My fellow Adventurers, in celebration of spring I would like to invite you all to join us on a hike Sunday April 19th at Mt. Arab. Save the date! I will let you know if we need to reschedule due to weather (but we will hike in the rain!) Arab is a bit of a popular trail, and it isn't too difficult! If you're planning on going, please drop a comment below saying "I'm going!" Also, if you weren't on Maire's team during the quest, fear not, shirts are available for you to purchase! The link will only be active until 1:00 pm on 4/7! https://foreverfierce.com/products/bjorn-fitness-march-2026-tee

My friends, this post will be an aside from what I normally post in Skool. Some of you were alive for the first moon landing. Some of you don't pay attention to these things. My life has always been absorbed in focusing on the real progress of humanity. I'm obsessed with things that grow, and in my lifetime alone we have become such a capable species, though many would tell you this is not so. I created Bjorn to feed my family, yes, but also to improve the lives of the people in St. Lawrence county. I continue to work on this project in the hopes of learning how to build systems that foster life in extreme environments. The gym, "the Forge" is just such a place. We come to the gym to improve our bodies by the method of physical stress. We forge new muscle, greater bone density, and relationships with other people hoping to better themselves. If this project is successful, so many of you will be immersed in a system that dramatically improves your lives and well-being. I can't wait to see that for you, as I have for so many already. But there is an even tougher system other people far smarter than me have built on the Artemis II rocket, which will be launching humans to orbit the moon this evening. These "life support systems" allow life to survive or even thrive in extreme environments. Few of you know, but before I started learning foreign languages, my intended field of study was in engineering life support systems in space (for plants, it's a long story). Space is a terrifying place. Everything outside of this planet is hostile to life. The lack of gravity degrades your muscles and bones, the constant cosmic radiation destroys your DNA. The Astronauts who go into space do so at great risk to themselves. And yes, they work out a lot. While I'm not trying to get any of you to become astronauts, I wanted to share with you a passion of mine that comes along with some very exciting news for humanity. While we often get bogged down in the weather-like world-shaking events on the news, missions like this one afford us the opportunity to reflect on just how far we've come as a species, how much we've actually accomplished, and how wrong the mental models our favorite news sources provide to us may be.

We will reach out to Maire’s Marauders about shirt sizes over the next 24 hours. Our Spring champion and Maire’s team will be gifted the quest’s shirt, so they can stop reading here ♥️ In the meantime, all other players will be able to purchase the shirt! It will be available for order for 7 days ⌛️ ; the link terminates next Tuesday at 1:00 pm! So if you weren’t on Maire’s team but you want a shirt, tap the link here! 🔗 https://foreverfierce.com/products/bjorn-fitness-march-2026-tee

Congratulations @Susan Dodds for having the highest tonnage score for our Spring Quest! She will receive the $300 gift card to Big Spoon and she will receive our spring champion shirt And congratulations to all members of Maire’s Marauders! Each of you will receive our spring quest shirt as well. Later today or sometime tomorrow we will offer the shirts to be available for all other adventurers to purchase. The link will be active for 7 days only, after 7 days all orders are final and no extra shirts will be available! We will text all adventurers the link for the shirts and post it around the Forge for your convenience. We will celebrate this victory on the top of Mt. Arab! Tentatively scheduled for April 19th. All are invited to attend the hike!

Some of you have reached out about the quest. Unfortunately there has been a hiccup. Thirteen Squidlebs were found eating our tonnage piles! This has been managed. Scores will be announced in a video before 12:00 pm tomorrow. An email blast will go out as well. The winners are known. We have our spring champion. Tomorrow you will know who they are!!