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It's the end of the road for the PUDs boys for now...for a multitude of reasons we will be taking a break from the PUDs Podcast and moving onto different projects. Maybe we'll be back from time to time if the podcast beckons. Listen in to hear why on this thanks-for-listening-to-us-across-seventy-eight-episodes episode of the PUDs Podcast!

Episode Links:

Listen to Nick on the Sounds Like A Search And Rescue Podcast

Listen to Josh on the Not Safe For Sunday Podcast

Nick Sidla Photography at Bristol Peak Rustics

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Paul and Nick get the opportunity to sit down with Mike Cherim, a modern-day "Renaissance man" who has been hiking and climbing since tackling the "Rock Pile" at the young age of four! Mike is the owner and founder of Redline Guiding up in Intervale, New Hampshire, as well as an instructor, guide, and even a Justice of the Peace!

Paul tackles Adams and Madison and tries not to get blown away on a Spring-like day in the Northern Presidentials, Nick tackles repeat agents on the mighty 450' Diamond Hill in Cumberland while everyone is getting up North, stays local hiking with the family, and attempts a picnic in Newport despite the chilly temps, and the boys have a great chat with Mike Cherim of Redline Guiding! They discuss Mike's past endeavors; including hiking Mount Washington as a young boy, climbing Mount Fuji in Japan, Mount Rainier out West, everything he's done at "home" in the Whites and in the Northeast, how and why he started the awesome Redline Guiding guide company in the Whites, and how Redline Guiding can help you hike your lists, learn how to climb, and even get you married in mountainous location on this don't-forget-to-get-your-marriage-license-for-your-wedding-day-or-it-might-be-awkward-episode of the PUDs Podcast!

Nick's Music Moment:

The Bends B-sides - Radiohead - 2025

The Bends - Radiohead - 1995

Paulie's Playlist:

Alice In Chains

Episode Links:

Mount Adams and Mount Madison via Valley Way AllTrails Link

Appalachian Mountain Club Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner 2025

Redline Guiding Website

Redline Guiding Guides Page (for more info about Mike!)

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Paul steps in as an "intern" on the PUDs Podcast without Josh and joins as a full-co-host with Nick to chat with Lyla "Sugar" Harrod! Lyla; commonly known by her trail-name "Sugar", is the first transgender woman to become a Triple Crowner, and she recently created and hiked the incredible "Divide to Crest" route!

Nick takes the long ride to Jay Peak where there's been over 400 inches of snowfall this season, Paul takes on the ladders and tight-spaces of the 52-with-a-View-peaks Morgan and Percival, makes it to North Twin, and the boys have an outstanding conversation with Lyla about her amazing hiking accomplishments, taking the long-trails less-traveled, creating entirely new hiking routes, route-creators, hiking in the desert, sobriety, making a gender transition, and stepping into your true-self and seizing your full-potential, on this kick-Nick-under-the-table-if-he-gets-too-excited-whilst-talking-about-hiking-episode of the PUDs Podcast!

Nick's Music Moment:

Real Life - Hazel English - 2024

Paulie's Playlist:

Neil Diamond & Jim Croce

Episode Links:

Mount Morgan & Mount Percival AllTrails Route

Bay Circuit Trail Website

Lyla's Instagram

Backpacker Magazine Article on Lyla's Divide to Crest Route

Notch Hostel Fireside Chats Information

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Nick did a thing and finished his Winter 48 with an epic out and back of the Bonds, and the boys learn all about painting the mountains purple for Alzheimer's with their friends Cindy and Paul from the Alzheimer's Association 48 Peaks!

Nick has a podcasting "false start" before diving into "story time" about his hike from Lincoln Woods to Bondcliff, Bond, and West Bond to finish his Winter 48 4000 Footers with a great crew of hikers, Josh has been busy and wrapped up basketball season, and we learn about how the 48 Peaks; a sub-fundraiser of the Alzheimer's Association "The Longest Day" fundraiser, is helping to provide crucial funds for one of the most heartbreaking and widespread diseases in the world. We also learn how the disease has affected Cindy and Paul directly, leading them to dedicate time volunteering with 48 Peaks, and how you can get involved on this Nick-fell-in-a-spruce-trap-up-that-was-way-too-deep-plus-48-peaks-episode of the PUDs Podcast!

