Episode #313 - Hope Westall (Everest)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Hope Westall is today's guest. Hope is the owner of Alt Route Meals, yet it is her hiking and her traveling that made me want to interview her on the show. But the meals are now a part of Hope's life, with a desire to mix her adventures with nutritionous, plant-based food that allows her to hike stronger and healthier.
She has done the AT and PCT, several trails in Australia and New Zealand, as well as a summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Her hunger for these adventures pushed her into developing her own food and, finding the results suiting her, she expanded into a business.
You can learn more about Hope and her products at https://altroutemeals.com/ as well as on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AltRouteMeals and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/altroutemeals/
Barry Hill and Dave Burge, from our Mighty Blue Class of 2022, give their last updates until I return in mid-April. Each has a cautionary tale to tell!!
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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, |
| 0:23.9 | joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:33.2 | Hi guys, thanks for joining me while I'm actually on a break from the show. |
| 0:38.5 | This is Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail and I'm Mighty Blue or Steve Adams. This episode is coming out on the |
| 0:43.8 | day I leave for the UK for a tour of England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, before capping it all off |
| 0:48.8 | with hikes on the West Highland Way and Hadrian's Wall Path, both of which are in Scotland. |
| 0:53.2 | So to that end, I have been furiously |
| 0:56.2 | podcasting, front-loading about 20 or 30 episodes of all our live Hiking Radio Network shows |
| 1:01.5 | so that the service can continue unabated. My commentary and my show notes will be shorter, |
| 1:07.1 | and I won't be individually thanking our donors because, of course, I'm away. |
| 1:12.7 | Today we have Hope Westall. |
| 1:15.5 | Now, Hope is currently selling hiking food. |
| 1:19.2 | And normally that alone wouldn't have drawn me into interviewing her. |
| 1:21.3 | Yet her story is a terrific one. |
| 1:24.9 | And how she got to where she is now, well, I found it really interesting. |
| 1:26.5 | And I wanted to tell you her story. |
| 1:31.2 | And she will resonate with so many of you who are trying to hike any of our long-distance trails on food that is not Snickers and Ramen. Hope will be along in a moment. |
| 1:37.1 | Then we have two of our Mighty Blue Class of 2022. Barry Hill hasn't actually got underway yet, |
| 1:42.7 | but he's already having a tricky issue to address. |
| 1:45.3 | Barry will be on after Hope. |
| 1:47.4 | Then one of our guys who is already hoofing out the trail. |
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