Ep. 1025: Alone in Wonderland - Revisited - Christine Reed
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Originally aired on March 22, 2021
Christine’s love for backpacking started the same way many of the adventures on this podcast start, with a Google search. Her quest that day? To find out what this backpacking thing was all about.
After only a few articles into her search, Christine decided to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. It was a huge leap of faith but she immediately got to work to make that dream come true.
The funny thing about making a dream a reality is that it’s not what we typically imagine. The realness of life usually gets in the way and what actually happens before, during, and after an adventure is anything but what we plan for.
Today we’re going to hear Christine’s story of how her experience hiking the AT changed her and all the adventures that have come before and after it.
She has written her experiences in a new book after a life-altering trip on the Wonderland trail called Alone in Wonderland, which can be found at her website, aloneinwonderland.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:10.4 | Today we're throwing it back to March 2021. |
| 0:13.9 | I can't believe this was three years ago. |
| 0:16.2 | I say that all the time, don't I? |
| 0:18.4 | Christine Reed is a friend of mine. |
| 0:20.0 | We met living in Yosemite National |
| 0:23.1 | Park 10 years ago now, and we both were working for the park and living in these like military bunk |
| 0:30.1 | houses, things, these canvas tents. It was, it was awesome. It was a great experience, one of the |
| 0:34.9 | coolest things in my life. And we got to know each other there, and we all go our separate ways. |
| 0:39.3 | Well, Christine had done so many cool things through hike the Appalachian Trail, |
| 0:44.1 | through hike the Wonderland Trail, and wrote a book about her experiences in backpacking, |
| 0:49.3 | which all came from just to Google search one day and deciding to do the Appalachian Trail. |
| 0:54.1 | So her memoir, which came out around the time this episode released, from just a Google search one day and deciding to do the Appalachian Trail. |
| 1:00.8 | So her memoir, which came out around the time this episode release, is called Alone in Wonderland. |
| 1:02.5 | And it's a great book. |
| 1:04.1 | It has some great reviews. |
| 1:06.5 | And we're going to talk a little bit about that today. However, I do have an email in my inbox from Christine for another interview. And Christine, I'm so sorry I haven't answered you yet, but I'm going to, and I believe it, it's going to be about your new book, which is called Blood, Sweat, and Tears, which I'm sure we'll talk about when I have her back on the show. So I often say, you know, we should have this person back on the show. |
| 1:27.8 | Well, we're going to have Christine back on the show. |
| 1:30.0 | I want to hear what's been going on since this interview, what she has been up to, and enjoy this conversation. |
| 1:36.1 | I hope you get a lot out of it, and I remember enjoying it. |
| 1:39.5 | So let's dive in. |
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