Episode #271 - Steve Adams (Mighty Blue) at Trail Days
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
It was Trail Days in Damascus this past weekend, and Ryan took to opportunity to chat with Steve about the event itself, his books, and his upcoming plans for the JMT.
With Steve on his mini-sabbatical, Ryan is choosing the topics he wants to cover on the show and decided that putting a bit of a spotlight on Steve's books would open them to a new audience.
If you'd like to see more about the books and to buy them, you can check them out at https://steveadamsauthor.com/
Remember, you can get a free copy of his short AT primer as an ebook from that site.
Katie is back on the trail. This time, she is carefully reinserting herself onto the trail, starting in Shenandoah and hoping that her leg continues to heal.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:33.6 | Hi, everyone. Thanks again for coming back to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis. I'm Ryan or JR. |
| 0:41.9 | This week's guest is someone you might recognize, Steve. Steve and I got to catch up this past weekend at Trail Days, which was great. I was thinking about it earlier. I don't think Steve and I've actually seen each other in person and over a year and a half, |
| 0:57.2 | like many people haven't given the pandemic. |
| 1:00.0 | But it was nice to catch up and stop by the author's booth there at Trail Days. |
| 1:05.7 | And that kind of leads us to our discussion today. |
| 1:07.6 | We'll do a quick overview of some things at Trail Days, talk a little bit about |
| 1:12.4 | Steve's books, more about, you know, what his books are about, upcoming books where you can |
| 1:18.5 | purchase his books, all that good stuff. And then we'll talk a little bit about some of his |
| 1:24.0 | upcoming hikes. So I hope everyone enjoys the conversation. It definitely was great to catch up and shine a little bit of light on what Steve's been up to and how things are going for him. And without any further ado, we'll get over to the interview. |
| 1:42.4 | All right. So we're on with Steve, of all people, this week. |
| 1:45.8 | How are you doing today, Steve? |
| 1:47.4 | I'm not too bad right after driving 1,500 miles in a couple of days. |
| 1:51.7 | Yeah, there's a long-old drive, let me tell you. |
| 1:53.8 | Yeah, and without knowing if you're going to find gas, that makes it even more exciting, huh? |
| 1:57.8 | So I would use the word exciting. |
| 1:59.5 | When you're driving up a mountain in |
| 2:01.7 | north Carolina and you're not sure whether there's any guess either in your tank or |
| 2:06.2 | or in the pumps it's quite nerve-wrecking but to be honest with you I had no problem |
| 2:10.9 | at all so there you go I got I'm okay right on well for today's conversation we |
| 2:16.7 | wanted to just kind of reflect a little bit on trail days this past weekend. |
| 2:21.0 | So I'd love to hear how that went from your point of view being there as an author at the author's table. Is that right? |
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