a colleague and I were sleeping out under the stars rather than under our little tarp.

And I woke up to the feeling of like a dog sniffing my head.

And I just kind of thought and I had to do a little sense making at the moment.

I was like, well, that's not a dog. It couldn't be a dog. And I just shut up.

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.

Hey folks, hope you had a good weekend. I'm your host, Mason Gravely. Today we're going to be talking to guest Ben Morton about doing a first descent of a river in Bhutan. And Ben is a very talented paddle sport

enthusiast. He does guiding trips and trips all over the world. So I do want to plug that.

You can find more about him at Precisionpaddlesports.com.

It just seems like a great teacher, great guide, and does some pretty cool stories.

But this trip in particular was really unique for him,

so we're going to be focusing on the details of that trip later in the episode.

But I also wanted to say this recommendation this recommendation having been on the show,

was from a listener suggestion. Eric Barton, a listener, reached out to us with some contact info and

said, hey, you should have this guy I know, Ben Morton on your show. And if you don't know,

that's how we primarily get guests for this show. Is listener recommendations or folks reach out to us?

So if you know anybody, please reach out.

You can send an email to info atadadventuresportspodcast.com.

And that's just, and that's how we've gotten to 700 episodes as folks reaching out and sending us suggestions.

So thanks, Eric Eric and thanks Ben

for beyond the show. And when we start the episode, I had already asked Ben, hey, where are you

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