Episode #344 - Kristi McLeod Fondren (HQtie)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Dr Kristi McLeod Fondren joins us today to bring an academic's view on hiking. Kristi hiked the PCT over the last couple of years and has combined that love of the outdoors with her work as a Professor at Marshall University. She has some great insights that she shares with us, as well as her deeply personal story.

You can find out more about Kristi from her two journals from 2021 and 2022. They are at http://www.trailjournals.com/HQtieandTurkeyB for the 2021 hike and at http://www.trailjournals.com/HQtie for the 2022 hike

She also referred to the First Descents Program, which you can learn about at http://www.firstdescents.org

And the book that she published of her dissertation is at https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/walking-on-the-wild-side/9780813571881

Also on today was Rebecca James who, along with her son Brad, owns the Burke's Garden Hostel. You can check that out at https://www.burkesgardenhostel.com/, though, check out this glorious drone pic of their place. Beautiful.

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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Transcript

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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,
0:24.1	joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:33.9	Hey guys, good to be back with you again.
0:36.8	You're listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis,
0:40.8	and I'm your host, Steve Adams, or the aforementioned Mighty Blue.
0:45.0	And today we've got a couple of terrific interviews for you.
0:47.7	First up, and the main guest, we've got Dr. Christie McLeod Fondron, who is a professor
0:52.9	at Marshall University.
0:54.8	Christy has amended alchemy, really?
0:57.9	She's managed to combine her passion for the outdoors
1:00.6	with an academic purpose that allows her to indulge in those outdoor pursuits.
1:05.7	You're going to love hearing from her as she tells us about a study she did on the AT about 15 years ago.
1:11.3	And then how she hiked the PCT over the past two years, conducting, in the name of academia,
1:17.0	another study. Really, she's worked out life.
1:21.2	Now, many of you know that I normally conduct an initial conversation with my guests
1:25.9	so that I can work out the story that we want to tell.
1:29.2	Then I arrange a bunch of half-cogent questions to ask.
1:32.8	But in Chris's case, I did that, yet many of the responses led me away from my prepared list
1:38.9	as I kept asking follow-ups.
1:40.5	I really enjoyed chatting with her.
1:42.2	Dr Christie will be on in a moment.
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