Episode #253 - Reid Marshall and Marina Santiago (Wombat and Brown-Eyed Girl)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week, we feature a couple who met on the trail in 2019 and have been a couple ever since. Reid Marshall and Marina Santiago are, however, locationally challenged, as Reid is in Australia and Marina is in Denver.

I was fortunate enough to have met Reid on my thru-hike and was impressed with his calm and thoughtful demeanor. When we met, near the VT / NH border, Reid was on his own and didn't meet Marina until many miles later. Such is the serendipity of the trail.

They share the story of their respective and joint hikes, as well as their adventures together since the AT.

You can connect and find out more about them at their Challenge & Beauty website, https://challengeandbeauty.com/, find them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/challengeandbeauty, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/challenge_and_beauty/.
Their first book, Trail Running Utah, is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Trail-Running-Utah-Challenge-Beauty/dp/1661352820/ref=sr_1_1

Their second set of books, Trail Running Tasmania and Day Hikes Tasmania, are available in the US via special order on their website: https://challengeandbeauty.com/order-now/
Their illustrated book about their AT experience, Filthy and Free, is in the works and will be available later this year. I'll let you know when that comes out.

This week on the Know Before You Go ATC part of the show, Laurie Potteiger suggests that we "Explore Locally." She tells us about alternative trails to explore, some of which are listed here. www.appalachiantrail.org/explore/plan-and-prepare/hiker-resource-library/alternate-trails/

A link to the Alternate Trails page, as well as ATC's Day-hiking and Overnight Hiking checklists updated for hiking during COVID-19, and many other useful pages, can be found in the Hiker Resource Library at www.appalachiantrail.org/hiker-resources.

Don't forget, if you are going to get on the AT, make sure you register at www.ATCamp.org.

In our book reading of Larry Luxenburg's Walking the Appalachian Trail, Larry talks about everybody's favorite subject; food and the exquisite possibility of eating guiltlessly.

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0:37.4	Thank you. the walk with shows by hikers about hikers for everybody. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, Join Steve and his guests every week as he staggers from
0:57.7	Georgia to Maine. Hi guys, it's me again, Mighty Blue on Steve Adams, and you are listening to Mighty
1:08.9	Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate
1:10.8	mid-life crisis. This is the show where I introduce you to people who have a story to tell,
1:16.0	specifically from their experiences hiking a long-distance trail and very often that trail is
1:20.7	the Appalachian Trail. I've done it twice myself in my 60s, but this is a trial for all ages
1:25.7	and we try to bring you young, old, middle
1:28.7	age people who've taken the time out of their lives to live a simpler, much quieter,
1:33.3	more beautiful few months than you'll get anywhere else. And today, we're at the younger
1:37.6	end of the spectrum with a couple of 20-somethings, well, I think they are anyway, who made
1:42.5	that decision and went in 2019, which was the year of my second through hike.
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