This is the adventure sports podcast, where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the planet.

We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them

and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun. Holy cow, can you believe it.

Episode 600.

Well, first of all, welcome back.

We had about a two-week break and much needed, much needed.

I love this show, don't get me wrong, but right before the holidays, things were getting

very crazy here at this house.

So it was great to take a break and I'm super excited to get into 2020 and some of the

episodes that we're going to have for all the listeners. And also,

thank you for listening in. I know that there's a lot of shows out there now that you could be

listening to. So I appreciate you taking time to listen to this one. Welcome to episode 600.

Holy cow. How have we made it this far? I feel like sometimes I can't even, you know, send an email

correctly. So how I've been able to put up, you know, nearly 200 episodes myself is pretty

remarkable. And if you don't know, I am not the original host of the Adventure Sports

podcast. A guy named

Kurt and, well, actually two guys, two guys, one named Kurt, one named Travis used to host the show,

and they got it up to about episode 400, really built the foundation of this show, really built

the following, and just through a lot of just being opportunistic, being flexible, that we transition the show in October of 2018.

And I have been the host ever since.

By the way, my name's Mason, if you're just listening in for some reason on episode 600.

And every hundred episodes, it seemed like Kurt and Travis would always do like a little update,

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