Episode #285 - Daniel Winsor (Beta)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest, Daniel Winsor, will make you wonder for his sanity, then marvel at his tenacity. He decided that a hike through the Sierras in snow would be a challenge not to be missed, so set himself up for precisely that–in a heavy snow year.

Daniel shares his somewhat shaky preparations with us, then chronicles his journey, making it through about 400 miles of snowy trail.

He wrote a book–named "Crunch"–about his experience and you can check it out at https://amzn.to/2V4l2E3

You can also follow Daniel on his social media accounts at https://www.facebook.com/hikerbeta and https://www.instagram.com/hikerbeta/ or check out his website at http://hikerbeta.com/

While you're there, you can check out my books about my 2014 thru-hike at https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Adams/e/B01IP8ZVFW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1629924020&sr=8-1

If you prefer, you can buy the printed versions from me at steveadamsauthor.com; I'll even sign them for you if you'd like.

Katie made it up Katahdin and to the fabled brown sign. It was every bit as good as it looks here!!

In the show, I also mentioned the upcoming "Woods Hole Weekend," where you can prepare for your 2022 thru-hike with experienced hikers in the idyllic surroundings of the gorgeous Woods Hole with the enchanting Neville Harris. Check it out here. https://woodsholehostel.com/things-to-do/the-woods-hole-weekend/

Finally today, Chapter 2 of "Just Passin' Thru" introduces us to a guy with a serious snake bite and a woman with a serious potty mouth!!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we taught 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.
0:34.5	Hi, guys, it's me again, Steve Adams or Mighty Blue, and you are listening to my podcast, Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis. In case you're new here, we interview hikers who have something to tell us. It's my job to try to get the best story I can from them. And today's guest is certainly one of those people who have a story to tell. And usually for me,
0:56.2	I let him get on with it without interrupting him too much because his story is amazing.
1:01.2	His name is Daniel Windsor or Bader and he came to my attention as a referral from Jessica Mills or Dixie.
1:07.5	Jessica and Daniel, a few weeks apart, hike the PCT in 2017, and as you're here,
1:13.2	Daniel decided to make things that little bit more difficult for himself. Daniel will be along shortly.
1:19.5	After Daniel, we'll be catching up with Katie, who, if you recall from last week, was due to
1:23.7	climb Qatar on this Tuesday and start the sober section of what has become a flip-flop.
1:28.4	We'll find out how she did after chatting with Daniel.
1:31.8	Finally, thanks for your kind words this week about our new book.
1:35.4	I'm going to be reading the second chapter from Winton Porter's Just Passing Through.
1:40.0	I should warn you that this week's chapter has a somewhat liberal use of the sensor beep.
1:46.3	A bunch of youngsters listen to the podcast and while I'm sure they hear worse at school,
1:50.1	they really don't need to be subjected to a character whose first language is the F-bomb.
1:54.8	Not Winton, by the way.
1:56.4	So let's get on with it.
1:57.6	Here's Daniel Windsor and as a bit of a background, I recorded this prior to my
2:01.8	unfortunately truncated adventure on the JMT. So forgive my boisterous and enthusiasm for what was then,
2:07.8	my upcoming hike. Here's Daniel. So today's guest is a PCT hiker. In fact, he's a particularly
2:17.3	crazy PCT hiker because he had ambitions to go into the
2:21.3	Cierras in May.
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