Episode #252 - Mike Current (Energizer)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2021
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
We normally focus on the Appalachian Trail, but this week, we're moving across the country to share the hike of Mike Current on the Pacific Crest Trail. Mike's YouTube channel provides a thoughtful and entertaining take on hiking. He and Steve chat about the hike and his intense preparations prior to the hike.
Mike is particularly keen to make sure that the 2020 hikers' stories are told, believing that 2020 will become a lost year.
If you'd like to follow Mike, you can see him on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUjqg7BI_TE-D_O45GapBzw/videos and follow him on Facebook here. https://www.facebook.com/Old-Man-and-the-PCT-2020-105383960868532
Kathryn Herndon-Powell shares her experience in our ATC segment as the first part of a mini-series, Know Before You Go: How To Plan for Hiking in 2021.
Somebody found our microphone on the hikingradionetwork.com website!! Julia Doherty–a fellow Brit–tells us that she's found the perfect solution for people who like to journal on the trail and don't want to bring a heavy book. Check them out at https://www.thrunotes.co.uk/
Finally today, Larry Luxenburg's Walking the Appalachian Trail covers something of a rarity; hikers who repeat their AT thru-hike. Who on earth would ever do that??
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk the walk with shows by hikers |
| 0:05.7 | about hikers for everybody. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, |
| 0:24.4 | joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:34.5 | Hi everybody and welcome to the first show of 2021. |
| 0:38.2 | So, happy new year to you all. |
| 0:41.3 | I don't know about you, but 2021 couldn't come soon enough, could it? |
| 0:44.9 | Let's hope that most of us can get out into the woods at some time this year. |
| 0:48.9 | It was tough for everybody last year and although hiking and backpacking, it's just a hobby. |
| 0:56.4 | For many people, it's felt like a real loss for those who chose 2020 as their year for their through hike so a new year is hopefully |
| 1:02.7 | the start of a happier hiking season as people prepare for their hikes and head out into the woods |
| 1:06.9 | and mountains in 2021 I know that 2020 could have been the only year that people would ever be able to hike |
| 1:13.3 | and I've got every sympathy for them if they had to go home. |
| 1:17.1 | I'm just so grateful that I went in 2019. |
| 1:20.2 | I just hope that some of them can come back and put their boots and their packs on |
| 1:24.0 | set foot on the trail this year. |
| 1:26.6 | Finally enough, for a show that focuses mainly on the Appal Action Trail. |
| 1:29.9 | This week, we've got a PCT through hiker. |
| 1:33.3 | One of our previous guests, J.C. Van Etton or Catmando, |
| 1:37.7 | put me on to Mike Currant, and if you're a voracious YouTube watcher, |
| 1:41.5 | you'll probably be familiar with his really nuanced and |
| 1:44.5 | insightful remarks on hiking and of course his PCT hike in particular. Mike will be on shortly. |
| 1:51.0 | After Mike, we'll have the first in a three-part series from the ATC that is kind of subtitled |
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