Ep. 1006: Paddling the Intracoastal Waterway - Heather Bolint
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
For the last several years Heather Bolint has led a nomadic lifestyle, initially inspired by her decision to quit her job and thru-hike the Appalachian Trail as a solo female. You might have heard about her hiker fame of rescuing an abandoned rooster on the AT and hiking with him for 42 miles, earning the trail name "mama cluck". Since then, Heather has also thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail, Florida's Ocean to Lake Trail, paddled the 99-mile Everglades Wilderness Waterway, and hiked 1,100 miles around the coastline of Florida while collecting 3 tons of plastic from the beaches.
Heather's most recent adventure of paddling nearly 400 miles of the Intracoastal Waterway was inspired by an idea she had when her parents moved south from her home state of Maine. After her father's death in 2022, she decided to fulfill her dream in remembrance of her father, and discover the healing properties of adventuring in nature.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host Mason. Today's guest, Heather Boland |
| 0:26.7 | is quite an adventure. She's done the Appalachian Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail. By the way, |
| 0:32.5 | she's going to share some pretty funny stories about the Appalachian Trail. And has paddled the |
| 0:37.0 | 100-mile Everglades Wilderness, |
| 0:39.2 | hiked a thousand miles on the beach around the, |
| 0:42.1 | basically around the border of Florida. |
| 0:44.0 | It has done just so many cool, unique adventures. |
| 0:47.0 | And today's is no exception. |
| 0:48.7 | We're going to be talking about paddling the intercoastal waterway |
| 0:52.9 | on the American East Coast, and specifically |
| 0:56.7 | the low country, which is kind of the coast of Georgia in parts of South Carolina and also |
| 1:02.7 | parts of North Florida. But what she did, she started at her mom's house. She got this idea to |
| 1:07.8 | paddle from her mom's house, which is in Georgia on the on the coast, |
| 1:11.6 | down to her dad's house, which is in Florida. It's like 400 miles apart. She wanted to paddle it. |
| 1:17.8 | And she thought the idea was crazy. And her dad finally, uh, basically woke up from a coma. He was sick |
| 1:23.7 | and said, you should do that. And so after he passed, unfortunately, in 2022, she was able |
| 1:28.8 | to do this adventure in honor of him. And it was just a beautiful adventure. I love adventures |
| 1:34.4 | that are one of one. You know, there isn't tons of people doing it. There's a huge personal |
| 1:38.5 | connection. And it was solo. Like, it's such a incredible moment of growth and self-reliance. And it's just some of my favorite types of adventures. So she's going to tell us about this. She was on her way down to her job in Key West and she pulled over on the side of the road. Thank you so much, Heather. So if you want to follow Heather on Instagram, you can just look for the chickens. Yeah, it's a great follow, great stories, amazing pictures of this adventure. |
| 2:03.3 | Like I'm telling you, I always tell you, when you listen, go look at the pictures of the things we're talking about. |
| 2:08.2 | It helps put it into perspective. |
| 2:10.3 | And this one is definitely, if you don't know much about the intercoastal waterway or the low Country. Please go look that up. |
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