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The boys are stoked this week to sit down with friend and listener of the podcast "daveshitsinthewoods"! We take a walk on the bushwhack-y side of things and hear about some of Dave's adventures off-trail; including his recent completion of the New Hampshire Hundred Highest (NHHH) along with his creation of a brand new New Hampshire hiking list: the New Hampshire Inappropriate Sixty-Nine (NHI69)!

Josh and Nick are feeling feisty, Nick has been spending a bunch of time up north and prepares to head up once again for the long weekend with family (oh no!), Josh has a new car, we hear about some upcoming winter hiking events, Josh makes Nick blush and sh*ts in the woods too(!), and you better get your compass and map ready as the boys chat with Dave about what it's like to be off-trail on adventures all over New Hampshire, animal encounters, navigation strategies, logging artifacts and other strange things you might find in New Hampshire's less-traveled areas, plus a whole new hiking list for those who are super-adventurous and perhaps have their mind in the gutter, on this anything-but-sh*tty-episode of the PUDS Podcast!!!

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Nick's Music Moment:

A Hundred Million Suns - Snow Patrol - 2008

Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:

Nada...

Episode Links:

Dave's Instagram

New Hampshire Inappropriate 69 Instagram

Alzheimer’s Association 48 Peaks Registration

Mission Clean Water Lincoln 100 & Donations

SNOWSAFE SUMMIT Facebook Page

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Bundle up and get ready to move as the boys are joined by Nick Higgins and James Leitner! The pair are preparing to attempt 100 miles on a ~3.2 mile loop in 24 hours, starting on January 16th, 2025 in the heart of the Whites; Lincoln, New Hampshire, in honor of the late Christoper Roma and to raise money for the non-profit Mission Clean Water!

Josh tries to make Nick feel awkward with dead air, Josh refuses to put on space heaters in his basement studio space, Nick is still defrosting from bagging Carter Dome on a very cold day and visits the New England Aquarium, and settle in for the amazing story of family man, friend, and ultra-hiker Chris Roma! His passion for hiking, the outdoors, and using it to raise funds to provide clean water to people across the globe continues to reverberate and influence others in the Whites, and Nick Higgins and James Leitner are picking up where he left off! All this and a very theatrical hyperthetical on this how-many-laps-can-you-run-in-by-the-North-Woodstock-post-office-episode of the PUDs Podcast!

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Nick's Music Moment:

...Like Clockwork - Queens of the Stone Age - 2013

Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:

Small correction on last week...

Episode Links:

Alzheimer’s Association 48 Peaks Registration

Mission Clean Water Website

Mission Clean Water Lincoln 100 & Donations

SNOWSAFE SUMMIT Facebook Page

Mission Clean Water Facebook Page

Mission Clean Water Instagram

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Hope you all had a great Christmas, Happy Holidays, and New Year's! The holidays are over, and the boys are back with a fresh episode for 2025!

Josh questions what kind of Taco Bell item Nick is, the boys recap their holiday celebrations, Josh visits the "Boston Museum of Illusion" and stays in Waterville Valley over New Year's and gets our for a few hikes; including Big Pines Path and Boulder Path, Nick continues chipping away at his Winter New Hampshire Four-Thousand-Footers with hikes of the Osceolas and Carrigain, how does Squid Game Season 2 stack up to the original, and the first hyperthetical of 2025 on this new-year-same-PUDs-episode of the PUDs Podcast!

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Nick's Music Moment:

Rome - The National - 2024

Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:

Decide - Djo - 2022 ("End of Beginning" single)

Episode Links:

Waterville Valley - Best Hikes for Kids

Osceolas via Greeley Ponds Trail - AllTrails

Carrigain via Signal Ridge Trail - AllTrails (keep in mind you will have to walk ~2 miles from 302 to reach this on Sawyer River Road and ~2 miles back on the way out)

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Happy New Year everyone!!!

