Welcome to the Monday minute of the Hunt Backcountry podcast.

These are shorter and more informal episodes where we answer your listener questions.

I guess, Steve, this is the first Monday minute of April in all reality here.

Yeah, man. Crazy.

Starting to feel like spring, that's for dang sure, between stuff greening up up but then also getting some moisture and uh yeah

it always is sneaking up on how quick the time flies yeah i got out i got out for a couple good

mountain bike rides both saturday and sunday and enjoy the trails are drying up and enjoy the

spring weather it was absolutely awesome you talked about towing with the idea of doing a race again. Are you working towards that

or still undecided? I haven't committed to one. I'd love to, I need to like just, I keep

being in a look at a calendar and find one if there was a date that makes sense. Yeah.

Well, we were, we'll get to listener questions here in a minute there's a lot

going on behind the scenes uh you many of you have heard us heard us talk about the experience challenge

some of you are in it there's a lot going on there just a heads up with that we've you know

had questions from guys who aren't in the challenge just

wanting to know more about what we're doing within the challenge and we will be sharing

more of that we'll be sharing some takeaways as well from the challenge it's actually looking

like part of that is really going to turn into a content series here soon so there's a lot going

on in the scenes more to come on that just

the quick version for people who may be interested in terms of what's going on within the challenge

in april there's kind of two main things going on this month there's a requirement to hike 50

miles with a pack we did not specify a weight requirement or elevation gain or loss.

We just really are talking about getting proactive, starting to hike,

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