Episode #301 - Reta Walton (Fire Goddess)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
A few weeks ago, one of our recent guests, Shannon Shaver, connected me to today's guest, Reta Walton. Reta has wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail since she was 13, but, as often happens, life got in the way. This year, now retired, Reta took on her dream.
She is an avid hiker, and the AT was everything she'd hoped it would be, even though she caught hypothermia on the way! Her passion and emotions come through vividly in this conversation, and I'm sure you'll find her inspiring.
You can connect with Reta at Facebook,at https://www.facebook.com/reta.walton.9
at Instagram, at https://www.instagram.com/retawalton/ and on YouTube, at https://www.youtube.com/c/RetaWalton
Barry Hill is this week's new member of the Class of 2022. You've already met Barry once on the show but, like Reta, his passion for his upcoming adventure comes across intensely.
Finally, Winton Porter's Passin' Thru takes up one of Reta's themes; hypothermia.
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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. |
| 0:33.9 | Hey, welcome back to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis. I'm your host, Mighty Blue, better known locally as Steve Adams. And today, we're kind of back to normal. Just before I tell you the line-up today, I wanted to thank you all for the kind words that I received for the 300th show last week. I took a bit of a gamble. The editing was pretty difficult, |
| 0:55.0 | but you all seemed to get a kick out of it. |
| 0:56.8 | So thanks for letting me know that you enjoyed it. |
| 0:59.6 | It was our fastest ever downloaded show |
| 1:01.8 | with a thousand downloads before lunch on the first day. |
| 1:06.1 | And really, that's less than nine hours. |
| 1:08.7 | 2000 by the end of the second day and now, well, Wednesday and six days in, because I'm |
| 1:13.8 | recording now, it is almost 3,000 downloads. |
| 1:16.9 | That's very fast for us. |
| 1:18.3 | So thanks. |
| 1:19.6 | In the future, I may well add in another similar show with past guests coming on and |
| 1:24.2 | talking with me for seven or eight minutes and telling me one thing. |
| 1:28.5 | I'm not sure what the subject of that thing is, but I kind of like that format. |
| 1:33.4 | But as I said before, we're back into our usual routine today with another terrific guest, |
| 1:37.7 | Rita Walton of Fire Goddess, who fulfilled, or virtually fulfilled, her dream since she was 13 |
| 1:44.0 | of through hiking the |
| 1:44.8 | Appalachian Trail. |
| 1:46.4 | Rida will be on in a moment. |
| 1:48.2 | Then our class of 2022 continues to fill out with Barry Hill, who I actually met and |
| 1:53.3 | interviewed at our Woods Hole retreat last year. |
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