We've got a special hiking podcast crossover episode for the holidays! On this episode of the PUDs Podcast, we kick it back to the first time Nick appeared as a guest on the Sounds Like A Search And Rescue (SLASR) Podcast Episode 157 back in June of this year!

Nick is Josh-less in Rehoboth while Mr. Rogers is up hiking with family and hanging out in New Hampshire's Waterville Valley, we hear about Nick's hiking background, Stomp recaps running the Mount Washington Road Race, some details on trail maintenance, Nick's trip to Joshua Tree National Park, and some very interesting White Mountains trail history from Mike, on this its-a-SLASR-Podcast-episode-wrapped-in-a-PUDs-Podcast-episode(?!) of the PUDs Podcast!

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Sounds Like A Search And Rescue Podcast Website

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays y'all!

This week the boys are joined by friend and Hiking Buddies 501(c)(3) Secretary; Lynn Swezey! Josh and Nick chat with Lynn on her hiking background, learn all about the Hiking Buddies organization, and Nick and Lynn give a rundown refresher on cold-weather hiking as we move into "official" winter in the Whites!

Nick bags Pierce for Fall on a particularly cold December morning and makes a jaunt up to Willard to score some views, Josh has a new angle using his good side and goes to a Christmas fair, the boys meetup for a candy cane hayride with family, Nick is losing his voice, Nick might need to get into toe socks, we have a fantastic conversation with Lynn about the founding of Hiking Buddies, its educational and safety initiatives, and take a deep dive into winter hiking preparedness discussing layering, gear, weather, and more on this its-time-to-bag-those-winter-four-thousand-footers-and-merry-christmas-episode of the PUDs Podcast!

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Hiking Buddies Website

Hiking Buddies NH 48 Facebook Group

Hiking Buddies NH 48 Instagram

Barn Door Hostel SNOWSAFE SUMMIT

Lynn's Instagram

Gnarmap

Nick's Music Moment:
 
Stop at Nothing EP - Sea Lemon - 2023
 
Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:
 
Still listening to Christmas music!

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Nick and Josh are excited to sit down and chat with fellow podcasters and hosts of the "Sounds Like A Search And Rescue Podcast", AKA the "SLASR" Podcast; Mike and Stomp!

The boys have to reschedule podcasting plans due to inclement weather, Nick is back from Las Vegas and had fun looking at "The Sphere" all week, Josh sees Bristol Santa, Stomp is special, Mike needs a cool trail-name to use, the hiking-podcaster club is small but mighty, Mike and Josh don't like "dead air", and we dive into the humble beginnings of the now nearly two-hundred-episode-deep SLASR podcast, as well as the guys behind the mics, on this twice-the-hiking-podcasters-twice-the-fun-episode of the PUDs Podcast!

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Bristol Santa House

Search for Canadian hiker shifts to recovery

SLASR Podcast Official Site

SLASR Podcast on Instagram

Nick's Music Moment:
 
Dulling the Horns - Wild Pink - 2024
 
Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:
 
All the Christmas tunes...

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It's the "Pulp Fiction" of podcast episodes as Nick and Josh conclude a busy week of pre-Thanksgiving recording, and sit down with one of their favorite hikers to follow; Gwenn Stratton!

Turkeys have been acquired, Nick bags Tecumseh for "Fall" as well as all four seasons and revisits Cascade Path in Waterville Valley, Josh plans another New Year's Eve visit to the Whites, "Coach Josh" is back on the court, and we learn about what drives Gwenn to do what she does in the Whites; creating, crushing, and sharing impressive (and often shapely!) routes through some of New Hampshire's most rugged terrain, including traditional trails, slides, and bushwhacks, on this let's-pretend-it's-after-Thanksgiving-but-it-really-isn't-episode of the PUDs Podcast!

