Ep. 1039: Blood Sweat Tears - Christine Reed
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Christine is the founder of Rugged Outdoorswoman Publishing, whose first publication, Blood Sweat Tears, is a perfect example of the mission to promote the adventure stories of women and gender-expansive folks. Her award-winning debut memoir, Alone in Wonderland, shares the story of her personal transformation via thru-hiking. She has been forged by nature and movement, and she firmly believes in the power of story and representation to invite every body into the outdoors where we can see ourselves more clearly.
Blood Sweat Tears is a short story collection from 26 women+ hikers and runners about the experience of being in a female body on trail. This group of intrepid and vulnerable athletes/writers talk periods, boob sweat, and ugly crying. The trail is a place for healing, and can show us what we are made of---but it's always us doing the hard work.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:10.6 | Getting up a little bit later this week as well. |
| 0:13.5 | So sorry about that. |
| 0:14.6 | Just catching up on life after being out west last week. |
| 0:18.9 | I was able to go to amazing places like Mount Rainier National Park, |
| 0:23.8 | out in Aspen for a little while, got to hang out with some pretty cool people, |
| 0:27.8 | which I'll talk about a little later through my day job, and some folks that I think, |
| 0:33.0 | I think you might recognize one of the names. I can't reveal anything just yet. But I'm really excited |
| 0:39.7 | about this episode because Christine is an alumni of the show. One, and we don't often get to |
| 0:45.3 | talk to people twice, even though I talk about it a lot. But two, we go way back. So I do mention this |
| 0:50.8 | when we start talking, but Christine and I actually were neighbors in Yosemite National Park when we both worked there, living in these like military style canvas tents with roommates. |
| 1:03.5 | And it was a wild place. |
| 1:05.0 | We had deer that were like living under the tents. |
| 1:07.4 | We had raccoons that would break in at night and steal our snacks. It was a |
| 1:12.6 | very fun summer and cool experience about 10 years ago now. And anyway, we got to meet each other |
| 1:18.5 | then and just kind of stayed in touch. And she's gone on to do some incredible things, |
| 1:22.3 | including through hiking the Appalachian Trail. She's done a ton of adventuring van life, wrote a book, which is what we |
| 1:30.0 | talked about the last time she was on, called Alone in Wonderland. And today we're talking about |
| 1:35.4 | her new book, Blood, Sweat, Tears, which is a book about what it's like to be a woman out on a |
| 1:42.8 | trail for an adventure or on any adventure, really. |
| 1:46.8 | So it's a collection of 26 stories from women talking about that experience. |
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