Episode #25 - Janet Hensley (Miss Janet)

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

Steve Adams

Wilderness, Sports

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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You get very few opportunities in life to spend time in the company of a living legend, so it was gratifying to learn that Janet Hensley, or Miss Janet, was the real deal. I was lucky enough to have a wide-ranging conversation recently with Miss Janet about all things Appalachian Trail. She proved to be incisive, engaging, and generous with her time and opinions. She is truly the hiker's best friend, putting herself out to help anybody who requests her assistance. When we touched upon some of the occasional bad behavior on the trail, she even jumped to a possible defense of the perpetrators. It is an indication of the regard in which she is held on the trail that she was confident in insisting that I took her personal phone number to make sure that anybody on the trail who needs help can call her. So, with some trepidation, her number is 423-483-0620. She can also be emailed at TheMissJanet@gmail.com and will be happy if you look her up on Facebook, though apologized because Facebook will not allow her to exceed her current total of 5,000 friends! Jessa is so ready to go that she has taken a week or so off to go on vacation to Europe! Her latest update shows the value of organization. We'll soon be hearing from her as she gets those first miles under her belt. John O'Shea and I just chatted in our Fear & Loathing segment, and I'm really looking forward to spending a week in July with John and his Fat Guys Back in the Woods. If you'd like to join us, email John at john.skeezix@gmail.com. Please try to leave a review of the show on iTunes. Click HERE to be taken to the show in the iTunes Store.

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0:00.0	Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, join Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:26.5	Welcome back to one and all.
0:28.9	We're at episode number 25 today and we are absolutely honored to have a true trail legend
0:35.9	Janet Hensley or as she is known to everybody who's
0:39.5	ever been near or on the trail, Miss Janet.
0:43.4	Miss Janet was always one of my bucket list guests, and I found her to be utterly charming
0:48.2	when we spoke recently.
0:50.0	She was generous with the time and really became something of a social commentator
0:53.8	about the trail during our conversation.
0:56.3	With KV from last week's show already on the trail and Jess are soon to depart,
1:01.0	I thought that this week would be the perfect time to hear from a woman who is a mother to everybody she comes into contact with
1:06.6	and a psychologist when she's talking one-on-one.
1:10.5	Miss Janet has supported everybody she has met on the AT.
1:13.5	She is her own very special brand of trail magic.
1:16.7	She'll be coming up soon.
1:18.8	Jessa Hackman is now just a couple of weeks away from her trip of a lifetime.
1:22.9	Most of us at this stage, I'm sure, were running around like maniacs trying to complete our preparations,
1:28.3	buying last minute clothing, sorting out our food and generally trying to trim off the last few
1:32.8	ounces from our pack. Not Jessa. She's got to Europe with her mother on vacation. She is so
1:39.1	organised that everything is packed and ready to go. This week, she'll be giving an update,
1:44.3	then she'll be flying away.
1:45.8	As a consequence, I won't be speaking with her
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