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 again, and thanks for coming back, hopefully for the second time in two days,

to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, where I'm trying to record my journey along the 80 in 2019.

I know I've not been as consistent as I would have liked, but really, you try doing this

all the way through. And it's a lot tougher, I thought it was going to be, but I have enjoyed

bringing it to you. So, I think we got to 163, yeah, we've got 64, 65, 66, I don't know, I

don't know where I am, to be honest with you.

But we picked up, we got to Rangely,

and now we're going to tell you about how we've been slackpacking the last couple of days.

Let's pick up with whatever the next day is.

Day number 164, main route 17 mile 1958.5 to main route 4, mile 971.6 or 13.1 mile day.

The problem we're doing these so late now,

I'm getting more and more tired and when I get into town

I just want something to eat and drink and basically go to bed. I'm not making and more tired and when I get into town I just want something to eat and drink

and basically go to bed. I'm not making very good notes and this day I hardly remember at all.

I know that Seth took us back in the morning and he because we couldn't get get breakfast we were leaving about 5.30

he took us down to a local um um gas station where they sold breakfast sandwiches

so i got some breakfast sandwiches and coffee and Gatorade and Snickers. Without drawing too fine a point on it,

we did this for three straight days and it didn't work out on any of those days. And by that,

I mean, I did need to dig a cat hole relatively soon into each day's hike. We won't go into that

though. Now, as I say, I didn't make many notes of this.

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