Ep. 496: Triple Triple Crowner - Heather "Anish" Anderson
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In 2018, Heather Anderson became the first woman to hike all three of the "Triple Crown" thru-hikes; Appalachian, Pacific Crest, and Continental Divide Trails in a single calendar year. The 7,900-mile journey took 251 days to complete and led her to become a 2019 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year.
She also holds the overall record for self-supported fastest known time on the Pacific Crest Trail (60 days) and the women's self-supported FKT on the Appalachian Trail (54 days).
Her book, Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home came out earlier this month, which recounts her story of leaving her unsatisfying job, marriage, and life after her first thru-hike in order to return back to the trail and begin hiking again.
You can find out more about Thirst here:
Amazon: Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
Instagram: @anishhikes
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| 0:00.0 | like I was somehow broken or messed up because I wasn't happy doing what you're supposed to do. |
| 0:05.1 | So I really struggled with that for many years. |
| 0:08.0 | You know, I just reached a point where I just, I had to change something. |
| 0:11.1 | And so basically just dissolved that life and went back to hiking. |
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| 1:04.7 | Hey everybody. |
| 1:14.4 | For today's life outside the box episode, we have Heather Anderson, and she, she has done a lot. |
| 1:23.6 | So our conversation revolves around her most recent experience slash adventure, which was doing the triple crown in a calendar year. |
| 1:27.1 | So she started pretty early last year and finished around November of 2018. |
| 1:32.7 | So she hasn't been off the trail that long. |
| 1:34.7 | And her book just came out called Thirst. |
| 1:37.0 | It came out this month. |
| 1:38.8 | Definitely check it out. |
| 1:40.5 | Not only has she done the Triple Crown, but she's done all three of, and if you don't know what the triple crown is, sorry, it is the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and the Continental Divide Trail. |
| 1:52.0 | She did all three of those trails, almost 8,000 miles of hiking, and a vertical gain of more than a million feet. She did that in a year. |
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