Episode #208 - Chloë de Camara (Vulture)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

We first met Chloë de Camara a few weeks ago on the show, informing us about the critical Leave No Trace principles and, in a follow-up conversation, it was clear that Chloë had her own Appalachian Trail story about her trek in 2015.

She was very intentional about how she came to the trail, writing a thesis about Appalachian Trail thru-hiking as a spiritual experience and volunteering for the ATC. As you'll hear, meeting the inspirational Jennifer Pharr Davis was a great motivator for her own journey.

If you'd like to see more of what Chloë does, click on this link to the ATC's Start Smart program https://youtu.be/J_-evEG3fFg

Also today, we have the start of a new series; A Woman of a Certain Age, where Kate Stillwell prepares for and then attempts a thru-hike of the AT from April 1. In this episode, Steve and Kate talk, along with Kate's daughter Alexa, or Tinkerbell.

Our new book, Grandma Gatewood's Walk, by Ben Montgomery, teaches us more about the harshness of Emma's life and the early days of her epic journey.

If you like what we're doing on the Hiking Radio Network, please consider supporting us with either a one-off or monthly donation. The donate button is on the Mighty Blue podcast page at https://mightyblueontheat.com/the-podcast/

Any support is gratefully received.

Music for the "A Woman of a Certain Age" segment is by permission of Kate's friend, John Jensen. You can see and hear it in full on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlP7g7qivo4

Thanks, John.

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
0:05.2	about hikers for everybody. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis,
0:23.8	joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:34.1	Hi everybody and thanks for coming back to the show.
0:37.2	For those of you who have just stumbled across this,
0:39.9	you are listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail,
0:42.8	the ultimate midlife crisis.
0:44.4	And I'm Mighty Blue or Steve Adams.
0:47.0	I've completed a couple through hikes of the Appalachian Trail in my 60s,
0:50.0	and now I try to relive past glories with a bunch of friends new and old on the show.
0:55.3	This week we have a woman who was on the show only a couple of weeks ago.
0:58.3	Her name is Chloe de Camara, and we last heard from her about the principles of Leave No Trace.
1:03.4	She now has her own AT journey to talk about, and Chloe will be along soon.
1:07.8	Also this week, we're starting our Woman of a certain age segment where we follow Kate
1:11.7	Stillwell and she makes her way along the AT. Kate's doing a kind of flip-flop so she'll be starting
1:17.2	from Harper's Ferry and heading south to Georgia before heading up to Maine and heading south again
1:22.0	to finish in Harper's. She'll be starting on April the 1st so I wanted to catch up with her a few
1:26.5	times as she's preparing
1:27.5	to get out there. Kate will be along after Chloe. Finally, of course, I'm reading another book.
1:33.7	This week, we've got the second chapter from Ben Montgomery's popular book, Grandma Gatewood's Walk.
1:39.4	By the way, make sure you come back this week as my main guest is going to be Paul Stutzman,
1:44.1	the writer of Hiking Through, the book that I've just finished on the show, and the one that's proven to be the most popular one I've read so far.
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