Episode #255 - Erik Russell (Lars)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

We have a couple of interesting topics on the show this week. Our first guest, Erik Russell, wrote to me to convey a notable if somewhat jarring, incident that he witnessed while hiking the AT in the 1997. Erik took a lot from both the hike and the incident, and he tells us how those two things contributed to help shape the man he is today.

Erik is one of the few guests I've had on the show who had to search high and low for pictures of him hiking! Eventually, he found the only two that he has from his 90s thru-hike, as well as two from recent days on the trail.

He also referred to an organization that he led trail crew for. This is the Student Conservation Association (SCA). They run a large number of programs for different ages including the Summer trail crews for teenage volunteers, Americorp programs and others. The SCA may be of interest to listeners who would like a way to work within the trail community or who have teenage children. Their website can be found at https://www.thesca.org/

Our ATC segment is entitled "Stay in the Know" this week, with Communication Director, Jordan Bowman. While we started with that subject, I eventually moved it on to the other interesting topic I mentioned earlier.

Finally, today, Larry Luxenberg's Walking the Appalachian Trail warns us of the multitude of things that COULD go wrong on a thru-hike. Be warned!!

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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.
0:20.8	Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:34.2	Hey guys, how are you all? You're listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalachshan trial, the ultimate
0:39.2	midlife crisis, and I am Mighty Blue, bringing you interviews from the trail to inspire you and
0:44.2	hopefully get you out there hiking. And if you can't get out there, then our guests will
0:48.4	through your weather stories and the adventures that they undertake. Today we have a guest who
0:53.6	wrote to me on a particular subject and, as often happens with me, I felt that he'd make a good guest on the show because, well, the email he sent me resonated with me, and I thought we'd have a story to tell, and he does. Eric Russell, who hiked the AT in the 1990s, will be on soon. On our ATC segment this week, the subject is staying in the know,
1:13.4	and our guest is Jordan Bowman, Communications Director for ATC.
1:17.4	I did stick to that subject in the beginning,
1:19.5	but as you'll hear, I wanted to touch on something else partway through the interview
1:23.0	that the listener had let me know about.
1:25.4	Jordan will be on after Eric.
1:27.9	In Larry Luxembourg's Walk in the Appalachian Trail this week,
1:30.6	Larry writes about all the things that can go wrong on a through hike.
1:34.4	So that can be a lot of fun.
1:36.3	So let's get started now and hear from a remarkably young-looking Eric Russell or Lars.
1:45.6	Well, today we're going to meet a guy who hiked the AT in the 1990s.
1:50.5	And I know you can't see him because this is a podcast,
1:53.3	but he looks like he could have done it last week because he's so young looking.
1:57.9	His name is Eric Russell, also known apparently as Lars.
2:01.5	Hey, Eric, how are you?
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