Episode #412 - Roxanne Lashley (Foxy)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Roxanne Lashley took on the AT last year and took her time. She had planned to go straight north to south, yet reaching Harpers Ferry past the Independence Day holiday, she knew she needed to flip north, then head back south.
Roxanne finished back at Harpers Ferry and shares her story with us.
In our conversation, Roxanne mentioned a couple of MeetUps, so, if you're a lone who'd like to hike with others, check out these MeetUps
https://www.meetup.com/hike-blue-hills/
Remember, there are MeetUps all over the country, so check out others in your area.
Also today, Amanda Aguillard shares her story of hiking the Hadrian's Wall Path in Scotland last year.
You can read more about the Path at Hadrian's Wall Path: British Walking Guide: Two-way: Bowness-Newcastle-Bowness - 64 Large-Scale Walking Maps (1:20,000) & Guides to 30 Towns & ... Stay, Places to Eat (British Walking Guides)
Also, she has shared links for the places she stayed at.
The Hollies Bed & Breakfast, Gilsland, Cumbria, Northumberland
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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, joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:34.1 | Hey guys, great to be back with you again on the podcast. This is Steve Adams or Mighty Blue, |
| 0:38.9 | and you're listening to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis. |
| 0:43.7 | This is episode number 412. We have two strong women on the show today. First up, we'll hear from |
| 0:49.5 | Roxanne Lashley, or Foxy, as she shares her 2023 hike with us all. She wasn't the fastest hiker out there. |
| 0:56.4 | She had to remind her that it's the last one to Katardner wins, but she embraced the trail |
| 1:01.3 | and fulfilled a goal that she'd set herself. We'll hear from Foxy in a moment. Then after Foxy, |
| 1:06.7 | we've got Amanda Aguilard on the show, sharing her hike in Scotland on the Hadrian's Wall path. |
| 1:12.4 | I had intended to hike that trail in 2022 when I went over to the UK and did the West Highland Way. |
| 1:18.3 | In the end, I scotched, shouldn't I said that, you know what I mean, I scotched the idea of Hadrian's |
| 1:24.5 | wall to accommodate my buddy John, who preferred the idea to use John Muir's |
| 1:29.3 | expression of sauntering. So we saundered away and took about nine days, but I wouldn't have |
| 1:34.9 | changed a thing. It was awesome. But it left Hadrian's wall as something I'd like to do someday, |
| 1:39.8 | so Amanda is here to tell me how much I missed out. She'll be on after Foxy. Thanks again to those of you |
| 1:46.1 | who've been kind enough to ask after Danish health. She's had a pretty nasty January, but is well |
| 1:51.6 | again, minus a two centimetre kidney stone, which she is grateful to have lost. So let's get to it |
| 1:57.8 | and meet Roxanne Lashley or Foxy. |
| 2:10.1 | Our guest today is Roxanne Lashley with an awesome and probably obvious trail name of Foxy. |
| 2:12.4 | Hey, Roxanne, thanks for coming on the podcast. |
| 2:15.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 2:18.3 | Well, you probably need to get the trail name out of the way first. So how did you get it? |
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