You're listening to the Adventure Sports Podcast. Thanks for adventuring with us as we discover what incredible athletes and outdoor enthusiasts are doing all over the world. Now here's your host, Kurt Linville.

Hello, Adventure Sports Podcast family.

Boy, today's episode is super cool.

We're talking about Madagascar.

You know that island that broke off the continent of Africa forever ago

and has its own unique wildlife and geology and plants. And anyway, we're talking talking about that we're also talking about a river

on Madagascar people say the Mangaki because that's the way it's spelled but the locals have

corrected us it's mangak that's what I learned from this among other things And this is a source to see.

It is about 750-ish, up to quite a bit more,

kilometers.

And there's a book, Kayak, the Mangoc.

So all of that is going to be super fun.

But I'm sitting here, and I realized that I was wearing a hat and this hat says on it, Beacon Guidebooks.

And my friend at Beacon Guidebooks, Andy, I've known him for several years.

He has done amazing things with backcountry,country column gazettes, column guidebooks, whatever

you want to call them, for backcountry skiing. And what he's done is he's taken aerial

photographs and put together an amazing guidebook for back country skiing. And he has these for epic ski routes all over the country

i think maybe his first book might have been in our valley around crestedt and the elk range

but he has since done ranges all over the west and beacon guide books if you want to figure out where the epic runs are

figure out how to do them safely figure out how to get there etc etc etc then check out beacon

guide books with andy oh and by the way this is not a paid advertisement. I'm just wearing the hat, seriously. And I thought,

you know, I should let everyone know about this. We talk about backcountry skiing. And actually,

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