Ep. 684: Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail During a Pandemic - Amy & Brian Micheletti
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Thru-Hiking: Follow a couple's long-awaited PCT adventure as they navigate the unique challenges and unexpected rewards of hiking during a pandemic.
After 8 years of planning this adventure, Amy & Brian Micheletti are here today about what it was like to thru-hike the PCT during the entirety of the pandemic. In a lot of ways it was better, in others it was more challenging. It was, however, 100% an adventure...
They also traded off blogging all 141 days of hiking. You can check it out at amynbrihike.wordpress.com
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| 0:00.0 | And you had these colors and the bright oranges and the blues as it came out and then as the sun came up |
| 0:06.3 | You know the deep blues of that lake it was just you know and being able to spend most of the day hiking around it was you know just the thing that I was just like that that was the reason why I was out there Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason Gravely. |
| 0:35.4 | So as I was kind of predicting and speculating, 2020 was going to be a big year for adventures. |
| 0:43.5 | You know, anytime there's a disruption to the economy, disruption to our normal life, |
| 0:49.4 | it is the thing that a lot of people need to say yes to their adventure finally, whether they're laid |
| 0:55.0 | off or just life is so different. They finally say, let's do it. And it's, you know, not that |
| 1:01.4 | easy for everybody. A lot of things have to work out to say yes to an adventure. But sometimes |
| 1:06.6 | something like this is what you need. And we have a lot of interviews lined up from folks who did just that. |
| 1:13.0 | But today's episode with Amy and Brian McEletti, |
| 1:16.2 | they had actually been planning their Pacific Crest Trail through hike for eight years, |
| 1:21.2 | waiting for the kids to go off to college. |
| 1:23.7 | Well, they were supposed to leave in March. |
| 1:26.2 | We all know what happened in March, and Amy and Brian said they were going to leave in March we all know what happened in March and Amy and |
| 1:29.5 | Brian said they were going to go anyway what safer place to be than out in the woods right |
| 1:33.9 | and so they continued with their plans got on the trail and had quite the experience I'm |
| 1:41.2 | gonna let them tell their story. But thanks for listening. |
| 1:44.4 | Thanks for joining us today. |
| 1:46.1 | And I really encourage you to check out any sponsors we have in the episode and send us |
| 1:51.2 | any folks that you think would make a good guest. |
| 1:53.8 | Info at Adventure SportsPodcast.com. |
| 1:56.9 | All right. |
| 1:57.4 | Here's the episode. |
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