Hey, fam, welcome back to the show.

I am broadcasting, looking out a window at beautiful, sunny, blue California

skies needed a little change of scenery. And it was just what the doctor ordered. But welcome

back to the free trail podcast. Of course, I'm Dylan Bowman. Thank you guys for being here.

Always appreciate your attention.

Adam Campbell is our guest today, the great Canadian mountain athlete, who really was one of my earliest inspirations as a young aspiring trail runner.

And he has been a veteran on the circuit for many, many years.

Many strong performances to his name over the past decade, decade and a half, probably

at this point.

But Adam's story is much bigger than winning races and being a great athlete.

Adam has really been through some stuff.

He has been through some indescribable, overwhelming

hardship in the past several years. Many of you, I'm sure, will know that back in 2016,

Adam sustained life-threatening injuries in an accident while he was out in the mountains,

on a long traverse of a mountain range in the

Canadian Rockies with Dakota Jones and Nick Elson. And then a few years later, after healing from

that trauma and slowly returning to health, Adam tragically lost his wife, Laura Kosakowski, to an avalanche in a backcountry

skiing accident. And Adam has admirably been an open book about this grieving journey. And I am honored that he would be willing to talk about that process

with me here on the podcast. This, I'm not going to lie, is a pretty heavy episode, but

it's also a good one. It's also a long one. So I'm going to keep the intro short, but I hope you guys find some hope and some strength from Adam's story.

It really is a remarkable one.

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