Mountain Wellness Podcast

This week, we spoke with human performance coach, Emily Hightower. Emily takes an integrative science based approach with her clients combining embodied movement, yoga, nutrition, bio feedback, and what she calls, medicinal breath work. Emily is recognized as one of the top performance breathwork coaches,  working alongside founders of The Art of Breath, Brian McKenzie and Rob Orlando. Emily is especially passionate about high performers that have been exposed to trauma, teaching them Intrinsic skills to develop stress resilience. Emily is an avid skier, bow hunter, and level IV Whitewater kayak teacher and calls Baselt, CO home.

Fast track to a healthy winter. Corey breaks down the best way to eat for health and longevity. Mike worries about his food during an 8 hour feeding window.

This week we're talking fueling, nutrition, and how to develop metabolic flexibility. 

(Resources below) When we think of the mountains, we think of our playground and a place we find solitude, but the other side that we don’t give much thought about is when adventures go bad and The individuals that show up if something goes wrong. On this episode,  we talk to Moose Mutlow. Moose has been a member and senior trainer at Yosemite search and rescue since 2002, which is one of the busiest SAR operations in the world. He  has over 2000 days of field instruction in a wilderness setting;  Moose also is  the lead trainer for the family liaison officers national park service teaching course instruction in Yellowstone, Yosemite, and the Tetons. We talk about Moos’s career in search and rescue, what the role of a family liaison officer is, and the psychological impact this work has on first responders.
Moose Mutlow
Book "When Accidents Happen"
Stress Continuum
Nature Bridge

Kurt founded Sierra Mountaineering International, Inc. (Link) in the fall of 1995 after returning from his first of three successful expeditions to Mt. Everest. With over 40 years of mountaineering experience in the Sierra Kurt has also guided 120+ expeditions to high peaks in Africa, Alaska, the Alps, Antarctica, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Russia, Tibet, and Turkey. He completed the Seven Summits in the Summer of 2012 after summiting Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia. Kurt runs Sierra Mountaineering International, Inc. from his hometown of Bishop, CA along the slopes of the beautiful Eastern Sierra.

Mike visits the Mountain Wellness Recovery Den in Helena Montana for the first time. 

Rose Grant, defending champion and winner of the 2021 Leadville 100 Mountain bike race,  sits down with us  just before the race and takes us inside her intense training and high risk strategies to dominate the sport. 

Mountain stoke at it's best! YouTube video at 3:57 will blow your mind. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw6EhqSQb1U
Mountain athlete Tricky Mickey Wilson joins us this week and takes us into the intense yet calm world of slack line. 

YouTube https://youtu.be/OuLtKI6AdRc Close friend Kenny Kane shares with us what defines an athlete, what seasonal training is, and why it is essential to know your purpose for training. 

 YouTube link: video series 1 -6  Mt Whitney summit video Without fully understanding  what was about to unfold and how truly difficult the challenge would be, Mike with his son Cameron and friend John Minor attempt to Summit Mt. Whitney in a day. Altitude sickness, forest fires, digestion issue, all complicate the one day 21 hour marathon adventure. Corey prepares daily for the Impact Montana Warrior race even though they are not briefed on the obstacles until a day before it begins.