You're listening to the Adventure Sports Podcast.

We talk with adventures from around the globe to give you the inspiration you need to get started in the outdoors or keep moving if you're already there.

Now here's your host, Kurt Linville.

Hey, happy Wednesday to you. I hope your day is fantastic. I can't believe it's already March

the 11th. I guess we say that as time flows by. It just seems like it gets faster and faster and

faster. But mid-March is sometimes spring skiing in Colorado.

Sometimes it has the best snow that we've had all year.

And sometimes it's the beginning of mud season.

We are drying out early here.

People are already mountain biking at Hartman Rocks.

And usually it's still buried in snow and mud at this time of the year so man early spring

i'm looking forward to getting out myself on the mountain bike and on the motorcycle and but it's

kind of hard for me to shift gears i was laughing the other day because i was preparing my motorcycle

for motorcycle season, which

is coming up. I had to replace the clutch cable and of course do all the standard maintenance

stuff. But the same day while I was working on the motorcycle, I pulled my skis off the wall

and I remounted my ski binding so that my new ski boots would fit. And I was preparing my

skis, get this, for the first day of ski season, for me, that is. And the reason is because, of course,

it went to Kilimanjaro and the snow conditions weren't great this year. And I thought, you know what,

I'm just going to go to killy

and focus on that i'll worry about skiing when i get back and then i came back from michelimanjaro

and snow conditions were still not great and anyway long story short my ski season started the same

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