Ep. 785: Thru-Hiking the Triple Crown in a Kilt - Nic “The Wandering Kiltsman” Cornett
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Thru-hiking triple crown: Nic's journey from quitting his 9-5 job on doctor's orders to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail for rebirth, completing the AT and Continental Divide Trail, and gearing up for the Pacific Crest Trail, all while embracing the kilt as a symbol of freedom, hope, and warmth.
Many of us reminisce or daydream of times thru-hiking a spectacular trail. Not as many of us have a kilt on during that daydream. For Nic, the kilt is a beacon of freedom, hope and warmth (you’ll have to listen to learn more about that).
After years of living the old 9-5 story, Nic was tired of the way life was going. He decided, on doctors orders, to quit his job and thru-hike the Appalachian Trail to be “reborn” into a life he was more excited about.
He has now completed the AT, the Continental Divide Trail and Pacific Crest Trail. We caught up with Nic before his PCT hike.
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| 0:00.0 | So we had six days of rain and the ice and snow from the previous winter had been melting. |
| 0:06.3 | So even little streams were torrents just coming through. |
| 0:10.6 | And he crossed first and made it across and was telling me, hey, watch out for adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:34.7 | I got a little confession to make. This episode was recorded quite a while ago, |
| 0:40.3 | but I forgot that I recorded it. Nick, if you're listening, I'm very sorry, but I had you on the show |
| 0:48.3 | or I interviewed you a while ago earlier in the year, and I must have never taken the step to put you on the calendar |
| 0:57.1 | after I record which is what I typically do but I must have been busy or had another interview |
| 1:02.5 | right away which happens pretty often and did not put your name for one of the upcoming slots |
| 1:09.5 | so I was just going through some of my cards where I |
| 1:13.0 | keep my interviews and noticed this interview that I recorded and never published. And I thought, |
| 1:18.9 | oh my gosh, this was such a cool story. How could I have overlooked it? But it's great timing because |
| 1:24.3 | Nick has recently completed the Triple Crown of through hiking, but he is |
| 1:28.8 | posting, delayed posting, his journey on Instagram. So it's a great time to be following him |
| 1:34.3 | along. Yes, he does wear a kilt, which you saw in the interview, and we're going to be talking |
| 1:39.7 | about that quite a bit, but we talk about all kinds of things. Nick is a great storyteller, |
| 1:44.7 | and, you know, even though it's not. Nick is a great storyteller. And, |
| 1:49.2 | you know, even though it's not through hiking season for a lot of the trails we're talking about, |
| 1:54.8 | it's a great time of year to be daydreaming and a great time of year to be planning what you're going to be doing once it warms up. Or, you know, going down south, down here, come down here |
| 1:59.4 | to Florida and do the Florida Trail stuff stuff like that, is always open, |
| 2:02.6 | especially this time of year. It's feeling wonderful down here right now. |
| 2:07.2 | And another reason it's a good time to be listening to this episode for this time of year is a pretty cool promotion we're doing that we're going to be playing an ad for in just a little bit. |
| 2:17.9 | Be listening for that from our new sponsor, Crux Academy. |
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