Episode #146 - Appalachian Trail (Days 47 to 51)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Three hard hiking days out of Damascus proved the perfect antidote to two days lying on my bed watching sport on TV. I was lucky enough to address some students studying the Appalachian Trail (yes, it's a thing) while in Damascus. I rested and healed.
When I got on the trail I fell right back into it and hiked more than 50 miles in three days, with the last day an impressive–and my first on this trip–twenty miles.
I'm being joined over the next few days by a buddy who wanted to come hiking. Looking forward to it.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network where we talk the walk with shows by hikers |
| 0:06.7 | about hikers for everybody. |
| 0:14.7 | Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, |
| 0:24.5 | joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:35.9 | Hi, and thanks for coming back to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis. |
| 0:42.3 | We haven't spoken for a while. |
| 0:43.5 | I've been, took two days zero in Damascus, and I've been hiking for the last three days. |
| 0:50.6 | And I thought I would record some of this in the forest. |
| 0:59.8 | And the bird song, which has been quite prevalent in the last 10 minutes. |
| 1:01.0 | Oh, there's someone. |
| 1:03.3 | There's a bird maker noise. |
| 1:06.8 | It's 9 o'clock in the morning on a Thursday morning. |
| 1:15.6 | And the stillness in the forest is glorious. There's no wind. You do hear the birds every now and then. If you're lucky, you hear a woodpecker from time to time, but it's |
| 1:21.0 | thoroughly beautiful morning. But before we get into the show, and I'll quickly sum up what I did in Damascus, |
| 1:30.3 | before we get into the show, let's hear from our sponsor, Sawyer. |
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