Episode #267 - Sarah Jane Hatfield (Pringles)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
For my show this month, I've returned to the Class of 2019 and a woman I met quite early on. Sarah Jane Hatfield was an outwardly confident hiker, with a YouTube channel and blog for a local newspaper, chronicling her way north. However, that wasn't at all how she felt in those early days. Her fascinating story is punctuated with a birth (her daughter's, not hers), a traumatic injury, a romance, and ultimate satisfaction on top of Katahdin.
Sarah emerges from her experience even stronger than the woman she initially presented. Her story is another of those that fall under the category of "beware of what you wish for." In Sarah's case, the transformation was totally positive.
You can follow Sarah's YouTube channel and blog by clicking on the links below.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_pOpiIJZEbb6b8EKDHj6bA
Katie has had another tough week, with a nagging ankle injury teaching her a significant lesson. Nevertheless, she soldiers on and heads out again this Thursday.
I spoke today about my new Author page. You can find it at https://steveadamsauthor.com/ With a bit of luck, it should be live on Thursday morning!! Check out the intended covers of my next hiking books below. NOTE!! These are NOT written yet.
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Larry Luxenburg's Walking the Appalachian Trail distills trail wisdom that is still relevant 30 years after it was written. We're coming to the end of this book. I hope you've enjoyed getting this glimpse into our hiking forefathers.
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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, joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:33.9 | Hi everybody, it's me again, Mighty Blue, and you are listening to Mighty Blue on the |
| 0:38.9 | Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis. Yep, this is my once-a-month show, and |
| 0:43.8 | to be honest, I was a little rusty when I started putting this together this morning, |
| 0:48.9 | which is Wednesday, the 21st of April, by the way. I mean, I haven't done it for a while, |
| 0:53.2 | and that was only a month. I was aware |
| 0:55.1 | of the high bar that Ryan set taken over from me, so let's hope you're happy with my choices this |
| 0:59.9 | month. As I often have in the past year, I've returned to the class of 2019 once more. |
| 1:05.9 | I met such a wide variety of characters on the trail that year and this week our guest |
| 1:10.3 | is a woman I met pretty early on. We height within the vicinity of one another for a couple of weeks, |
| 1:15.4 | I guess, but such is the power of the trail that we both have a connection that's going to be |
| 1:19.5 | permanent. Her name is Sarah Jane Hatfield, though of course she was known to me by a trail name, |
| 1:25.3 | which is Pringles. Sarah appeared to me to be one of those strong independent women, which, as you know, I go on |
| 1:32.0 | about a lot. But as you're going to hear, that wasn't how she felt herself in those early days. |
| 1:37.5 | We're going to be hearing from Sarah about her own epic journey in a moment. Trust me on |
| 1:41.6 | this, she has a story. Talking a strong independent women, |
| 1:46.3 | Katie Westling is discovering a few things about the trial that only by getting out there |
| 1:50.2 | and doing it, you can discover. We caught up again this week and let's just say she's learned |
| 1:55.4 | one of the very biggest lessons that anybody can learn on this hike. As always, Katie will be on after the interview with Sarah. |
| 2:03.3 | And finally today, we had the third from last chapter |
| 2:05.6 | in Larry Luxembourg's Walk in the Appalachian Trail. |
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