Hey there, thanks to turning back into the Sharpen Podcast.

Hey there, thanks to turning back into the Sharpen Podcast.

I am Ashley Sapi, your founder, producer, and hostess.

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So for this month's episode, I sat down with two avid mountaineers and alpinists, two of my personal

good friends.

They're going to tell you today about an incident that happened to them in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

And what's really cool about this interview is that the three of us are sitting at the

Colorado-hour-bound school base in Leadville, Colorado, in which all three of us work.

So I feel very fortunate to be able to get this interview with you guys because it's rare that

we were on base at the same time.

So with that said, why don't you guys go ahead and introduce yourselves.

My name is Ty. I think kind of something that's also interesting is the three of us actually started altogether in 2011, which is pretty cool.

So we've all been working together for six, almost seven years.

But my name is Ty again and I guess my general psych outside of working for Howard Bound is

ski mountaineering and I've spent quite a bit of time in the Teton's skiing a bunch of stuff and I kind of got the psych for the grand traversed I guess because it's a semi- outing in the Teton's that's within my ability level

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