Ep. 988: Hudson River From Source to Statue of Liberty - Greg Morrissey
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Adventure education: Greg Morrissey's Mountain Goat Movement – guiding transformative expeditions for young people from the Adirondacks to Antarctica, connecting them to explorers and storytellers, and leading a 390-mile Hudson River source-to-sea journey with students and environmental scientists to inspire purpose and adventure.
Greg Morrissey is an educator, explorer, and founder of Mountain Goat Movement -- an organization that is dedicated to providing transformative adventures from the Adirondacks to Antarctica while connecting folks to inspiring explorers, mountain athletes, and storytellers.
He was a teacher for over a decade and would take his students on adventures every break. After seeing the need for more young people to have life-changing adventures, he jumped in full-time and started the Mountain Goat Movement. He now guides trips throughout the year taking young people to the furthest reaches of our planet to instill in them the power of adventure and purpose.
Most recently, Greg led a novel 390-mile expedition of the Hudson River, from source to sea, with a team of environmental scientists and students. The trip was an amazing achievement
Greg is an avid member of the Explorers Club, Next Generation of Explorers, and the American Alpine Club -- he has offered inspiring adventure talks across schools, brands, and is a highly-sought public speaker.
Learn more about Greg and Mountain Goat Movement:
https://www.mountaingoatmovement.com
https://www.instagram.com/mountaingoatmovement/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/greg_morrissey_/?hl=en
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm back. |
| 0:25.4 | Last week took the week off. |
| 0:27.1 | Much needed. |
| 0:28.1 | Haven't done that in a while. |
| 0:29.7 | And Holy Cow went to bed before midnight for once for a whole week. |
| 0:34.9 | I'm rested, although I did get sick. So it was, you know, kind of good time |
| 0:40.3 | and do. So thanks so much for your patience with the show. Today's episode, I hate that we |
| 0:46.0 | didn't get it out last week because it's such a good episode, but I'm glad that we gave it the |
| 0:50.8 | attention it deserved. This is Greg Morrissey. He's quickly become a good friend and |
| 0:55.9 | just amazing advocate for adventure with young people. You're going to hear his story about being a |
| 1:01.0 | teacher and how he just fell in love with taking his students into the mountains in the northeast |
| 1:06.6 | of the U.S. and now all over the world through something he has started, which he now calls |
| 1:12.3 | mountain goat movement, trying to make more students, mostly boys because he was at an all-boy |
| 1:18.5 | school, mountain goats, turn him into mountain goats, and just love the mountains, love adventure |
| 1:24.1 | and love what it can do for character development and growth. And this story is about |
| 1:30.1 | one of their most recent adventures, starting at the absolute headwaters of the Hudson River that |
| 1:36.8 | flows right past and right through New York City, where that starts at an alpine lake, |
| 1:41.2 | technically a little valley, and then down to a lake, and then down a stream, then down to a lake and then down a stream and down |
| 1:46.1 | to a river and they follow it on foot or on the water itself for 390 miles, which is just |
| 1:54.5 | wild, all the way to the Statue of Liberty. So they see a lot of change and a lot of different |
| 2:00.0 | things through the course of that |
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