You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk the walk with shows by hikers

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.

Hi, and thanks for coming back again to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate

midlife crisis and the story of my journey up the Appalachian Trail this year.

It's one thing I want to clear up.

My wife contacted me after the last episode that she'd heard me fart on the show.

It was about 28 minutes, 30 seconds into the show

if you want to listen. And trust me, I would fess up if it was true, but I didn't. I promise

you I didn't. If you recall, I was doing it very early in the morning. I just taken two coffees

and I was sort of slouched on my bed. So I'd put the microphone a little bit further down my chest, if it was more on my stomach.

I don't know if you listen to the show, you hear quite a few gurgles going on.

This is one particularly good. I remember here, I remember it at the time thinking that doesn't

sound very good. But I promise you, I would fess up, but it wasn't true. We're now officially part halfway and we're really putting in some good days along with several zeros. I've got no problem with having zeros. We're managing our hike and that's what you have to do. When you're out of six months, you want to get out of the rain when you can and make sure that you can shower and launder as often as you can.

You know, if I've washed my clothes every day, I would frankly.

It's nice to put on cleaner clothes and have a shower.

And when we get bad weather, we try to get off it.

But what we do know, however,

is that we're now closer to Catardin

than we were to Springer,

and that feels great.

As I expected it would be, this hike is entirely different to my previous go-round.

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