Episode #249 - Matthew Norman (Odie)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

We've got an old friend on the show today. Matthew "Odie" Norman is one of those good people of the trail. He lives it, he breathes it, and he shares it, with his Hiker Yearbook that reconnects hikers after the trail.

Odie reached out to me recently and wanted to give me a recap of how he sees the hiking season of 2020. As you'd imagine, he has plenty to say that makes sense and wears his heart on his sleeve throughout our conversation.

If you'd like to learn a little more about Odie and the Hiker Yearbook, you can find out at his Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/thehikeryearbook

and at his website, which is https://hikeryearbook.com/

The last time I saw Kathryn Herndon-Powell, she was at our Woods Hole Weekend, educating everybody about Leave No Trace. This week, on our ATC segment, her topic is Trail Communities. So listen in and find out how why trailside towns are so important.

Finally today, in Larry Luxenburg's Walking the Appalachian Trail, we get another take on a trail legend; Grandma Gatewood.

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0:14.7	You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network where we talk the walk with shows by hikers about hikers for everybody
0:22.4	mighty blue on the Appalachian Trail the the ultimate midlife crisis, joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:48.7	Hi guys and thanks so much for coming back to the show. You are listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail,
0:54.4	the ultimate midlife crisis, and I am Mighty Blue or Steve Adams. This week we have a returning guest. He's actually been on a couple of times and reached out to me a few weeks ago to see if I'd like to record a kind of review of the 2020 hiking season. He is, of course course Odie or Matthew Norman.
1:14.7	Odie drives a school bus up and down the trail, helping hikers wherever he can.
1:18.9	You can get a bit up around the got-up and time to time and you can check out his Facebook page if you don't believe me. But it comes from a place of passion about the trail
1:23.1	and about hikers. Odie will be on shortly.
1:26.8	The ATC segment of the show this week is about community towns,
1:30.3	with Catherine Herndon Powell,
1:32.2	education and outreach coordinator doing a fine job to add that piece of the ATC puzzle.
1:37.1	Catherine, it's going to be on after Odie.
1:40.0	Finally today, our chapter from Larry Luxembourg's walking the Appalachian Trail
1:43.7	has another famous
1:44.9	hiker. Indeed, it's one that we've heard a lot about recently, is Grandma Gatewood herself.
1:50.2	And talking to well-known hikers, I'm looking for somebody to follow again next year. I don't know who it is.
1:55.8	I haven't really reached out to anybody yet. And I'm wondering if you know somebody who's going to be hiking,
2:01.6	who thinks will make a good subject for the show and would like to be on the podcast and
2:05.8	reporting regularly on their journey next year, just let me know. Send me an email to
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