Episode #106 - Tenny Ostrem and Claire Wernstedt-Lynch (Aspen and Eleven)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

For Claire and Tenny, hiking the CDT had been an ambition but they soon decided that they needed to do something else. Between the two of them, they hatched a plan to walk the entire length of the Southern Border of the US, stretching from San Diego in the west to Brownsville and the Gulf of Mexico in Texas to the east. Here's Claire.

With no defined trail, the two of them set out to make their way and learn about the issues on both sides. It was an eye-opening experience for both women. Here's Tenny.

They were able to experience the kindness of strangers and the desperation of the disenfranchised. They each said that many of their pre-conceived notions were overturned by their experience.

On the way, the two women wrote an excellent blog that mapped out what they saw. If you'd like to read it, go to https://walktheborder.com/ and, for pictures, you can follow them on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/clairetenny.walktheborder/

The last five interviewees from the Outdoor Retailers Summer Market in Denver were:

Andrew Sidel, of Four Points, selling his slow-burning energy bars. You can learn more at https://www.fourpointsbar.com/

Brandon Rodriguez showed me the Spark, a new knee support combining kinesiology taping and compression. This IS NOT currently available but will be out sometime towards the end of October or early November. The link (at that time) will be https://www.brownmed.com/spark. Once again, THIS LINK DOESN"T CURRENTLY TAKE YOU ANYWHERE. Come back in November.

Nicole Farah of Teva introduced me to a new shoe and suggested a good Teva for a long-distance hike. Go to https://www.teva.com/ for more.

Kent Hernandez of Bucklegear (https://www.bucklegear.com/) AND Bad Raccoon (https://www.badraccoonco.com/) showed me two excellent items; the Camp Gear Hanger and some old school–but new designs–handerchiefs.

Finally, Tim Richard shared the story of Oboz and how they give back to the outdoors. https://obozfootwear.com

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,
0:05.4	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.
0:33.3	Hi and welcome back to the show. My name's Steve Adams. My trial name is Mighty Blue and this is episode number 106 of Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail.
0:44.0	Now as many of you know, this is the second to last episode of the show in its current format.
0:49.1	This podcast is being released one week prior to me leaving for Europe to hike the Camino de Santiago in Spain.
0:54.7	In fact, next week's show which will be coming out on the day of my flight to England,
0:57.8	it's going to be with Deanna McGregor on her recollections of the Camino de San Diego.
1:02.4	Deanna is also the woman who moderates Dix's homemade Wondolas Facebook page,
1:06.3	and she's had her work cut out recently with some unnecessary comments on that page.
1:10.7	Don't you just love social media.
1:13.9	My episodes come out on a Thursday, so the episode for October 11th will be my first from
1:18.4	the Camino.
1:19.3	There'll be different music, but it will still be a hiking radio network show, and it will
1:23.0	still appear as mighty blue on the Appletction Trail.
1:25.8	So, wherever you found this show, you'll find it again
1:28.4	at the usual time and in the usual place. I'm considering doing two shows a week with the second
1:33.2	released on a Monday morning, so you should watch out for that as well. All the shows on the Hiking
1:38.2	Radio Network are announced on the Hiking Radio Network Facebook page, so head over there and like it.
1:43.8	Lastly, I'll be doing a bunch of Facebook live streams, so you'll also be able to keep up with those. Once I've finished the trail, I'll be travelling around Europe and writing, and hopefully publishing, a couple of books before returning to the US to hike the AT for a second time. Consequently, from about mid-November, the show will be back to its old self, with the current format once more. As a bit of a teaser, I already have recorded interviews with Stephanie Lorenz or Sunshine and Dave Porman, or Seabiscuit, who both did the AT this year, along with a great interview with Darwin, or Darwin on the trail. All of that will be coming in November.
2:19.3	After all of that preamble, let's get on with the show. I heard about Tenney Ostrom and Claire
2:24.5	Wernstead Lynch from a listener and when I read about them, I was immediately hooked.
2:29.5	Speaking to them did nothing to change that view. They are an utter delight. The two of them met on the AT a couple
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