Episode #105 - Cindy Ross

Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

As a writer, Cindy Ross must be feeling fulfilled. She has published seven books about hiking and educating in the outdoors. However, it is as a hiker that she established her bona fides to write these books. She has completed the Triple Crown and realized the value of educating her children while on these trails.

Memorably, Cindy and her husband, Todd Gladfelter, spent five summers completing the Continental Divide Trail with their two children–on llamas.

Cindy's bio says "Cindy and her husband learned how experiences can generate extraordinary learning" and they put that realization into practice by providing their own children with the platform to learn in the outdoors.

You can reach Cindy via email at cindyrosstraveler@gmail.com and read more about her on her blog, http://www.cindyrosstraveler.com/.

If you'd like to read her latest book, check out http://www.theworldisourclassroombook.com/. For ALL of her books, just click on her author's page in Amazon, https://www.amazon.com/Cindy-Ross/e/B001IZTEJE/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1537396207&sr=8-1

This week in our Outdoor Retailers Summer Market roundup, we spoke with the following people:

Sourya Ghosh and Dale Pendleton of Soul Inventions, who had brought their Solar Scroll, an innovative solar charger that will shortly be available. You can check out this fascinating device at https://soulinventions.com/

Hugo Davidson, of Knog, introduced me to the Bandicoot Headlamp, after an astonishingly successful Kickstarter campaign. The best way to see this is through their Kickstarter page at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1951570531/the-bandicoot-headlamp, though you can learn more about Knog at https://www.knog.com.au/the-bandicoot

Tiasha Renganathan introduced me to some of the stuff that she is working on with Twinery, including their Phoenix Active Heating Platform. Learn more about the exciting innovations at Twinery at http://twinery.co/

Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network where we talk the walk with shows by hikers
0:05.2	about hikers for everybody. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:33.0	Hi, thanks for dropping in again this week for episode number 105 of Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail,
0:39.7	the ultimate midlife crisis. I'm Steve Adams, otherwise known as Mighty Blue.
0:44.7	This week, with just a few weeks left before I start my own hike on the Camino de San Diego in Spain,
0:50.1	we have a woman who has spent a huge amount of time in the outdoors, Cindy Ross.
0:55.1	Cindy is a triple crowner and a passionate advocate for education outdoors,
0:58.6	having written six books about a hiking life and the lessons to be learned in the wilderness.
1:03.3	This is a bit of a different show this week with the outdoors and hiking,
1:06.3	serving as a backdrop to educating your kids in the outdoors.
1:10.0	Cindy also, and this is my favourite part, she also did the Continental Divide trial with her
1:14.5	husband and kids over a five-year stretch on llamas.
1:19.1	Be honest, you want to know more about that, don't you?
1:22.5	Cindy is endlessly fascinating and I hope you're going to enjoy our conversation.
1:27.1	We're now down to the last few short interviews from the outdoor retailer summer market
1:30.9	in Denver earlier this year. I've had a great time with these and I hope that you've found
1:34.7	value in them as well. From some of your emails it seems that you have so I'm glad that I made
1:38.8	the effort. This week we have a solar panel that doesn't depend upon direct sunlight, an awesome headlamp that
1:45.1	has a bunch of cool features and a company that manufactures an active heating platform within clothing.
1:51.6	Finally, we're up to Day 13 of the Year we Seas the Day by Elizabeth Best and Colin Bowles.
1:56.8	I don't know about you, but I'm really enjoying this story, mainly I guess, because I'll soon
2:00.6	be on the commina myself.
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