Episode #362 - Leah Harman (Twig)

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Leah Harman, or Twig, is our guest today. She is a self-confessed nomad, concentrating in the past few years on backpacking her way through many trails, both in the US and abroad.

Despite the solitary nature of many of her hikes, Leah enjoys the trail community and Trail Angels in particular.

You can check out Leah's many hikes in her excellent blog at https://twigadventures.com/

Mary Marks becomes the final member of our Mighty Blue Class of 2023, and we speak from Franklin, NC, where she is already on trail with her beautiful hiking companion, Wiley. Is Wiley a poser, or not!!??

Doctor Lynne talks to us about the prevalence of Lyme Disease, how to spot, and what to do about it. Remember, you can download her notes on any of the subjects she has shared in this short series by clicking on this 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.
0:24.0	Join Steve and his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:33.7	Hey everybody. Welcome back to the show.
0:36.1	You're listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail,
0:38.2	the ultimate midlife crisis. I'm your host, Steve Adams on Mighty Blue. You've found episode
0:43.7	362 of the podcast, and in pretty much all my previous shows, I've tried to tell a story
0:48.8	of the person who's appearing as a guest. Today, we have a very singular character, so much so
0:54.0	that I had a hard time working out the story we wanted to tell. Leah Harmon or Twig is a kind of hiking dervish, having hiked so many trails that it's hard to keep up with her really. And she hasn't been doing these long trails all her life. This wonderlust has been with the most of her life, yet it's only fairly recently that she's kind of devoted her life to backpacking.
1:13.3	I found a fascinating, and I hope you've all too.
1:16.0	Also today, the very last member of her mighty blue class of 23.
1:19.9	As you can tell, I've packed out the squad this year.
1:22.8	It's so many unable to make it to the end last year that I I wanted to make sure we followed enough this year.
1:28.8	And this interview is with the lady I met at our Woods Hole weekend last October.
1:32.9	Her name is Mary Marks, and as luck would have it, we hadn't been able to record since she joined
1:37.2	the class of 2023.
1:38.9	However, yesterday morning, at 6.30 a.m., we spoke, and she was in a hostel in Franklin,
1:44.8	North Carolina. So today we're going to have was in a hostel in Franklin, North Carolina.
1:48.2	So today we're going to have an intro and a catch-up, all in one.
1:50.2	Mary will be on after Lear.
1:57.2	Then Dr. Lin's back, telling us about the horrors of ticks and more pertinately Lyme disease on the trial.
2:01.7	While I remember, if you have any subject that you'd like Lynne to cover as we move through this series of some of the medical aspects of hiking, just email me at
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