#52 | Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail to Help Your Mental Health with Rachel Meltzer of Trail Name Here

Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

Kyle Hates Hiking

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness

4.9 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Meltzer, host of Podcast Here and creator of Trail Name Here joins the show to talk all about thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, and how it impacted her mental health. She was incredibly candid about the depression she has experienced for much of her life, and how thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail was an attempt at curbing it. She also discusses how thru hiking the Appalachian Trail has impacted her since 2018, and how she is going to be writing a book that address the post-trail depression that many thru-hikers experience. Check out my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/kylehateshiking While you're at it, Check out the show's website at trailtalespod.com Like what you hear? Want to talk some smack? You can contact me on Facebook, Instagram, or send me an email: [email protected] If you're really into Trail Tales and want to receive some bonus content, please consider supporting the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trailtales. Feel free to leave me a five-star review on iTunes (I read every one at the beginning of the next episode), and subscribe if you like the show! My personal Instagram is @kylehateshiking, so feel free to follow me on there as well. Subscribe on iTunes, and listen on Google Play and Stitcher!

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0:00.0	How's it going, everybody?
0:13.0	Welcome to episode number 502 of Trail.
0:17.0	My name is Kyle O'Grady.
0:19.0	I am a through hiker.
0:20.0	I am a peak bagger in every single week on this show.
0:23.8	Every single Wednesday, I chat with another through hiker, another peak bagger, or another hiking nerd like myself about their experiences on the trail.
0:34.7	Rachel Meltzer is on the show this week.
0:37.3	She is a fellow Ablation Trail throughhiker and a fellow trail. Rachel Meltzer is on the show this week. She is a fellow Appalachian Trail
0:38.9	through hiker and a fellow hiking podcaster. So we had a lot in common there. Folks, I'm not
0:45.5	gonna lie, this is kind of a heavy episode. Rachel talks quite a bit in this
0:51.5	episode about her mental health struggles and how that related to her
0:55.8	Appalachian Trail Thruhike, how her through hike was able to help her.
1:00.0	And yeah, it was different than a lot of these episodes, I'm going to be honest.
1:04.9	And I mean that in a good way.
1:06.0	It was definitely something fresh.
1:08.5	I love doing the informational episodes of Trail Tales, and I really love doing the informational episodes of Trail Tales and I really love doing the goofy
1:13.4	episodes of Trail tales.
1:14.6	So those kinds of content will continue to happen here, but I just think it was cool that
1:20.0	I was able to kind of branch out and speak to somebody who didn't just have positive
1:27.4	things to say and didn't just have positive experiences to share.
1:30.8	That being said, we still did have a lot of fun.
1:34.3	Rachel, when you hear this, thank you so much for coming on,
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