mountain athlete

This podcast is no stranger to traumatic life altering accidents. It is easy to let these events cripple us, and hard to allow them to transform us. Jason Hardrath, PE teacher from Klamath Fall, OR and competitive endurance athlete who’d just qualified for the Ironman 70.3 World Championships. Found himself ejected from a moving vehicle. He suffered a broken shoulder, collapsed lung, torn ACL and multiple internal injuries. Its fair to say the Jason is lucky to be alive. Just Three years later, Jason became the first person ever to establish 100 FKTs and currently sits with 121 under his belt. Now he is chasing a new objective: the Seven Volcanic Summits done in a style dreamed up by renowned climber Chad Kellogg called “The Infinity Loop”, which involves two summits and circumventing the entire base of each of the world's tallest volcanoes.

In our conversation we also discuss Jason’s predisposition for H.A.P.E and how it affects his safety in high altitude environments, his goals, and the partners who choose to join him on his dream of establishing the Seven Volcanic Summit Infinity Loops. 

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Journey to 100 Film

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Corey and Mike discuss how the Kettlebell has transformed their routines and much more!

At the GoPro Mountain Games, Corey and Mike are captivated by Davis Hermes's trajectory before he becomes a world champion. At twelve years old, Davis found his calling in the world of slackline. By twenty-two years old, he takes the world champion freestyle Highline in Switzerland. 

Mike and Corey with the support of a great team effort put the gas pedal to the floor to Make it to this years 2022 GoPro Mountain Games in Vail C0. Looking back Corey recognizes Mountain Wellness was born at the GoPro Mountain Games. 

Registration link: https://hurlelkhorn.com/     It's time to dust of those shoes and get after it! Mike and Corey talk to John Hallsten and John Fitzgerald from the Helena Ultra Runners League (HURL). 

This week, we spoke with human performance coach, Emily Hightower. Emily takes an integrative science based approach with her clients combining embodied movement, yoga, nutrition, bio feedback, and what she calls, medicinal breath work. Emily is recognized as one of the top performance breathwork coaches,  working alongside founders of The Art of Breath, Brian McKenzie and Rob Orlando. Emily is especially passionate about high performers that have been exposed to trauma, teaching them Intrinsic skills to develop stress resilience. Emily is an avid skier, bow hunter, and level IV Whitewater kayak teacher and calls Baselt, CO home.

Kurt founded Sierra Mountaineering International, Inc. (Link) in the fall of 1995 after returning from his first of three successful expeditions to Mt. Everest. With over 40 years of mountaineering experience in the Sierra Kurt has also guided 120+ expeditions to high peaks in Africa, Alaska, the Alps, Antarctica, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Russia, Tibet, and Turkey. He completed the Seven Summits in the Summer of 2012 after summiting Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia. Kurt runs Sierra Mountaineering International, Inc. from his hometown of Bishop, CA along the slopes of the beautiful Eastern Sierra.

Mountain stoke at it's best! YouTube video at 3:57 will blow your mind. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw6EhqSQb1U
Mountain athlete Tricky Mickey Wilson joins us this week and takes us into the intense yet calm world of slack line. 

 Corey works on the ultimate client experience as construction continues on the new Mountain Wellness recovery den in Helena Montana. Mike heads to Ojai CA to get some mountaineering instruction so he can begin climbing routes again. They both reminisce and talk about mitigating risk in The backcountry and the evolution of risk for the mountain athlete.

In this episode you will learn what it means to be in nutritional ketosis. Corey and Mike talk about how it can benefit mountain athletes with performance and overall longevity. They talk about the shortfalls of the keto diet, why you might want to start intermittent fasting, and give some fueling strategies you can start implementing to achieve nutritional ketosis.