Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast.

I'm your host, Mason Gravely.

Today we're talking to Melissa Strong, and this is a throwback Thursday episode, by the way.

So we talked to Melissa back in 2020, right when the pandemic was happening.

If you know, obviously terrible time for restaurant owners, Melissa is a restaurant owner, was then and still is. So it survived. Her restaurant in Estes Park, Colorado, you know, this was a very uncertain time when we talked. And also, Melissa had dealt with some serious trauma before that when she had an accident at home working on art and craft, like working on a table or some chairs.

And this battery, just this thing went wrong with this project they were doing.

She'll explain more.

And it fried her hand, just exploded in her face.

And she lost a few fingers, which as a climber,

which is her passion, that's very difficult to deal with. And that's very uncertain what's going

to happen at that point with your passion. Her other passion is golf, maybe not as affected,

maybe with the swing. But anyway, I remember noting she might be the only person I know that's

passionate about climbing and golf at the same time. Those groups usually don't always cross over,

you know? So anyway, she talks about finding a new way to climb and continuing to climb

and also how those skills of getting through that has helped her navigate

this difficulty managing a restaurant through such a turbulent time. And her restaurant is doing

really well. They just opened a new expansion or are getting ready to the restaurant Bird

and Gym in Estes Park, Estes Park, Colorado, if you ever want to check it out.

So it's an awesome story about resilience and just getting through, gosh, life's uncertainties.

That's something that we can all learn from.

So let's go ahead and jump in.

Well, folks, welcome to the show.

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