Episode #360 - Emet Baker (Quickbeam)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Emet Baker, or Quickbeam is our guest today. He was able to complete his first year college finals before heading out on trail last year, with a mission to accomplish and complete the trail before he needed to return to camp. Emet was suggested to me by a previous guest, who wrote such kind words about him, that I wondered if they were hyperbole. They weren't.

He's an impressive young man with, I'm sure, a great future, both in hiking and pretty much whatever he turns his hand to. You'll be impressed by him as well.

You can follow Emet on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/quickbeamwalks/ and, a first for the podcast, on Reddit at https://www.reddit.com/user/Grati_Mortui/.

Our Class of 23 is adding another new member this week, as well as revisiting an earlier member.

Bryan Robbins plans to head out in April after retiring from his career, while Steve Kortekamp has a new partner to share the trail with.

Here's Bryan.

and here's Steve and Brooke.

Doctor Lynne feeds our souls today with a chat about nutrition, though I was mainly interested in the undoubted benefits of Snickers on the trail. Happy Days. Remember, you can get ALL of Doctor Lynne's notes at this Google Drive link. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CJ5llgK7FUnbKnbtbWlsP6v_4dNentVa?usp=sharing

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.
0:33.4	Hey guys, good to be back with you again on the podcast. You are listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis. And we've got another big show today with five separate sections in the podcast. First off, we've got a recommendation from a former guest. Mike, current or energizer, who I've interviewed twice on the show after his PCT hike and then more recently his AT
0:54.7	through hike Mike wrote to me about today's guest Emmett Baker or Quitbean. I'm going to spare
1:00.8	Emmett's blushes by simply reading one sentence that Mike wrote. He said, I've never been so
1:06.3	impressed by young man as I was when hiking with Quitbeam is intelligent. Actually this is two sentences.
1:11.8	It's intelligent, wall red and gifted. Now, I've heard plenty of hyperbole over the years,
1:17.2	but Mike was absolutely spot on. Emmett is all those things and more. As you'll hear,
1:22.9	I was also massively impressed with this young man, and I'm sure you will be too he'll be on the moment
1:28.2	then we've got two sections on the mighty blue class of 23 first up we can hear from
1:33.4	Brian robins who's heading out in april while we then catch up with steve cordicamp
1:37.6	who has some additional news of his own spoiler alert he ain't going alone anymore
1:42.4	then dr lynne shares her knowledge of nutrition on the trail, even giving us some pointers
1:48.2	about snickers and pop-tarts.
1:50.6	Finally, we're on to chapter 14 of George Stephanos's then the hail came.
1:54.9	With George heading towards his home in Connecticut, he's quite amazed at how the trail has altered
1:59.4	him and he wonders what that old life is going to be like when he gets home.
2:03.5	So let's get to it.
2:04.7	Here is a pretty remarkable young man.
2:06.9	This is Emmett Baker or Quitbeam.
2:12.0	So we've got another of our 2022 AT completers this week.
2:16.4	This is Emmett Baker or Quitbeam. Hey Emmett, how are you? You know, it's a
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