Hey, friends. This is kind of a trial show. Wanted to do something, and if you may have noticed, this happened on a Saturday, our normal show days, or Mondays and Thursdays.

So this is not replacing the normal shows where we interview guests from all sorts of different adventure sport disciplines.

This show is a bonus episode, ASP Stories. And so we wanted to add it on top of the

other shows as a trial to see if it's something that you think is worthwhile. So what this is,

is me reading to you some things that I've written over the years. And I'm going to share with

you a book that I was putting together many years ago

when we first moved to the mountains of Colorado. And when our children were young, I'm talking about

my college kids were in diapers at this time. But I wrote this book because I was so inspired

by living in Colorado and how living at altitude

was so different than living in other places.

And I think that no matter where you live, there are unique things about where you are

that are worth ferreting out, figuring out.

Maybe you live near the coast.

Maybe you live in the mountains. Maybe you live in the plains or the desert, maybe just in some of the beautiful eastern forests.

Regardless, every location is unique, and there is beauty in every location.

But there aren't many people who live at altitude.

In Colorado, you know, I would say maybe a tenth or less of the state

live at some level of altitude above the plains of the front range. But that's probably a tenth.

And then outside of Colorado, how many other states even have altitude? So people living at

altitude is kind of a rare thing, and a lot of experiences

came out of that that I shared in this book. The title of the book is 8240, which was the elevation

that we lived at the time. The subtitle for the book was One Family's Life Above the Clouds. And the reason that I titled at that is it was very

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