Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. This is not a regular episode. We are announcing

our Adventure Grant winners. And before we jump in, I really just want to say thank you to everyone

that applied. We were blown away by the amount and the quality of the applications. And so

choosing our top three was really difficult because we have three levels of our grant.

Yeah, it was really challenging.

So many amazing stories.

There are so many people that apply that are going to be guests on the show in the next year.

So just because every time I read an application, I was like, well, that would be an amazing story.

That would be an awesome story. We have to have them on. So don't be surprised if you apply to we reach out at some point asking you to be on the show to tell this story. And also, before we dive into who the winners are, I want to thank our sponsors because the winners here, the three winners are not only getting some cash, they're also getting some gear. We want to thank our sponsors because the winners here, the three winners, are not only getting some cash, they're also getting some gear.

We want to thank Petzel for making incredible headlamps and other stuff, of course, but I know them well for their headlamps.

In Gigi for making awesome, comfortable, wonderful socks for adventures.

Every adventure pretty much needs socks.

Narly nutrition for keeping your nutrition on point for adventure training and being on the

adventure. Ex-bed for making incredibly thought-out gear, high quality. I love all my ex-ped gear. And then also athletic brewing, who makes the

world's best non-alcoholic craft beer. Of course, that's my opinion, but there's also plenty of

data to back that up. These folks are helping us really make this grant the best one we've ever

done. So thank you to everybody that has applied and thank you

to our sponsors. All right, without further ado, let's jump into who the winners are. Drum roll, please.

Wait a second. We don't have a drum roll. We don't have that in the budget. Okay, and I don't know how to

play drums or do a drum roll. I could probably look it up, but I'm not going to worry about the sound

effect. All right, and by the way, I apologize. I might not pronounce your name exactly the way.

It's supposed to be pronounced. So we'll work on that when we have you on the show. But for

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