Episode #256 - Caroll Coyne (Cheer)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Today's guest is another whose thru-hike was the Pacific Crest Trail, yet Caroll Coyne has lessons–and solutions–that are universal to all long-distance trails. In her early 30s, she quit a well-paying job that wasn't fulfilling her and found that fulfillment out on the trail, with the community that she craved.
Returning home, her trajectory altered and her project to reconnect with the hiking community was born.
You can learn more about Caroll and Thru-R at https://www.thru-r.com/. In our conversation, Carol also mentioned Craig's PCT Planner. It is in her resource directory, but I thought I'd add the link as she referred to it. https://pctplanner.com/
You can also connect with Caroll and Thru-r at:
THRU-r Instagram: www.instagram.com/thru_r/
THRU-r Facebook: www.facebook.com/thrurcommunity/
Personal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carollcoyne/
Kathryn Herndon-Powell returns on behalf of the ATC to help hikers with some social distancing suggestions when out on a trail. If you're still planning on a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail this year, make sure you check out https://atcamp.org/. This is a valuable resource that allows you to move your start date forward or backward to miss some high-capacity days. You can also register your own hike, thus helping other hikers who wish to do the same.
Finally, in my reading of his book, Walking The Appalachian Trail, Larry Luxenburg is probably preaching to the choir when he reminds us that "it's all about your attitude."
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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. |
| 0:28.8 | Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:42.1 | Hey guys, thanks for coming back to the show. You're listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalach Action Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis. I am Mighty Blue, and I don't believe that I'm currently having a midlife crisis. You never know, of course. In our show, we interview all |
| 0:47.1 | sorts of hikers who have, or want to have, the experience of carving four to seven months |
| 0:51.6 | out of their life to walk over 2,000 miles. |
| 1:00.9 | In cold, rain, snow, heat, black flies and pretty dire conditions sometimes. |
| 1:07.0 | Yet all of them, without exception, find it the most thrilling, most joyous and most community-based time at their lives. |
| 1:08.8 | We normally concentrate on the Appalachian Trail, hence the title of the show, I guess, |
| 1:12.9 | but I'm occasionally drawn westwards, and this week is another of those times. |
| 1:17.4 | One of our previous guests, J.C. Van Aten, better known to his hiking friends as Kathmandu, |
| 1:22.7 | wrote to me to tell me about today's guest. |
| 1:25.5 | He wanted me to meet Carol Coyne or Cheer. As you're going to hear |
| 1:29.1 | soon, there's something that Carol is doing that immediately tickled my inquisitive nature, |
| 1:33.9 | and I soon got on the phone, arranged a recording and she'll be joining us shortly. Just as a clue, |
| 1:40.0 | Carol is doing something that will be of interest to hikers of any long distance trail. |
| 1:49.5 | Also today, Catherine Herndon-Powell is back on, this time with the tricky subject of play it safe physical distance while hiking. |
| 1:52.4 | I think that this is a great subject to discuss, particularly as there are going to be |
| 1:55.9 | at least 10 times the number of through hikers going this year, as opposed to those who carried on |
| 2:01.3 | going last year. If you recall, a lot of people heated ATC's warning last year and aborted |
| 2:06.0 | their hikes, leaving about 250 through hikers who continued. There was this small number last year |
| 2:13.1 | that probably stopped the AT from turning into its own super spreader event. |
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