Episode #347 - Syd Sayward (Bug)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Today's show features a recently successful thru-hiker, and the first of our Mighty Blue Class of 2023. Syd Sayward has wanted to complete the AT since, as a 15-year-old, her athletics coach took her and some school friends up Mt. Washington.
The experience stayed with Syd, and she started preparing for what she knew would be an AT attempt at some future date. That turned out to be 2022, and Syd shares her story.
Syd kept a blog while she was out on the trail. You can check it out here. https://sydoutside.wordpress.com/
Erin Conrad wrote a long email to me to share her backstory regarding her own upcoming AT thru-hike, and she is the first member of our Mighty Blue Class of 2022. Oh yes, and she's taking her Mom with her!!
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, joined Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:33.5 | Hi guys, welcome back to the show. This is episode number 347 of Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, |
| 0:40.2 | the ultimate midlife crisis, and I'm Mighty Blue or Steve Adams. Our podcast shares stories of |
| 0:46.1 | hikers who, in most cases, have hiked the AT, though we do feature other trails as well. |
| 0:51.6 | And I've found a common but kind of separate thread over my six years of doing |
| 0:55.3 | this show in that every hiker, no matter how similar their story may be to other hikers, |
| 1:01.6 | it has a unique take that is totally their own. I'm guessing that any of us have been out there |
| 1:06.7 | or just planning on getting out there, are going to experience the trail just a little bit differently from everybody else. |
| 1:13.7 | I think and I hope that's why you keep coming back to the show. |
| 1:18.1 | And today we're talking with a young woman who recently completed her own through hike |
| 1:22.0 | and she's sharing her own unique story. |
| 1:25.1 | Her name is Sid Sayward and she's going to be along shortly. |
| 1:29.3 | And following my appeal for more men to sign up for the Mighty Blue Class of 2023, |
| 1:34.3 | we've had a bit more success in that regard this week. But I want to start my interviews of |
| 1:38.8 | the class with a woman, Erin Conrad, who's got a fascinating backstory of her own |
| 1:43.9 | upcoming through hike attempt. |
| 1:45.9 | Aaron will be on after Sid. Then George Stavanos discovers the flaws in his logistical planning |
| 1:51.6 | when he finds two resupply shops closed as he pushes on towards Waynesborough. So let's get |
| 1:57.8 | started. Here's Sid Saywood or Bug. Our guest today is another recent through |
| 2:08.0 | hiker. This is Sid Saywood. Hey, Sid, congratulations first off and thanks for coming on the podcast. |
| 2:14.1 | Thank you. Very happy to be here. I bet you're very excited about having done this. |
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