Episode #372 - Patch Leonard (Cold Brew)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
We have Patch Leonard as our guest today. Patch is the son of Emily Leonard–a previous guest on the show–and he tells us of his own Appalachian Trail thru-hike last year.
He has grown up in Maine and New Hampshire, so hiking was more or less in his blood, yet the idea to hike the trail came after his mother blazed her way to Maine.
You can follow Patch's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@ColdbrewPatch, but first, savor this sight at the top of an empty Katahdin early in the morning on Patch's Summit Day. Awesome.
Our three conversations with our Class of 23 were all very positive.
Betty McEnaney has to cope with an internal crisis, while Bryan Robbins starts, gets off trail to retire, then heads back out, while we hear from Mary Marks–with Wiley–from Virginia's Triple Crown.
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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| 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 | joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:33.4 | Hey guys, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:35.7 | You're listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, |
| 0:37.7 | the ultimate midlife crisis, |
| 0:39.2 | and I'm your host, Mighty Blue, or Steve Adams. |
| 0:42.1 | We're up to episode number 372 today |
| 0:45.3 | with the son of a previous guest sharing his story. |
| 0:49.4 | Emily Leonard, who I met last year at Trail Days along with her husband, Bruce, |
| 0:53.2 | was on the show last year |
| 0:54.3 | and she suggests I might want to reach out to her son Patrick or Patch. |
| 0:58.3 | So it's Patch Leonard who is this week's guest and we'll be meeting him shortly. |
| 1:02.7 | I should point out before we can really get into it that we've had all sorts of technical |
| 1:06.7 | snafos this week. |
| 1:08.3 | So something the sound isn't as good as I'd like, but with hours of |
| 1:11.4 | editing, I mean hours, I've done my best to make everybody sound as good as I can. After Patch, |
| 1:18.7 | I'm happy to report that all three of our mighty-bue class of 23 participants this week are |
| 1:23.2 | still on the trail. Or at least they were what I last heard. First up will be Betty McEnany. |
| 1:29.2 | I met Betty at our Woods Hole weekend back in October last year and I was impressed with her |
| 1:33.7 | quiet determination to get this done. Interestingly, Betty brought her husband Bruce along with her |
| 1:38.5 | to share the weekend and, we hope, to allay some of the concerns that he might have had before |
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