Ep. 927: The John Muir Trail & Conquering Cancer - Revisited - Luke Moore
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired Jan 25, 2018.
Luke Moore found himself face-to-face with a battle against leukemia. He lets us in on the story of his year-long fight to overcome his ordeal only to receive news that the cancer had returned. In celebration of his win against round two, Luke decided to thru-hike the 210-mile John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada range in California. It was his first backpacking trip ever!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:24.3 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:25.6 | Today's episode is going to be a throwback back to 2018 when Kurt was hosting with Luke |
| 0:31.1 | Moore. |
| 0:31.6 | Luke found himself face to face with a battle against leukemia. |
| 0:36.3 | And after about a year-long fight, he got through it |
| 0:39.3 | only for it to return and having to fight again for round two. And he got through it again, |
| 0:47.3 | and to celebrate him getting through the second round of chemo and second round of fighting cancer. |
| 0:55.9 | He decided to do something that he's always wanted to do the John Muir Trail, 200 miles |
| 1:01.3 | in the Sierra Nevada's of California. |
| 1:04.0 | It is, you know, John Muir Trail, it's a legendary trail. |
| 1:06.8 | It's very difficult to get a permit on this now. |
| 1:09.5 | But it is a breathtaking, spectacular one to three week adventure that people do. |
| 1:16.5 | That includes oftentimes climbing and summoning Mount Whitney, the tallest mountain in the contiguous U.S., the lower 48. |
| 1:24.3 | And, you know, we see this. |
| 1:26.2 | And by the way, this was Luke's first backpacking trip it wasn't like |
| 1:28.7 | he did this before you know he went all out and uh what's so cool is you know we hear this a lot on |
| 1:34.6 | the show we've had some episodes recently with phil decker we've got one coming up that's amazing |
| 1:39.7 | by the way it's going to be a two-part series, all about how some sort of diagnosis or some |
| 1:44.8 | sort of crisis basically prize your life open or your perspective open to allow you time |
| 1:53.5 | or to force you to take this adventure you've always dreamed of. |
| 1:57.1 | And for a lot of us, it takes that. |
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