Episode #260 - Juliana Chauncey (Chaunce)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
It's one of our longest ever shows today, with three guests and my book reading. First up, Juliana Chauncey, a fellow member of the Class of 2019, and a fellow podcaster (with Zach Davis on Backpacker Radio), shares her hiking journeys on both the Pacific Crest Trail and the Appalachian Trail.
While originally from the Eat Coast, Chaunce knew virtually nothing about the AT before she started; she only found out about MacAfee Knob when she came to it!! However, a combination of stubbornness and grit allowed her to finish the trail and add to her hiking resume.
You can learn more about Chaunce from her website, http://julianachauncey.com/.
You can also follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/juliana_chauncey/ and her YouTube channel is at https://www.youtube.com/user/julianachauncey
You can find Chaunce's book on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Hiking-Home-Long-Distance-Family-Friends/dp/0578635143?fbclid=IwAR10B9Mz53tFfuyhi5LGCe1tCPwc-ibmZfGZDW_ZnOtUNEsMH3XmmgPerrU
Katie Westling is starting her countdown to next week's Appalachian Trail start, so she and I discuss those last-minute arrangements–and nerves.
After Andrew Downs came on the show a couple of weeks back, Maury Johnson wanted to talk about the ATC in the context of the deal that they had made with Mountain Valley Pipeline. Of course, I was only too pleased to share my platform with him, and he aired his own views of what he sees as an unsatisfactory situation.
Finally, Larry Luxenburg's Walking the Appalachian Trail talks about hiking as an older hiker, as well as with a disability or even severe injury.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk the walk with shows by hikers, |
| 0:05.5 | about hikers, for everybody. 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 | Hi everybody, and thanks for coming back to join me on Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail |
| 0:38.0 | of the ultimate midlife crisis. I'm Mighty Blue and I've got another pretty long show for you |
| 0:42.7 | today. I don't plan things this way but there are too many good things to leave out. That said, I've |
| 0:48.1 | left something out this week. We won't have the ATC on the show because I have a response from |
| 0:52.3 | Morrie Johnson following the interview I did with Andrew Downs with the ATC a couple of weeks ago. When he put the ATC on the show because I have a response from Morrie Johnson following the interview I did with Andrew Downs with the |
| 0:55.0 | ATC a couple of weeks ago when he put the ATC's side of this |
| 0:59.1 | thorny issue of the Mountain Valley pipeline |
| 1:01.2 | Mori wanted to talk about the deal that the ATC did with |
| 1:05.2 | Mountain Valley and I asked him on the show |
| 1:07.2 | Mori will be on in the third section of our show. |
| 1:10.5 | Our main guest today is |
| 1:11.7 | Juliana Chauncey or Chaunce, a fellow member of the class of 2019, even though we didn't meet, |
| 1:17.3 | and a fellow podcaster, Chants will be on soon. After Chantz, Katie Wessling or Phoenix Rising |
| 1:23.3 | will be sharing with me her last minute arrangements, and yes, her last minute nerves. She heads to Georgia over the coming weekend and her appearance on the show will be sharing with me her last minute arrangements, and yes, her last minute nerves. |
| 1:31.4 | She heads to George over the coming weekend and her appearance on the show will be from the AT next Thursday. |
| 1:34.7 | Then, after Morrie, Larry Luxembourg tells the stories of people even older than me hiking |
| 1:39.4 | the trail, with age and disabilities making you shake your head and how brave some of our |
| 1:44.0 | fellow hikers |
| 1:44.7 | have been over the years. |
| 1:46.4 | But let's get on and meet Chants. |
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