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Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

#57 | The Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway Trail, The Massachusetts Midstate Trail, and Much More with Kristen Gardella

Trail Tales - Thru-Hiking & Backpacking

Kyle Hates Hiking

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness

4.9678 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Kristen Gardella joins me again, this time to discuss all things New England hiking. In this episode we cover four different trails/challenges that exist in the region, including the Massachusetts Midstate Trail, the Massachusetts Tully Trail, the New Hampshire Monadnock to Sunapee Greenway Trail, and the Connecticut Blue Trails Challenge. Kristen is a wealth of information on these lesser known New England Trails, and was able to cover all the basic info that you will need to know about tackling these trails. 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.

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0:00.0

What's going on, everybody? You're listening to episode number 57 of Trail Tales. My name is Kyle O'Grady. I'm a

0:14.7

through hiker. I am a peak bagger. I'm honestly just a huge hiking nerd in every single week.

0:20.8

On this podcast.

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I chat with another through hiker, another peak bagger, or another hiking nerd.

0:27.1

This week's guest goes by the name of Kristen Gardella.

0:30.5

You might recognize that name because she is a previous guest of the show.

0:34.8

She is through hike the Appalachian Trail and done a bunch of these like

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shorter New England trails. And that's pretty much what we're going to be talking about this week.

0:43.4

We go over four different trails slash hiking challenges. We go over the midstate trail in

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Massachusetts. We talk about the Manadnachtasunipi Greenway Trail in New Hampshire. We talk about the Tully Trailachta-Sanapy Greenway Trail in New Hampshire.

0:59.0

We talk about the Tully Trail, also in Massachusetts, and we finish up at the end of the episode talking about this thing called the Connecticut Blue Trails Challenge, which I don't

1:04.6

really know that much about.

1:05.5

But again, we're going to get into it during the episode.

1:08.2

So yeah, if you like hiking in New England or just in the

1:11.6

northeast in general, I think you're going to really enjoy this one. A lot of these trails

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don't really get that much of publicity. They're not really super well known. And so I think we

1:21.0

were kind of able to shed some light on that. And it was a really, really good time. So Kristen, when

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you hear this, you've been a long, long time supporter of Trail Tales, and

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I really appreciate that, and I appreciate you coming on a second time.

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And let's do a third one soon.

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We're gonna get into the conversation in just a minute here.

1:38.2

Real quick, before we start, I just gotta plug all the stuff that no one cares about, the

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