Episode #387 - Kathie Brennan

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

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Kathie Brennan is our guest today. She is President of the Ozark Trail Association, putting in hours of trail maintenance not only on her beloved trail, but also on the Appalachian Trail. She provides us with a sharp insight into trail work, with modern practices and even talks about leaf blowing for instant gratification!

Find out more about the Ozark Trail at their website http://ozarktrail.com

There's also a useful trip planner at https://www.ozarktrail.com/planner/

Two of our Class of 23 ladies join us today, with Joanne Flagg, fresh from her group hike in Iceland, now heading back to Harpers Ferry and the Southern Appalachians.

Also, Jessica Lang-Wright has flipped north and recently–like Mary Marks and Mark Carpenter just last week–has climbed Moosilauke. I added Mary's picture last week. Here are Jessica's and Mark's.

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 taught the walk with shows by hikers
0:05.3	about hikers for everybody. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis,
0:24.2	joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:33.9	Hey guys, thanks for coming back to the podcast.
0:36.5	This is Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail,
0:38.0	the ultimate mid-life crisis. And you're listening to episode number 387. We're getting close to that
0:43.5	400th episode and I'm still looking for ideas for that show. Write to me at steve at hiking
0:48.0	radionetwork.com if you've got an idea for something I can do to celebrate that milestone.
0:53.3	Today, our guest is one of those people
0:55.0	whose love for the trail extends to giving so much to the trial. She's Kathy Brennan,
0:59.8	suggested to me by Don Schultner, a listener. Kathy is the president of Ozark Trail Association
1:05.1	in Missouri, and she really gives us a masterclass stay on trial maintenance and the kind of feeling
1:10.0	that she gets with the work she does. By the time you've listened to her, you'll want to sign up to clear a better trail yourself. Cathy will be on in a moment. Then with our Mighty Blue Class of 23 Gwindling, with several of our team members nearing in the end, we hear from the ultra-energetic Joanne Flag, who has returned from a side trip,
1:27.9	or a blue blaze, to Iceland for a group hike. She's back in the US and rare in to go again
1:33.3	on the AT. Also today, Jessica Lange Right has flipped north and is into the whites.
1:38.4	Joanne and Jessica will be on after Cathy. And talking of getting near the end of the trail,
1:43.0	George Saffanos has less than 300 miles to go,
1:45.4	and he's done with slap packing.
1:47.6	We'll hear George's story at the end.
1:50.0	So let's go.
1:51.0	Here's Kathy Brennan.
1:55.6	Today we've got one of the many unsung heroes, or in this case, heroines of hiking.
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