Congratulations to Caite and Hilary on the launch of your new podcast. I enjoyed your teaser episode and look forward to more. Here’s why: You both seem natural storytellers with good chemistry, your love for not only the mountains but sharing your experience and talents with others comes through clearly, and you both have such a deep well of knowledge and experience of athleticism in the mountains to draw on. You both celebrate the adventure, challenge and beauty of the home mountains we share, and other spectacular mountainous places around the world. Your stories of adventure, of goals and speed, of flow state and pain, past and present, will both inspire others’ adventures and goals, big and small, and help understand the why and how we choose to do these things.
I love these hills, mountains, streams, steeps, moss, fog, and even the no-excuses straight-up-the-fall-line trails we enjoy around here. I enjoy pushing myself to move farther and faster in these hills on foot, snowshoe, ski and bike. I expect your show will attract other people like me, who chase our own goals up and down these mountains, far off the FKT paces perhaps but experiencing hard days and transcendent days, as you both do. I look forward to you in my ears as I train on the dirt and rock in our collective backyard.
