hyperthetical on this quick SPUDs!

Nick hangs out with Mike Trocchi and does some hiking at the Devil's Hopyard down in Connecticut, Josh is back at it with the bucket golf, Nick finally has a new ride, is looking forward to (hopefully!) making it to Portugal's highpoint next week, and what could go wrong traveling internationally with a toddler, on this we're-going-to-be-away-for-at-least-a-week(-sadface) episode of the PUDs Podcast!

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