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Episode Links:

Hiker's body found in New Hampshire mountains after 'significant fall'

Gwenn's Instagram

Mountain Wandering (Steve Smith's) Blog

Nick's Music Moment:
 
Threads - Now, Now - 2012
 
Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:
 
Fame - David Bowie - 1975

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Josh and Nick sit down and get into everything herbal with Rachel Warnock! Rachel is the Founder, CEO, and Lead Herbalist of the PUDs Podcast's newest sponsor; Impact Botanicals!

Josh is changing angles and podcasting locations, it's a microphone revolution, a throwback to "Steamin' Up the Hams", pod-plaques, the Mike Tyson and Jake Paul fight was lackluster, Nick gets ready to head to a tech conference in Las Vegas, and the boys sit down and chat with Rachel about Ayurvedic medicine, boat racing, sustainability, what it's like to be on a reality television show, stocking-stuffers for hikers, and how Rachel is using her talents as an herbalist and business savvy to create change with Impact Botanicals, on this powered-by-plants-episode of the PUDs Podcast!

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Impact Botanicals Website About Page

The Blox Reality TV Show Season 13 featuring Rachel

Nick's Music Moment:
 
In Times New Roman... - Queens of the Stone Age - 2023
 
Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:
 
From Zero - Linkin Park - 2024

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Nick and Josh recap their past weekend up in New Hampshire! The boys "bro-out" and sandwich attending (and Nick performing at) the Rek'-Lis Full Conditions event with a few hikes!

Nick misses Josh but Josh isn't reciprocating, the boys talk Thanksgiving turkey strategy, the smell of burning popcorn lingers, singing all sorts of tunes with friends-of-the-podcast Paul and Deanna while hiking North and Middle Sugarloaf, Nick plays a ton of songs opening for the SLASR Podcast at the Rek'-Lis Full Conditions event and even teams up with Stomp on a few to close the set, SLASR Podcast crushes their live show, the New Hampshire hiking community is awesome(!), Nick and Josh destroy some chicken sandwiches, and a loop at the northern end of Franconia Notch of Bald Mountain and the iconic Artists Bluff, on this keep-your-cavities-to-yourselves-please-episode of the PUDs Podcast!

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Episode Links:

North & Middle Sugarloaf via Sugarloaf Trail on AllTrails

SLASR Podcast Episode 176 - Live from Rek'-Lis Brewing Full Conditions Fundraiser Event

Bald Mountain & Artists Bluff Loop on AllTrails
 
Nick's Music Moment:
 
Saturdays = Youth - M83 - 2008
 
Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:
 
Rehab - Graffiti the World - 2005

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Nick made the most of a long weekend; including getting up north for the Lakes Region Search and Rescue (LRSAR) 5K, hiking with the family around Franconia Notch, trekking up to 52-with-a-View peak Hedgehog Mountain, and then making a trip to the northwestern corner of Massachusetts to (finally!) get up to the state's highpoint: Mount Greylock!

Josh ponders what words are podcast appropriate, there are two types of people when it comes to leaves, Nick makes a wrong turn in a 5K, explores Franconia Notch with the family, revisits Hedgehog, the Appalachian Trail goes through some interesting places, the northwestern corner of Massachusetts is beautiful, we've got fresh "stickahs", getting excited for the SLASR Rek'-lis Full Conditions event, and how many Bruce Springsteen songs does Josh know(?), on this November-ish episode of the PUDs Podcast!

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Episode Links:

Hedgehog Mountain Video on Nick's YouTube Channel

Lakes Region Search & Rescue Website

New Hampshire State Parks - Flume Gorge Information

Franconia Notch State Park Hiking Information & Map

Hike New England - Hedgehog Mountain Hiking Information

Mass.gov - Mount Greylock State Reservation Website

Jack's Hot Dog Stand of North Adams, MA

Rek'-lis Full Conditions Winter Kick Off Event Page
 
Nick's Music Moment:
 
Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age - 2002
 
Josh's Jazzy Music Moment:
 
Humanz - Gorillaz - 2017

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