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Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis,

joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.

Hi, and thanks for coming back again to Marty Blue on the Appalachian Trail.

And I am literally on the trail.

I normally record these things in a bedroom wherever I'm staying,

but I'm currently sitting on a rock in front of the fire

overlooking this beautiful site, Burke's Garden. It's called God's,

it's referred to as God's Thumbprint at the top right by a chestnut knob shelter.

It's a warm morning. It's 8.27 a.m. on a, oh God knows, Monday morning, I think it is. On a Monday

morning, yes. And I decided to record this today because there's no way I'm going to be able to get anything out to you for another three or four days until I get to Woods Hole Hostel. So it's been a while, and I've got three days worth of stuff and a couple of conversations. So before we get on with the show, let's hear from our sponsor, Sawyer.

When I hit the trail in 2014, I soon discovered that I come with the wrong water filter.

Everybody else had a Sawyer squeeze.

Eventually, I bought a squeeze, and I loved it.

I'm going to get in this year, and the top of my list of things to buy was the new micro-squeeze filter by Sawyer.

Like all Sawyer stuff, it just works.

You can filter up to 100,000 gallons and their full-sized squeeze filter comes with a lifetime warranty.

Last year, believe it or not, more than 4 million people got clean water through a Soya water filter.

But if you think that Sawyer is just about waterfielder, you could not be more wrong.

Nope, they supply everything to protect you, both in the backcountry and the backyard.

Protect your gear and clothes, as I did with their permethrin fabric treatment,

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