Nick's Music Moment & Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:

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Episode Links:

Bondcliff, Bond, & West Bond from Lincoln Woods AllTrails Route

All the Details on 48 Peaks

How to Participate in 48 Peaks

48 Peaks Hike Celebration

Learn More About Alzheimer'z Association on the Alz.org Website

Alzheimer's Association 24/7 Helpline: 800-272-3900

48 Peaks Facebook Group

48 Peaks on Instagram

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It's a full-on hiking recap this week as friend-and-listener-of-the-podcast Paul sits in with the boys and trades stories from his latest trip to the Whites with Nick who just got back from a trip to the Adirondack High Peaks!

Josh looks like Steve Wonder or perhaps more accurately Scott Zolak, Nick doesn't know who Scott Zolak is, Paul works the Boston Outdoor expo and meets some prominent figures in both the hiking and running communities, running without music, what Josh sounds like when he attempts to run without music, Paul has a tough day up in the Whites having to make tough decisions to bail on the Twins and on Willey in the same day, and Nick gets out hiking with his better-half in the Adirondack High Peaks racking up two more of the Forty-Six with Street and Nye, Paul is no longer a hyperthetical virgin and has some homework to be a new cohost, on this let's-try-to-bag-five-four-thousand-footers-across-two-states-episode of the PUDs Podcast!

Nick's Music Moment:

Just Give In/Never Going Home - Hazel English - 2017

Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:

Spongebob Squarepants(?)

Episode Links:

North & South Twin AllTrails  (Summer route via North Twin Trail)

Mount Willey via Ethan Pond Trail AllTrails (This includes Ripley Fall side trip too)

Street & Nye the Adirondack Loj Trailhead

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This week the boys are excited (especially Nick!) to sit down with hiker and photographer Corey (AKA @coreyoutoors and "Corey O.") and discuss his journey becoming a full-time photographer in the Whites, his background in the outdoors, love of hiking, and more!

Josh has been on vacation and takes a trip to Mystic Aquarium with the family, everybody remembers touching their first stingray, there are towns in Rhode Island Josh has never heard of, Nick's week was crazy but had fun celebrating a recent engagement, entertaining and cooking for some grandparents, and Nick opts to stay "local" snowshoeing some loops over a freezing-cold and windy Mount Wachusett on Presidents' Day, a recent rescue with a "good" ending on Mount Washington, and we hear from Corey and how his passion of taking photos of friends while hiking and chasing sunrises evolved into a full career as a photographer for different outdoor clothing and equipment brands on this let's-nerd-out-about-photography-a-bit-too-episode of the PUDs Podcast!!!

Nick's Music Moment:

Household Name - Momma - 2022

Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:

Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads

Episode Links:

Corey's Instagram

Corey's Facebook Page

Corey David Photography

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Nick has had a crazy week with a family illness and Josh is all tied up, so Ash sits down with Nick to bang out a quick S(mall)PUDs episode! The forever-hiking buddies discuss their journey, experiences, and challenges (thus far) hiking with their daughter from the age of 2 weeks to nearly 2.5 years!

Local hikes in Rehoboth at 2 weeks with Daddy, summit dances on Mount Willard, many ascents of Mount Wachusett, Mount Van Hoevenburg in the Adirondacks, losing pinecones on Hedgehog Mountain, a temper tantrum on Mount Stinson, day hiking some of the Long Trail, sleeping in a carrier pack, forgetting a puffy and substituting with a blanket and hand warmers, hot days on the Cliff Walk in Newport, sunsets on Bald Mountain,"snackies" are paramount, plus many more "family" hiking stories, on this all-about-hiking-with-a-young-kiddo-episode of the PUDs Podcast!!!

Episode Links:

Osprey Poco Child Carrier

Ergobaby Omni 360 All-Position Baby Carrier (7-45lbs)

Hedgehog Mountain with Ash & Rylan on Nick's YouTube Channel

Mount Stinson with Ash & Rylan on Nick's YouTube Channel

Sunset Ledge on the Long Trail with Ash & Rylan on Nick's YouTube Channel

Kingsbury Reservoir Loop with Ash & Rylan on Nick's YouTube Channel

Mount Willard with Ash, Rylan, Wilkie, Lorrie, & Mike on Nick's YouTube Channel

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Nick is back from bagging Mount Isolation for Winter with a great group of folks, and the boys catchup with Nick Higgins, James Leitner, Lynn Swezey on the other side of The Lincoln 100!

