Episode #244 - Julia Sheehan (Rocket)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
It's a slightly shorter show this week, with Laura Sheehan, or Rocket, as our principal guest. Julia was a member of my last AT class; the Class of 2019. We never met on the trail, but I was made aware of the popularity of her YouTube videos.
She is a very self-aware hiker, acknowledging the changes she saw in herself, having sold everything to uproot her life and hit the AT in 2019. Like many hikers, she learned to live with less and now uses her YouTube channel to record further adventures and inspire others.
You can follow Julia on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/juliasheehan/ and her YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/jls935/featured
Laura Belleville from the ATC takes on the subject of managing and protecting the AT in times of crisis. As you'll hear, Covid is just one of many issues that qualifies as a crisis.
If you'd like to learn about the work that Laura refers to, check out the incident form at https://appalachiantrail.org/explore/plan-and-prepare/report-an-incident/
Learn more about Landscape Conservation and Climate Resiliency at https://appalachiantrail.org/our-work/conservation/landscape/ and https://appalachiantrail.org/register-blog/a-t-volunteers-are-saving-the-world/
Bill Tickner's phone eventually gave up the ghost, so we were unable to record a final catch up, but I will speak with him in next week's show.
Finally today, Fozzie's hiking companions–and Fozzie–conclude Balancing on Blue by telling us all about their post-trail direction and the lessons they learned.
Remember, you can get a full audio version of Balancing on Blue from Amazon.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk the walk with shows by hikers |
| 0:05.3 | 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. |
| 0:33.6 | Hi guys and thanks for coming back to the show. You're listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis. |
| 0:40.5 | I am Mighty Blue and Midlife Crisis notwithstanding. |
| 0:44.4 | I'm here to tell you more stories about the Appalachian and other hiking trails. |
| 0:48.1 | Actually this week is all about the AT though. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm definitely open to other trails in this program. |
| 0:53.4 | Today we have another member of the class of 2019, my class, |
| 0:57.2 | but unfortunately, Julia Sheehan, or Rocket, and I didn't meet last year. |
| 1:01.9 | I had several of you write in and asked me to reach out to Julia. |
| 1:04.6 | She's got a solid YouTube following, |
| 1:06.4 | and she graciously agreed to come on the show. |
| 1:08.8 | I found her engaging and clearly changed by the hike, Julia will be along shortly. |
| 1:13.5 | Our ATC segment this week is about crisis management. |
| 1:16.7 | Okay, not the most thrilling subject, but Laura Belleville, Vice President of Conservation and Trail |
| 1:21.9 | Programs, is here to tackle the question, what does it take, managing and protecting |
| 1:26.0 | the AT in a time of crisis? |
| 1:31.5 | And don't worry, it's not all about COVID, though of course we do talk about that as well. |
| 1:33.8 | We'll hear from Laura after Julia. |
| 1:39.2 | And Bill Tickner or Mr President has arrived in Damascus, the end point of not only his Appalachian Trail journey, if you remember he highted south from Damascus to Springer earlier, |
| 1:43.2 | but it also marked the completion |
| 1:44.7 | of his Triple Crown, a great achievement. Now, I was opening to catch out with Bill today |
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