So, Dan, why don't you tell everybody a few minutes about where you are and how you got there?

Well, that's awesome, Chris.

I'm really happy to join you.

And thanks for that opportunity to be part of this awesome, awesome book.

A little bit about me.

I have been in business aviation for about 46 years.

I've been in aviation for 49 years.

And it's just a much better situation.

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I saw Nathan and Pontivan, like, do a creative line where he basically was able to create his own rut because you're actually at that level of mud where you can just cut through it, and you'll still roll the same speed as if you're in a rut because it's that, there's that much water.

And when you're at that level, if you're a quick thinker and you're used to riding the mud, you'll know, "Okay, I can start to ride my own lines." But anyth- up until an hour before I saw him do a certain line in the lower woods, actually, if you go onto Pinkbike's Instagram, his crash clip, plugging the Instagram, but his c- crash clip just before he crashes, he actually rides down about half a foot beside the main rut, and he was kind of, like, the only rider to do it.

And I thought that was a really incredible, like, ability to trail read as you go.

It was very intentional.

It wasn't on by mistake.

Mm-hmm.

He just, like, saved his thing by doing a whip, which is sweet.

It's, it's quite gnarly.

I know that section.

So just to give you even more context, um, they have to turn fairly hard left on, uh, on, uh, on this area.

Um, it does have a bit of support, but there's a lot of, like, little rocks, shiny rocks that are in the soil, like, in that woods.

So it can give you those, like, if you're turning too hard, you can get those, like, tiny little front wheel pushes that could lead to something more.

So they're really pushing in there and it's, it's insanely brave.

If you wanted to potentially try to make $5 in racing, you should join downhill or XC.