Hi friends, welcome again to the Adventure Sports Podcast.

Today's show's a little different.

I have some announcements to make, some questions to ask, and some hacks to share.

And I am doing this solo without a guest.

Now, that's not because we don't have enough guests.

We have so many guests

lined up right now for the Adventure Sports podcast, something for which we're very thankful

and very excited because we have so much great content headed your way. But I needed an episode

just to kind of shake the tree a little bit. And so I thought that I would do a solo episode.

And the main focus of this episode is going to be about how to start in an adventure sport.

And I thought about entitling it, Adventures for Everyone, Getting Started, Something Like That.

And I'm not going to cover every adventure sport.

But in our modern world, more and more and more gear has been developed to a higher and finer and finer quality,

just precisely engineered to be the best it could possibly be. And I'm afraid that some of this gear

represents a barrier to entry for people that want to get outside and have some fun. So I thought,

you know what, I'm going to do an episode about hacks, things that people can try that will be

affordable, easy to do, lots of fun,

and you can find out whether or not a given adventure sport is for you.

And before I start, I would like to invite other people to share other hacks.

And to that end, I wanted to visit a little bit about what it might mean to be the

Adventure Sports podcast family.

And I don't think that's too strong of a word, family.

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