Episode #289 - Chris Casado (The Commissioner)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Chris Casado was lucky enough to be taken on a hiking trip in the Sierras at the age of 14 by a teacher who became a good friend. Fast forward 25 or so years, and Chris and his teacher are offering the same trip–and other trips–to people of all different hiking abilities. Even Chris's children have shared the adventure.
Given my love/hate relationship with the John Muir Trail (I love it, it hates me), talking with Chris opened my eyes to a possibility that I may still get to Mt Whitney one day. I think you'll be fascinated by both his story and the trips that he offers. They certainly stirred my imagination as soon as we started speaking.
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Katie was late to report in this week, with Mahoosuc Notch occupying her for much of the day. We finally caught up just in time for this week's episode. What an adventure she's having.
Winton Porter's Passin' Thru continues to show the variety of people–and problems that passed through HIS life at Mountain Crossings.
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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. |
| 0:34.1 | Hey guys, it's lovely to be back with you this week. You've found Mighty Blue on the |
| 0:38.4 | Appal Action Trail, the ultimate Midlife Crisis, sponsored for September by Cedar Trail Gear. I'm |
| 0:44.6 | the one having the Midlife Crisis. I'm Mighty Blue or Steve Adams, and I put together a slightly |
| 0:49.6 | different show for you this week. A couple of weeks back, a listener wrote to me suggesting |
| 0:53.9 | that I should |
| 0:54.6 | call a guy named Chris Casado. So I did. Turns out Chris guides tours in the Sierra, so as you |
| 1:00.6 | imagine after my recent hiking woes out west, my interest was piqued. Well, he's got a far better |
| 1:06.6 | story than just as a tour guide, and I'm going to be introducing him in a moment. |
| 1:17.5 | Also today, Katie is scheduled to call me sometime this afternoon, which is Wednesday the 22nd September and we're going to be finding out about her adventure through the mooseek-notch. |
| 1:22.5 | As we haven't had the call yet, I can't tell you what happened, though from my own experience |
| 1:26.5 | it should be epic. |
| 1:33.4 | I'm actually cool, now. And finally today, in Winton Porter's passing through, we hear how an experienced hiker deals with a hypothermic patient. This is worth listening to, even if you're |
| 1:38.4 | not following my reading of the book, because you never know when you might be called a bond |
| 1:42.3 | to help out in a tricky situation like the one |
| 1:44.4 | Winton describes here. Oh, and he also meets a mummer bear and a cub. So it's quite the morning, |
| 1:49.3 | trust me. But before we get on to that, there's this. Now, we've all heard of leave no trace, |
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