Episode #189 - Julie Obear and Barry King (Boston and Cubby)

Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Boston and Cubby have been long-distance hiking for nearly 15 years, having started with the Appalachian Trail in 2005. During that time they have completed the Triple Crown, climbed Mt Kilimanjaro, done the American Discovery Trail and the Long Trail. They even found time to hike across the state of Rhode Island!

They have simplified both their hiking style and their lives, finding peace and their desired solitude along America's trails.

You can find out more about Julie and Barry's journeys at the following links.

https://www.trailjournals.com/juliebarryjohn

https://www.trailjournals.com/bostonandcubby

https://www.trailjournals.com/adt2012

https://www.trailjournals.com/longtrail2015

They are also on Instagram at backpax and on Twitter at backpax14

Katy Amphlett completed the Mighty Blue Class of 2019 debriefs by letting us know how she got on this year. Whatever happened, we beat the odds overall.

Transcript

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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, joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:34.3	Hi guys, and thanks for stopping by yet again to listen to me chatting with other hikers reading a few stories.
0:40.9	We've got all of that today as usual, but we've also got an email I received recently from a listener that touched me more than I can really say.
0:48.3	I hope that you'll indulge me as I read it out after the main interview.
0:51.5	You're listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis. This week we have two guests for the price of one. Julie O'Bear and Barry King are a couple of intrepid women who have hiked over 14,000 miles in the United States. I was asked by a listener, Lisa Rana, to interview them, and I'm really glad that I was able to track them down. They are experienced
1:11.2	hikers now but they share a common sense wisdom learned from the past 15 years of long distance
1:16.4	hiking. You're going to love them. Then as I mentioned previously I'm going to read out an email from
1:21.6	Kate Frischaltz followed by the last of the Mighty Blue Class of 2019 debriefs. This time we've got Katie Amflit. You'll have to wait and see, but if she completed the hike, then 50% of our group successfully completed there through hikes this year. And if she didn't, that number drops to 37.5%. Which of the way you look at it, we seem to have beaten the odds. Katie will be along soon. Finally, Paul Stutzman has reached the Great Smoky Mountains.
1:47.4	As you're going to hear, his experience wasn't entirely positive, but certainly memorable.
1:52.3	So let's get going with Julian Barry, or Boston and Cubby.
2:00.0	For the second time today, I'm starting again because I screwed up.
2:03.9	I didn't press the record button.
2:05.7	Fortunately, we only got about five minutes into the conversation.
2:07.8	So I'm going to introduce Julie O'Bea and Barry King, who are Boston and Cubby.
2:12.9	Hi, guys.
2:13.4	How are you?
2:14.3	Hi.
2:15.0	Great.
2:15.4	Thanks.
2:16.2	So you're still okay?
2:17.2	Excellent.
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