Episode #391 - Suzanne Roberts
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Suzanne Roberts is our guest today. She shares a thoughtful, female perspective on long-distance hiking, using her 1993 JMT hike as a backdrop. The concept of a different experience from men to women had never occurred to me, but I was intrigued to hear her story.
She is releasing an Anniversary edition of her book about her JMT hike, and you can find it in the links she sent me below.
Almost Somewhere
https://www.amazon.com/Almost-Somewhere-Twenty-Eight-Trail-Outdoor-ebook/dp/B0BYHDJQZB?ref_=ast_author_dp
Animal Bodies
https://www.amazon.com/Animal-Bodies-Death-Desire-Difficulties/dp/1496231023/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&&qid=&&sr=
Bad Tourist
My Writing Prompts substack newsletter I mentioned.
52 Writing Prompts | Suzanne Roberts | Substack
My website: Home
We have our first Appalachian Trail thru-hiker in our class of 23. Mark Carpenter made it to Katahdin on Tuesday. We hear from him prior to AND after his summit. Great achievement, Mark.
Additionally, Joanne Flagg measures her progress south, as Mary Marks prepares to emulate Mark in a few days.
If you'd like to find out more about "Then The Hail Came," check out George's website at Then The Hail Came George Steffanos . 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 taught 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, welcome back to the podcast. You're listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, |
| 0:37.6 | the ultimate midlife crisis. And I'm your host, Steve Adams, on Mighty Blue. This is episode |
| 0:42.3 | number 391 and our main guest today is Suzanne Roberts, who I spoke with as she was on the |
| 0:47.4 | Camino to Santiago in Spain. But it was a hike on the John Muir Trail 30 years ago that brought |
| 0:52.5 | it to my attention. Suzanne has an |
| 0:54.9 | interesting perspective, drawing a distinction in how women look at and treat nature as opposed to |
| 1:00.0 | how men do. Suzanne will be on shortly. A mighty blue class of 2023 is starting to wind down, |
| 1:05.9 | though I know there are still plenty of miles to do for two of our remaining members. We're going to be |
| 1:09.8 | hearing from three of them today, including our first completed through hiker this year. They're going to be on after Suzanne. |
| 1:16.2 | Finally, I'm going to share an incredible coincidence in my reading from George Stephanos's then the |
| 1:22.3 | hail came. George hits the mohousic notch, but it's the date I'm going to tell you about at the end. |
| 1:29.0 | So let's start and meet Suzanne Roberts. |
| 1:34.2 | Our guest today is currently in Spain. |
| 1:37.8 | This is Suzanne Roberts. |
| 1:39.1 | Hey, Suzanne. |
| 1:39.5 | Thanks for joining us from Spain, of all places. |
| 1:41.9 | Yes, hi. |
| 1:42.7 | I'm so happy to be here. |
| 1:44.8 | And where actually are you? |
| 1:46.2 | I'm in Barcelona at a friend's house. |
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