Episode #353 - Jason Tompkins (Out and About)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Jason Tompkins is our guest today, with his stories about a new long-distance trail; The Carolinian. It's new because he named it, then hiked it this year. Yet that isn't all of Jason's story. He's worked out his life for the foreseeable future to spend pretty much all his time out on a trail!
We agreed that he should come back on next year when (not if!!) he completes the East Coast Trail, from Key West up to Newfoundland, when he'll be taking in the Appalachian Trail along the way.
You can follow Jason on his adventures through his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@outandabout53/videos, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Beardeux, and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/outandabout53/.
Also today, Ron Ward steps up as another member of the Mighty Blue Class of 2023, as this Grateful Dead-loving banker takes a sabbatical to hike the AT.
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, joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:33.6 | Hey guys, it's our last episode before Christmas, so I can't about it forget. |
| 0:38.2 | All of us here at the Hiking Radio Network wish you all the best wishes for this holiday season, |
| 0:42.8 | whatever you celebrate at this time of year. Have a blast. |
| 0:46.4 | You're listening to Episode 353 of Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis. |
| 0:52.4 | And because I like to shake things up a bit every |
| 0:54.6 | now and then, our guest today, Jason Tompkins, is going to be talking to us about a trail he's |
| 0:59.5 | kind of put together himself. He's a guy who's worked out how to spend pretty much all of his time |
| 1:05.1 | backpacking and he does it for the adventure and for learning about different cultures on the |
| 1:09.8 | trail. He's a really interesting guy and |
| 1:12.3 | to say that he's enthusiastic about backpacking would be woefully understating how he feels about it. |
| 1:18.3 | Jason, who is perfectly trail named as Out and About, will be on shortly. Then another guy |
| 1:24.7 | in our Mighty Blue Class of 23, Ron Ward brings a down-to-earth attitude to the show |
| 1:29.5 | and surprisingly for me, turns out to love a particular rock band. |
| 1:34.4 | Ron will be on after Jason. |
| 1:36.6 | Then George Stefanos is approaching halfway |
| 1:38.8 | and he has to say goodbye to his friend Mark |
| 1:41.0 | as he pushes on to near Harpers Ferry. |
| 1:44.1 | So let's do it. |
| 1:44.9 | This is Jason Tompkins or Out and About. |
| 1:50.5 | Our guest today is somebody who, I guess to say the very least, is pretty much obsessed |
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