Episode #322 - Chris Veasey (Idaho Bones)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Our guest today is from the AT Class of 2017. His name is Chris Veasey, and we share an open chat about his experiences on the trail. He flip-flopped, heading north from Harpers Ferry to Katahdin, then south to Springer. His northern section was spent with a tramily, while he was largely solo in the south. We discuss the differences between both sections.
Chris has written a book about his adventures and has put up a Kickstarter for those who would like to support his efforts to publish his book. You can support that here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/readuncivilized/uncivilized
He can also be found on social media at https://www.facebook.com/chris.veasey.9 and https://www.instagram.com/thats1ezvz/
We catch up with some of the surviving members of our Mighty Blue Class of 2022, with Sarah Landis loving her time on the trail.
Kera, Ryan, and Brittaney–while definitely loving the trail–have experienced both the highs and lows of trail life.
Finally, I'm reading the first part of George Steffanos's book, "Then The Hail Came." If you'd like to find out more about "Then The Hail Came," check out George's website at https://georgesteffanos.webador.com/. You can also find George's book on Amazon at this link. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QFG4ZR6
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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. |
| 0:33.5 | Hi guys and welcome back to the Mighty Blue podcast. This is episode number 322 and today we're talking with Chris Visey, otherwise known as Idaho Bones. And Chris has a great story about how he got that name by the way. As you're here, he's an articulate bloke and we have quite a diverse and surprisingly open conversation. Chris will be along in a moment. Now, you'd be |
| 0:55.7 | forgiven for thinking that our mighty blue class of 2022 was being decimated. Yet that isn't actually |
| 1:01.6 | the case. Bearing in mind that the success rate for the AT is about 20 to 25%. The fact that we still |
| 1:08.4 | have seven people heading north, or about to, then i don't think that's all that bad |
| 1:13.4 | today we're going to be hearing from the incredibly joyous sarah landis as well as kira |
| 1:19.1 | brittany and ryan these last three are hiking together they had a few issues yet they should be |
| 1:24.3 | getting back on trail in the next couple of days. In fact, I'm meeting those |
| 1:27.7 | three at trial days this weekend. Talking to which, if you're heading for Damascus this weekend, |
| 1:32.6 | come and find me in the author's tent. I love to say hi. Anyway, those catch-ups will be on after Chris. |
| 1:38.4 | Finally, we get to George Stephanos's, then the hail came. To be honest, I hadn't quite realized how long each chapter is. |
| 1:46.5 | So I'm going to be reading the journal in about 20 minute chunks. And that first chunk will be today. |
| 1:53.1 | So let's get on. Here's Chris Vesey or Idaho Bones. |
| 2:00.5 | So our guest today is Chris Vizi or Vasey. I'm not quite short, Vizzi. Hey, Chris. How are you? Doing great. How are you doing today? |
| 2:09.0 | I'm good, thanks. And I don't even why even bother with Visi or Vasey because your your trial name Idaho Bones is excellent and the story |
| 2:18.6 | behind it is also pretty darn good as well so tell us about how you got it. Absolutely. Yeah. So actually |
| 2:24.9 | the story of that goes to about a week before the trail leading up to the first few months before I |
| 2:31.4 | left for the Appalachian Trail, it was on my mind constantly, |
| 2:51.2 | and I found myself daydreaming regularly. So I'm out with a friend in the Poconos in Pennsylvania. My family bought a trailer there when my mother was pregnant, so, you know, not too far from the Appalachian Trail, but not too close either. But, you know, long story short, we're out there partying. I'm having one of my my daydreams and i bought a hat earlier in the day when i was getting some gear and as i'm wearing it |
| 2:57.5 | my friend goes you know with that hat you kind of look like indiana jones and just without thinking |
| 3:02.5 | about it i kind of look down it's a hat just like this one actually actually. Once again, you're the second person, straight person, to actually show something on film, which is not going to be... Right, which is not going to show. But it's for you, Mighty Blue. It's a good hat. So, you know, I look down, I flick the brim of my hat, and I go, that's mighty kind of you to say. I consider that a compliment, |
| 3:24.9 | but I actually taught young indie everything he knows. So I get into this story. I make up this |
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