Josh may be drinking too much seltzer, the boys discuss snow cleanup strategies at length, be careful taking your kiddos to the Fall River Children's Museum if you're looking to avoid sickness, Nick bags his #45 peak for the Winter 48 with Mount Isolation using the Engine Hill and Iso Express bushwhacks and has an very snowy early-morning commute up to the Rocky Branch trailhead, and Josh and Nick catchup with the runners and crew chief of The Lincoln 100; the brainchild of the late-Chris Roma, to run 100 miles on a ~3 mile loop in Lincoln, New Hampshire in support of Mission Clean Water! We get into the experience, Nick Higgins finishing the 100 miles in ~33 hours, why James called it at the 24 hour mark, amazing support from the community in the Whites, Lynn holding down "the tent" on route 3, staying up through 2 nights, fueling strategies, running hallucinations, plus we discuss the upcoming SnowSafe Summit event in Rumney, New Hampshire (2/14/25 - 2/15/25!!!) on this try-not-to-explode-after-you-take-your-bicarbs-episode of the PUDs Podcast!!!

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Nick's Music Moment:

Violet - L.S. Dunes - 2025

Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:

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Episode Links:

Barn Door Hostel SnowSafe Summit Event Page

Mission Clean Water Lincoln 100 Page

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This week Nick and Josh welcome thru-hiker, peak-bagger, and manager of The Notch Hostel Tricia Case (also commonly known by her trail-name "Pearl") and learn  all about The Notch Hostel up in North Woodstock, New Hampshire, as well as her own pursuits hiking Vermont's Long Trail, the Appalachian Trail, and her experience cranking out a Single Season Winter 48 Four-Thousand Footers!

Josh is fired up tonight, Nick does some local hiking down in Newport, Rhode Island and has a close encounter with a deer along with some ice-fishing at Maspenock in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, Josh is disappointed in his body, a tidbit on last week's episode when it comes to the small wood-stoves in AMC huts during the winter, and we dive into a great conversation with Tricia about the expected and unexpected challenges of long-distance hiking, what it's like working at hostel during the AT Hiking Season, how Tricia got her trail-name, fireside chats, Summits in Solidarity, sunrise hikes, getting creative with thru-hiker leftovers, and everything about The Notch Hostel on this maybe-we're-going-to-have-to-camp-out-here-soon-episode of the PUDs Podcast!

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Nick's Music Moment:

Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory - Sharon Van Etten - 2025

Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:

Save Tonight - Eagle-Eye Cherry

Episode Links:

The Notch Hostel Website

The Notch Hostel Instagram

The Notch Hostel Facebook Page

Tricia's Instagram

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Pinkham Notch or bust! Nick has been continuing his quest to finish bagging the Winter 48 along with an overnight at Zealand Falls Hut! It's time to rundown hikes of the Carters, 'Cats, Zealand, and more!

Josh is freezing in the basement and Nick makes him turn off his space-heater because of background noise (spoiler, we realized this was because Josh's laptop mic was coming through StreamYard and his mic wasn't actually picking it up...oops!), why is Nick carrying around a dude named Ryan(?), Nick crashes a lap on the Lincoln 100 with Nick Higgins, James Leitner, and Philip Carcia, the Ice Castles leave something to be desired, Arethusa Falls is awesome, Josh enjoys a nice snow day and tries not to end up on the SLASR Podcast taking out the trash, and get ready to settle in with your 20 degree sleeping back and nice rehydrated meal as we recap hikes of Carter Dome, Zeacliff, Zealand, South Hale, Hale, South Carter, Middle Carter, and Wildcats "D" and "A" (phew!), on this hopefully-you-don't-mind-listening-to-a-lot-of-Nick-breaking-down-hikes episode of the PUDs Podcast!

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Nick's Music Moment:

Broken Bells - Broken Bells - 2010

Episode Links:

Nick's Short Film Edit of the Zealand Falls Hut Overnight Trip on YouTube

Carter Dome AllTrails

Zealand AllTrails

South & Middle Carter AllTrails

Wildcat Traverse AllTrails

Arethusa Falls AllTrails

Mission Clean Water Lincoln 100 & Donations

SNOWSAFE SUMMIT Facebook Page

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