Episode #180 - Appalachian Trail (Days 175 to 178)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
With the worst mountains in the 100 Mile Wilderness begins us, Trigger and I had to put in some long days to meet our goal of summiting Katahdin by Friday.
The rocks and roots, abetted by some very dubious weather, tried to throw us off our game plan but we persevered.
Make sure you listen to the last episode in this series as we try to scale Katahdin. Watch out for that episode in the next 24 hours.
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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. |
| 0:17.9 | Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, |
| 0:25.3 | joined Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:36.0 | Hi, and thanks for coming on to the Mighty mighty blowing the Appalachian Trail, |
| 0:40.9 | the ultimate midlife crisis for the penultimate episode of this particular journey. |
| 0:48.2 | We're taking you out of the 100 mile wilderness right to the foothills, as it were, of Catardin today. |
| 0:56.7 | And we're leaving Katarden for the last episode, which hopefully will be out, either Friday |
| 1:04.1 | or Saturday, and I intend to sum it on Friday the 23rd. |
| 1:08.1 | It's been such a blast for me to be able to do this and I'm glad you've been |
| 1:12.0 | along with me on the journey. Normal service will be resumed next Thursday, hopefully with another |
| 1:18.0 | interview in the show, a new book, Paul Stutzman's Hiking Through and another little section |
| 1:24.0 | I'm working on. So I've got plenty to do in the coming couple of days for our next episode goes out. |
| 1:30.6 | I did consider taking a week out, but now I think I'm going to try to get an episode out next |
| 1:35.5 | Thursday to provide some continuity so that you can all get your fill of the Appalachian Trail. |
| 1:42.1 | As I said, these four days I'm going to let you here now are what's happened in these four |
| 1:50.8 | days and to have got us where we are ready to go up Katahdin. |
| 1:55.1 | So let's move on to day number 175. |
| 2:02.6 | Day number 175, which was last Monday the... |
| 2:06.4 | I'll keep getting these days wrong, don't I have no idea what it was. |
| 2:09.5 | Monday the somethings anyway, something 18th or 19th of August. |
| 2:14.0 | Our stealth site just beyond Logan, my stealth site just beyond Logan Brook |
| 2:18.4 | lean to mile 212.7 to Antler's campsite mile 2140.3 and 19.6 mile day. |
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