Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. I'm your host Mason.

Today we're talking to Josh Murphy, and this is a very special episode. In fact,

it's going to be a two-parter because I talked to Josh for so long. His story is wild.

He grew up in rural Pennsylvania and was really overweight, really obese, and he just talked about

that experience and what it was like to kind of grow up

feeling you know hopeless about a lot of things and how small the incident was the seed that was

planted in him to to make a change and it just shows me the power of words that we share with people and be listening for that moment in this episode.

But Josh ultimately changed his life, lost the weight, and made it his mission, his life mission to get into the military, military service, do something with his life in his own words.

And that door, as we'll see, was,

was despite the crazy amount of work was closed on him and how he shifted to take that focus

to the Pacific Crest Trail and through hike it. This changed his life, to say the least,

and we're here today to talk about it and he does such a great job

telling the story i was absolutely captivated while he told his life story i could have kept talking to him

for hours frankly and i'm very excited about what he's doing next he's he's out on the in the pacific

northwest training to be a wildland firefighter.

So it's just one of those amazing stories, one of the guests we have on that just knocks

my socks off.

So without further ado, let's go ahead and jump in and hear Josh Storrell.

And actually, by the way, I encourage you to follow him on Instagram because

he takes some absolutely amazing pictures. His pictures are unbelievable. Follow him, check out what he's done,

and enjoy this two-part series, part one today, part two will be next week. Let's dive in.

All right, folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. Today, we have a story that is going to

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