Episode #131 - Suzanne Dixon (Irish Fire)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy is THE critical component in a healthy trail for hikers, both now and for the future. Suzanne Dixon is the President and CEO of the ATC and in this week's show, she tells us about the exciting new initiative that the ATC has recently launched.

Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail is lucky to have the first media interview about this initiative, called The Wild East. The poster below will give you some of the flavor of the Wild East and there is a new website specifically about the project.

https://wildeast.appalachiantrail.org/

Suzanne has worked in conservation for much of her working life and is a passionate advocate of both the ATC and this initiative. Listen to her as she tells us about the Wild East and learn how you can assist in preserving the trail for future generations. Then, to find out more about how you can help, visit www.appalachiantrail.org

Lisa Rana tells us about her recent journey on the strenuous Grafton Loop Trail. If you'd like to see more of this trail, check out the two videos that Lisa has linked us to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvvO-xOQLFw&t=6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiaTo8lVeN8&t=678s

Finally, we have reached the last few chapters of The Year We Seized the Day, by Elizabeth Best and Colin Bowles. I hope that you enjoyed hearing me and my lovely niece Laura over the past few months. When I return from this year's attempt on the Appalachian Trail I'll be reading Paul Stutzman's great book–a personal favorite of mine–Hiking Through: One Man's Journey to Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trail.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk the walk with shows by hikers
0:05.3	about hikers for everybody. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis,
0:23.3	joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:33.6	Right, here we go.
0:35.1	We've got a special, special, special show today. First of all, of course, I've got to welcome you all to episode number 131 of Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis. I'm so happy that you've chosen to listen in today because we had the very first interview with Suzanne Dixon, the president and CEO of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy on the
0:54.6	ATC's big new initiative. I'm not going to spoil it for you and I will leave it to Suzanne to
0:59.6	talk about it herself. Trust me though, if you love hiking and if you love the Appalachian Trail in
1:04.6	particular, you're going to really get a lot from Suzanne in a few moments. As many of you know,
1:09.8	I'm going to be heading out to the Appalachian Trail for my second, hopefully through hike of the trail in less than two weeks. I've booked my flight to Atlanta for February the 25th. I'm going to be staying with my very dear friend Anna Huthmaker of the Trail Dames and hosts of the Trail Dames podcast. That night, Anna and I will be having dinner somewhere in Georgia and we were going to be joined by Robert Thomas, a listener, and his wife, Margaret. Robert reached out and wanted to come and wish me a good journey. He's going to drive about an hour and a half, maybe two hours. How nice is that? Then the next morning, Anna was enlisted two of her Trail Dames friends to take me up to Springer via the Forest Road, and I'm going to be away.
1:48.3	So, this show is the second from the last podcast in this current format.
1:52.2	Next week, I've got another excellent interview for you, but I will be saving that for then.
1:57.6	After that, my aim is to podcast from the trail twice a week.
2:01.0	Given the difficult logistics surrounding this project, I can't promise that each episode
2:05.3	will be released like it was on the Camino, on a Monday and on a Thursday, though that is my aim.
2:11.0	I've been listed the help of Ryan Hopkins once more, and he'll be more a part of the show
2:15.0	this time.
2:16.0	Ryan and I met last week to iron out some details,
2:18.7	but he's planning on getting on the trail himself
2:20.5	and tracking down some of the mighty blue class of 2019
2:23.3	to follow their progress on the trail,
2:25.7	particularly those who aren't hiking near me.
2:28.2	It should be a lot of fun, and I hope that you're going to join us for it.
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