Episode #200 - Sara Spittel (Cushy Life)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

I've met many extraordinary women on the trail but few who have left as deep an impression as Sara Spittel, or Cushy Life. Cushy was the Queen Bee of our little tramily in 2019, with both Trigger and me in supporting roles. Cushy displays an empathetic nature, showing concern for everybody she met on the trail–often to Trigger's and my mock annoyance!! She is ever curious and willing to strike up a conversation with pretty much every hiker she meets.

But we weren't going to finish with Cushy. She had other adventures and partners than us. Despite that, however, we were delighted to catch up with her again in New Hampshire to share her joy at being in her home state.

I thought I knew quite a bit about her, after our long conversations on the trail, yet she surprised me a few times in this conversation.

Adam Stanley, or Stanimal, owns two hostels; one in Glasgow and one in Waynesboro. I stayed at both, so it was fun to catch up with Adam as we talked about his great little hostels.

Finally, for this 200th episode, Paul Stutzman's book, Hiking Through, has reached the New England states.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk the walk with shows by hikers
0:05.2	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.
0:34.7	Hi everybody, it's a brand new year, and this show has reached its 200th episode. Yep,
0:40.1	Mighty Blue and our Blaston Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis is 200 episodes old today.
0:45.9	We've had over 800,000 downloads since I started the show back in September 2016, and we continue to grow.
0:52.4	This past week, just gone, we had over 7,000 downloads alone.
0:56.0	So we're averaging more than 1,000 a day. Yep, I know simple math. For those of you who have
1:01.3	been with Mule All the Way, thank you from the bottom of my heart, encouraging me to continue bringing
1:05.3	wonderful stories to you. For those of you who are new to the show, welcome. You can catch up
1:10.0	with all the episodes of this
1:11.5	and the other Hiking Radio Network shows at HikingRadioNetwork.com. They're all there and
1:18.1	they're all free. As most of you know, we have two other shows starting soon with kind of live
1:23.5	hikes of the AT. They're becoming very soon indeed, in fact. Our other current shows are
1:28.4	the Trail Dames podcast and Jester Section Hiker. Once again, everything can be found on the
1:33.7	Hiking Radio Network.com website. For this special episode, I wanted to bring you somebody special,
1:39.8	so my guest today is my dear friend from the Class of 2019, Sarah Spittle or Cushy Life.
1:47.1	Trigger and I shared quite a bit of Cushy's height this year and I'm delighted that she's on the show today.
1:52.6	For a hostel this week, I'm talking with Adam Stanley, otherwise known as Stenemel, the owner of two hostels in Glasgow and Wainsborough.
2:00.3	Stenemol will be on after Cushy.
2:02.7	Finally, Paul Stutzman decides that Connecticut is just the right place to get a bit of comfort
2:07.1	and plans a route that is intended to get him into a clean bed for three straight nights.
2:11.6	Bloody luxury.
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