Episode #135 - Appalachian Trail (Days Seven to Nine)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
It has been an emotional three days for Steve as he faced up to his first real adversity. He knew it would happen, he was even expecting it, yet his emotional reaction took even Steve by surprise. It just reinforced his belief that the Trail impacts us all in different and often unexpected ways.
He has now reached Dick's Creek Gap, at Mile 69.2, and has zeroed to reassess his pack and to restore his slightly bruised ego. He'll be back at it tomorrow (Thursday).
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk the walk with shows by hikers about hikers for everybody. |
| 0:19.8 | Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, |
| 0:22.8 | the ultimate midlife crisis, |
| 0:25.3 | joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:35.3 | Hi, and thanks for coming back again to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail. |
| 0:40.1 | This is days 7 to 9. |
| 0:45.2 | I can tell you, I've had quite the three days. |
| 0:50.3 | It's been testing for me. |
| 0:53.6 | I think I've done okay. |
| 0:56.5 | And I've had the opportunity to think about what I've done so far and try to regroup. |
| 1:03.1 | And I think you'll find this is a, this, these three days encapsulate what it is about the Appalachian Trail that makes it so wonderful, |
| 1:13.6 | makes it so challenging, and makes us want to do it more. |
| 1:18.6 | I've tried to be as honest as I can about these things. |
| 1:22.6 | I got a bit messed up a few times when I was trying to think about how I was going to phrase it all. But this has been an emotional time for me these last two or three days. |
| 1:31.9 | But I'm feeling a pretty good place now. |
| 1:34.1 | Let's go back to... |
| 1:35.9 | When was that? |
| 1:37.0 | It's now Wednesday. |
| 1:38.7 | So let's go back to Monday, which is day number seven. |
| 1:46.1 | Day seven, Unicoy Gap to Trey Mountain Shelter. |
| 1:50.7 | I was contacted by one of our listeners, Misha Hardy, |
| 1:53.8 | but let me know that she was shuttling in the area |
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