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 Steve and his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.

Hi guys and thanks for sticking with the show.

This is Mighty Blue or Steve Adams, and you are listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis.

The show is normally all about hikers and the effect that long distance trials generally and the Appalachian Trail more usually have had on the hikers' life.

With our current health situation, I thought it was important that I

also give you some perspectives or opinions about hiking in this time of crisis. So while the show

will continue to have our normal main guests and will continue to have a reading from a book at the

end, I'm going to be adding additional stuff that may have relevance to you at this time.

Today's guest, Paul Collins, is also a listener.

Paul wrote to me, and once I read his trail name, which is Skunk Ape,

I naturally wanted him on the show.

But there is so much more to Paul's story than his name, and he'll be along soon.

As the last item in today's show, Grandma Gatewood's fascinating ramble up the East

Coast of America in 1955 will continue as our heroin reaches the traditional halfway point of the

trail at Harper's Ferry. In between these two treats, I have an old friend back on the show,

with Dr. Lynn Savino sharing some news and information with us that we can all use.

Before Lynn though, my fellow Hiking Radio Network podcasters and I, Julie Jester Gayhart

and Anna Mudbuthuthmaker, talk about the trial in relation to the virus.

We're not trying to be controversial and hopefully you'll find our chat interesting and nuanced.

Before all that though, let's hear from this week's main guest.

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