Episode 162 - Jason Quinn from the The Real ResQ Podcast - Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer

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This week we are joined by Jason Quinn. Jason is a former US Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer, Officially Rescue Swimmer #500 and currently works in civilian search and rescue and is the host of The Real ResQ Podcast - a podcast that is a compilation of personal stories from people who have put their lives on the line and made some incredible rescues. The stories told on The Real ResQ Podcast remind us that “those in distress are praying for a miracle. They are going to get the people who join Jason on his podcast. Plus black bears are getting comfortable in the Pemi, A Mass Exodus, New Technology for search and rescue, nature is being very aggressive this week, a history segment on Jigger Johnson, the iconic and often drunk woodsman legend of the Northeast, a fatality on Half dome, recent hikes, blueberry picking advice, Notable hikes, and dad jokes,

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Topics

• Loon Echo Land Trust Race Series

• Black Bear at Lincoln Woods

• Massachusetts people love NH

• Geolocator for Helicopter SAR

• Nature Gone Wild

• Jigger Johnson

• Grizzly attack

• Pemi Float

• Uncontacted Tribes

• Half Dome

• Search for Massachusetts cold case victim in Barrington, NH

• Stomp picks up a hitchhiker

• Recent hikes on Pleasant Mountain

• Welcome Jason Quinn!

Show Notes

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• LELT Race Series

• Bald Pate 10k

• Pleasant Mountain Race

• Overly Friendly Black Bears in the Pemi

• A quarter of Mass residents plan to move

• New Device allows mobile geolocation of cell phones via Helicopter

• Major eruption at Yellowstone

• Hydrothermal, not volcanic, but can get much worse

• Whale capsizes boat off Portsmouth

• Bear waves to driver who let him pass

• One injured runner made the F&G reports

• Videos from Aravaipa

• Some History on Jigger Johnson

• More History on Johnson

• 72 year old fights off grizzly

• Uncontacted tribes still exist…

• A death on Half Dome cables

• Search in Barrington, NH related to an old case in Massachusetts

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