Episode #125 - Dan Harris (Scars)

Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Dan Harris spent many years in the CIA, little suspecting that he'd one day use those problem-solving skills to take on a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. He has battled cancer and stood at Springer Mountain with just one lung. Undeterred, he pushed forward with a never-say-die attitude that was tested when he sustained a knee injury in the Smokeys.

Dan adapted his hiking gait to accommodate both his knee and his lack of lung capacity, pushing on and accumulating friends and experiences along the way. He shares some of those observations and experiences in our conversation.

Given the treatment he had received in battling cancer, Dan also chose to use his hike to raise funds for the Cancer Research Institute. If you'd like to donate post-hike, head on over to https://fundraise.cancerresearch.org/fundraiser/1578411

Dan also started a YouTube channel to share his story. You can find that here. https://www.youtube.com/c/ThruHikingwithScars.

When he reached Maine, Dan was joined by his wife, Random, and the two of them were able to share the sweet moment of climbing Katahdin together.

This week, I started a short middle section that is going to be an interactive section that helps me accumulate my gear and prepare for my 2019 hike. Please join in and send me a message, preferably through SpeakPipe. Find it here. https://mightyblueontheat.com/contact/

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk the walk with shows by hikers
0:05.3	about hikers for everybody. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:33.1	Hi everybody, happy new year and thanks for dropping by again to Mighty Blue on the Appalachshund Trail,
0:38.8	the ultimate midlife crisis.
0:40.9	We're on to episode number 125 this week and our guest is a real life spy.
0:46.4	Well, he's spent many years of the CIA, so that's what I'm going to call him.
0:50.9	His name is Dan Harris, otherwise known as a somewhat gruesome scars. Dan is full of
0:56.2	excellent insights and will be along later. Now, I've run out of the class of 2019 volunteers and I
1:03.7	didn't really want to start a new section of the show so I thought I put in a bit of an interactive
1:08.3	middle section in the run-up to my 2019 through hike.
1:11.9	As many of you already know, I'm intending to go again this year, and as it was with my previous
1:16.6	hike, my preparation has been pretty much non-existent. In fact, it has been non-existent.
1:22.5	That said, I've been in Spain, and I can't really order stuff online to be sent here,
1:26.2	so I've been putting it off prior to my
1:27.8	return to the States at the end of January or the beginning of February. Then I'll take about three
1:33.3	weeks to prepare for a start either at the end of February or the beginning of March. I kind of know
1:38.2	what I want to take with me in general terms so a lot of that initial stuff is out of the way and I know
1:44.0	what doesn't work for me
1:45.2	and I kind of know what I want to use. Nonetheless, this middle section will be a few thoughts
1:50.7	and preparation and requests for assistance in choosing the stuff that I take with me. Today,
1:56.8	I'll tell you what I've already got from my first hike and what I think I'll take with me again
2:00.7	and what I still need to buy.
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