Episode #264 - Cass Bridges (Nova)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Cass Bridges hails from North Georgia and spent a few seasons working at the historic Mountain Crossings before taking on a thru-hike attempt of her own in 2020.

Her journey included two months of isolation since she had a start date of February 1st (!) combined with a more brutal than usual winter. However, the second half of her hike included a hugely impactful trail family that made the experience even more memorable.

Nova is wise beyond her years and made the most out of her Appalachian Trail thru-hike by reflecting and growing every step of the way.

Check out Nova's Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/kassdeey/

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Katie Westling is in NOC, with the weather and her second Covid vaccination slowing her down a little. But she's in good spirits and will be doing that long climb out of the NOC, while many of you are listening to this. Best of luck with that one, Katie!

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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. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, joined Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:34.2	Hi, everyone. Thanks again for coming back to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate
0:39.1	midlife crisis. Now, you'll know, obviously, from the lack of British accent that I am not
0:45.1	Mighty Blue. If you've missed our last few episodes, my name is Ryan Hopkins or JR on the trail.
0:51.1	And while Steve is on a bit of a sabbatical, I think that's what we're calling it.
0:54.6	Yeah, sabbatical. I will be hosting the show in his absence. But don't worry, Steve will still be
1:00.5	hosting one show a month. And you'll also hear from him later in the show when he catches up with
1:05.7	Katie Wessling or Phoenix on her through hike attempt. I'm just going to be doing the interview
1:10.3	portion. So I'm really excited to be doing the interview portion.
1:17.5	So, really excited about today's guests, Casperages or Nova on the trail, through hike the Applescent Trail last year. And I followed her journey online. And I was really inspired
1:23.2	with so many aspects of her hike. And she'll touch on a lot of those but she had a really early
1:28.0	start date and I just really appreciated her thoughtfulness and just her whole view on the
1:35.4	Applatch and Trail long distance backpacking and just people in general it was really fantastic so
1:40.4	without any further ado, here is Nova.
1:51.4	All right, now let's meet a member of Class of 2020, Cass Bridges, or Nova.
1:52.4	How are you today, Noah?
1:54.5	I'm doing pretty good. How about yourself?
1:55.9	Pretty good, pretty good.
1:58.3	Thanks so much for making time today.
2:02.3	I think the best place to start is just your trail name, Nova, if you want to share more about how you got it and why it stuck.
2:04.9	Yeah, absolutely.
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