Episode #315 - J. Robert Harris (JR)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We have a wonderful story on the show today. J Robert Harris grew up in New York during the 1960s. His folks realized that the New York streets were no place for a young black man. JR was sent to the Catskills to join the Boy Scouts. The lessons he learned, and the things he saw gave him a new purpose in life to pursue knowledge and peace in the outdoors.

Following a caribou migration, or turning up at an Inuit settlement, JR's natural curiosity has led him to many of the paths less travelled and he shares his wisdom and experience with Steve.

His book, Way Out There: Adventures of a Wilderness Trekker, explores these themes. You can get it on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07658GMBW/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

You can also follow JR on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/jrobert.harris.7, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jrinthewilderness/ or on his website at https://www.jrinthewilderness.com/

We also caught up with Dom Tamarro, an unabashedly excited man who is soooo ready for his upcoming hike!!

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Transcript

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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.
0:33.4	Hi guys, thanks for joining me while I'm actually on a break from the show.
0:40.9	This is Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis.
0:42.8	I'm Mighty Blue or Steve Adams.
0:50.5	This episode is coming out on March the 24th and, according to my spreadsheet, I'm due to be in Edinburgh,
0:51.8	Scotland today.
0:55.7	My girlfriend Dana and I are on a tour of the UK and in just over a week I should be heading out to hike the West Highland Way and Hadrian's Wall Path, both of
1:00.9	which are also in Scotland. So to that end I've been furiously podcasting, front-loading about
1:06.6	20 or 30 episodes of all our live hiking radio network shows so that service can continue
1:11.9	unabated. My commentary and my show notes will be shorter and I won't be individually thanking our
1:17.0	donors because of course I'm away. Today we have a true adventurer. When I first heard of
1:22.3	J.R. Harris, I was intrigued. This guy doesn't check off long distance hikes forikes for the sake of a long-distance hike. He hikes because he enjoys it, because he's curious, and because he can. He's 78 years old, yet he has a Sharba's attack and a deep intelligence born of his curiosity. When I tell you that one of his hikes was tracking a caribou migration, you'll kind of get where he's coming from.
1:46.9	You're going to get a big kick out of hearing from JR.
1:50.5	Our class of 2022 member today was recorded on March 3rd.
1:54.8	If all was gone to plan, Dom Tomorrow should just now be out on the trail and starting his through hike. He's a professor at Brown, which I guess is a pretty serious job, but at heart, especially about this hike, Dom is a big kid, exuberantly excited about his hike. Dom will be on after J.R. So let's hear now from J. Robert Harris or J.R. So today's guest is one of our more,
2:25.3	how can I say it, vintage guests. He's even older than me. He's an inventor and a rather unusual
2:31.9	hiker. This is J. Robert Harris or J.R.
2:34.5	Hey, J.R.
2:35.0	Thanks for coming on the podcast.
2:36.2	Hey, how are you?
2:38.2	Well, you don't look at the least bit offended
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