Episode #392 - Lee Lovelace (Hooker Tush)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Lee Lovelace and I met at Trail Days this year in the author's tent. My books are about my AT thru-hike, while Lee's book, Sawyer's Run, is a novel about the AT. We both share an abiding passion for the trail and I wanted Lee to come on the show to tell his story of resilience.
Much of his novel is based upon real events, while plenty is made up; you decide what to believe!! Most importantly, when we spoke, he was healthy again.
you can check out a few links form Lee, including his author website at http://www.leelovelace.com , his Amazon Author page at http://www.amazon.com/stores/Lee-Lovelace/author/B08W6Z1YVS , as well as a blog post of his first attempt at a two week hike on the AT at https://www.justasmallcog.com/2017/10/14/not-the-hiking-story-i-thought-i-would-be-telling/ , and another post (with video) of his successful hike on the Virginia Triple Crown at https://www.justasmallcog.com/2021/06/22/virginia-triple-crown/
Mary, having been kicking her heels in Bangor for about five days, had her Katahdin Summit Day this past Friday. As you can see, and will hear, she had a blast.
We also caught up with Jessica and Joanne, experiencing their hikes in very different ways.
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 taught the walk with shows by hikers |
| 0:05.3 | about hikers for everybody. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, |
| 0:24.0 | joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:33.7 | Hey guys, good to be back with you again. |
| 0:36.3 | You're listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalachson |
| 0:38.0 | trial, the ultimate midlife crisis, and I'm your host, Steve Mighty Blue Adams. I threw |
| 0:42.8 | height the trial twice in my 60s and I interview a bunch of people who've either done the AT |
| 0:47.8 | or another long-distance trial or somebody who has a strong connection to the trial. And that |
| 0:53.1 | last category is our guest today. |
| 0:55.6 | I met Lee Lovelace or Hooker-Dush at trial days earlier this year. We were in the |
| 1:02.0 | author's tent together and spent a fair amount of time just chatting about the trail. But Lee, |
| 1:06.7 | apart from having probably the best trail name ever, had a story quite unique in guests I've had on the show, |
| 1:12.2 | so I invited him to record with me. |
| 1:14.0 | We're going to hear from him soon. |
| 1:16.1 | After Lee, our class of 23 has whittled down to just three, |
| 1:20.1 | with Mary Marks, Jessica Langwright and Joanne Flagg still on the go. |
| 1:24.6 | When we left Mary last week, she was coming out of the 100 mile wilderness, but she |
| 1:29.5 | planned to spend the week kicking her hills in Bangor, waiting for some family members to join her |
| 1:34.3 | on our ascent this past Monday. We're going to find out in a moment how that went. Then Jessica |
| 1:40.3 | and Joanne will update us on their progress as they're experiencing quite different |
| 1:44.3 | hikes. Finally, George Stephanos is closing in on the Kennebec with less than 250 miles to go. |
| 1:50.7 | By the way, I recently reached out to George and he agreed to come on the show to talk about his |
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